Apple iPhone Mobile FAQ

30th January 2008

The iPhone is a multimedia mobile phone created by the producer of the iPod, Apple. Its most notable features include Internet access, a multi-touch screen, video and music playback, visual voicemail and up to 8gb of storage. It also offers Internet services including e-mail, web browsing, and local Wi-Fi connectivity.

Multi-touch allows the iPhone to receive input on its touch screen from more than one source at a time. This could be two or more fingers, and allows for interesting methods of interaction with the user interface.

Visual voice mail allows you to interact with your voice mails in a similar way to how you would view a text message. You can view voice mails by recipient, and select which one you wish to listen to.

The recommended retail price is £269 or $399. In addition you will have to purchase a phone contract to activate the iPhone, which currently can only be sold by a select group of mobile carriers.

In the UK O2, the USA AT&T, Germany T-Mobile, and France Orange.

Although there have been no official announcements, a 3G iPhone is expected to be announced in June/July 2008.

The iPhone comes with 4 or 8gb of flash memory. This is used to store all types of data, from music to contacts. The operating system itself takes up about 0.5 gb of space.

AAC, Protected AAC, MP3, MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 1, 2, and 3), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV.

H.264 video, up to 1.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Low-Complexity version of the H.264 Baseline Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; H.264 video, up to 768 Kbps, 320 by 240 pixels, 30 frames per second, Baseline Profile up to Level 1.3 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats

The iPhone works with Windows XP Home or Professional (SP2), and Windows Vista.

Yes, the iPhone supports IMAP and POP3 e-mail accounts.

No there is no GPS, although the iPhone can calculate your general position using its location based service (LBS) feature. LBS provides your approximate location using information based on your proximity to known cellular network towers and Wi-Fi networks.

The iPhone has a 3.5mm jack, so supports most standard headphones.

Yes, the iPhone has Bluetooth and supports most types of Bluetooth headset.

Yes there are companies who will supply technologies and instructions to unlock the iPhone, although its expected that Apple will prevent this using regular firmware updates.