Apple iPhone

[Young Hype]

Apple iPhone



The Apple iPhone combines three products, a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and a breakthrough Internet communications device with desktop-class email, web browsing, maps, and searching into one small and lightweight handheld device.

Specifications

- Screen size: 3.5 in (8.9 cm)
- Resolution: 320×480 pixels
- Size: 115 × 61 × 11.6 mm
- Weight: 4.8 oz (135 g)
- Operating System: OS X
- Safari web browser
- A widget engine
- USB connection port
- Plays MP3 file types
- Voice Activated Dialing, web-browsing and typing
- "Smudge Proof" Lens Coating
- "Icon Clicking" GUI interface
- Integrated WiFi (802.11 b/g), EDGE and Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR and A2DP
- 2 megapixel camera
- Widescreen iPod music, video and photo functionality
- iPod portion features Cover Flow interface and 3-D effects
- Multi-touch screen interface (the "Home" button is the iPhone's only physical front panel button)
- On-screen QWERTY keyboard
- Fingertip scrolling, pan, and zoom (zoom in by pinch motion and zoom out by putting two fingers down and pulling them apart) functions
- Built-in rechargeable, non-removable battery with up to 5 hours of talk/video/browsing or up to 16 hours of audio playback.

Pricing and availability

On January 9, 2007, Jobs announced that the iPhone will first be available in June 2007 in the US, Q4 2007 in Europe, and in 2008 for Asia. The initial U.S. release will be offered in two configurations with two different prices, based on a 2-year phone service contract: a 4 GB model for $499 and an 8 GB model for $599.

Apple also announced that its goal was to get 1% of the mobile phone market, which would approximate 10 million units being sold in 2008, the first full calendar year of iPhone availability. For comparison, Jobs announced that the Apple iPods command more than 70% of the US market share for MP3 players.

In a deal concluded from secretive discussions beginning in February 2005, Cingular Wireless will be the exclusive carrier of the iPhone in the United States and will remain so until 2009. The iPhone may be purchased only with a two-year service plan with Cingular.

Features

Built-In battery
The device features a built-in battery similar to the iPod.

Phone
The iPhone allows 3-way conferencing, call holding, call merging, caller ID, and integration with other iPhone features. A playing song is muted when the user receives a call.

Keyboard
The device uses an embedded touchscreen keyboard which is claimed to introduce new levels of integrated usability for this type of tactile interface. It features automatic spell checking.

Photos
The photo management program allows the user to upload, view, and e-mail photos. It is possible to zoom in and out of photos by "pinching" and "unpinching" them with two fingers.

Camera
The iPhone features a 2 megapixel camera.

Widescreen Video
The 3.5-inch widescreen display (320×480 at 160 ppi) allows users to watch TV shows and films. Unlike other image-related content, video on the iPhone plays only in the landscape orientation, when the phone is turned sideways. A two fingured rotation command is used to switch between wide-screen and full-screen aspect ratios.

WiFi and Bluetooth
The iPhone has built in WiFi, with which it will be able to access the internet (through a wireless network) via the Safari browser. Direct downloading of files from iTunes Store is not currently supported. The iPhone also has Bluetooth built in and works with wireless earpieces that use Bluetooth 2.0 technology and for file transfer.

Internet
The iPhone uses the Safari web browser, displaying full web pages as opposed to simplified pages as on most other phones. Web pages may be viewed in portrait or landscape mode and support automatic zooming by "pinching" or double-tapping images or text.

E-mail
The QWERTY keyboard is used in the iPhone HTML e-mail program, which also enables the user to view photos in an e-mail alongside the text. Yahoo! will be providing a free Push-IMAP e-mail service similar to that on a BlackBerry; IMAP and POP3 mail standards are also supported including Microsoft Exchange.
Widgets
The iPhone will run widgets including Stocks and Weather.

Maps
An agreement between Apple and Google allows one to use a specially modified version of Google Maps — in map, local list, or satellite form, optimized for the iPhone. Jobs demonstrated the usefulness of this feature in his keynote by searching for nearby coffee shops and then placing a call to one with a single click - and, by asking for four thousand lattes "to go", completed the first public prank call with an iPhone.

Music
The layout of the music library differs from previous iPods, with the sections divided more clearly alphabetically, and with a larger font. The Cover Flow, like that on iTunes, shows the different album covers in a scroll-through photo library. Scrolling is achieved by swiping a finger across the screen.

Sensors
The iPhone has three sensors:
A proximity sensor – when the iPhone is brought to one's ear the touchscreen shuts off. This is to save battery power and to prevent accidental contact with the user's face and ears from triggering phone features.
An ambient light sensor that adjusts screen brightness and saves power.
An accelerometer, which senses the orientation of the phone and changes the screen accordingly.

Control via multi-touch technology
The touch screen is specifically created for use with a finger (multiple fingers can also be used at the same time); no stylus is needed. The photo album manipulation is an example of Multi-Touch sensing as recently demonstrated by Jefferson Y. Han. The control buttons for the phone have the ability to be reprogrammed to whatever control scheme the user wishes. To unlock the phone touchscreen the user must slide their finger from left to right at the bottom of the screen.

Visual voicemail
iPhone will include a feature in conjunction with Cingular which allows users to view a list of current voicemail messages onscreen, without having to call into their voicemail. Voicemail messages will play when selected by the user.

Memory
Initial versions of the iPhone will be available in 4GB and 8GB flash memory.

Headphones
There will be new headphones which are similar to those of current iPods, but which incorporate a microphone. Calls can be answered and ended by squeezing the microphone. Wireless earpieces that use Bluetooth technology to communicate with the iPhone will be sold separately.

Text messaging
Text messages are presented in a mailbox format similar to Mail, which places all text from recipients together with replies. Under each recipient texts are shown in a user friendly format, showing each text in a speech bubble and are viewed going down in chronological order.



http://www.apple.com/iphone/

[someguy00]

just read about this looks good

[suffix]

that shits haaaard
lol my mom been tellin me i should get a job n i got some motivATION LOL

[MyBlock11]

cingular? damn that sucks

[oneals2focus]

Originally Posted by MyBlock11

cingular? damn that sucks

Nice, I feel good to have Cingular now. lol How much is that shit?

[South Up]

shit looks nice

[Kunnin']

I know I wouldn't be wasting my money on it. Doesn't even look like a phone, and iPod's break if you drop it on a pillow so I don't see how a phone will last to long.

[Raweezy]

looks nice, did they have a price on that sucka?

[jackson8545]

nastyyyyy ooweee

[p.m]

needs more than 8gb or whatever of memory and a better camera to be the complete package for me.
but would still love one any day