iPhone overview: Apple of discord
Gsmarena posted a very interesting article in which they review the mighty Apple iPhone. There are tons of pics of the device, UI and pics from the cam. Great review as usual from gsmarena. Here are the pros and cons they found and their final words.
Key features:
- Stylish design
- Scratch-proof front glass cover
- 3.5" 16M color TFT display with a resolution of 480 x 320 pixels
- Handset orientation sensor and proximity sensor
- 2 megapixel camera
- Touch-based user interface
- Great UI graphics and animations
- Supreme web surfing experience
Main disadvantages:
- Camera has no auto focus or settings
- No video recording
- No custom ringtones allowed
- Safari browser doesn't support Flash and Java
- Really basic Bluetooth capabilities
- No Office documents editor
- No third party applications
- No 3G support (at least the US version)
Final words…
So let's sum it up. The iPhone doesn't claim to be the best phone ever. It's above average, but it has a long list of drawbacks. It's not a business phone either, so don't confuse it with one. And it's most definitely the best iPod ever. However we find that the description that suites the iPhone best is "a dedicated entertainment multimedia mobile device". If you're keen on browsing, listening to music and consuming multimedia content, this handset is, without a doubt, the top performer in its class. Every process is maximum simplified and as fun as possible. It almost feels like a game. And it's a pretty darn good one, too. Well, time to say goodbye to this much-coveted device - we are looking forward to seeing it hit the European market in the end of the 2007.
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Actually I'm pretty sure Steve Jobs actually did say it was the best phone in the world..
ReplyDeletefrom the his Macworl Keynote speech
"Before we get into it, let me talk about a category of things ... the most advanced phones are called smartphones. They typically involve a phone, have plastic little keyboards on them, the problem is they're not so smart and they're not so easy to use. If you make a biz school 101 graph, cellphones are at the bottom... smartphones are a little smarter, but they're harder to use."
"We don't want to make either one of these things -- we want to make a leapfrog product, smart and easy to use. This is what iPhone is."
"We want to reinvent the phone. What's the killer app? The killer app is making calls! It's amazing how hard it is to make calls on most phones. We want to let you use contacts like never before"
"Today Apple is reinventing the phone. How does this stack up? Let's look at the competition..." Treo, BB, E62, Q... comparing mail, contacts, calendars, web... "Let's see the web, we tried to make it look as good as we could. And this is what you get."
"After today, I don't think anyone's going to look at these phones the same way again."