iPhone wants your iMoney!!

—The iPhone has a 3.5-inch (measured diagonally) full-color LCD touchscreen. There is no physical keyboard; virtual number keypads or text keyboards pop up as required. Applications include MP3 and video playback, Apple's Safari Web browser, e-mail, text messaging, photo viewing, as well as cell-phone functions. It has a 2-megapixel digital camera, but does not as of now record video.


—Voice connectivity is via AT&T's GSM network. Internet connectivity is via AT&T's EDGE data network or local Wi-Fi hotspots; the initial versions of the iPhone will not connect to AT&T's faster HSDPA data network, though that will almost certainly be included in later versions. Bluetooth connectivity will link the iPhone to similarly enabled devices, but it is not clear if Internet access can be achieved this way. Nor is it clear whether some sort of Voice over Internet Protocol telephone service might be possible through the Safari Web browser.


—In a first for the cell-phone industry, the iPhone will not be activated in-store. Instead, each end user will need an online iTunes Store account to activate one of several AT&T service plans. Holders of existing AT&T wireless plans will be able to keep their old numbers, but will still need iTunes. The iPhone will not work, even as a music player, without cellular-service activation.


—The iPhone is compatible with iTunes running on Mac OS X 10.4.10, Windows XP Home or Professional with Service Pack 2 and all versions of Windows Vista except Windows Vista Home Basic. Connected PCs will need a USB 2.0 port.



Will pass......til they force me to buy one as a future industry standard!!

 

Review: Apple's iPhone Is Great iPod and Web Device, but Lousy Phone

Tuesday, July 03, 2007
By Sascha Segan and Tim Gideon



Apple

This device can deprive grown adults of their senses.


When he announced the iPhone, Steve Jobs said to expect three things: "an incredibly great cell phone," "the best iPod we've ever made" and "the Internet in your pocket."

One out of three isn't bad. Yes, the iPhone is the best iPod ever — ironic for something not even called an iPod!
But it's just a plain lousy phone, and although it makes some exciting advances in handheld Web browsing, it's not the Internet in your pocket.
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Maybe nothing could have lived up to the "Jesus-phone" hype, but only Apple is to blame for pumping up expectations well beyond what any Version 1.0 product has delivered in the history of mankind, including "fire" and "the wheel."

The iPhone is just that — version 1.0. Even though it could be seen as Generation Six of the iPod, it's Apple's first phone.

Its interface innovations have already spurred the rest of the mobile phone industry into imitative action, and there's enough here to show that Apple will be a real leader with future products.