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By Dipesh.P.Jathan

What is an iPhone ?

An iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smart phonesdesigned and marketed byApple..

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iPhone can function as follows : Acamera phone. A Video camera. Sendingtexts. Receivevisual voicemail. A portable media player.

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Creation

The development of the iPhone began in early 2005 with the help of Apple CEO Steve Jobs directions to his engineers.

The first iPhone was unveiled by Apple CEO Steve Jobs January 9th 2007 Macworld 2007 and was later released on June 29th 2007.

The main objective was to steer the original focus away from the tablets, like iPad towards these mobiles

Apple created the iPhone with secretive collaboration with Cingular Wireless (AT&T Mobility now). This projects estimated development cost of US $ 150 million over 30 months. Cingular Wireless had proposed a design by committee approach, but Apple rejected it. As this same approach used in Motorolas ROKR E1 was a largely unsuccessful in the market. So the Cingular gave Apple the liberty to iPhones hardware & software in-house, and even paid Apple a fraction of its monthly Service revenue.

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Screen and Body :

It has a 9 cm (3.5 inch) LCD display with multi-touch sensing. The iPhone has a minimal hardware user interface, it features only 4-5 buttons depending on its generation. Home button, call button, wake/sleep button, silence switch & volume control button. The back of the iPhone was made aluminum with a black plastic accent, but was soon replaced by full

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bottom of the iPhone sports a Speaker (Left) and a microphone (Right). It includes an additional microphone at the top of the unit fornoise cancellation. controls are located on the left side of all iPhone models and as a slider in the iPod application. has a built in bluetooth which supports wireless earpiece & headphones.

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Battery:
It features an internal rechargeable battery, but the battery is not user-replaceable as the battery in the iPhone have beensolderedin, Thus a soldering iron is required to install the new battery. The iPhone can be charged when connected to a computer with the help of USB to dock connector cable. Apple says that the battery life Is designed to retain up to 80 % of its original capacity after 400 full charge and

Camera:
The original iPhone feature a built-infixed focus2.0megapixelcamera located on the back for still digital photos. It has no optical zoom, flash orautofocus, and does not support video recording however Jailbreaking allows users to do so. iPhone OS introduced the capability toembed location datain the pictures, producing geocoded photographs. With the help of Jailbreaking it is capable of

Storage & sim:

The iPhone was released with two options for internal storage size: 4 & 8 GB, and soon was followed by the 16 & 32 GB models. On September 5th 2007 Apple discontinued the 4GB models. The iPhone does not support expanded storage through a memory card slot, or the SIM card. GSMModels of the iPhone use aSIM cardto identify themselves to the GSM network. The iPhone is usually sold with aSIM lock, which prevents the iPhone from being used on a different mobile network. TheGSMmodel features aMicroSIMcard that

Liquid contact indicators:

iPhone is equipped with liquid contact indicators which change from white to red in color when they come in contact with water. suggest whether water damage has affected the device. additional one is located at the bottom of thedock connector. indicators are used to determine whether the devicequalifiesfor a warranty repair or replacement.

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Operating System:
iPhone run anoperating system known asiOS(formerly iPhone OS).

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is responsible for the interface's motion graphics. operating system takes up less than half agigabyte. is capable of supporting future applications from Apple, as well as from third-party developers.

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Interface:
Theinterfaceis based around the home screen, a graphical list of available applications. default, the Home screen contains the following icons:

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Messages, Calendar, Photos, Camera, YouTube, Stocks, Maps, Weather, Notes, Utilities ,iTunes,App Store, Game centre and a Compass.

Docked at the base of the screen, four icons forPhone,Mail,Safari(Internet), and iPod (multimedia) delineate the iPhone's main purpose.

Phone:
The iPhone allows audioconferencing, call holding, call merging,caller ID and integration with other cellular network features and iPhone functions. For example, if music is playing when a call is received, the music fades out, and fades back in when the call has ended. Theproximity sensorshuts off the screen and touch-sensitive circuitry when the iPhone is brought close to the face, both to save battery and prevent unintentional touches. The iPhone does not supportvideocalling and

Multimedia:
layout of the music library is similar to that of an iPodor currentSymbianS60phones. iPhone can sort its media library by songs, artists, albums,playlists,genres, composers, podcasts,audiobooks, andcompilations. The iPhone uses a large font that allows users plenty of room to touch their selection. Users can rotate their device horizontally tolandscape modeto accessCover Flow. The iPhone allow to upload, view & e-mail photos

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Internet Connectivity :
access is available when the iPhone is connected to a local areaWi-Fior a wide area GSMorEDGEnetwork, both second-generation (2G) wireless data standards. iPhone will ask to join newly discovered Wi-Fi networks and prompt for the password when required. Alternatively, it can join closed Wi-Fi networks manually. iPhone will automatically choose the strongest network, connecting to Wi-Fi when it is available.

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Text Input
For text input, the iPhone has avirtual keyboardon the touch screen. It has automatic spell checkingand correction,predictive wordcapabilities, and a dynamic dictionary that learns new words. The keyboard can predict what word the user is typing and complete it, and correct for the accidental pressing of keys near the presumed desired key. The keys are somewhat larger and spaced farther apart when inlandscape mode.

Accessibility:
The iPhone can enlarge text to make it moreaccessiblefor vision-impaired users,and can accommodate hearing-impaired users with closed captioning.

The iPhone also features white & black mode,VoiceOver(ascreen reader), and zooming for impaired vision, and mono audio forlimited hearingin one ear.

Vulnerability:
Users who install their own software without Apple's protections can have their information stolen or unwittingly downloadmalwareby clicking on certainPDFfiles. The iphone does not officially support the OBEX file transfer protocol. The lack of these profiles prevents iPhone users from exchanging multimedia files, such as pictures, music & videos with other bluetooth enabled cell phones. This discovery of "critical weaknesses" was reported by the

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