The Apple iPhone

The iPhone is a multimedia/Internet-enabled phone announced by Apple CEO Steve Jobs during the keynote address at the Macworld Conference & Expo on January 9, 2007.

The iPhone's functions include those of a camera phone, a multimedia player, mobile telephone, and Internet services like e-mail, text messaging, web browsing and wireless connectivity. iPhone input is accomplished via touchscreen with virtual keyboard and buttons. The iPhone is a quad-band GSM phone, though Jobs mentioned in his keynote that Apple has a "plan to make 3G phones" in the future. Apple has filed over 200 patents related to the technology behind the iPhone.

More features include a widescreen I-pod , Touch-screen Technology, Web Browsing & Internet Maps .



The iPhone has a scheduled United States release date of June 2007. It will be available from the Apple Store and from Cingular Wireless, with a price of US$499 for the 4 GB model and US$599 for the 8 GB model, based on a two-year service contract. Apple has also announced plans to make the iPhone available in Europe and Japan at a later date


This product is a brand new phenomenon that is tipped to rival even the highest selling of MP3 Players & particularly high selling mobile phones. In the case of the highest selling MP3 player being the i-Pod, Apple as a company won’t be in any disadvantage as their own product will be displacing the other.

As this will be maybe the largest example so far of mass convergence within one product in the world many music, mobile & technology institutions have wanted to be involved, but as Apple see themselves as an independent company they have put up a record amount of patents related to their own technology.

Not only is the soon-coming i-Phone packed with more or less every NMT that can be thought of, but there are brand new features that mean that the i-Phone when finally released should set it apart from the competition. For example it has energy saving features that include all lights on the phone being temporarily turned off if it is lifted to the ear. In this day & age of Global warming & energy saving obsessions this aspect of the phone should urge lots of support.

During the making of the iPhone lots of concept models were made, Apple enthusiasts & fraudsters also decided to make false images & prototype models of the final product. This forgery of what was to come did in fact cause confusion amongst people in this sector of the NMT industry; many people were also cheated out of their money:

People have even made blogs about these new, fake iPhones that are circulating, to warn people & ridicule the whole activity.

Fake iPhone Blog.

Overall the i-Phone seems like it will be a great success, because of the sheer range of convergence involved it could steer people into the direction of ‘dumping’ their existing, phone, camera, handheld DVD player and who knows, maybe even their handheld games console?