Apple Announces Internet-Ready iPhone

By Geoff Duncan
January 09, 2007

Apple's super-slim, touch-screen driven quad-band iPhone runs Mac OS X, sports Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Internet, and media capabilities...and will ship in June starting at $499.

At his keynote address at the Macworld trade show in San Francisco, Apple Inc.—note the new name—CEO Steve Jobs ended months of speculation by introducing the iPhone—and it's not just a phone combined with an iPod. Instead, the device combines a widescreen personal media player handling music and video with full-blown Internet communications capabilities and a quad-band, EDGE-capable mobile phone. Think of the iPhone as a smartphone combined with a widescreen iPod with the addition of desktop-class Internet capabilities.

Physically, the iPhone is a slim 11.6 millimeters and sports a 3.5-inch, 160dpi touch screen, along with a 2 megapixel camera, a headset jack, built-in speaker and microphone, and an iPod dock connector on the bottom. The phone sports built-in volume controls, a sleep/wake button ...

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