iPhone Techniques

Since Apple released the first series of iPhone in the market on June 29, 2007, it has been hitting phenomenal sales. Received a recognition from Time Magazine as the Invention of the Year in 2007, iPhone continues to soar in the market. Here are some reasons why iPhone outpaced others:

iPhone 4 Technical Specifications

Size and weight1

Height: 4.5 inches (115.2 mm)
Width: 2.31 inches (58.6 mm)
Depth: 0.37 inch (9.3 mm)
Weight: 4.8 ounces (137 grams)

Capacity 16GB or 32GB flash drive

Display

* Retina display
* 3.5-inch (diagonal) widescreen Multi-Touch display
* 960-by-640-pixel resolution at 326 ppi
* 800:1 contrast ratio (typical)
* 500 cd/m2 max brightness (typical)
* Fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating on front and back
* Support for display of multiple languages and characters simultaneously

Cellular and wireless

* UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA (850, 900, 1900, 2100 MHz)
* GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)
* 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi (802.11n 2.4GHz only)
* Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR wireless technology

Location

* Assisted GPS
* Digital compass
* Wi-Fi
* Cellular

TV and video

* Video formats supported: H.264 video up to 720p, 30 frames per second, Main Profile level 3.1 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 per channel, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, PCM stereo audio in .avi file format
* Support for 1024 by 768 pixels with Dock Connector to VGA Adapter; 576p and 480p with Apple Component AV Cable; 576i and 480i with Apple Composite AV Cable (cables sold separately)


Locate your lost iPhone.

If you’ve lost your iPhone, Find My iPhone can help you locate it on a map and protect its data. Display a message on its screen, remotely set a passcode lock, or initiate a remote wipe to delete your data.

Choose your wallpaper.

In Settings, choose Wallpaper, tap the image of the Lock and Home screens, then tap one of your photo albums or tap Wallpaper for the Apple-designed images. Find the image you want, tap Set, and then choose whether to use it as wallpaper for your Lock screen, Home screen, or both.

Lock the screen orientation.

Double-click the Home button to bring up the multitasking interface, then swipe from left to right. Now tap the portrait orientation lock once to turn it on and again to turn it off.

Scrub through audio and video.

When you’re watching a video or listening to music or a podcast, the scrubber bar lets you skip to any point along the timeline. You can adjust the scrub rate from high-speed to fine scrubbing by sliding your finger down as you drag the playhead along the scrubber bar.

Print wirelessly from iPhone.

AirPrint makes it easy to print email and webpages right from your iPhone to your AirPrint-enabled printer. To print an email, just tap the reply icon and select print. To print a webpage, click the action icon and select print. You can also print photos, documents, and more.

HD Video Recording and Editing

Shoot your own movies in high definition. Capture impressive video even in low-light settings, thanks to the advanced backside illumination sensor and built-in LED light. Then edit and create your own mini-masterpiece right on iPhone 4 using the new iMovie app — with Apple-designed themes, titles, and transitions. It’s available on the App Store for $4.99.

Print wirelessly from iPhone.

AirPrint makes it easy to print email and webpages right from your iPhone to your AirPrint-enabled printer. To print an email, just tap the reply icon and select print. To print a webpage, click the action icon and select print. You can also print photos, documents, and more.

iPhone 4. In so many ways, it’s a first.

While everyone else was busy trying to keep up with iPhone, we were busy creating amazing new features that make iPhone more powerful, easier to use, and more indispensable than ever. The result is iPhone 4. The biggest thing to happen to iPhone since iPhone.

Multi-touch

Several smart phones are now using the touch screen technology. What makes apple phone different is its multi-touch feature. On an ordinary touch screen device a process can only be initiated from a single point sensed by the screen. iPhone defy this by processing commands with multiple points sensed similar to the iPod Touch.



Wider Screen Resolution

Since apple phone is designed not to have a physical keyboard, it gives the user a wider space to view images, movies and even web browsing. Most smart phones, though designed with touch screen features, still have keyboards on it. Keyboards use almost 40% of the phones total size.



3G Iphone Extra Features

Aside from the basic function of making phone calls or receiving text messages, it can also be use for sending emails and web browsing. This may be common to other smart phone however apple phone uses Safari as the web browser for its web browsing services. Capable of connecting to a local area network (LAN) through a WiFi or through GSM network, it will get you connected anywhere.

For entertainment, this phone can be a music and movie player. With its storage space starting from 4GB a user can compile hundreds of song with superb audio quality. Its screen resolution of 480×320 pixels at 163 ppi gives you a perfect picture while on the move.

Read the iPhone User Guide.

For more tips, tricks, and instructions, tap the Bookmarks icon in Safari, then select iPhone User Guide.