Mike Butcher

The long-rumoured Apple iPhone launches with Cingular in the US available February. Here are the features in no particular order: (Gleaned from live blogs by TUAW, Paidcontent, Crunchgear, Engadget)

The good: Where do I start? It’s an amazing device.
The bad: Only one: Not 3G yet.

See some pix!

- Actually called iPhone afterall!

- Touch screen, 2 megapixel camera, will sync with iTunes

- It swaps between normal and landscape modes

- Displays voicemails in a list

- SMS texting has multiple sessions, on-screen qwerty keyboard, and the message UI looks like iChat

- Call merging

- Quad-band GSM+EDGE phone.

- Caller ID

- Ringtones

- Plays downloaded TV shows

- “Use your finger to unlock the phone via ‘gestures’

- 3.5″ screen

- 160 ppi screen

- One button on the front. “Home”.

- Really thin, thinner than any smart phone. 11.6mm.

- Ring/silent and volume controls on the side.

- 2MP camera on the back.

- 3.5mm headseat jack

- SIM card for GSM

- extra speakers on bottom

- built in Mic

- Proximity sensor which turns off the display and touch sensor to save power when making calles

- Senses when you switch from portrait to landscape

- Syncs with iTunes just like the iPod

- Syncs with notes, bookmarks, email accounts, movies, photos, audio books and calendars

- Runs OS X

- No Stylus – you use your finger/hand

- Software ignores unintended touches

- WiFi and Bluetooth 2.0

- Scroll into and out of pics

- Rich HTML eMail. Any IMAP or POP e-mail service.

- Safari web browser on the phone

- WiFi + EDGE networking will autodetect Wifi

- Free Yahoo!push IMAP email to iPhone customers

- Read The New York Times site like a real newspaper buy ‘zooming in’ on what you want to read

- Tabbed browsing

And the official version:



Screen size 3.5 inches

Screen resolution 320 by 480 at 160 ppi

Input method Multi-touch

Operating system OS X

Storage 4GB or 8GB

GSM Quad-band (MHz: 850, 900, 1800, 1900)

Wireless data Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) + EDGE + Bluetooth 2.0

Camera 2.0 megapixels

Battery

* Up to 5 hours Talk / Video / Browsing

* Up to 16 hours Audio playback

Dimensions 4.5 x 2.4 x 0.46 inches / 115 x 61 x 11.6mm

Weight 4.8 ounces / 135 grams