1. Enter The IPhone

The mobile market is flooded with multi-purpose wireless phones known as smartphones. Among the major players are Motorola, Samsung and Research In Motion with its ever popular Blackberry. Smartphones let you make standard phone calls and access images, audio files, videos, email, office files and contact lists as well as the Internet.

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Apple has now entered the smartphone market. To the cheers of Apple aficionados at MacWorld 2007 in January and then around the world, Steve Jobs announced the iPhone. The phone, which is expected to see the light of day next month, is bound to have a strong impact on the mobile market. Let's look briefly at the strengths and weaknesses of the Apple's high-concept smartphone.

The Good

The iPhone will come with a very large feature set. The first thing that attracted my attention was the fact that it will be running a version of Apple's very popular and easy-to-use Mac OS X. The iPhone is able to multi-task so you can read your email while a file is downloading from the Internet.

Then there's the large hi-res color screen, which can be used in portrait or landscape mode (the mode changes with the orientation of the phone), covers most of the phone's front and the interface is entirely finger-touch-based. This frees the iPhone from a set of fixed buttons and allows it to morph into one or another device by presenting a different user interface for each function or application. The phone's multi-touch capability lets you use multiple fingers to zoom in and out of pictures, scroll menus, dial numbers, and more.

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