Steve Jobs announced the long-awaited Apple iPhone during his Macworld 2007 keynote in San Francisco.
iPhone combines three products — a cell phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and an Internet communications device into one small and lightweight handheld device. It comes with desktop-class email, web browsing, maps, and searching.
iPhone will be an all-encompassing life-management tool.
It is a quad-band GSM phone. You make calls by simply pointing at a name or number. It comes with a 2 megapixel camera and a photo management application that is far beyond anything on a phone today.
iPhone will run in a small, but fully operational OSX (Unix). It features EDGE and Wi-Fi wireless technologies for data networking. iPhone also features the most advanced and fun-to-use web browser on a portable device with a version of its award-winning Safari™ web browser for iPhone. iPhone is fully multi-tasking, so you can be reading a web page while downloading your email in the background. iPhone will be the first Phone with applications that you can actually use, no like the "micro browsers" in Nokia of Motorola.
iPhone’s at least looks better, even if it’s not physically bigger than the others. iPhone is also significantly bigger than iPodNano and iPod shuffle and is comparable to the size of iPod video.
iPhone is also a widescreen iPod with touch controls that lets music lovers “touch” their music by easily scrolling through entire lists of songs, artists, albums and playlists with just a flick of a finger. You can enjoy all your iPod content, including music, audiobooks, audio podcasts, video podcasts, music videos, television shows and movies.
Now, you can directly download and watch any of the hundreds of television shows you may have missed the past week, or just rewatch a favorite, completely free of charge, on your phone.
iPhone will be the most functional remote control you’ve ever had. It can be made to navigate Apple TV’s menus wirelessly. iPhone and a Wii Remote are remarkably similar in that regard.
You can accuse Apple of many things, but thoughtless interfaces aren’t one of them. iPhone 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. There is even a built-in ambient light sensor automatically adjusts the display’s brightness to the appropriate level for the current ambient light, thereby enhancing the user experience and saving power at the same time.