At his keynote address at the Macworld trade show in San Francisco, Apple Inc.—note the new name—CEO Steve Jobs ended months of speculation by introducing the iPhone—and it’s not just a phone combined with an iPod. Instead, the device combines a widescreen personal media player handling music and video with full-blown Internet communications capabilities and a quad-band, EDGE-capable mobile phone. Think of the iPhone as a smartphone combined with a widescreen iPod with the addition of desktop-class Internet capabilities.
