29 June 2007 | Author: C. Philip
All 164 Apple retail stores in the US will stay open until midnight tonight and customers can purchase up to two iPhones on a first come, first served basis. The gadget of all gadgets was recently highly praised by Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO. Footage of Schmidt was posted on YouTube last week showing Schmidt brandishing his iPhone, launching the Google Maps feature and flashing it at the camera. He's excited and so are we.
So how about the gadgetry of the iPhone? What can we expect from it regarding applications and web capabilities?
The iPhone offers the possibility of easy and user-friendly internet surfing. It combines three products - a mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls and an internet communications device with desktop-class email, web browsing, maps and search - all in one handheld device. A phone, iPod and internet browser in one very sexy little box!
The iPhone features a rich HTML email client and Safari - the most advanced web browser ever placed on a portable device. Safari automatically syncs bookmarks from your PC or Mac. It also includes built-in Google and Yahoo! search. The Wi-Fi and EDGE capabilities immediately connect to the internet. You can multi-task to your hearts content with the iPhone, read a web page while downloading your email and listen to your favourite music at the same time. The iPhone also delivers YouTube videos to users with quality that is head and shoulders above previous mobile video attempts.
The iPhone lets you see the web as it's meant to be seen. Now, users will be able to view standard web pages, rather than WAP versions of pages. Integrated Google Maps functionality lets users look up locations, search for local businesses and view satellite imagery. The iPhone also supports Dashboard widgets, and Apple announced it will also include weather and stock widgets.
Through the iPhone's Safari web browser, users can zoom into web pages with a simple tap on the multi-touch display screen. The iPhone's accelerometer senses your behaviour! When you rotate the device from portrait to landscape sensors automatically change the contents of the display, this lets you instantly see the entire width of a web page or a photo in its proper landscape aspect ratio.
The iPhone uses quad-band GSM, the global standard for wireless communications. It also supports AT&T's EDGE network, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR, which links to Apple's compact Bluetooth headset.
Apple is said to be bringing the iPhone to Europe in the fourth quarter of 2007 and to Asia in 2008. So has Apple officially revolutionised the phone as we know it? The answer seems to be a definite yes - but where's the camera?
Presenting the iPhone - the new frontier of the mobile web
Friday 29th June 2007: the day that the iPhone was made available and the day that all Googlemaniacs checked their bank balance to consider the ultimate impulse buy.All 164 Apple retail stores in the US will stay open until midnight tonight and customers can purchase up to two iPhones on a first come, first served basis. The gadget of all gadgets was recently highly praised by Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO. Footage of Schmidt was posted on YouTube last week showing Schmidt brandishing his iPhone, launching the Google Maps feature and flashing it at the camera. He's excited and so are we.
So how about the gadgetry of the iPhone? What can we expect from it regarding applications and web capabilities?
The iPhone offers the possibility of easy and user-friendly internet surfing. It combines three products - a mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls and an internet communications device with desktop-class email, web browsing, maps and search - all in one handheld device. A phone, iPod and internet browser in one very sexy little box!
The iPhone features a rich HTML email client and Safari - the most advanced web browser ever placed on a portable device. Safari automatically syncs bookmarks from your PC or Mac. It also includes built-in Google and Yahoo! search. The Wi-Fi and EDGE capabilities immediately connect to the internet. You can multi-task to your hearts content with the iPhone, read a web page while downloading your email and listen to your favourite music at the same time. The iPhone also delivers YouTube videos to users with quality that is head and shoulders above previous mobile video attempts.
The iPhone lets you see the web as it's meant to be seen. Now, users will be able to view standard web pages, rather than WAP versions of pages. Integrated Google Maps functionality lets users look up locations, search for local businesses and view satellite imagery. The iPhone also supports Dashboard widgets, and Apple announced it will also include weather and stock widgets.
Through the iPhone's Safari web browser, users can zoom into web pages with a simple tap on the multi-touch display screen. The iPhone's accelerometer senses your behaviour! When you rotate the device from portrait to landscape sensors automatically change the contents of the display, this lets you instantly see the entire width of a web page or a photo in its proper landscape aspect ratio.
The iPhone uses quad-band GSM, the global standard for wireless communications. It also supports AT&T's EDGE network, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR, which links to Apple's compact Bluetooth headset.
Apple is said to be bringing the iPhone to Europe in the fourth quarter of 2007 and to Asia in 2008. So has Apple officially revolutionised the phone as we know it? The answer seems to be a definite yes - but where's the camera?
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