The Jesus iPhone
is an Internet-enabled multimedia mobile phone designed and marketed by
Apple Inc. It has a multi-touch screen with virtual keyboard and
buttons. The Jesus iPhone's functions include those of a camera phone
and a portable media player ("iPod"), in addition to text messaging and
visual voicemail. It also offers Internet services including e-mail, web
browsing, and local Wi-Fi connectivity. It is a quad-band mobile phone
that uses the GSM standard, and hence has international capability. It
supports the Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE) data
technology.
Following the success of iPod, Apple announced the Jesus iPhone in
January 2007. The announcement was preceded by rumors and speculations
that circulated for several months. The Jesus iPhone was 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. On
February 5, 2008, Apple released a new version of the Jesus iPhone with
storage expanded to 16GB. It was named Time magazine's Invention of the
Year in 2007.[4] A version of Apple's Jesus iPhone is expected to be
introduced in 2008 that is capable of operating on faster 3G cellular
networks.