Apple includes Google and Yahoo! web search in the new iPhone, as well as full support for Google Maps.

Yesterday Apple presented their new and amazing iPhone, adding beauty and style to the portable Internet.

The iPhone is the first cellular phone without buttons. Instead all operations are performed by touching the screen.

This phone is more like a Mac computer with a phone built in than a phone with software. The included Safari web browser is set up for Yahoo! and Google search.

What’s more interesting, though, is the fact that Apple has included Google Maps, making it easy to find store, restaurants, movies, and any kind of destination using your phone. With the iPhone’s large screen (320 by 480 at 160 ppi - 3.5 inches), Apple can deliver large and easy to read maps and satelite photos.

Entering the query is also easy. It does not have the physical QWERTY keyboard of the Sony Ericsson’s P900i and various PDAs, admittedly, but it has a virtual keyboard of that type. We have not tried it, but the idea looks sound.

Is this important? We have searched the web on phones and PDAs for years, haven’t we? Yes, but it has always been extremely cumbersome to do this compared to using a PC. Apple seems to have solved this problem by turning the cellular mobile phone into a portable computer, giving you a larger screen and asking you to use your finger as a mouse and input device.

The iPhone runs on Mac OS X, which makes it possible to use some very powerful software. This means that mobile web browsing may be on its way to become ordinary, which also means — of course — that portable web search may finally become practical.