Apple's iPhone burst onto the scene with much fanfare in June 2007, & instantly the other so-called smartphones seemed a whole lot dumber. The sleek black iPhone casts a long shadow over the smartphone landscape. For starters, it's much over a phone.
iPhone is poised to do to the cellphone market what the iPod did to the digital media player market. Targeted primarily to high-end consumers & small-business owners, iPhone transforms cellphone use from a chore into a pleasure. Handset makers long ago replaced stodgy gray menus with color, animated icons & Windows-style dialog boxes. But iPhone, powered by a sophisticated, full-fledged desktop operating technique -Mac OS X - delivers a ground-breaking user experience that's the next best thing to using a "real" pc.
iPhone is that rare convergence device in which tasks actually converge smoothly. iPhone is a phone, a camera, a PDA, also a full-fledged web e-communicator. program applications include SMS text messaging, Notes, calendar, Mail, visual voice mail, Maps, Safari, YouTube, CoverFlow, games, iPod-style MP3 play, & an array of simple but impressive widgets.
iPhone is a multitasker's dream. Download an e-mail while you surf the web or listen to a song. iPhone beautifully & seamlessly integrates mobile calling, rich multimedia & sophisticated e-communication tools into three cohesive package.
But beauty runs deeper than pixel density alone. iPhone's multi-touch display renders high-resolution text & graphics beautifully in every application -- smooth text, amazing colors, crisp graphics & fluid animation. Compared to the microscopic text of many handheld devices, iPhone text is stunningly clear & readable, even at the smallest sizes.
The iPhone sports the most beautiful display of any mobile device of its size, bar none. While its 160ppi resolution might not earn the label "photorealistic," the vivid 3.5-inch display does run at 480 x 320 pixel resolution (160 dots per inch), making it three of the highest pixel-density mobile devices on the market today.
& content is easily zoomable with a simple finger tap, thanks to iPhone's revolutionary gesture-based interface, which lets you basically tap, drag, flick or pinch the touchscreen to make things happen.
Then there's iPhone's external aesthetic, a blend of functional elegance & artful substance...
iPhone's curvy geometry makes it comfortable to hold & manipulate. Weighing in at 4.8 ounces, iPhone feels substantial, sturdy & well-balanced. The edges of the sleek optical-grade glass face tuck seamlessly into its stainless steel rim -- each edge dovetails perfectly with the next.
Photographs always make iPhone seem much larger than it is in real life. Measuring 2.4 inches wide by 4.5 inches tall & 0.46 inches thick, the iPhone is surprisingly diminuitive. It slips into a tight pocket easily, & rests against the ear gracefully.
three time you've used an iPhone, you may find that all other mobile devices pale in comparison. iPhone is the sort of dazzling, revolutionary device that you'll be unable to resist showing off to friends. they will covet it, of course; the iPhone experience sells itself. & Apple, as usual, is banking on that.
The iPhone's back side is primarily constructed of finely-milled aluminum, with a hard black plastic strip at the bottom which covers the device's antenna array, & includes grids of holes for speaker & microphone audio. The iPhone's back face also includes the tiny recessed lens of a compact, two-megapixel camera.
Like the Apple II, the Macintosh, & the iPod before it, iPhone is poised to win hearts & minds & leave competitors scrambling to catch up.
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