iPhone

The amazing Apple iPhone is a combination of the iconic iPod, a fully featured high end mobile phone and a tablet PC. With advanced web browsing, email, maps, and a touch screen the iPhone has redefined how mobile phones should perform.

Our iPhone Review

The Apple iPhone is a cross between an iPod and an advanced mobile phone and will be launched in the UK on November 9th 2007.

While it is clearly the most anticipated mobile phone ever released it is also full of innovative features and looks sleeker and more stylish than most other phones as well.

The casing is small at 115 x 61 x 11.6 mm and weighs just 135 grams and is available in sleek black or a pearly white colour. The main feature is the huge touch sensitive widescreen which acts as the main interface with the phone. At 3.5 inches and 320×480 pixels the iPhone has one of the biggest screens ever on a phone. Navigation is easy thanks to the touch screen and intuitive Mac OS X icon driven menu system

Like the iPod Apple have made the iPhone available in 4GB and 8GB versions. Battery life is good so you can play music uninterrupted for 16 hours. Talk time is apparently 5 hours.

As you might expect the iPhone has a photo address book with easy controls. Simply click on the persons picture to call them or send a text. Other nice functions are a favourite calls list automatically generated from the people you call most and a conference call feature.

Emails and text messages are very easy thanks to the touch sensitive screen which converts into a full QWERTY keyboard with predictive text and auto correct for any typing errors. Supported email applications include POP3, Microsoft Exchange, AOL, Gmail and Apple Mac Mail. Unlike a lot of phones the iPhone supports photos and attachments in emails making it more like a PC than a cell phone.

Our favourite feature is the visual voicemail application which shows new answer phone messages on the screen with options to listen, save or delete the message or call the person who left it. The date, time and duration of the message are also displayed on the screen.

The music player works in much the same way as an iPod and allows the user to scroll through tracks and upload or download to a PC. Album covers can also be stored and used on the iPhone which has an innovative search facility so you can scroll through images like you would flick through a filing cabinet.

Although the camera isn’t as good as some high end phones like the Sony Ericsson K800i it is capable of some very high quality images and offers editing software so you can touch up photos and videos without having to load the pictures onto a PC.

Internet access is amazing thanks to the large screen and makes the iPhone the best internet phone we have ever tested. Google is built in and you can use Google Maps to get directions based on your location. The internet is fast due to the EDGE connection and Apple have also given the iPhone Wi Fi so you can sync with other devices with ease.

Finally the coolest feature is the automatically changing screen that detects whether the phone is upright or in landscape mode and rotates accordingly.

The iPhone is going to be the top selling phone of 2007/2008 without a doubt.

Features

• Bluetooth Enabled
• Built in USB Port
• GSM
• 2 Megapixel Digital Camera
• Video Recording & Playback
• Vibration Alert
• Polyphonic Ringtones
• 8Gb or 4Gb Internal Memory
• High Quality Speakerphone
• Large colour screen
• 320×480 screen resolution
• Touch screen interface
• Wi Fi
• EDGE internet connection
• Size : 115 x 61 x 11.6 mm
• Weight : 135 g
• Talktime : 300 minutes