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The Apple iPhone - A new generation of Smartphone or not?

A "Smart" phone including the Apple iPhone is a multimedia and Internet-enabled mobile phone.

Their functions include those of a camera phone, a multimedia player, and mobile phone. They also offer Internet services including e-mail, text messaging, web browsing, Visual Voicemail, and sometimes local Wi-Fi connectivity.

In the case of the Apple iPhone, user input is accomplished via a multi-touch screen with virtual keyboard and buttons.

The Apple iPhone is a 2.75G quad-band GSM phone. Apple plans to include 3G technology in future releases. The service provider in the United States is Cingular (AT&T).

The iPhone suffers from two important disadvantages: It is not available in a CDMA version and the SIM card cannot be unlocked. The advantage of CDMA is that it is a more reliable network. It has better noise immunity and fewer dropped calls. The advantage of GSM is that GSM is the technology in use in Europe and most of the world so that if one often travels internationally, the phone will work almost anywhere.

The advantage of being able to unlock and change the SIM card is that one can replace it with a local card in a foreign country so that the phone then has a local number. Then there are no international roaming charges and people in that country do not have to make a long distance call to the U.S. to reach the phone.

Key features

iPhone combines three products - a mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and a breakthrough internet communications device with the best-ever applications on a mobile phone for email, web browsing, maps and search - into one small and lightweight handheld device.

  

Revolutionary phone

iPhone is a revolutionary mobile phone that allows you to make a call by simply tapping a name or number in your address book, a favorites list or a call log.

It also automatically syncs all your contacts from a PC, Mac or Internet service.

 

Widescreen iPod

iPhone is a widescreen iPod with touch controls that lets you enjoy your content - including music, audiobooks, videos - on a beautiful 3.5-inch display.

It allows you to sync the content from the iTunes library on your PC or Mac and access it all with the touch of a finger.

You can also buy songs wirelessly through iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store.

 

Breakthrough Internet Device

Which features rich HTML email so images and photos display in-line with the text. It also features Safari - the most advanced web browser ever on a portable device - which automatically syncs bookmarks from your Mac or PC. Safari also includes built-in Google and Yahoo! oneSearch.

iPhone also multi-tasks, so you can, for example, make a phone call while checking your contacts or emailing a photo and surfing the web over a Wi-Fi connection.

With Google Maps you can view maps and satellite images, and get directions, all from iPhone's remarkable, multi-touch user interface.