SMS messages appear on your iPhone as an ongoing chat, so it’s easy to pick up a conversation where you left off. Scroll through conversations with a flick or scroll to the top and tap the Call button to talk live.
Text with speed and accuracy on the predictive Multi-Touch keyboard. As you type, iPhone suggests corrections. It also features a built-in dictionary and even learns words you use often.
Save time by sending an SMS message to more than one person at the same time. Add as many recipients as you want.
Find your location, get directions and see traffic — all from your phone. Maps on iPhone 3G combines GPS, Wi-Fi and mobile tower location technology with the Multi-Touch interface to create the best mobile map application ever.
iPhone 3G finds your location via GPS or by triangulating your position using Wi-Fi and mobile towers. It also finds nearby businesses with a keyword search. And GPS tracking can follow you wherever you go.
Get directions to wherever from wherever. View a list of step-by-step directions or follow a highlighted map route and monitor your progress with live GPS tracking.
Just like Google Maps on your computer, Maps on iPhone lets you switch between views of Google Map data, Satellite images, and a Hybrid of both. Multi-Touch makes the difference. Tap to Zoom, pan, and change your view on the move.
Maps on iPhone shows you live traffic information, indicating traffic speed along your route in easy-to-read green, red and yellow highlights.
Buy music over the air from the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store on iPhone. Find a Wi-Fi hot spot and tap the iTunes button. Then take your pick from over 6 million songs.
Browse New Releases, What’s Hot and Genres. Take a look at Top Songs and Top Albums. Or find exactly what you’re looking for with a quick search. Play a 30-second preview of any song, then tap once to buy it. Your music starts downloading instantly and you can keep tabs on its progress by tapping the Downloads button.
When you connect iPhone to your computer, the music you bought on the go syncs to your iTunes library. If you’ve only partially downloaded a song to iPhone, your computer completes the download automatically.
Tap into the App Store and you'll find applications in every category, from games to business, education to entertainment, finance to health and fitness, productivity to social networking. These applications have been designed to take advantage of iPhone features such as Multi-Touch, the accelerometer, wireless and GPS. And some are even free. You download them wirelessly and can start using them right away.
The App Store on iPhone works over mobile networks and Wi-Fi, which means it’s accessible from just about anywhere. Browse categories, do a keyword search or take a look at recommendations. Then download and install applications directly onto your iPhone.
Buy an application from the App Store and you always have access to the latest version. iPhone tells you whenever an application update is available. When a red number appears on the App Store icon, you know how many updates are ready to download.
iPhone makes it easy to make plans. The built-in Calendar goes with you anywhere, works with a tap and syncs seamlessly to the calendar on your computer.
Your schedule is always in your pocket with iPhone. Add events to your calendar and set a custom alert with a few taps on the Multi-Touch display.
When you sync your iPhone with your computer, the events you’ve created on the go sync back to Microsoft Outlook on a PC, and iCal or Entourage on a Mac. And all the events you’ve added on your computer sync to your iPhone.
Now that iPhone supports Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, meeting invitations are pushed to your iPhone and appear immediately. Check for schedule conflicts, review the meeting agenda and see who else is attending. From anywhere.
iPhone keeps you entertained with a YouTube application that opens right from the Home screen, so you can watch YouTube wherever you are. Videos load fast over 3G or Wi-Fi. Find a video you like? Bookmark it or share it with a friend.
With a built-in camera and an advanced photo application, iPhone is the most photo-friendly phone ever. You can take and share photos with ease. It automatically syncs photos with your PC or Mac, displays albums with the flick of a finger and posts pictures directly to a MobileMe Gallery.
3G technology gives iPhone fast access to the Internet and email over mobile networks around the world. iPhone 3G also makes it possible to do more in more places: Surf the web, download email, get directions and watch video — even while you’re on a call.
iPhone 3G delivers UMTS, HSDPA, GSM, Wi-Fi, EDGE, GPS and Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR in one compact device — using only two antennas. Clever iPhone engineering integrates those antennas into a few unexpected places: the metal ring around the camera, the audio jack, the metal screen bezel and within the iPhone circuitry itself. And intelligent iPhone power management technology gives you up to five hours of talk time over 3G networks.