The iPhone and iPod Touch from Apple are extremely versatile devices, allowing users to download applications that can do anything under the sun, make calls (on the iPhone), check email, browse the web, get directions with GPS and maps, watch videos, take photos, listen to music, and a lot more. These devices use touch-screen input, and their popularity ushered in a surge of touch screen devices from competing companies.
Buy the iPhone from Apple.com or AT&T retail stores. iPod Touch can be purchased anywhere that iPods are sold. Apple announced the original iPhone on January 2007. The iPhone 3Gs is the newest model as of November 2009, but who knows how long that will last.
Check out a ton of technical info about the iPhone at Wikipedia.
Nowadays the iPhone and iPod Touch can easily read eBooks. To do that, you can use a few different ebook apps.
iBooks: The built-in way to get eBooks for your iPad is through iBooks and iTunes. iBooks is an app that you can use for the iPad or the iPhone. You can buy eBooks in iTunes or the iBookstore and download to your iPad from there. Get support for iBooks here.
Bluefire Reader: Bluefire Reader is an excellent app to use if you don't want to get eBooks through iBooks or Apple's channels. Bluefire Reader will let you read DRM'd Adobe eBooks, both PDF and ePub formats. That is very useful because most book publishers are now making their eBooks available in those formats. Bluefire Reader will work on iPad or iPhone. Get eBooks for iPad and Bluefire Reader here. Step-by-step instructions for how to transfer files to your iPad are here.
Stanza: The free Stanza software from Lexcycle is a way to use eBooks in the eReader format, and you can find a ton of those at eBookMall.com in the Palm eReader section. A complete set of instructions is shown on this Squidoo page - How to read ebooks on your iPhone.
iPhone eBooks are fun because you can take them with you anywhere without having to carry around heavy books. Same with iPod Touch eBooks. That also means that you can use your iPod Touch for something visual instead of audio based. Also if your device is broken you can get it fixed iPhone 5 reparatie Utrecht and be sure you can keep using your iPhone.