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Lookout Windows Mobile here comes Apple iPhone


iPhone combines three products — a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and a breakthrough Internet communications device with desktop-class email, web browsing, maps, and searching — into one small and lightweight handheld device. iPhone also introduces an entirely new user interface based on a large multi-touch display and pioneering new software, letting you control everything with just your fingers. So it ushers in an era of software power and sophistication never before seen in a mobile device, completely redefining what you can do on a mobile phone.

Multi-touch

iPhone features the most revolutionary user interface since the mouse. It’s an entirely new interface based on a large multi-touch display and innovative new software that lets you control everything using only your fingers. So you can glide through albums with Cover Flow, flip through photos and email them with a touch, or zoom in and out on a section of a web page — all by simply using iPhone’s multi-touch display.

Intelligent Keyboard

iPhone’s full QWERTY soft keyboard lets you easily send and receive SMS messages in multiple sessions. And the keyboard is predictive, so it prevents and corrects mistakes, making it easier and more efficient to use than the small plastic keyboards on many smartphones.

Phone features a rich HTML email client and Safari — the most advanced web browser ever on a portable device — which automatically syncs bookmarks from your PC or Mac. Safari also includes built-in Google and Yahoo! search. iPhone is fully multi-tasking, so you can read a web page while downloading your email in the background over Wi-Fi or EDGE.

  • Safari Web Browser

    With its advanced Safari browser, iPhone lets you see any web page the way it was designed to be seen, then easily zoom in by simply tapping on the multi-touch display with your finger.

    Internet
  • Mail

    iPhone uses a rich HTML email client that fetches your email in the background from most POP3 or IMAP mail services and displays photos and graphics right along with the text.

    Mail
  • Google Maps

    With Google Maps and iPhone’s amazing Maps application, you can view maps and satellite images, or get directions and traffic information, all from iPhone’s remarkable, easy-to-use touch interface.

    Maps
  • Widgets

    iPhone even has widgets: small applications that give you helpful information like stock reports, weather reports, and more in real time.

    Widgets


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Well, it sure is pretty! It will be interesting to see how effective the keyboard implementation and rotation auto-sensing are.
Does anyone have proof that you can or cannot install 3rd party apps? Engagdet quotes someone as saying no here: http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/01/09/the-iphone-is-not-a-smartphone/

but management at msmobiles.com says yes, but refused to provide a link to the info that stated so here: http://msmobiles.com/f/viewtopic.php?t=16590
5 hours of talk and 16 hours of music time..
With a screen that large? You can kiss your battery life goodbye.
This really is cool news. I think the thing that impresses me most is a bluetooth-enabled iPod device with A2DP support. On top of everything else included...

I'm sure the price will keep this thing out of the hands of the majority of cell phone users, but this is probably as close as anyone has come to a mainstream all-in-one device that will break ground in multi-media/business phones.

I'm curious to see how the touchscreen keyboard works in realtime use.
I would like a matching backpack to carry around all the extra batteries I will need
I want one
Wow. Nuff said.
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