Apple iPhone

21 May 2008
The iPhone pioneers a new breed of mobile phones, running on Apple OS X and boasting its touch-sensitive user-interface, a huge and brilliant display, a trim and neat profile, brilliant video and music features, an Internet device, and interestingly, a lack of keypads or buttons, which, at the foremost, sets the hype. Instead of standard buttons, certain icons appear on the Apple iPhone’s screen. Touching certain icons appearing on the responsive screen pops up the phone book, dials a number or glides the photo album. With these breathtaking features, Apple has stated that the iPhone is “five years ahead of the competition.”

While Smartphones are reputed as bug-ridden, sluggish or difficult to navigate and use, the Apple iPhone offers an amazing experience for users. The Apple iPhone weighs about 135 grams, with its casing available in a number of sophisticated and fun colours. The iPhone’s resolution at the 3.5-inch screen is at 320 x 480 pixels.

It comes with a battery that allows music playback to roughly 16 hours, and talk time of around 5 hours, including video, call and Internet browsing time. Users may opt for either the 4 or 8 Gigabyte memory version.

iPhone users appreciate the phone’s quick and easy method of inputting or typing messages through a predictive QWERTY touch-keyboard that corrects typing errors automatically.

The device also comes with a built-in music player. Music album covers appear on a big screen, from which users may search their choice of music by song title, artist, and album or play list that the system has pre-sorted. It also sports a camera and video device, with advanced photo and video management settings that ensure perfect finish or allow effects. To its users’ delight, the Apple iPhone also allows watching of television shows, through certain software applications.

The Apple iPhone offers a user-friendly email service that is similar to what PC and Mac users are provided with. Its email system supports IMAP and POP3-based services, including AOL Mail, Microsoft Exchange, Apple Mac Mail and Google Email. Just like the typical online email service, a user’s email experience using the Apple iPhone, including images, photo attachments and graphics is easy and quick.

Looking for the ultimate Internet experience on mobile? Users attest that the Apple iPhone can give it with the EDGE software for faster data transfers. Browsing is a breeze with the iPhone’s Safari Internet browser in which Google and Yahoo! search functions are built in. Internet access is possible at almost every place, through connecting with compatible devices and programs using Bluetooth, USB connectivity and WiFi.

The Apple iPhone functions within a quad band network for usability in any part of the world and automatic synchronization for all contacts that users have on their list.

Notably, the Apple iPhone supports a Google Map program, allowing satellite images to be visible on the phone’s screen. The application, designed specifically for traveling users, also provides locations, directions and traffic information. The iPhone has been integrated with a widget program that offers real time data on stocks and weather reports all over the globe.

On the flip side, Apple iPhone users have clamored for “missing features,” including quality of calls, low camera quality such as low megapixels and lack of autofocus and flash, lack of 3G connectivity, limited file sharing through Bluetooth and most notably, a much more expensive price as compared with other phones that the mainstream market offers, at least in the United Kingdom.

With its state-of-the-art, user-friendly technology, the Apple iPhone exudes a charm that resulted from brilliant concepts that have arguably changed the utilization of mobile phone devices, but it is not flawless. According to a user’s review, the Apple iPhone has earned controversial speculations relating to its usability and main features as a mobile phone.

While others have expressed satisfaction over its cutting-edge design and advanced features, others contend that iPhone’s most obvious edge over the rest of the mobile phones is limited to its physical attributes. These include its vast touchscreen display and a really modern user-interface. The rest of its user features, some say, will need some serious improvement.

“If you have the money and you love the look, the Apple iPhone is for you”, an online review has noted.

Reviewer: dasin - london
Reviewed on: 19th September, 2008
Rating: 10/10
apple i phone is pretty good

Reviewer: Philo - UK
Reviewed on: 25th August, 2008
Rating: 1/10
What a waste of money,it wont lock by the time i check on my phone its gone all over the settings taking pics etc i find it hard to sms with the letters on the left i havent even used it for 1week and all have to get another phone,pleace dont buy this phone the risks are to much.

Reviewer: Jamie - UK
Reviewed on: 19th July, 2008
Rating: 6/10
Not too bad but not the best either very expensive but nice to look at and easy to use nice screen and other nice touches Wish i would ahve scouted about a bit first before jumping in feet first but hey when somethin new comes on the market u just got to have have have!

Reviewer: Andrew Dommett - UK
Reviewed on: 14th July, 2008
Rating: 9/10
This is excellent. Beautiful screen and the Touch interface works well - especially pinch. E-mail and web browsing are very simple and the text machine is great - I love how they list the conversation you have had with anyone including speach bubbles!

Reviewer: laura - Southampton
Reviewed on: 17th May, 2008
Rating: 9/10
I LOVE MY APPLY IPHONE, it has some many gorgeous features to it, It has youtube! the camera take fantastic photos and once loaded on the computer you can zoom in and see just how great they are. It just perfect to fit into your hand and what more could you want when you mobile is your ipod!!

Reviewer: pete hamlyn - uk
Reviewed on: 31st March, 2008
Rating: 5/10
apple i phone mmmm pretty good pretty expensive pretty big let down whats with the cant send picture messages only to pc's not from phone to phone, cant forward messages to my friends, cant blue tooth to another phone, wish i had known all this before spending a fortune i would have bought a good quality phone not a i phone

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