access to . . . it was simply too vast, too alien, too unbelievably colossal to comprehend. It was like suddenly realizing that you know everything there is to know. I could see it, hear it, find it, know it . . . I could reach out to anywhere in the world and know whatever I wanted to know. It was all there: information, pictures, letters, numbers, words, symbols, faces, voices, bodies, hearts, thoughts, places . . . everything. But it was far too much all at once. Too much to know. So I tried to concentrate, to focus . . . I tried to make some order out of the chaos. And the best way to do that, it seemed to me, was to go back to the beginning. And the beginning of all this was the iPhone.
Everything I needed to know about iPhones — or everything I already knew — came to me in an instant:
The iPhone is an Internet and multimedia enabled smartphone designed and marketed by Apple Inc. 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 WiFi connectivity) using the phone’s multi-touch screen to render a virtual keyboard in lieu of a physical keyboard. The first-generation phone (known as the Original) was quad-band GSM with EDGE; the second-generation phone (known as 3G) added UMTS with 3.6 Mbps HSDPA; the third generation adds support for 7.2 Mbps HSDPA downloading but remains limited to 384 Kbps uploading as Apple had not implemented the HSPA protocol. The iPhone 3GS was announced on June 8, 2009, and has improved performance, a camera with more megapixels and video capability, and voice control.
M anufacturer
Apple Inc.
T ype
Candybar smartphone
R elease date
Original: June 29, 2007
3G: July 11, 2008
3GS: June 19, 2009
U nits sold
21.17 million (as of Q2 2009)
O perating system
iPhone OS 3.1.2 (build 7D11), released October 8, 2009
P ower
Original: 3.7 V 1400 mAh
3G: 3.7 V 1150 mAh
3GS: 3.7 V 1219 mAh
Internal rechargeable non-removable lithium-ion polymer battery
CPU
Original & 3G: Samsung 32-bit RISC ARM 1176JZ(F)-S v1.0
620 MHz underclocked to 412 MHz
PowerVR MBX Lite 3D GPU
3GS: Samsung S5PC100 ARM Cortex-A8
833MHz underclocked to 600 MHz
PowerVR SGX GPU
S torage capacity
Flash memory
Original: 4, 8 & 16 GB
3G: 8 & 16 GB
3GS: 16 & 32 GB
M emory
Original & 3G: 128 MB eDRAM
3GS: 256 MB eDRAM
D isplay
320 × 480 px, 3.5 in (89 mm), 2:3 aspect ratio, 18-bit (262, 144-color) LCD at 163 pixels per inch (ppi)
I nput
Multi-touch touchscreen display, headset controls, proximity and ambient light sensors, 3-axis accelerometer
3GS also includes: digital compass
C amera
Original & 3G: 2.0 megapixels with geotagging
3GS: 3.0 megapixels with video (VGA at 30fps), geotagging, and automatic focus, white balance & exposure
C onnectivity
WiFi (802.11 b/g), Bluetooth 2.0+EDR (3GS: 2.1), USB 2.0/Dock connector
Quad band GSM 850 900 1800 1900 MHz GPRS/EDGE
3G also includes: A-GPS; Tri band UMTS/HSDPA 850, 1900, 2100 MHz
3GS also supports: 7.2 Mbps HSDPA
O nline services
iTunes Store, App Store, MobileMe
D imensions
Original:
4.5 in (115 mm) (h)
2.4 in (61 mm) (w)
0.46 in (11.6 mm) (d)
3G & 3GS:
4.55 in (115.5 mm) (h)
2.44 in (62.1 mm) (w)
0.48 in (12.3 mm) (d)
W eight
Original & 3GS: 4.8 oz (135 g)
3G: 4.7 oz 133 g
Actually, that was far more information than I needed, and most of it didn’t make much sense to me anyway. But it confirmed what I’d already assumed: I had WiFi capability, I could connect to the web. I had access to every single website in the world, which is a lot of websites:
Web pages in the world, August 2005:
19.2 billion pages were indexed
by Yahoo!
as of August 2005.
