iPhone- take a bow by Claudia Sonea

The iPhone is a multimedia, Internet-enabled mobile phone designed and marketed by Apple Inc. It has a multi-touch screen with virtual keyboard and buttons. Introduced first in the United States on June 29, 2007 with much media frenzy and then in the United Kingdom, Germany and France in November 2007, Apple's product was named Time magazine's "Invention of the Year" in 2007 and also snatched No 1 slot on a list of the fastest-rising search terms in the United States in Google's top where technology and entertainment were ahead of everything else. Apple newest product has certain functions that includes a camera phone and a portable media player ("iPod"), in addition to text messaging and visual voicemail, e-mail, web browsing, and local Wi-Fi connectivity, Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE) technology for higher speed and reliability. The iPhone is a quad-band mobile phone that uses the GSM standard, hence has international capability and since it was released on the market it was a total hit. Four other social networking sites made Google's top 10, including Webkinz (a stuffed animal that customers can register and play with online), which grabbed the No. 2 slot. Furthermore, No 3 was grabbed by Celebrity news Web site TMZ, while transformer toys took the No. 4 slot due to the success of the movie Transformers, according to Marissa Mayer of Google, an Internet search engine. On the 5th position was placed Youtube, while Club Penguin, a networking site for children, came in No. 6. All in all, the iPhone is the greatest product of this year and everyone wants it on their list of gifts that Santa has for them. Even the critics are forced to take a bow in face of the figures and the Apples' success.

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by Claudia Sonea for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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