Apple introduces the iPhone


will be available in the UK from the fourth quarter 2007...

On Tuesday (9th January) Apple launched at MacWorld in San Francisco the iPhone.

A combined iPod, phone and mobile internet device it will be available in the US in June 2007 and Europe in the fourth quarter.

It has no buttons and has a touch screen interface.

As an iPod device, it comes with either 4GB or 8GB of RAM and can play video as well as audio.

It is a GSM phone and though it comes with EDGE and 802.11b/g wifi, it doesn't come with 3G which means for me anyway that it is a less attractive device than it could be.

As a mobile internet device it runs a slimmed down version of OS X and the Safari browser allows you to view webpages as you would expect them to (which in my mind makes it much better than Pocket IE or Pocket Opera).

It will also be able to run various widgets akin to Dashboard.

What it won't be able to do is run third party applications as was initially thought when it was first announced.

I really like the concept, whether I get one will depend on cost and 3G capability.

Posted: Thu - January 11, 2007 at 03:25 PM         | |

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