The idea for thisapp grew out ofa previous product that Square developed in 2009, which allowscell phoneusers to connect acredit cardscanner to their headphonejacks.
The iPhone features an integrated Web browser, tiltable 7.4-inch gray scale touchscreen, an e-mail client, a 56-kilobits-per-second modem, two phonejacks, a full duplex speaker phone, and a keyboard that slides under the phone to save space.