Phone, iPod, Internet, high technology—if all these components are found in your phone, then you’ve got one of the hottest items in the world nowadays: Apple’s iPhone. Since its release in the last days of June, has caught people in a frenzy, talking about its different advantages and disadvantages. Yet the question remains: what’s an iPhone?
iPhone works perfectly with any Windows versions. Apple is definitely MAC, but it doesn’t mean you can’t pair iPhones with those of Bill Gates. Iphones function if your operating system is Windows XP, both home and professional, and Windows Vista.
iPhone can go international. Like any other GSM phones that are quad band, you can travel anywhere in the world with iPhone. However, you just have to make sure that you have enabled both roaming and international dialing features. Ask support from AT&T, the official chosen carrier of iPhones until 2009.
iPhone is highly secured. Any information you store in iPhone is highly protected with your own four-digit password, which you need to encode every time you turn the device on or when it wakes from its sleeping mode. To secure Internet connection, it uses the industry-standard WiFi and VPN (virtual private networking).
iPhone allows you to surf even without WiFi. AT&T uses the EDGE technology, which allows any phone, iPhone included, to connect wirelessly even without WiFi signals within the area.
iPhone connects you to the Internet. This spells for a lot of benefits and features. For one, this phone can connect to any popular public e-mail such as Yahoo, AOL, Hotmail, Gmail, and MAC mail as long as they have POP3 and IMAP e-mail standards. You can always ask your e-mail provider if these features are available for you. Yahoo, for example, allows you to automatically forward any new e-mail you have to your phone with its “push e-mail” system.
With a Safari web browser, you can view and visit webpages as if you’re simply browsing them in your MAC. This is because you can resize them to fit your iPhone screen.
The iPhone makes use of touch-screen system. Images can be zoomed in and out by placing and spreading your fingers—sort of like pinching them. There are no keypads, though a virtual QWERTY keyboard appears depending on the functions that you’re using, such as in sending text and e-mail messages.
IPhone offers a lot of promise not just for Apple but for the entire mobile community. It is the start of more innovative features to come.
