Apple announces iPhone at Macworld Conference & Expo 2007

Well, it's finally been announced - Apple Computer, Inc. ...er..well, now it's Apple Inc. will begin shipping their latest and greatest, the iPhone in 2007.

Some of the more prominent features of the new phone are:

Widescreen iPhone - 3.5-inch widescreen
Cover Flow - browse your music library by album cover artwork
Visual Voicemail - view all your voicemails in a list format - touch the screen to listen to it
One touch calling - simply touch the name of the person you want to call and it dials them for you
Touch Screen / Scrolling Navigation - no external buttons or keypads; scroll through lists using your finger
Portrait or Landscape Viewing - auto adjusts to landscape view when you rotate the iPhone
Google Maps - with satellite views
Store and view images, music, full length movies, podcasts, tv shows.
SMS text messaging
Full scale Safari web browser
Widgets - stocks, weather, etc.
Multi-touch - zoom in and zoom out using 'the pinch'
Runs on OS X
Multicensors throughout iPhone detect ambient light, proximity and iPhone position for landscape veiwing
Quad-band GSM, Cingular's EDGE network, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR

Bill comments on the iPhone:

As a certified Apple User since 1990 and a stock holder since 2000 this one has a few holes. First it uses Cingular which getting any web or email on sucks big time. Verizion and Sprint have much faster data rates almost times 4. So a better wireless data choice would be cool.

2) It should of been able to use IP telephony when a wireless airport etc is found. Would have been much tighter integration with exsisting products would of been nice.

I will have one as an Apple dealer no doubt but I was a bit dissapointed on the features .

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