The increasing number of smartphones and advanced mobile phones released into the mobile marketplace are undoubtedly huge since the advancement of the mobile handset technology for the past few years are heightening. The Apple iPhone 3G and 3GS is one of the most popular handsets to hit the market recently because of the popularity of its high quality touch screen and massive range of applications that can be downloaded from its app store.
When the device was originally released it was only available through the mobile network provider O2 but recently the iPhone handsets were released to both Orange and Vodafone and this has already resulted in an increased level of competition between the providers. Even with the release of new and more advanced touch screen smartphones and mobile handsets the iPhone has still held on to its place as the most widely used mobile handset in the world.
One of the main features of the iPhone 3G and 3GS is the Apple iTunes App store which currently has more than 200 000 applications that provide an incredible range of facilities and features including games, business tools, recreational applications and much more. As well as the applications the device also comes with all the facilities that you would normally expect from a high specification smart phone like a built-in camera, access to email through a number of different email systems, mobile internet, a map facility using GPS tracking to plan routes, the ability to watch video and listen to music using the iPod feature and much more. All these features are accessed by the handset's touch screen using a quick and simple navigation system that makes it incredibly easy to just pick up and start using it straight away.
How will the iPhone range of handsets remain at the top of its market?
In the near future, Apple will be able to maintain its lead in the smartphone market because of the number of things that. The first thing to be released is the new operating system called OS4.0, which should give the iPhone a whole new level of functionality and allow it to compete with the new advanced operating systems like Android or the Microsoft mobile OS being released on other new smart phones. The next big advance in hardware, however, will be the release of the iPhone 4G, which is expected to be bigger, far more powerful, and once a new 4G network has been implemented it will offer users the high speed internet currently available on any mobile handset or smartphone. The full details of the new 4G handset are not yet released to the public, but the people are now fairly sure that it is likely to beat any other smartphones available on the market when it is released.
