The Apple iPhone lives
The speculation and rumors and leaks were basically right:
Steve Jobs has announced the Apple iPhone. (Click here to discuss in the BillDay.com iPhone forum)
- Touch screen tech known as “multi-touch”, uses your finger, almost entire front of device is screen
- 3.5 inch 480 x 320 widescreen, 160ppi
- 11.6mm thick, “thinner than the Q and the BlackJack, all of them” says Jobs
- Syncs music, movies, and more with iTunes
- 8GB ($599USD with 2 year Cingular contract) and 4GB ($499 with 2yr) versions
- 2 megapixel cellcam built-in
- Top: 3.5mm headset jack, SIM tray, and a sleep-wake switch
- Bottom: Speaker, mic input, and an iPod connector
- Proximity sensor (knows when you bring it to your ear)
- Ambient light sensor (dims and brightens screen as needed, saves power)
- Accelerometer (switches automatically between landscape and portrait as you rotate iPhone)
- Quad-band GSM+EDGE, WiFi (b/g), Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR and A2DP
- Automatically detects and switches to WiFi from EDGE when it finds a hotspot
- Safari for Web browsing, full HTML support (Jobs cites Google Maps as an example)
- IMAP and POP3 email
- Jobs notes “Yahoo will offer free push-IMAP email to iPhone customers. This isn’t just IMAP, this is push-email, same as a BlackBerry.”
- Runs OS X (this apparently drew cheers from the MacWorld attendees)
- 5 hours battery life for calls or video, 16 hours for music playback
- Slated for US in Q2 2007, Europe in Q4 2007, and Asia in 2008
Discuss here. More deets to come. More images from the keynote below.
[Tip o' the hat to Engadget's keynote coverage]
Apple launches iPhone site…
Apple has launched their official site for iPhone.
Their splash image gives you a better feel for size and layout:
Discuss iPhone in the BillDay.com forums.
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Multi-touch possibilities…
Sure Apple is planning some interesting things with multi-touch for iPhone, but just how far could the technology be taken?
Check out this demonstration from NYU spin-off Perceptive Pixel for a glimpse of the possibilities:
and here’s a video…
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