The long awaited and speculated Apple iPhone has just been introduced today by Steve Jobs at MacWorld. The iPhone will have a 3.5 inch widescreen/touchscreen display, and will be a Cingular exclusive phone. It will come in two versions, a 4 Gigabyte for $499 and an 8 Gigabyte version for $599. Both of which will be flash based. Also mentioned was the battery life, which is 5 hours for talking and 16 hours for audio playback.
–The iPhone is scheduled to ship in June of this year.
“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.“
Specs for iPhone:
- Screen size: 3.5-inches
- Screen resolution: 320 by 480 at 160 ppi
- Input method: Multi-touch
- Operating System: OS X
- Storage: 4GB or 8GB
- GSM: Quad-band (MHz: 850, 900, 1800, 1900)
- Wireless data: Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) + EDGE + Bluetooth 2.0
- Camera: 2.0 megapixels
- Battery: Up to 5 hours Talk / Video / Browsing; Up to 16 hours Audio playback
- Dimensions: 4.5 x 2.4 x 0.46 inches / 115 x 61 x 11.6mm
- Weight: 4.8 ounces / 135 grams