Apple's New $99 iPhone 3G

June 19 2009

The iPhone is an internet-connected, multimedia smartphone designed and marketed by Apple Inc. Since its minimal hardware interface lacks a physical keyboard, the multi-touchscreen renders a virtual keyboard when necessary. The iPhone functions as a camera phone (also including text messaging and visual voicemail), a portable media player (equivalent to a video iPod), and an Internet client (with email, web browsing, and Wi-Fi connectivity). The first-generation phone hardware was quad-band GSM with EDGE; the second generation added UMTS with HSDPA.^[15]

Apple announced the iPhone on January 9, 2007,^[16] after months of rumors and speculation.^[17] The original iPhone was introduced in the United States on June 29, 2007 before being marketed worldwide. Time magazine named it the Invention of the Year in 2007.^[18] Released July 11, 2008, the iPhone 3G supports faster 3G data speeds and assisted GPS.^[15] On March 17, 2009, Apple announced version 3.0 of the iPhone OS operating system for the iPhone (and iPod Touch), released on June 17, 2009.^[19] The iPhone 3G S was announced on June 8, 2009. It will be released in the U.S., Canada and some European countries on June 19,^[3] Australia on June 26,^[20] and will see international release in July and August.

Go here for more information about the iPhone or to the Apple iPhone site:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_iphone/family/iphone?mco=MTE2NTQ