Steve Jobs had done it – he’s wowed the world with the next generation iPod called ‘iPhone’ due in the US June 2007 – a widescreen iPod, phone and Internet device that’s not only all-in-one, but is the world’s thinnest phone at 11.6mm, runs desktop class apps and much, much more. It’s the gadget of the decade! Totally, utterly, jaw-droppingly amazing.

Apple’s PDA phone makes the original Newton look very basic indeed, as it uses no stylus but is fully touch controlled. It also runs Mac OS X, although there’s no word on whether or not you could run Photoshop or other OS X apps on the phone, and at this stage it doesn’t look like that’s what the iPhone can do.

Music can be viewed with the CoverFlow graphical movement of album covers across the screen as seen in iTunes 7. Integration with Google Maps is built-in, as is free Yahoo push email (like Blackberries can do) using IMAP to ensure you’re notified of new emails virtually immediately.

The touch screen keyboard looks like a winner, too – with only one physical button on the iPhone, everything else is touch screen, on an LCD screen of 3.5-inches that has incredibly sharp resolution.

Apple have also changed their name from Apple Computer, Inc. to just Apple, Inc in celebration of the fact that they are well and truly no longer a computer company.

Cingular are indeed the network partner for Apple, and the head of Cingular, who pointed out that Cingular is now a part of AT&T, was at pains to explain that this was not a MVNO relationship, but one that let Apple be Apple, and Cingular be Cingular.

Apple are using some advanced features of Cingular’s network to allow users to listen to voicemail messages in whatever order they choose, not the order they were recorded in.

Other features include one of the smallest Bluetooth headsets you ever seen, plus a standard pair of headphones that now comes with a small microphone section if you prefer to use a wired headset, as the Bluetooth headset is likely to be an extra-cost option.

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