The Apple iPhone

Thursday January 11, 2007 in: Toys For The Boys Tag(s):

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Through the decades, Apple has been responsible for the most revolutionary hardware and gadgets that have taken over the world by storm. There was the iMac, which reinvented the personal computer. Then came the iPod, now practically the only way to listen to music while on the go nowadays.

Now Apple has unveiled its latest innovation, which, just like its previous products, is poised to catch the imagination of every gadget freak in the world.

Last Tuesday, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced to the world the existence of the iPhone, a new-age smartphone with a 3.5-inch touch-screen he bills as "a widescreen iPod with touch controls, a revolutionary mobile phone, and a breakthrough Internet communications device."

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"Today Apple is reinventing the phone," Jobs said. "I've waited two and a half years for this." The rub is that the iPhone won't ship until June. A 4-GB version will be priced at $499, an 8-GB version at $599.

Running Mac OS X and designed to sync with the Apple iTunes software running on your PC, iPhone makes calls, plays music and widescreen video, takes photos via a built-in 2-megapixel camera, sends and receives email, browses full-sized Web-pages, taps into Google Maps, runs Apple Widgets, manages contacts, and more. But the highlight of the device is surely the breathtakingly agile on-screen controls, which are used with an index finger-not a stylus.