2008 Woodie Awards
Move over Blackberry
Apple announces the future arrival of the iPhone- the lastest cell phone for Cingular
By: Bryan Redeagle
Issue date: 1/22/07 Section: Entertainment
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This last week at Macworld in San Francisco, Apple Computer's iconoclastic CEO Steve Jobs presented what he believed to be the next step in the cell phone market; the Apple iPhone. The iPhone will be released this June.
The iPhone is quite simply a phone, an iPod and an internet device. It's encased in black with only one button labeled the "home" button. The rest of it's real estate space is mostly covered by a big touch screen. Yet it's not just a regular touch; it's a multi-touch screen. It's capable of recognizing more than one touch and can also react to multi-finger motions. The screen is your keypad, interface and shiny monitor to look at.
The "phone" portion of the iPhone is capable of all the things that any phone can do-text messaging, voicemail and three-way calling. Seeing as it's Apple, they made the whole process easier. Text messaging gives you a nice little keyboard for typing. Voicemail lets you see who sent which and you can listen them in any order. Calling and switching calls is as easy as pressing a big friendly button.
The iPod part of the iPhone takes all the good stuff from the existing iPods and mixes it with the cool stuff from iTunes. You have many different ways of looking at your music, including the really neat album cover view that's currently available in iTunes. While watching movies you can turn it sideways and watch them in widescreen. It'll have either a 4Gb or a 8Gb hard drive.
The "internet" portion is the best. This is also sort of a Mac OS X portion. The web browser is Apple's own Safari (this is good because it's very standards compliant for those who care). It also has an e-mail client that allows HTML-based e-mail and Google maps built-in.
The neatest feature is something Mac users will recognize:; widgets. Though they haven't specified how similar they'll be to OS X widgets, chances are very good that they will.
The iPhone can connect to the internet using either a Wi-Fi or the Cingular EDGE network. It also has other smartphone features like a camera and Bluetooth technology.
The iPhone looks to be a really cool device. It's only real set-back really is the $500 price tag. It might have competition with LG's KE850. It's looks surprisingly similar to Apple's iPhone, but a closer look will tell you it's a whole different beast.
The iPhone is quite simply a phone, an iPod and an internet device. It's encased in black with only one button labeled the "home" button. The rest of it's real estate space is mostly covered by a big touch screen. Yet it's not just a regular touch; it's a multi-touch screen. It's capable of recognizing more than one touch and can also react to multi-finger motions. The screen is your keypad, interface and shiny monitor to look at.
The "phone" portion of the iPhone is capable of all the things that any phone can do-text messaging, voicemail and three-way calling. Seeing as it's Apple, they made the whole process easier. Text messaging gives you a nice little keyboard for typing. Voicemail lets you see who sent which and you can listen them in any order. Calling and switching calls is as easy as pressing a big friendly button.
The iPod part of the iPhone takes all the good stuff from the existing iPods and mixes it with the cool stuff from iTunes. You have many different ways of looking at your music, including the really neat album cover view that's currently available in iTunes. While watching movies you can turn it sideways and watch them in widescreen. It'll have either a 4Gb or a 8Gb hard drive.
The "internet" portion is the best. This is also sort of a Mac OS X portion. The web browser is Apple's own Safari (this is good because it's very standards compliant for those who care). It also has an e-mail client that allows HTML-based e-mail and Google maps built-in.
The neatest feature is something Mac users will recognize:; widgets. Though they haven't specified how similar they'll be to OS X widgets, chances are very good that they will.
The iPhone can connect to the internet using either a Wi-Fi or the Cingular EDGE network. It also has other smartphone features like a camera and Bluetooth technology.
The iPhone looks to be a really cool device. It's only real set-back really is the $500 price tag. It might have competition with LG's KE850. It's looks surprisingly similar to Apple's iPhone, but a closer look will tell you it's a whole different beast.
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