Tech Shout!

Apple today unveiled the highly anticipated iPhone, merging three of its most popular products - a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and a breakthrough Internet communications device with desktop-class email, web browsing, searching and maps-into one small and lightweight handheld device.

Apple iPhone showcases a completely new user interface based on a large multi-touch display and pioneering new software, allowing users to control iPhone with just their fingers. Apple iPhone also ushers in an era of software power and sophistication never before seen in a mobile device, which totally redefines what users can do on their mobile phones.

Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO said “iPhone is a revolutionary and magical product that is literally five years ahead of any other mobile phone. 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.”

Apple iPhone is a Revolutionary Mobile Phone:

The Apple iPhone is a revolutionary new mobile phone that enables users to make calls by merely pointing at a name or number. iPhone syncs all of your contacts from your PC, Mac and also from Internet service such as Yahoo, so that you always have your complete list of up-to-date contacts with you. Additionally, you can easily build a favorites list for your most commonly made calls, and effortlessly merge calls together to create conference calls.

Apple iPhone’s also features Visual Voicemail, an industry first which allows iPhone users to look at a listing of their voicemails and decide which messages to listen to and then go directly to those messages without listening to the prior phone messages. Just like email, Apple iPhone’s Visual Voicemail lets users to instantly randomly access those phone messages that they like the most.

iPhone comes with an SMS program with a full QWERTY soft keyboard which lets effortlessly send and receive SMS messages in multiple sessions. When users need to type, iPhone presents them with a stylish touch keyboard which is predictive to prevent and correct mistakes. The iPhone also includes a calendar program that enables calendars to be automatically synced with your PC or Mac.

Apple iPhone sports a 2 mega pixel camera and a unique picture management application. Users can browse their photo library, which can be easily synced from their PC or Mac, with just a flick of a finger and simply choose a photo for their wallpaper or to include in an email.

iPhone is a quad-band GSM phone which also has EDGE and Wi-Fi wireless technologies for data networking . Apple has chosen Cingular, as its official carrier in the US.

Apple iPhone is a Widescreen iPod:

iPhone is a widescreen iPod that comes with touch controls that allows music lovers “touch” their music by effortlessly scrolling through entire lists of songs, artists, albums and playlists with just a flick of a finger.

iPhone also features Cover Flow, Apple’s music library browser which enables you to browse you music library by album cover artwork, for the first time on an iPod. When you navigate through your music library on iPhone, you are automatically switched into Cover Flow by just rotating iPhone into its landscape position.

iPhone’s flaunts a 3.5-inch widescreen display which allows you watch TV shows and movies on a pocketable device. The iPhone provides you with touch controls for play-pause, chapter forward-backward and volume.

iPhone also lets users play all their iPod content, including music, audiobooks, audio podcasts, video podcasts, music videos, television shows and movies. iPhone syncs all the content from a user’s iTunes library on their PC or Mac, and can play any music or video content they have purchased from the online iTunes store.

Apple iPhone is a Breakthrough Internet Communications Device:

iPhone sports a rich HTML email client which fetches your email in the background from most POP3 or IMAP mail services and displays pictures and graphics right along with the text.

iPhone also comes with Safari web browser with which users can see any web page the way it was designed to be seen, and then quite easily zoom in to expand any section by simply tapping on iPhone’s multi-touch display with their finger.

iPhone also includes Google Maps, featuring Google’s maps service and iPhone’s amazing maps application. Users can view maps, satellite images, traffic information and get directions, all from iPhone’s easy-to-use touch interface.

Apple iPhone’s Advanced Sensors:

iPhone makes use of an advanced built-in sensors an accelerometer, a proximity sensor and an ambient light sensor that automatically enhance the user experience and prolong battery life. iPhone’s built-in accelerometer detects when the user has rotated the device from portrait to landscape, then automatically changes the contents of the display accordingly, with users instantly seeing the complete width of a web page, or a photo in its correct landscape aspect ratio.

iPhone has an built-in proximity sensor which detects when you lift iPhone to your ear and straight away turns off the display to save power and prevent inadvertent touches until iPhone is moved away. iPhone also has a built-in ambient light sensor which automatically adjusts the display’s brightness to the appropriate level for the current ambient light, thus enhancing the user experience and saving power at the same time.

Apple Pricing & Availability:

The Apple iPhone will be made available in the US in June 2007, Europe in late 2007, and Asia in 2008. The iPhone will come in a 4GB model which will cost $499 (US) and an 8GB model which will cost $599 (US), and will work with either a PC or Mac. Apple iPhones will be sold in the US through Apple’s retail and online stores, and through Cingular’s retail and online stores. Apple intends to make many iPhone accessories available in June, including Apple’s new compact Bluetooth headset.

Apple iPhone includes support for quad-band GSM, EDGE, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.0 EDR wireless technologies.

Apple iPhone System Requirements:

iPhone requires a Mac with a USB 2.0 port, Mac OS(R) X v10.4.8 or later and iTunes 7; or a Windows PC with a USB 2.0 port and Windows 2000 (Service Pack 4), Windows XP Home or Professional (Service Pack 2). Internet access is required and a broadband connection is recommended. Apple and Cingular will announce service plans for iPhone before its shipping begins in June.