sourceGPS.com  

On July 11, 2008 TWENTY ONE countries are going to have access to one of the most revolutionary electronic devices to ever hit the electronic marketplace.

Apple will release the long awaited iPhone 2 in Austrailia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and yes… even in THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!

It must have taken a lot of pushing, shoving and forcing to pack all the features of the iPhone into just 4.7 ounces (133 grams) of pure technological horsepower.

The iPhone comes with 8 gigs of storage space (16 gigs if you want to go for the high end model) a 3-1/2 inch widescreen display (480×320 @ 163ppi), a 2 megapixel camera that supports Geotagging, Bluetooth, internal speaker support from a low 20Hz to a high 20KHz, built in A-GPS, WiFi an accelerometer, proximity sensor and an ambient light sensor.

Although well instrumented - Apple defines the maximum operating condition altitude as 10,000 feet (3,000 meters) so they’re obviously trying to put the whole Mac G4 Cube Satellite thing behind them.

For the GPS market the iPhone signifies that GPS is now considered mainstream technology and development around it will be swift and quick - so look forward to a whole new style of electronics with location based applications (and maybe advertising too) built right in. Although the iPhone only supports A-GPS it will still be useful in large cities and where it has good network support.