iPhone

2007-01-10T11:28:00.000-08:00

The iPhone is a combination mobile phone, multimedia player, and wireless communications device announced by Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs during his keynote address at the Macworld Conference & Expo on January 9, 2007. The iPhone will support push e-mail, mobile telephone, text messaging, web browsing and other wireless information services. In addition, the touchscreen device will also include functionality found in the iPod series of media players and runs a variant of the Mac OS X operating system.
The device is a 2.75G quad band GSM EDGE cell phone. It will come equipped with Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) and Bluetooth 2.0, as well as a 2-megapixel camera. It supports tilting so that content can be viewed horizontally or vertically. The iPhone will not include a built-in keyboard or keypad; input is accomplished via a software-enabled graphical user interface implemented via the iPhone's touch screen.
The iPhone has a scheduled initial release date of June 2007, pending Federal Communications Commission approval, and will be available from the Apple Store and via Cingular.
Cisco Systems owns the trademark to the iPhone name and sells a line of telephone devices with that name with the Linksys brand; the issue was not fully settled at the time of Jobs's announcement.
Apple has filed over 200 patents related to the technology behind iPhone, which it "intends to protect".