From the Introduction
What is the iPhone? The better question is what isn’t the iPhone?
It’s a cellphone, obviously. But it’s also a full-blown multimedia player, complete with a dazzling screen for watching videos. And it’s a sensational pocket internet viewer. It shows fully formatted email (with attachments, thank you) and displays entire web pages with fonts and design intact. It’s tricked out with a tilt sensor, a proximity sensor, a light sensor, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, a gyroscope, a barometer, and that amazing multitouch screen.
The iPhone is also the most used camera in the world. Furthermore, it’s a calendar, address book, calculator, alarm clock, ebook reader, stopwatch, podcast player, stock tracker, video viewer, traffic reporter, and weather forecaster. It even stands in for a flashlight, a tape measure, and—with the screen off—a pocket mirror.
And don’t forget the App Store. Thanks to the 2.2 million add-on programs that await there, the iPhone can also be…everything else. A medical reference, a musical keyboard, a time tracker, a remote control, a sleep monitor, a tip calculator. Plus, the App Store is a portal to thousands of games, with smooth 3D graphics and tilt control.
Calling this thing a phone is practically an insult. (Apple probably should have called it an “iPod,” but that name was taken.)
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