I wrote an article back in December last year claiming iPhone from Apple was just hype. It turned out I was wrong. Apple actually has a product with the name iPhone, which is not approved by FCC and still in dispute with Linksys over the product name.
So what’s good about iPhone? It’s a mobile phone and not a VoIP phone that was announced by Linksys last month. It’s a phone that you hardly see a button. In fact, there is only one “home” button. You control the phone by sliding a finger across its 3.5-inch touch screen.
iPhone combines three products - a mobile phone, an iPod, and an Internet communications device into one small and lightweight handheld device. It has the same power of a state of the art Symbian or Windows Mobile powered device. Despite its innovative new user interface (UI), I have to say it is only equally powerful.
Apple has added a new tab on Apple.com promoting iPhone. The QuickTime based web site is very intuitive to use, showing all the main features of iPhone in an incredibly presentable way. That is what I like about Apple - they work hard, they sell hard. You do not need to read any other publications to know exactly about iPhone.
The hypes of Apple’s iPhone ended when Linksys released the iPhone series. The iPhone series has two families - iPhone and WIP.
The iPhone family has four members, from basic VOIP handset that requires a PC to the most expensive standalone CIT400 model. The differences lie in the level of convenience the product gives to end user and the “VOIP software” that is pre-installed on the phone.
The benefits of VOIP are nothing new to many of us as we have used PC based VOIP solution, such as Skype. However, there are people out there who are not comfortable with or do not like phone calls using a PC. These people are the targeted buyers of iPhone.
Oddly, only one out of four iPhone model run without a PC. The rest of the model requires a USB base station with external power and twelve steps to install the telephony kit.