The UK Mobile Phone Blog

Apple confirm the iPhone

So after all the rumour, photoshop pictures, Apple have finally confirmed the iPhone. Originally planned for release to the American market in June, the iPhone is scheduled to make it’s appearance in the UK before Christmas ‘07.

The iPhone has a lot of interesting features. It will automatically sense if the phone is in landscape or portrait mode for video playback. The 3.5 inch, 320 x 480 pixels screen is multi touch. There is no keypad, as such. All input is done via the screen. the iPhone supports a ‘multi touch’ input method. There is a built in 2.0 megapixel camera.
For storage the iPhone will offer two options, either 4GB or 8GB. The iPhone is a quad band GSM phone (850, 900, 1800 & 1900 mhz) there is also support for EDGE, WiFi and Bluetooth 2.0 (but no 3G)

Battery life promises up to 5 hours talk/video/web browsing, or up to 16 hours audio playback. All in all, the iPhone is an interesting proposition; Whether it lives up to the promise of being 5 years ahead of the competition remains to be seen.