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iPhone: A revolution in your hand
January 21, 2007
In a world where 1 out of 6 humans in existence spent money on a new cellphone last year, there is a need for a revolutionary outbreak in phone-dom: the iPhone. Due to be widely available in the first quarter of June this year, the iPhone will without a doubt remove all necessities from any other handheld gadget in existence.
It boasts:
- 4gb to 8gb of memory
- Innovative touch screen (stylus free!) for all navigation
- Mac OS X
- Revamped iTunes
- 2 megapixel camera
- 3 different sensors for convenience
- Widgets
- A full Safari browser!
All this wrapped in one sexy little package, measuring less than .5" thick, 2.4" wide, and 4.5" long!
The graphics are displayed on a gorgeous 3.5" screen with 160 ppi display, the best in the industry. The phone utilizes new touch-screen technology making zooming of internet pages and pictures as simple as "pinching" and "un-pinching" your fingers. Scrolling also doesn't pose a problem as you just touch and drag.
It comes fully equipped with Google search and Google maps, as well as the first ever ability of handheld rich text emailing. You can call your friend, put him on hold, look up times of movies on your Safari browser, and set up a date without missing a beat afterward from your iTunes browser, which auto-silences any music playback on call.
Some are skeptical about the phone's text entry system, a full QWERTY keyboard displayed on-screen. There is concern that those of us blessed with big fingers will have difficulty pushing the relatively small on-screen keys; however, nobody will get the chance to try it out until the phone is released (pending FCC approval), and the phone apparently sports automatic mistake corrections, making guesses at which words you intended to enter and correcting erratic input.
The only definite downfall the phone has projected is its newfound partnership with Cingular. So in order to reap the benefits of this technological breakthrough, youre going to need to sign a new contract with Cingular, on top of shelling out the $499 bones for the 4gb version, and $599 for the 8gb version.
But despite the proprietary connection, Apple predicts to have at least 1.0% of the cell phone market share by 2008. And we all know you're dying to help them out.
So drop your girlfriend, stop buying premium gas, and forget about that new sound system you've been drooling over for two seasons now. Wouldn't you rather have it with you everywhere you go?
Food for thought.
— josh
Comments
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cvincent says: Jan 26, 2007, 6:54 AM
The iPhone will be enough for me to wait for my t-mobile contract to expire and switch to Cingular. Which is actually a Good Thing because, by the time my contract expires, the iPhone will have seen a few major upgrades while remaining at the same price.BTW, did anyone else notice that the Cingular CEO's turn at the keynote was the biggest lull in the whole presentation? After all the excitement that came before his entry to the stage, he came out as a buzzkill.
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