Tech review - Apple i-phone
The Apple 3g i-phone is an amazing machine.
Two or three millimetres thick, smooth and black backed with silver rim, and with only one visible button this phone operates by touch screen.
It has two ports, recharge and headphones, both invisibly provided.
Using the internet it works wirelessly by picking up the 3g network, failing that by picking signal from the telephone wires system, or by wi-fi facilities anywhere such as at home, work, airports, offices, hotels etc.
Use of i-tunes means you can up load all your own cd's, which made me yearn to burn all my record collection onto CD asap. (Of course it is an ipod too.)
Email, internet, mapping system (the touch of a button calls up an instant photograph of your current location which you can then navigate to show all surrounding areas at any scale. Many other functions here of course.)
The touch screen technology and an expert operator meant that the only thing lacking while I watched all this to be living in the world of The Matrix or Serenity was a hologram speaking the messages. It was extraordinary that fingers moving like someone doing Tai-Chi could move menus, magnify pictures or shrink them, call up instructions and execute them from icons, and interface with other technology.
Emails, internet, texts, phone, photograph collection, CD collection, mapping and navigation, language phrase books for whatever situation you are in (trying on clothes, 'have you got a size 8 in this, please?), all at interchangeably navigated screens with no delay in a clear layout - I could become a geek yet.
This mobile phone sold me completely on spending money on tech. Visually it's stunningly simple. An aesthetically pleasing mobile? I never thought I would see the day. Cross geek with arts reviewer and this would be the phone for them every time.
The screen design is the opposite of gimmicky with a four by four layout and a permanent single row of four icons along the bottom, and nine potential screens or pages of those four by fours, that scroll across, not down, instantly with a flick of the finger. The icons are about the size of a finger pad. Some of what Apple offers to download is pointless but made me laugh. The guiness screen that fills up and then you drink the beer by tipping up the phone. Extraordinary graphics, too, for games.
Apple as a computer system on a compurter is excellent for graphics and will interface very well with microsoft - running word and excel and so on. So I am told.
What the Apple 3g i-phone does not do - it does not send photos with text messages. These can be sent with emails instead. It does not do videos so far as I know.
Two or three millimetres thick, smooth and black backed with silver rim, and with only one visible button this phone operates by touch screen.
It has two ports, recharge and headphones, both invisibly provided.
Using the internet it works wirelessly by picking up the 3g network, failing that by picking signal from the telephone wires system, or by wi-fi facilities anywhere such as at home, work, airports, offices, hotels etc.
Use of i-tunes means you can up load all your own cd's, which made me yearn to burn all my record collection onto CD asap. (Of course it is an ipod too.)
Email, internet, mapping system (the touch of a button calls up an instant photograph of your current location which you can then navigate to show all surrounding areas at any scale. Many other functions here of course.)
The touch screen technology and an expert operator meant that the only thing lacking while I watched all this to be living in the world of The Matrix or Serenity was a hologram speaking the messages. It was extraordinary that fingers moving like someone doing Tai-Chi could move menus, magnify pictures or shrink them, call up instructions and execute them from icons, and interface with other technology.
Emails, internet, texts, phone, photograph collection, CD collection, mapping and navigation, language phrase books for whatever situation you are in (trying on clothes, 'have you got a size 8 in this, please?), all at interchangeably navigated screens with no delay in a clear layout - I could become a geek yet.
This mobile phone sold me completely on spending money on tech. Visually it's stunningly simple. An aesthetically pleasing mobile? I never thought I would see the day. Cross geek with arts reviewer and this would be the phone for them every time.
The screen design is the opposite of gimmicky with a four by four layout and a permanent single row of four icons along the bottom, and nine potential screens or pages of those four by fours, that scroll across, not down, instantly with a flick of the finger. The icons are about the size of a finger pad. Some of what Apple offers to download is pointless but made me laugh. The guiness screen that fills up and then you drink the beer by tipping up the phone. Extraordinary graphics, too, for games.
Apple as a computer system on a compurter is excellent for graphics and will interface very well with microsoft - running word and excel and so on. So I am told.
What the Apple 3g i-phone does not do - it does not send photos with text messages. These can be sent with emails instead. It does not do videos so far as I know.