A lot has been said since Steve Jobs introduced Apple’s new iPhone at MacWorld in San Francisco last Tuesday. Shortly after the announcement, tech giant Cisco announced it was suing Apple for trademark infringement on the term iPhone. It seems that Cisco owned Linksys debuted its own iPhone in December, and Cisco has owned the trademark for iPhone since 2000. With both companies having plenty of deep pockets, the ensuing battle promises to have no quick resolution and will for sure make plenty of lawyers rich.
The long awaited Apple iPhone is actually three products in one, an iPod music player, a mobile phone, and an Internet communications device. It has a 3.5 inch multi-touch screen (fingers, not stylus), 4 or 8 GB of storage ($499 – $599 respectively), and is based on the OS-X operating system (not as open source as one might expect). Battery life allows for five hours of talking, surfing, and video watching, and up to 16 hours of music for your listening pleasure.
On the phone side, Cingular will provide the service featuring quad-band, GSM, EDGE, Bluetooth 2.0, and purportedly some relatively seamless Wi-Fi Internet integration. Additionally, as with most cell phones these days, the iPhone houses a camera with a more than ample 2.0 megapixels.
Internet services are brought to you by the Safari Web Browser, with the ability to connect to any web based email client, such as Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail and the web based MS Exchange. Several widgets are incorporated into the iPhone, as well as support for Google Maps. Web pages are shown as they are meant to be seen, with full support for images and graphics.
With smart phones becoming the norm, the trend is to cram more and more functions into one device. Music and video, full service web browsing and email, cameras, and cell to VoIP phone services – the Apple iPhone promises to be a major player in the shape of things to come.
Apple plans to start shipping the iPhone in June, pending FCC approval.
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[...] Not wanting to compare apples to oranges (pun), the Linksys iPhone is an Internet phone in the truest sense, designed for use with the voip peer to peer network of Skype or Yahoo Messenger. The Apple iPhone on the other hand, at $500 and $600 is by far the smarter phone, but as of yet, no one really knows how Cingular plans to handle its Wi-Fi capabilities. Share and Enjoy:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]
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