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iPhone: Features and applications

An iPhone is a new generation mobile phone with features like Internet connectivity, camera phone, music player, touch screen, Safari and YouTube.

iPhone is an Internet-enabled mobile phone by Apple Inc. becoming increasingly popular among the masses all around the world, especially among the younger generation. One of the best features of an iPhone is the Safari which is the best mobile phone browser and HTML email client with the help of which the users can synchronize their bookmarks easily from their PC or Mac. With virtual buttons and keyboard, the multi-touch screen has nominal input of hardware components. The functions of an iPhone include those of an iPod, camera phones, visual voice-mailing and text messaging.

Apple also provides a specialized version of OSX on three of the devices produced by it: iPhone, iPod Touch and Apple TV. Now-a-days, by registering on various online websites, the users can download their favorite media files on their iPhones in just a matter of minutes. The Safari web browsing facility available on an iPhone enables the users to access Internet allowing them to view the web pages in landscape as well portrait mode and supporting automatic zoom.

On the maps application of an iPhone, the users can view satellite images and maps and also get information about the traffic around the city. Photos can also be uploaded, viewed and e-mailed through an iPhone. Initially, an iPhone was only sold with SIM lock but hackers have discovered methods to unlock it and even sell unlocked phones.

The ever-present Internet connectivity offered by an iPhone is widely used by the users all over the world and Google has reported that an iPhone generates double the amount of search requests in comparison to other handset mobiles. The users can zoom in and zoom out of the photos by pinching and unpinching them through its multi-touch interface. The software program can interact with the iPhoto on Photoshop as well as Mac.

The music library layout is similar to that of an iPod with larger fonts and sections divided alphabetically. An iPhone also supports the gapless playback feature and allows the users to download a song from iTunes Store right on their iPhone. Just like an iPod nano, an iPhone may sort the media library by artists, songs, albums, playlists, videos, genres, podcasts, composers, compilations and audiobooks.

The ‘Home screen’ features various applications that are SMS, calendar, camera, photos, YouTube, Maps, Stocks, Weather, Calculator, Clock, iTunes, Notes and Settings. The applications that dock to the screen base delineate the main purposes of the iPhone: Mail, Phone, iPod and Safari. Scrolling can be done by swiping your finger on the screen.

The Internet services provided by iPhones include e-mailing, local WiFi connecting and web browsing. The e-mail program of an iPhone supports HTML e-mailing, enabling the users to attach photos with their e-mail messages. By default, an iPhone will ask the users to join Wi-Fi network and in order to unlock it, the users will have to enter a password. After being announced as the Invention of the year 2007 by the Time Magazine, an iPhone 3G was released in June 2008 which supported 3G standard of phones and included assisted GPS. An iPhone 3G can support HSDPA and UMTS but not HSUPA network.

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