Plabinho's Blog: iPhone

The iPhone is a multimedia and Internet-enabled quad-band GSM EDGE-supported mobile phone designed and sold by Apple Inc.iPhone's functions include those of a camera phone and a portable media player (iPod), in addition to text messaging and visual voicemail.It also offers Internet services including e-mail, web browsing, and local Wi-Fi connectivity. User input is accomplished via a multi-touch screen with virtual keyboard and buttons. The iPhone has been available since June 29, 2007 in the United States from Apple Retail Stores and the Apple Online Store.

Functions:

Phone
The iPhone allows conferencing, call holding, call merging, caller ID, and integration with other cellular network features and iPhone functions.Also the iPhone includes a Visual Voicemail.A ringtone feature, allows users to create ringtones from purchased iTunes music.

Camera
The iPhone features a built in 2.0 megapixels camera on the back for still digital photos, but not video recording. It also includes software that allows the user to upload, view, and send by e-mail photos.

Multimedia
The layout of the music library differs from previous iPods,with the sections divided more clearly alphabetically, and with a larger font. Similar to previous iPods, the iPhone can sort its media library by songs, artists, albums, videos, playlists, genres, composers, podcasts, audiobooks, and compilations.

As the fifth generation iPods introduced in 2005, the iPhone can play video, allowing users to watch TV shows and films.

Web connectivity and e-mail
The iPhone has built-in Wi-Fi, with which it is able to access the World Wide Web (througth a wireless network) via a modified version of the Safari web browser. There has also been some criticism stemming from the iPhone's inability to download iTunes content wirelessly.But iPhone doesn't suport Flash or Java tecnology.

Software

OS X
Apple has confirmed that an optimized version of the Mac OS X operating system (without unnecessary components) runs on the iPhone, although differences between the operating system (OS X) running on Macs and the iPhone have not been officially explained.

Applications
There are several applications located on the "Home" screen. The YouTube application streams videos over Wi-Fi and/or EDGE after encoding them using QuickTime.

This is the Microsoft iPhone, jajajaja (it's a joke)