iPhone is a multimedia,
Internet-enabled
mobile phone designed and marketed by Apple Inc.
It has a multi-touch screen with virtual keyboard and buttons. The iPhone's functions
include those of a camera phone and a portable media player
("iPod"), in addition to text messaging and
visual voicemail. It also offers Internet services including e-mail, web browsing, and local
Wi-Fi connectivity. It is a quad-band mobile phone that uses the GSM standard, hence has
international capability. It supports the Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE)
data technology.
Following the success of iPod, Apple announced
the iPhone in January 2007. The announcement was preceded by rumors and speculations that
circulated for several months. The iPhone was introduced, first in the United States on
June 29, 2007 with much media frenzy and then in the United Kingdom, Germany and France in
November 2007. It was named Time magazine's Invention of the Year in 2007. A new version
of Apple's iPhone is expected to be introduced in 2008 that is capable of operating on
faster 3G cellular networks.
The layout of the music library differs from previous
iPods, with the sections divided more clearly alphabetically, and with a larger font.
Similar to previous iPods, the iPhone can sort its media library by songs, artists, albums,
videos, playlists, genres, composers, podcasts, audiobooks, and compilations. Cover Flow,
like that on iTunes, shows the different album covers in a scroll-through photo library.
Scrolling is achieved by swiping a finger across the screen.
Like the fifth generation iPods introduced in 2005, the iPhone can play video, allowing
users to watch TV shows and films. Unlike other image-related content, video on the iPhone
plays only in the landscape orientation, when the phone is turned sideways. Double tapping
switches between wide-screen and fullscreen video playback.
The iPhone allows users to purchase and download songs from the iTunes Store directly to
their iPhone over Wi-Fi, but not over the cellular data network.
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