Websites in the world, August 2005:
70,392,567 websites were indexed
by Netcraft
as of August 2005.
Web pages per website:
273 (rounding to the nearest whole number).
Web pages in the world, February 2007:
multiplying
Everything I needed to know about iPhones — or everything I already knew — came to me in an instant:
The iPhone is an Internet and multimedia enabled smartphone designed and marketed by Apple Inc. 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 WiFi connectivity) using the phone’s multi-touch screen to render a virtual keyboard in lieu of a physical keyboard. The first-generation phone (known as the Original) was quad-band GSM with EDGE; the second-generation phone (known as 3G) added UMTS with 3.6 Mbps HSDPA; the third generation adds support for 7.2 Mbps HSDPA downloading but remains limited to 384 Kbps uploading as Apple had not implemented the HSPA protocol. The iPhone 3GS was announced on June 8, 2009, and has improved performance, a camera with more megapixels and video capability, and voice control.
M anufacturer
Apple Inc.
T ype
Candybar smartphone
R elease date
Original: June 29, 2007
3G: July 11, 2008
3GS: June 19, 2009
U nits sold
21.17 million (as of Q2 2009)
O perating system
iPhone OS 3.1.2 (build 7D11), released October 8, 2009
P ower
Original: 3.7 V 1400 mAh
3G: 3.7 V 1150 mAh
3GS: 3.7 V 1219 mAh
Internal rechargeable non-removable lithium-ion polymer battery
CPU
Original & 3G: Samsung 32-bit RISC ARM 1176JZ(F)-S v1.0
620 MHz underclocked to 412 MHz
PowerVR MBX Lite 3D GPU
3GS: Samsung S5PC100 ARM Cortex-A8
833MHz underclocked to 600 MHz
PowerVR SGX GPU
S torage capacity
Flash memory
Original: 4, 8 & 16 GB
3G: 8 & 16 GB
3GS: 16 & 32 GB
M emory
Original & 3G: 128 MB eDRAM
3GS: 256 MB eDRAM
D isplay
320 × 480 px, 3.5 in (89 mm), 2:3 aspect ratio, 18-bit (262, 144-color) LCD at 163 pixels per inch (ppi)
I nput
Multi-touch touchscreen display, headset controls, proximity and ambient light sensors, 3-axis accelerometer
3GS also includes: digital compass
C amera
Original & 3G: 2.0 megapixels with geotagging
3GS: 3.0 megapixels with video (VGA at 30fps), geotagging, and automatic focus, white balance & exposure
C onnectivity
WiFi (802.11 b/g), Bluetooth 2.0+EDR (3GS: 2.1), USB 2.0/Dock connector
Quad band GSM 850 900 1800 1900 MHz GPRS/EDGE
3G also includes: A-GPS; Tri band UMTS/HSDPA 850, 1900, 2100 MHz
3GS also supports: 7.2 Mbps HSDPA
O nline services
iTunes Store, App Store, MobileMe
D imensions
Original:
4.5 in (115 mm) (h)
2.4 in (61 mm) (w)
0.46 in (11.6 mm) (d)
3G & 3GS:
4.55 in (115.5 mm) (h)
2.44 in (62.1 mm) (w)
0.48 in (12.3 mm) (d)
W eight
Original & 3GS: 4.8 oz (135 g)
3G: 4.7 oz 133 g
Actually, that was far more information than I needed, and most of it didn’t make much sense to me anyway. But it confirmed what I’d already assumed: I had WiFi capability, I could connect to the web. I had access to every single website in the world, which is a lot of websites:
Web pages in the world, August 2005:
19.2 billion pages were indexed
by Yahoo!
as of August 2005.
Websites in the world, August 2005:
70,392,567 websites were indexed
by Netcraft
as of August 2005.
Web pages per website:
273 (rounding to the nearest whole number).
Web pages in the world, February 2007:
multiplying
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