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Discussion:

1. Will you buy an iPhone if you can afford it? Why or Why not?

2. It costs $599. What else would you buy with the money if not iPhone?

3. For you, is it just a phone, or a status symbol?

4. In the picture, whom do you think the bride was calling?

5. What would she say to him or her?

6. If it were your wedding, whom would you call?


Reading:

How Does a Cell Phone Work?

Wireless telephones / Cell Phones / Mobile Phones are hand-held phones with built-in antennas, often called cell, mobile, or PCS phones. These phones are popular with callers because they can be carried easily from place to place.

Wireless telephones are two-way radios. When you talk into a wireless telephone, it picks up your voice and converts the sound to radio frequency energy (or radio waves). The radio waves travel through the air until they reach a receiver at a nearby base station. The base station then sends your call through the telephone network until it reaches the person you are calling.

When you receive a call on your wireless telephone, the message travels through the telephone network until it reaches a base station close to your wireless phone. Then the base station sends out radio waves that are detected by a receiver in your telephone, where the signals are changed back into the sound of a voice.


Vocabulary:

Antennasa conductor by which electromagnetic waves are sent out or received, consisting commonly of a wire or set of wires

convert - to change (something) into a different form or properties; transmute; transform

Correspondent: one who contributes news or commentary to a publication (as a newspaper) or a radio or television network often from a distant place

Hype: exaggerated publicity

Buzz: a feeling of intense enthusiasm, excitement, or exhilaration

Virtual: existing in essence or effect though not in actual fact

Slick: Slang. wonderful; remarkable; first-rate

Decent: respectable; worthy


Reference:

Learn more about IPhone's product features at Apple.com

http://www.apple.com/iphone/ 


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iPhone has finally arrived. People have been waiting in a line for a long time to buy one. At a cost of $599, are they buying a phone, or a status symbol?
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Author: Kantalk
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Category: Social
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By Rima:
Posted on Aug 25, 2010

1.Yes of course, I will. I will buy an iPhone because it has many functions and cool apps which can help me in my life. For example, it has so good app like “Apps for cooks”. I like to listen music and by iPhone I can do it every time when I want. 2.I would buy other mobile with “Touch keypad” and functions like iPhone and big flash card for films and music. 3.I think for me it’s a status symbol also. I like comfortable and multifunctional telephones but they must be beautiful and modern. But there is one problem for me. The keypad is small and difficult to write a message. 4.It seems to me that she was calling to her friend or Mom and telling about her feels. 5.Maybe she says: “I’m so happy!” 6.I would call to my ex.

By Mark:
Posted on Nov 25, 2009

It's so expensive for me. However, for someone who use it everyday in all function, it might be wealth to but it.

By Ekieen:
Posted on Dec 13, 2008

1. Off course i'll buy the iPhone if i can afford it! 2. Well, if $599 convert to my country's currency, that will be a lot! I will save a bit more and buy.... a laptop! 3.For me, it is not just a phone, it is more than that. You can do a lot of things with one gadget.

By fathy aulina:
Posted on Oct 24, 2008

yes i would buy it, specially the 3G one. because i need it for supporting my job and task and it synchronize with macbook. but now i don't have that amount of money. and for me there were others more important priority than iphone to buy. and i think there's a weakness in iphone that the 'touch' keypad is to small and difficult to write a message or maybe because i don't get use to it.


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