iPhone

The new iPhone by Apple

"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"



This article talks about how Apple tried to keep the iPhone a secret until its release 2 years after development began, also talks about Apples partnership with major American phone company "Cingular"

"The Cingular partnership was especially complicated. Cingular had been a partner when Apple made its first foray into the phone business, providing iTunes software for the ill-fated Motorola (Charts) ROKR, unleashed in 2005."



An English article on the iPhone
""We are all born with the ultimate pointing device - our fingers - and iPhone uses them to create the most revolutionary user interface since the mouse," said Mr Jobs."
This extract from the article is important because it explains the idea behind the "revolutionary" touch screen which is a new feature on a phone, however this phone looks similar to most PDAs that are available in its touch screen capabilitys.

"built-in two megapixel camera."
Shows that Applpe are focuses more on the MP3 player and touch screen features of the phone, whereaas most mobile phones today focus on the quality of the camera. The highest mega pixel camera available is 3.2 megapixels, by only have a 2 megapixel camera its main selling point is of course its MP3 player. Has up to 8GB of storage space.

"The iPod changed everything in 2001. We're going to do it again with the iPhone in 2007."



The iPhone and the older generation
Article about how some people are "overwhelmed" by the new iPhone

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