Letters from the Equator

Here’s the low-down:

• revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod® with touch controls, and a breakthrough Internet communications device with desktop-class email, web browsing, searching and maps
• entirely new user interface based on a large multi-touch display and pioneering new software, letting users control iPhone with just their fingers
• allows users to make calls by simply pointing at a name or number
• Visual Voicemail
• SMS application with a full QWERTY soft keyboard
• 2 megapixel camera and a photo management application
• quad-band GSM phone which also features EDGE and Wi-Fi
• iPhone is a Widescreen iPod, 3.5-inch widescreen display
• iPhone lets users enjoy all their iPod content, including music, audiobooks, audio podcasts, video podcasts, music videos, television shows and movies; syncs with iTunes
• browse your music library by album cover artwork
• rich HTML email client which fetches your email in the background from most POP3 or IMAP mail services and displays photos and graphics right along with the text
• advanced built-in sensors-an accelerometer, a proximity sensor and an ambient light sensor-that automatically enhance the user experience and extend battery life
• available in the US in June 2007, Europe in late 2007, and Asia in 2008, in a 4GB model for $499 (US) and an 8GB model for $599 (US), and will work with either a PC or Mac
• quad-band GSM, EDGE, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.0 EDR wireless technologies

So, who doesn’t want one?

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