IPhone, All Set to Be Crowned on 29th June

June is the year of Gadgets, after Microsoft's Surface computer its Apple's IPhone. In my post about Wi-Fi on IPod, I have mentioned about IPhone. But there are lot of developments in Apple’s IPhone since its launch. When Apple launched its IPhone, there were many concerns raised by its competitors about the battery life, applications and offcourse the talktime. In considerations to all these concerns, Steve Jobs has refreshed the product with some enhancements.

These developments are about the talk time, IPhone users can have a talk time of about 8 hours and the battery life is a dashing 10 days in standby mode. The company has also upgraded its plastic body to optical-quality glass as a result making it a scratch free product. Apple also claims that IPhone has a video playback time of 7 hours, 6 hours of internet surfing. But when compared to blackberry Curve which has 16 hours of talk time IPhone has to improve a lot.

Apple is more concerned about the third party applications to run on its products. Developers can develop applications supporting Ajax and web 2.0 standards. But these applications will run as a widget on the device. Though they would have some advantages of the resources of this phone like Google maps and address books, but they would be truly running in safari.


But never to forget the multiple touch era has begin. IPhone will be supporting multiple touch screen. The IPhone is a combination of an IPod, a cell phone, a video player, a camera and it is also internet ready. It comes with the most important application, which is Google maps. You can have full access to Google maps. This phone doesn’t have any keypad unlike the traditional mobile phone. Rather it has a 3.5 inches touch keypad which makes this feature as a unique one. With multi touch screen, you can browse through the applications and albums stored on your phone with your figure rolling on the screen. The 2 mega pixel camera can take pictures, and record videos. The IPhone also give you the feature to upload the files. See the technical specifications below:



Specifications

IPhone is a 135 gms device which has a 3.5 inches multi touch screen with a resolution of 320 by 480 pixels (160 ppi). It has an inbuilt 2 megapixels camera, Wi-Fi, EDGE and Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR technology. It makes use of Quad band for communication and works on MAC OS X operating system. The ARM core process which is being used in IPhone is manufactured by Samsung but not Intel. But even Intel can be benefited with this product, as the memory which is being used is a Flash based. There is a stiff shortage of NAND flash memory chips, so that’s good news for these companies as well. Samsung, in joint venture with Intel, Micron Technology, IM Flash technology, Hynix Semiconductors and Toshiba can together supply these demanding chips to Apple. This would also boost the Flash market which has gone down. According to Taiwan based Digi Times sited on SeekingAlpha, Apple is asking for 400 to 500 million 4Gbit NAND flash memory chips for this device.

You can get more specific details about the conditions under which the testing was done on Apple



Questions about IPhone

Whether the 8hours of talk time sufficient or the IPhone users would end up with the battery in the middle of the day.

Whether applications like Youtube will be fully functional.

All these questions would be answered only after we use this product. So wait for 29th June.





Price Cut

I am sure you must be eagerly waiting for IPhone to be released on 29thJune. But sources also claim that Apple is likely to bring down the prices of its IPhone. According to the isuppli’s estimates sited on Consumeraffairs, Apple will be bringing the prices of this product drastically down to buzzzzz the mobile market. It is half the price that Apple is getting as a profit on every IPhone.



Important Facts

According to informationweekthe U.S. ban on importing Qualcomm chips could benefit Apple, as the companies which are affected with this ban are market competitors of Apple’s IPhone. This ban was a competition between Broadcomm and Qualcomm. Most of the world’s largest phone suppliers have no choice rather than supporting the protest by Qualcomm to release this ban. Qualcomm has also requested Bush to impose veto to release this Ban. Read more about this story at AppleInsider



With Microsoft’s Surface Computer, the multiple touch technology is boomed. The IPhone will impact the multiple touch screen industry. The overall market for similar technology is growing at a very greater extent. Read more about this at informationweek. This is just the beginning of multiple touch technology. According to an article sited on Sun-Sentinel.com, this new user interface will be like a tsunami, hitting the entire spectrum of devices”. But we cannot pressure who will be licensing this technology, as both the major players have developed their own products supporting this technology.

My 85 year old uncle probably will never buy an IPhone, and I hope we’ll get him to own a Zune. These were the words of Microsoft CEO Ballmer, as sited on everythingIphone


All door are opened, even FCC has given green signal to this product. As per the contract with AT & T for 2 years, Apple will be selling this product from 29th June at $499 for 4GB and $599 for 8 GB. We are waiting for 29th June.



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