iPhone Announced
Well as you all know by know the Apple iPhone has been announced at MacWorld. I was pretty excited but then my high was immediately killed when I heard that it’s in partnership with Cingular. I was hoping the rumors would be true and it would be unaffiliated, but I guess that is not that case here.
Well in any case, the phone is pretty sweet…love the whole motion sensor to dim/lock the screen when you place it close to your ear. Love the whole auto-detect portrait/landscape mode…the ambient light sensor it okay I reckon…though I don’t really change my phone brightness and I can do it from the today screen.
Some other features I liked in the iPhone was the amazing multi-touch technology…I mean you can make a “pinching” motion on the screen and it would either zoom in or zoom out of the image! Then as if your hand was a feather duster you could just wave it across and the scrolling would be like “magic!” I was pretty impressed.
The whole phone though is built around the notion that you have your contacts stored and you hardly dial a number…although this is true in most cases I still prefer using the keypad…especially on my MDA. The reason why I like the keypad is the smart dial feature, it lets me dial someone quickly from my contacts or history. For those who are unaware of how smart dialing actually works allow me to explain. If you wanted to call Tom Johnson you could just launch your phone application and on the keypad key-in a few letters of his name. If you know you only have one Tom then key-in a few letters of his first name and you’re you can instantly select his name to dial. If there’s more than Tom and or Johnson then you could key in a letter or two from his first name and a letter or two of his last name (i.e. 8656). The beauty of it is that you don’t have to remember if their last name is Johnson or was it his first name because smart dialing does a forward and backward search.
Well I hope I didn’t loose you in that jumble…but if I did then just imagine dialing someone using the alphabet keys on the number pad of your phone. (1=ABC, 2=DEF, etc…).
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