Michael Ferrerya

The cell phone has changed the way we communicate to one another and the expanded feature set helps us become more productive. With today’s fast paced world, it is necessary to have advanced communication devices at your fingertips to connect you and help you out in your day to day.

It almost seems as if Apple waited to see which mobile devices would be the most popular before combining them all into one truly ground breaking device known as the iPhone. In the past few years, cell phone manufacturers have been doing everything they can to win over customers with their own unique thing. Unique and attractive enough to get people to pay extra to have access.

This began with text messaging and the camera phone and quickly expanded into cell phones that are Internet ready where you can check your Email and surf different web sites. The next thing that every mobile phone manufacturer is trying to perfect is video. Video is nothing new to mobile phone, but the quality is not so great. Another major issue when trying to stream video from the Internet is the bandwidth causing buffering issues. There are two things that must happen, either the video will have to take up enough bandwidth on mobile networks or parallel networks must be constructed just to give you the ability to watch videos on your cell phone. There are some wireless providers that are already doing this.

The great thing about the soon to be released Apple iPhone is that it is a combination of the most popular and commonly used mobile devices such as a cell phone, a digital camera, text messaging, email, web browsing, voice communication, and best of all the functions of a video iPod, and the benefits of a Palm Treo. That isn’t all, there are actually many more useful features that make the iPhone more user friendly. This one device allows users to have access to many different functions of entertainment, communication, and productivity options with you at all times. The scheduled release date is in 2007.

AT&T will be the only cell phone networks that will have the ability to sell you service for your iPhone. AT&T is one of the largest wireless manufacturers in America with more than sixty million customers. Again the Apple iPhone will be ready in retail stores sometime in late June when it is released by Apple. The 4GB will run you about $499 and the 8GB will cost you a little more at about $599.