iPhone Home!
Ok, it really is as exciting as promised.
The iPhone is truly the most exciting new technological development in quite some time. Not so much because it's a smart phone - there have been plenty of those released, some quite promising. But because Apple did what Apple seems to do so well - it "designed" the concept better.
What's the biggest problem with smart phones? One friend of mine loved the IDEA of his Treo, but hated the size. It was too big to be an effective phone, and too small to be a good PDA - the keys were just too blankety-blank difficult to use.
So Apple said, ok, what if we make the whole face of the thing a display - only have it be a touchpad. The slim and trim package still provides a 3.5-inch touchscreen enabled viewing area, with most functions menu driven (think of your iPod).
As PC Magazine reports, "Running Mac OS X and designed to sync with the Apple iTunes software running on your PC, iPhone makes calls, plays music and widescreen video, takes photos via a built-in 2-megapixel camera, sends and receives email, browses full-sized Web-pages, taps into Google Maps, runs Apple Widgets, manages contacts, and more. But the highlight of the device is surely the breathtakingly agile on-screen controls, which are used with an index finger—not a stylus."
Available in June, a 4GB iPhone will sell for $499, and an 8GB for $599. Oh, and it will only be available from Cingular. Whew, lucky I changed my carrier recently!
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