Apple iPhone Review

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Here lies a short and concise personal viewpoint on the Apple iPhone without the technical jargon or excessive compliments.

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I remembered the times when mobile phones looked like black bricks but I would still proudly attach one to my belt and parade it around shopping complexes. People would look at you and whisper, because mobile phones were such a rare sight. Today if you still proudly parade your black brick around, people would still look and whisper....... and praise you for your innovation on the crab-cracking tool.

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Black brick no more! Say hello to the revolutionary Apple iPhone. In conjunction with its launch, I shall present to you why the iPhone has kept me drooling over it ever since Apple first announced it.

With a height of 4.5 inches (115 mm) and a depth of just 0.46 inches (11.6 mm), the iPhone is thin, sleek and sexy. Designed with smooth edges making it somewhat curvaceous, it doubles up as a great accessory for the fashion conscious or simply as an excellent addition to a geek's arsenal of gadgets.

However, I stress that the iPhone CANNOT instantly make you look good.

This man/woman needs more help than an iPhone can give

Apple boasts that the iPhone is the best iPod ever created. Having owned an iPod for the past 3 years, I couldn't imagine how I could survive without one. What I liked most about the iPhone is its Cover Flow browsing for albums, as seen in iTunes 7. It enables me to browse and admire album artwork almost as browsing through a stack of CDs in real life, minus the hassles of flipping real CD covers. It certainly is a fresh breath from browsing textual album names.

Cover Flow

The power and battery aspect is also impressive. With a talk time of up to 8 hours, you could go to work with a fully charged battery and talk until you finish work in the evening. The battery standby time is up to a mighty 250 hours!!! But then again, who would buy an iPhone just to leave it on standby?

The iPhone does not have a conventional keyboard or keypad as usually found on mobile phones. Instead, it features an innovative touch-screen keyboard that dynamically changes according to the application you are using. If you are typing an SMS, it lets you use a QWERTY keyboard – the kind of keyboards used with personal computers. When dialing a number however, it can be changed into a numeric keypad.

Typing an SMS conversation in iPhone

With advanced technologies such as the intelligent keyboard in place, the iPhone is said to be 5 years ahead of its time. In fact, the iPhone is so revolutionary that I lost count of the number of times the word "Revolutionary" is used in the 20 minutes guided tour at the Apple site.

Here are other facts and features that might interest you:

• The iPhone has a 3.5-inch (measured diagonally) full-color LCD touchscreen
• There is a 2.0-megapixel camera
• You can use Google Maps to browse and find locations
• You can play YouTube videos
• You can browse the Internet with Safari web browser
• There is an HTML e-mail program and the iPhone syncs with Outlook, Entourage, and web-based e-mail accounts like Gmail and AOL
• Phones will be available only at Apple Stores, AT&T-owned and -operated retail stores and the Apple Web site beginning at 6 p.m. (29 June 2007) local times in the United States only
• A two-year voice and data service contract from AT&T Wireless is required
• Each end user will need an online iTunes Store account to activate one of several AT&T service plans
  

Think of the iPhone as an all-in-one gadget. Imagine your mobile phone, web browser and media player in a single hand-held device. Not to mention that the iPhone is packed with 16 core applications.

The only thing that I can safely assume the iPhone cannot do…… is giving birth.

If you want an iPhone, you can buy it from Amazon