On the 3rd generation , the Apple's iPhone it is still one of the best sold product. After months of speculations and rumors, when they announced the releasing of this product, on January 9, 2007, the Time magazine named it "The Invention of the Year". Year by year, Apple, upgraded this smart phone, transforming it into one of the best buy gadgets of the moment. It is a very useful instrument for all kinds of people, starting from the school teenagers to the active business man. With its principals media functions and all the implemented other features it manages to cover most of the current needs of a person in mobile technology.
Lotus iNotes it is an application created by IBM, special for iPhones. It is a version of Lotus Notes, a software released by the same company and dedicated to access the business e-mails, calendars and some other important applications, made on the beginnings to help on the use of the IBM Lotus Domino server.
This application it is accessed via an web- browser thought a wireless network and it is coded to support the browsing support languages like Java or HTML.
Lotus iNotes it is projected to allow the person who is using it to get to their calendars, e-mails, to-do lists, contacts or personal journals with the help of codes like dynamic HTML or Ajax. These programming languages are made to improve the web-browsing and to minimize the refreshing rate of a web page, which it is such an annoying process when you don't have a good internet connection. It also have an instant message application and an offline support.
The Lotus application  can support browsers like Internet explorer or Mozilla Firefox.
This collaboration between Apple and IBM helped a lot of people, offering them a secured, intelligent,  fast and rich software, perfect for those who are using every time the iPhone. Thought an intuitive interface, users can compose fast and easy e-mails using a zero maintenance web client.
The Apple Inc. succeed to combine the connectivity of IBM's Lotus Domino with the flexibility of the iPhone products.
Yet by 2008, this product has been an enigma for both developers and entrepreneurs and for future users, raising many questions about its functionality. But expectations were demolished when Apple announced the releasing of the new iPhone 3G in collaboration with Lotus iNotes, and over 500 companies have signed at that time for a trial product.
This program can be downloaded, for free, for those users who already bought the license for Lotus Notes, and it will come with an upgrade of this software to the 8.0.2 version.
Following the stats we can found that, in the world there are over 140 millions users. From this we can deduct that it is one of the best released programs, all over the time, for iPhones. To challenge with the two rivals that are using the same system of web- browsing, Apple integrated on this software more security features and an Microsoft's exchange e-mail server.
Unfortunately, there is no offline support for this application because it runs trough the iPhone's web- browser, named Safari. Using this application you can have an easy access to e-mail buttons like Inbox, Sent, Trash, All Docs, To-do list and Contacts.
On the internet there are some user help manuals for the Lotus iPhone 3G but not so brief and are integrated into the larger manuals devoted to the use of additional software Lotus Domino.
With the introduction of this software in the iPhone's menu, and adapting it for the 3G version, Apple dedicated this product to the business men and not only to them, targeting a special category of people which have an increased interest for communication between people.
They also managed to make a giant step in the evolution of this phone and bring it to the highest standards of an user.
Like the Lotus Company, its associates, Apple seems to have only progressive steps and a very good reputation, the iPhone products and its every- year upgrades coming as a testimony for this affirmation. From the first generation , to the actual one, the 3G, it was the most popular sold smart phone, even if the other competing companies, like Nokia, released similar products with almost the same features.
