iPhones Reviews - Apple's iPhone to Revolutionize The Cell Phone Generation

Here's another amazing creation of Apple. Yes... iPhone that created a buzz across the web. This is again a struggle for Apple to inject the iphone virus amidst the cell phone user mob. Steve Jobs - the Apple founder once stated that he would be happy if the iPhone could manage to engulf as negligible as only 1% of the 1 billion mobile phone users in the global market during its first year. Shortly after this smart gadget stepped in to the market, the US-based market research firm Markitecture published a report showing that only 6% of 1300 mobile phone users were likely to skip to iPhone, keeping aside their traditional cell phones in the next one year.

The biggest hurdle for Apple to promote iPhone is not only it's high price, but also the carrier issues, i.e. Cingular in US. Yet, it seems the iPhone virus is still spreading wide across the globe. So what's there in the iPhone that creates a whole lot of craze all around? Putting it in the simplest way, iPhone is a revolutionary mobile phone that facilitates you by allowing you to make a call just by tapping a number or a name in your call log, address book or favorites list. This technically engineered hi-tech device automatically syncs all the contacts from your Personal Computer, Mac, or even Internet services. This internet-connected multimedia smartphone has been designed with classy flush multi-touch screen, without a physical keyboard. With a minimal hardware interface, the virtual keyboard is rendered on the touch screen instead of pressing buttons like the regular mobile phones. Apple's iPhone has a wide range of functionality. Starting from a camera phone (including visual voicemail and text messaging), it functions almost like an ipod with a hi-tech portable media player. You can use it as a mobile Internet client to access your email, and/or web browsing. Local Wi-Fi connectivity adds flavor to the usability of this internet-connected multimedia smartphone.

Till date, there have been two generations of iPhone. The first generation iPhone was built with quad-band GSM with EDGE hardware, and the second generation have been upgraded with the addition of UMTS with HSDPA, making the device technically smarter.

Fast Facts about iPhone:

• Development of iPhone started with the direction of Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who leaded the Apple engineers in the investigation of touchscreen technology.
• It wasn't until January 9, 2007 that Apple publicly announced iPhone, although there was a bunch rumors about the announcement of the device much before the release was officially announced.
• The iPhone was primarily introduced in the United States on June 29, 2007 and thereafter the worldwide.
• On June 29, 2007 Apple shut down its store at 2:00 pm local time to prepare for the iPhone launch at 6:00 pm.
• On weekend of the launch, Apple sold an incredible number 270,000 iPhones during the first thirty hours.
• In the year 2007 iPhone was declared to be Time magazine's "Invention of theYear".
• The iPhone 3G was released on July 11, 2008 that supports much faster 3G data speeds accompanied with Assisted GPS.
• It was not until November 2007 that the iPhone was released in the United Kingdom, German and France, and Austria and Ireland in spring 2008
• On October 21, 2008 Apple announced an incredible sales volume of 6.89 million iPhone 3Gs in the fourth quarter of 2008. With this the sales of iPhones was reckoned till the date was 13 millions.
• Apple Inc. has filed over 200 patents related to the iPhone technology.

Features of iPhone:

• Screen size - Liquid Crystal Display Screen 3.5 in (89 mm)
• Screen resolution - 480×320 pixels at 163 ppi (Pixels Per Inch), with 3:2 aspect ratio
• Input devices - Multi-touch screen interface plus a "Home" button and "Sleep/Wake" located on the top of the iPhone.
• Built-in rechargeable, non-removable battery
• Camera - 2 megapixel
• Location finding - By the way of detecting the cell towers and Wi-Fi network system
• Processor - Samsung S5L8900 (412 MHz ARM 1176 processor, PowerVR MBX 3D graphics co-processor)
• Memory - 128 MB DRAM
• Storage - 8 GB or 16 GB flash memory
• Operating System - iPhone OS
• Hardware - Quad band GSM / GPRS / EDGE: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
• Wireless System - Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) and Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR
• Frequency response - 20Hz to 20kHz frequency response (both internal and headset)
• Battery Backup - Up to 8 hours of talk, 6 hours of Internet use, 7 hours of video, and up to 24 hours of audio, lasts over 250 hours on standby, not user-replaceable
• Headphone jack (recessed)

iPhone3G Model Features:

• Color - Black (8 GB or 16 GB) or white (16 GB)
• Size - 4.5 inches (115.5 mm) (h) × 2.4 inches (62.1 mm) (w) × 0.48 inch (12.3 mm) (d)
• Weight of iPhone3G - 133 g (4.7 oz)
• Headphone - Jack (non-recessed)
• Battery Backup of iPhone3G - Up to 10 hours of 2G talk, 5 hours of 3G talk, 5 (3G) or 6 (Wi-Fi) hours of Internet usage, 7 hours of video, 24 hours of audio and lasts over 300 hours on standby.
• Broadband - 3G for broadband data speeds (Tri band UMTS / HSDPA: UMTS 850 / 1900 / 2100)
• Assisted GPS - According to the preference of location based on Wi-Fi or cell towers
• Digital SAR Rating - 1.38 W/kg

While loads of other features are there that the iPhone has been blessed with, these are just some of the features that have made iPhone all more enticing to the general mass. By default, the home screen contains the the list of icons that includes Text messaging (SMS), Photos, YouTube, Camera, Calendar, Google Maps, Weather, Stocks, Clock, Notes, Settings, Calculator, iTunes, and App Store. This home screen can be customized at any moment by a hardware button right below the screen, closing the application that is opened.