iPhone news

With the launch of the Apple iPhone with its all-new look and style, mobile users are preparing to learn the acrobatics to deal with its touch-screen feature. Will it be really cool when the handset reaches to those sensitive hands? There are a lot of talks about the success of these new features applied in the iPhone. No doubt, if it clicks, this technology will soon reach to your PC and laptop making your fingers crawl through the screen.

The touch-screen is so sensitive that the user has to be extremely careful while moving the fingers across it. What if you hold it in your hand? Will it be safe? Or, in your pocket? Oops! Have Apple got a solution for this baffling question? Of course, there is. As is the case with normal cell phones, iPhone also has got the ‘lock’ option to keep it safe while not in use. Unless you intently disturb it, it is not going to do any harm, but of course, while typing a message or dialing a number you are likely to make mistakes (probably if you have got fat fingers!) in the initial stages. However history teaches us that human being adapts very easily to any situation that he is in, so no exception to the ‘touch screen’ technology too. Moreover, the automatic spell check is ready there to help you to correct every wrong entry, though it may not work with those customized phrases that you use in your day-to-day SMS communication.

The iChat offered by the iPhone, though, does not sound very cool. To see it as the old ‘SMS’ in the new bottle is a bit depressing. As many IM services are already used in many advanced mobile phones, Apple could have updated the iPhone to the real iChat mode.

The Visual Voice Mail, however, is praiseworthy. You can relieve now being away from your mobile phone, and avoid the cumbersome task of listening to each voice mail. This is an excellent feature that Apple created to save the precious time of the user.

The one and only physical button, i.e., the home button is worthy enough to create history with its dual purpose. When pressed, the home button toggles between the standard screen option and the microphone option. The button, as you think, is not that big to perform the double action; you may not notice it at the first sight of your phone. Camouflaged within the instrument, this button is likely to make the user tizzy as and when he grabs the phone.

Another worry to the user about this phone may be its rotation from portrait to landscape mode. As seen in the demonstration videos from Apple, the iPhone is not smart enough to hide the transition from landscape to portrait and vice versa and thus delays the reorientation of the photos a little bit.

It is the testing time for Apple and the future customers. With its awaited market entry in June 2007, the buzz is in the air on whether to acquire it or not.