Apple iPhone – your travel partner

If you are a frequent traveler, you must have an Apple iPhone in your possession. The vibrant mobile phone has international capability as it supports GSM standard, giving you the flexibility of traveling anywhere in the world.

Out of the many extraordinary features, the iPhone is incorporated with visual voicemail feature that allows you to view the current voicemail message list on the screen, in the time of your travel. You can listen to the massages and delete them in a non-chronological order by selecting any message from the list. Additionally, the iPhone incorporates EDGE technology, giving you a higher Internet speed and reliability. Furthermore, the iPhone has a Safari web browser that allows you to browse different websites as you regularly do on your personal computer. Having the iPhone in hand means, you are no more just limited to the mobile WAP sites; the whole World Wide Web is in your fingertips.

Once you possess an Apple iPhone, you travel, you be connected, browse Internet, send mails and when necessary, take pictures. Furthermore, you can view photos, upload them and e-mail them as and when required.

To make your traveling more entertaining and less boring, the Apple Inc. incorporated a ring tone feature in the iPhone on September 2007. This feature, however is only limited to the users in the US and is not available in other countries. The company however promised that it will introduce the feature to all its users, across the globe, within 2007.

In a nutshell, specifications of the Apple iPhone looks like this:

- Screen size of the phone is 3.5 inches
- Dimensions of the phone is 4.5 x 2.4 x 0.46 inches (115 x 61 x 11.6mm)
- The phone weights 4.8 ounces (135 grams)
- Screen resolution of the phone is 320x480 at 160 ppi
- It has multi-touch input method
- The phone iPhone works with Windows XP Home or Professional edition and Windows Vista.
- Storage capacity of the phone varies from 4GB to 8GB
- The phone supports GSM with 850 MHz, 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, 1900 MHz Quad-bands
- The phone has WiFi (802.11b/g) technology incorporated and also supports EDGE and Bluetooth 2.0
- It has a built-in 2.0 mega pixels camera
- Battery of the phone supports 16 hours audio playback and up to 5 hours talk/ video/ Internet browsing

If you are traveling within the UK, your iPhone with O2 connection affiliates you with the UK’s largest Wi-Fi network. This network covers more than 7,500 restaurants, cafés, airport lounges and other places. Actually, the O2 claims that they have 99% network coverage of the country, meaning you will never get lost with an iPhone as you can browse the maps anytime, anywhere.

Before hitting the road, make sure to enable the international dialing and roaming facilities. Just call your service provider and ask them to do so. Once enabled, you can travel to all the places within the GSM coverage.