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iPhone Nelsaliz Santiago H-22 Date: 10/20/2009. International Technology

The amazing iPhone

iPhone

“Apps for everything”.

What can’t the iPhone do?

Is rather difficult, to find something that the iPhone isn’t able to do.IPhone is known for its amazing applications. The iPhone is like the perfect house maid.The iPhone is anInternetandmultimediaenabledsmart phone,designed and marketed by Apple. The iPhone functions as acamera phone, also includingtext messaging, visual voicemail, a portable media player, and anInternet

(withemail ,web browsing , and Wi-Ficonnectivity)

usingthe phone'smulti-touchscreen to render a virtualkeyboardas a physical keyboard. The first generation phone hardware wasquad-band GSMwithEDGE,the second generation added UMTSwith 3.6 MbpsHSDPA, the third generation adds support for 7.2 MbpsHSDPA downloading but remains limited to 384 Kbps uploading as Apple had not implemented theHSPAprotocol.Apple announced the iPhone on

January 2007

, after months of rumors and speculation. Theoriginal iPhone was introduced in theUnited Stateson

June 2007

, before being marketedworldwide.Timemagazine named it the Invention of the Year in 2007. Released

July 2008

, theiPhone 3G supports faster 3Gdata speeds andassisted GPS. On

March 2009

, Apple announcedversion 3.0 of theiPhone OSoperating system for the iPhone

(and iPod Touch

, released on June2009)

. The iPhone 3GS was announced on

June 2009

, and has improved performance, a camerawith moremegapixelsand video capability, andvoice control.It was released in the U.S., Canada and six European countries on

June 19, 2009

, in Australia and Japan on

June 26

, andsaw international release in

July

and

August, 2009

History and availability

Development of the iPhone began with the Apple

( CEOSteve Jobs')

direction that Appleengineers investigate touch screens. Apple created the device during a secretive and

unprecedented collaboration withAT&T MobilityCingular Wireless at the time, at an estimateddevelopment cost of $150 million over thirty months. Apple rejected the design by committeeapproach that had yielded theMotorola ROKR E1, a largely unsuccessful collaboration withMotorola. Instead, Cingular gave Apple the liberty to develop the iPhone's hardware andsoftware in-house.On

July 11, 2008

, Apple released the iPhone 3G in twenty-two countries, including the originalsix. Apple has since released the iPhone 3G in upwards of eighty countries and territories. Appleannounced the iPhone 3GS on

June 2009

, along with plans to release it later in

June, July,

and

August

, starting with the U.S., Canada and major European countries on June. Apple sold 6.1million original iPhone units over five quarters. The company sold 3.8 million iPhone 3G unitsin the second quarter, ending

March 2009

, totaling 21.4 million iPhones sold to date.

Sales inthe fourth quarter 2008 surpassed temporarily those of RIM'sBlackBerrysales of 5.2 million units, which made Apple briefly the third largest mobile phone manufacturer by revenue, after NokiaandSamsung.

Approximately 6.4 million iPhones are active in the U.S. alone.

WhileiPhone sales constitute a significant portion of Apple's revenue, some of this income isdeferred.Regardless, the iPhone has garnered positive reviews from critics like

David Pogue

and

Walter Mossberg

The iPhone attracts users of all ages.

Phone

The iPhone allows audioconferencing, call holding, call merging,caller ID,and integration with other cellular network features and iPhone functions.

For example, if a song is playing while acall is received, it gradually fades out, and fades back when the call has ended.

The proximitysensor shuts off the screen and touch-sensitive circuitry when the iPhone is brought close to the