iPhone A ounced

Steve Jo just dro ed a bom hell on the audience attending his Macworld Keynote Addre . Jo at first a ounced the product as three separate product a widescreen video iPod, a phone, and a mobile internet communicator. This was exciting enough, but I'm sure I'm not the only person who was a bit disa ointed to think about carrying three devices. According to Laurie who is listening to the feed from the expo floor, the crowd went a olutely wild at this a ouncement.

The iPhone will use a revolutionary interface called MultiTouch, first seen in A le patent filings over a year ago. The iPhone will run OS X, and be capable of ru ing desktop-cla a licatio .

The Nitty Gritty:

• Single front button.
• 3.5 inch widescreen di lay featuring the highest pixel de ity ever shi ed in a portable device.
• 2 megapixel camera.
• iPod dock.
• Proximity se or which switches between modes and screen orientation based on how a user holds it.
• 11.6 mm thick.
• Syncs with iTunes
• GSM/EDGE
• Wifi
• Bluetooth
• Cinglar only.
• Visual voicemail - shows a list of your voicemails like you see a list of emails.
• Error correcting on-screen keyboard.
• Gestural interface
• Mail.
• Safari.
• Google Ma .
• Widgets.
• Switches seamle ly between EDGE and WiFi.
• Free Yahoo! IMAP email to all iPhone customs.
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• 5 hour video battery life.
• 16 hour audio battery life.
  

The 4GB costs $499 and the 8GB $599 (includes a 2 year contract). It is shi ing in June.


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