This is it. Its finally here but is it worthy of your hard earned cash. We’re here to tell you. Whether you believe us or not is your choice. Anyways on to the big announcement. Yesterday at Macworld San Francisco Apple announced the Iphone, a hybrid phone - ipod. Now the first thing you notice about this is that it has no visible keyboard or any kind of input. That is because this phone is going for pure touch input. there is nothing other than that little circle button that takes you to the menu. It also has an accelerometer so that it knows when it is horizontal or vertical and it also knows when it is on your ear so that you don’t start pushing buttons while you talk. It runs at only .46 inches thick which is very thin for a device of its caliber. The second thing you notice is the OS it runs. You’re right if you guessed that it runs OSX. This runs a scaled down version of OSX, which is a good thing in some respects and a bad thing in others. It gives a full fledged Safari we browser which is way better than any other phone web browser. It also has a decent mail client so that you can completely and totally ditch all you other electronic devices. So Apple wants you to do. It has widgets that view all the common things such as stocks and weather. The other thing it has built in is Google Maps. Its got a decent camera at 2MP for taking some pretty decent shots occasionally. It communicates via 802.11 b/g, Bluetooth 2.0, or on Cingular’s EDGE network. The text input is via a keyboard that come up on the screen when in applications that use it. Apple has this device locked down so there wont be adding any software that is not provided by Apple. Battery life is pretty good, at least what they say the battery life is, at 5 hours of talk, video, browsing and 16 hours of audio playback. That seems like a stretch. This also plays videos in widescreen mode from the Itunes Store. The only problem, the biggest capacity is 8GB. That is not very many movies or songs for that matter. This is to be released in June so that may change in the next few months. The only thing really holding this phone back is the storage capacity due, most likely, to the fact that they had to squeeze OSX on to the hard drive and we don’t know how much space the drive has on its own. Well as I said it comes out in June and at the price of a whopping $600 with a two year contract at Cingular. There is a 4GB model that runs at $500 with the same two year contract. Hopefully Apple allows it to move to other carriers but that is highly unlikely. I’ve told you the facts and a little but of my opinion now you decide. Is it worth that $600 (or $500) to you?