Apple iPhone Mobile Phone The iPod changed the way we listen to music, and the iPhone is bound to change the way we use a cell phone. It's not available in India yet, but we went ahead and bought one to give you a glimpse of this .Next Best Thing. The 320x480, 3.5-inch display dominates the entire length ofthe phone. The screen is sharp, crystal clear and has excellent colour reproduction. Watching videos is an amazing experience.
There is no keypad or QWERTY on this phone-hence the huge screen. You use a virtual keyboard-touch the letters to type them in. It's fun once you master it, but can be inaccurate if you use your thumbs. The user interface is hard to describe in words-once you get used to the touch, using the phone becomes plain instinct. Getting around menus is fun; swipe your finger up or down to scroll any list, swipe it left or right to move left or right. The single button is used for exiting all napplicationsas simple as it gets.
The iPhone also has all the features of the iPod. Music quality is good, but the iPod sounds better. The bundled earphones are rubbish as usual-no bass, no highs, just mids. The headphone jack is recessed, and all earphones don't fit it directly-they need an adapter, curse Apple. Video playback is simply the best we have seen on any portable media player. Viewing photographs is fun, and you can use your fingers to zoom in and out-very natural. Safari does a great job of rendering nonoptimised Web pages-more so if you rotate I the phone to view sites in landscape mode.
To read, you can zoom in and out on any part of the page. The phone is completely locked and installing additional applications requires hacking the phone; we don't recommend this. To conclude, this is the best phone we have reviewed, period. It'll be wise to wait for the iPhone's official release in mid-2008, though.
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