Apple introduces iPhone

Date: 11 January 2007
(ICT World)
Apple has introduced iPhone, which aims to combine three products - a mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and an Internet communications device with desktop-class e-mail, Web browsing, searching and maps - into one lightweight handheld device.

iPhone is claimed to introduce a user interface based on a large multi-touch display and new software, aiming to allow users to control iPhone with just their fingers.

iPhone is a revolutionary and magical product that is literally five years ahead of any other mobile phone, says Steve Jobs, Apples CEO. We are all born with the ultimate pointing device - our fingers - and iPhone uses them to create the most revolutionary user interface since the mouse.

iPhone is a mobile phone designed to allow users to make calls by simply pointing at a name or number. iPhone syncs all of your contacts from your PC, Mac or Internet service such as Yahoo!, so that you always have your full list of up-to-date contacts with you, Jobs says.

iPhones Visual Voicemail aims to let users look at a listing of their voicemails, decide which messages to listen to, then go directly to those messages without listening to the prior messages. Just like e-mail, iPhones Visual Voicemail is designed to enable users to immediately randomly access those messages that interest them most.

iPhone includes an SMS application with a full QWERTY soft keyboard designed to send and receive SMS messages in multiple sessions. When users need to type, iPhone has a touch keyboard which is predictive to prevent and correct mistakes, the company says, aiming to make it much easier and more efficient to use than the keyboards on many smartphones.