APPLE'S IPHONE

With the iPhone, you can surf the web, read your email, watch videos, and purchase new MP3’s. This phone offers a web browser that is comparable to that of your desktop. It also offers GPS capabilities through its maps. Working like a typical separate GPS device, you can map your route, get directions and track your progress and expected arrival time while you’re along your route.

Via “push email” technology, your iPhone will allow you to get your email and use your Outlook calendar just as if you were sitting at your desk. You can also download a variety of applications, like Twitter and 3D games.

SMARTPHONES

Basically, other 3G phones are referred to collectively as “smartphones”. They combine wireless phone capability with that of a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant). PDA’s are small, lightweight, handheld computers that allow users to get email and surf the web. Your PDA is periodically “synched” with your home or business computer and is considered a “portable” version of your desktop.

Of course, now that 3G technology is widely available, who wouldn’t want to combine the features of a PDA with their phone? None of us wants to carry two devices when one can do the trick. Today’s smartphones typically carry open operating systems and the ability to add applications. This open operating system is significant, because it allows the phone to support a wide variety of applications – not just those created by the phone’s manufacturer.

Most smartphones support full featured email capabilities and all the other functions of a PDA. They often come with small full function keyboards for typing, navigation hardware and software and a camera. They support typical