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Do you have an iPhone yet?
by malkassem @ http://www.online-central.net
iPod + Phone = iPhone
June 29th Apple released the new music player iPhone. After a long time waiting, people camped outside of stores 2 or 3 days to make sure that they do get an iPhone! Was the wait all worth it? Others may think "iPhone" what happened to iPod? Well iPhone is an iPod, but it also has a phone/PDA in it. New slim sleek sharp futuristic look that plays music, movies and more. With this amazing product, you can not only store music and video files, but also your contactsm, email, appointments, photos, and manage your iTunes account. You can also recieve phone calls on it... This 4.8 ounces device, you can have it all. The iPhone touch screen provides the user a great conviniece access to all the features without a click of a button. The screen changes the direction based on the way you are holding your phone (side ways or upwards).
iPhone - Phone:
You can use the phone by either dialing the number from the touch screen keyboard or by a smart find in you contact list, call log, or favorite list. You contact list can be syncronized from your PC or Mac, you can either add it directly on the iPhone or on the computer and you will end having in it on both. The voicemail features is also so cool. Your voicemail becomes like email. You can pick and choose which ones you want to listen to in the order that you want. It is even called VISUAL VOICEMAIL!!!
iPhone - Internet & Email:
iPhone provides instant connection to your email. You can use iPhone to check your POP, IMAP and other mail services. You can send and recieve email messages in text, rtf, and HTML formats. That way you can see the pictures inline with the text. Also, links in emails are hyper links that you can click on to browse. Phone numbers as well are links to dial the numbers.
iPhone is also powered by a Safari web browser that give you access to your favorite websites. You can zoom in and out the text just by moving or tapping your fingers on the touch screen... really really cool...
Also, do you just love youTube.com or what. iPhone is the first wireless device that comes equiped with a youTube player. You can search and play youTube videos direct from a contained software that comes by default with your new iPhone.
iPhone - iPod:
iPhone works just like an iPod with some cool extra features. One of the cool feature is searching through your albums. The albums show on the screen as CD cases (very cool visual design). You flip throughout the CDs and then you can click on the one you want to hear to play it. More over, you can play moveis on the nice widescreen. You can zoom in and out as you want.
iPhone - Available Accessories:
iPhone Bluetooth Headset
iPhone Dock
iPhone Dual Dock (iPhone and bluetooth headset dock)
iPhone Stereo Headset
AirPort Extreme Base Station (extended wide range wireless reciever)
iPhone TTY Adapter
Apple Dock Connector to USB Cable
iPhone Universal Dock Adapter 3-Pack
iPhone Bluetooth Travel Cable (Bluetooth charger and USB sync cable)
Apple USB Power Adapter (Home Charger)
iPhone - Technical Specifications (Per Apple):
Size and weight
Height: 4.5 inches (115 mm)
Width: 2.4 inches (61 mm)
Depth: 0.46 inch (11.6 mm)
Weight: 4.8 ounces (135 grams)
In the box
iPhone
Stereo Headset
Dock
Dock Connector to USB Cable
USB Power Adapter
Documentation
Cleaning/polishing cloth
Capacity
4GB or 8GB flash drive1
Display
3.5-inch (diagonal) widescreen multi-touch display
480-by-320-pixel resolution at 160 dpi
Support for display of multiple languages and characters simultaneously
Operating system
OS X
GSM
Quad-band (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)
Wireless data
Wi-Fi (802.11b/g)
EDGE
Bluetooth 2.0+EDR
Camera
2.0 megapixels
Audio
Frequency response: 20Hz to 20,000Hz
Audio formats supported: AAC, Protected AAC, MP3, MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 1, 2, and 3), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV
Video
Video formats supported: H.264 video, up to 1.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Low-Complexity version of the H.264 Baseline Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; H.264 video, up to 768 Kbps, 320 by 240 pixels, 30 frames per second, Baseline Profile up to Level 1.3 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats
Headphones
Stereo earphones with built-in microphone
Frequency response: 20Hz to 20,000Hz
Impedance: 32 ohms
Mac system requirements
Mac computer with USB 2.0 port
Mac OS X v10.4.10 or later
iTunes 7.3 or later
Windows system requirements
PC with USB 2.0 port
Windows Vista Home Premium, Business, Enterprise, or Ultimate Edition; or Windows XP Home or Professional with Service Pack 2 or later
iTunes 7.3 or later
Environmental requirements
Operating temperature: 32° to 95° F (0° to 35° C)
Nonoperating temperature: -4° to 113° F (-20° to 45° C)
Relative humidity: 5% to 95% noncondensing
Maximum operating altitude: 10,000 feet (3000 m)
Input and output
iPhone
30-pin dock connector
3.5-mm stereo headphone minijack
iPhone Dock
Dock connector
Power and battery
Built-in rechargeable lithium ion battery
Talk time: Up to 8 hours2
Standby time: Up to 250 hours3
Internet use: Up to 6 hours4
Video playback: Up to 7 hours5
Audio playback: Up to 24 hours6
