Apple iPhone

Apple iPhone

Apple broke into the mobile phones market in January 2007 with the iPhone, its first and so far only cellular handset. Quite expectedly, the Apple iPhone features contain those similiar to the iPod, making it a music-centric handset much like Sony Ericssons Walkman series. Perhaps the distinguishing feature of Apple mobile phones is the trackpad control, which is similar to the iPods ClickWheel. This allows iPhone users to fluidly navigate the phones menus, which are set in a Mac OS operating system. This OS is so far only found in Apple mobile phones, making it unique among the crowd of Symbian and Windows OS mobile phones.
Initially, the main drawback of the iPhone was its price; more than twice the value of most of its contemporaries. The iPhone was and still is touted as a high-end handset, although Apple has since offered downgraded (lower memory) versions to cater to the middle class markets. Three Apple mobile phones have since been introduced: the 4GB, the 8GB, and the 16GB versions. The 4GB iPhone has been discontinued since the limited storage makes many of the features useless, but the other two remain strong contenders for the markets best selling mobile phone.