This update includes:
iPhone 2.1 Software Update for iPod touch

This version of the software includes the following improvements and supersedes all previous versions.

• Genius playlist creation
• dramatically reduced time to backup to iTunes
• improved email reliability, notably fetching email from POP and Exchange accounts
• faster installation of 3rd party applications
• fixed bugs causing hangs and crashes if you have lots of 3rd party applications
• faster loading and searching of contacts
• other bug fixes

It’s a quad-band GSM / GPRS / EDGE phone (all versions) with UMTS & HSDPA support in the European version (2100 MHz) and American version (850 / 900 / 2100 MHz). We’re guessing it’s 3.6 Mbps HSDPA.
It’s an 8.1 mega pixel camera sensor (3264 x 2448 pixels) with auto focus and face recognition, and many more advanced camera features. It’s got a xenon flash for still photos, and a photo flash (the improved one) for videos. Videos are recorded in VGA resolution (640 x 480 pixels). It does not feature optical zoom.
160 megabytes of internal memory storage, and a 2 gigabyte Memory Stick Micro (M2) comes bundled.
This is a feature phone, not running any sort of smart phone operating system. It looks like it’ll run a newly developed OS based on the older A2 platform, although this has not been confirmed.

iPhone is thin, sleek, and dominated by a large 3.5″ touchscreen display bracketed by a cut-out speaker and hidden light sensors (top) and a single physical button (bottom) on the front of the device. At 115 x 61 x 11.6 mm and weighing 135 grams, the device is small enough to tuck away in a pants pocket, large enough to make for easy use of the display, and rather heavy but still pleasant in hand. When the display is darkened in sleep mode, the entire front of the handset is black, flanked by a chromed border and rounded edges all around, and looks like a Star Trek Communicator passed through a minimalist design lab.Most of the side and back panels of the phone are finished in a textured silver metal designed to be comfortable to grip. The lower portion of the panels is done up in black, as are the phone’s controls. Along with that lone front-panel button, iPhone houses a rocker switch for volume control and silent/ringer button on its left side, while the right side is completely button-free. The top panel is home to a power/sleep/wake button, the SIM card tray, and a recessed 3.5mm headphone jack (the source of much head-scratching for me … more on that in a bit). The bottom panel houses a dock connector similar to those found on iPods, and it’s flanked by speaker and microphone grills. The back of the phone features a sensor for the camera set in the upper left corner, and while the black part of the back panel is in fact a battery cover, the battery is not user removable. WIthout delving into the pros and cons of a phone that lacks buttons but compensates with the best touchscreen display on any handset ever, Apple’s near-buttonless design is nothing short of stunning. While the black and silver look that screams “Look at me, I’m an Apple!” is honestly a bit ostentatious for my tastes, it’s ostentatious in a really cool, mysterious sort of way. iPhone is a good looking gadget that looks like it came from the future, especially when lined up next to something like a Treo. After a few weeks of using one, I can definitely say Apple did a (typically) fantastic job on iPhone’s industrial design. The phone feels good in use during voice calls and screen-intensive tasks, and its size and shape is a great balance between large enough for Web and media player use but small enough to tuck away in a pocket. The phone’s 11.6mm profile and extremely durable optical glass front have a lot to do with the whole “easy to tuck away” thing. After several weeks living mainly in my pants pockets without any sort of case to protect it, iPhone’s screen is scratch free and the chrome trim is just a little scuffed up.

TV Standards:
ATSC (HDTV up to 1080i, SDTV)
NTSC (cable, over the air)
Inputs:
TV antenna input (F-connector/Coaxial)
S-Video, Composite Video (RCA), Stereo Audio (1/8″)
Recording Formats:
MPEG-1/2
MPEG-4 (compatible with PSP or iPod)
DivX
Features

Ultra-portable HD & SD TV reception
Ultra-portable USB 2.0 HDTV tuner stick with integrated FlashPVR — no installation required
Watch SD and free HD TV on your PC – no service fees
Supports both analog (NTSC) and digital (ATSC) TV signals
Hardware ready for ClearQAM (unencrypted digital cable) reception
Includes remote control and high-gain telescopic antenna
On-stick personal video recorder
Unique: full PVR application preinstalled on the stick’s on-board memory
Record up to 2 hours of TV directly to the stick to play it back on any PC
Capture SD video from camcorder or set-top box using included adapter cable
Turns your PC into a PVR with TimeShifting: pause, rewind TV
Electronic Programming Guide
Automatically record shows to the integrated flash memory or to your hard drive in the destination file format of choice4 (i.e. iPod, PSP, DivX, etc.), or even direct-to DVD
Trim your videos with Pinnacle Studio QuickStart
On-board memory can also be used to store additional files
TV tuner fully compatible with Windows® Media Center (Windows Vista™ and XP MCE; remote kit sold separately)

Minimum System Requirements

* Windows Vista (32-bit) or Windows XP with SP2
* Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz, Pentium M 1.3 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 processor (for HDTV reception, a Pentium 4 2.8GHz or Pentium M 1.7 GHz or equivalent AMD Athlon 64 processor is recommended)
* RAM: Windows XP–256MB (512MB recommended); Windows Vista–512 MB (1GB recommended)
* Free USB 2.0 port
* Sound / graphics controller with support for DirectX 9
* Hard drive with 20 GB free space recommended for HDTV recording
* CD or DVD drive for Studio QuickStart installation