My present phone
The iPhone is much higher-end than I thought it would be: It has not only GSM, EDGE, and Bluetooth (and notably, not one of the 3G high-speed cellular networks) but Wi-Fi and a gigantic, super-high-res touch screen. It surfs the Web with a desktop-quality browser and gets push e-mail — but notice that it's personal Yahoo! e-mail, not corporate e-mail, and there's no solution for editing document attachments. This is a consumer phone, not a business phone.
But high-end smartphones like this are only a sliver of the U.S. market, and most of them are sold to business customers, not to consumers.
If Apple hopes to sweep the nation, it'll be banking on its famed usability and brand identity to push this costly device (one of the most expensive phones I've ever seen, even with a two-year contract) forward.
The interface looks a lot like an iPod, and a lot like OS X. This is good — great, in fact — because cell-phone interfaces have needed an overhaul for years.
Many phones today are based either on ancient OSes developed before mobile media, or picky PDA operating systems designed to be tapped with a stylus.
The iPhone's elegant scrolling and big buttons take smartphone applications and get rid of the need for a stylus.
Apple aims to solve the famous problem of cell-phone usability with an all-touchscreen interface that you can tap with your finger rather than a stylus.
Americans haven't taken to all-touchscreen phones before because of the lack of tactile feedback proving that you've pressed a button, and the unattractive "screen grease" look that results from pressing your cheek to a touchscreen.
- Extract from Fox News
2 comments:
buy me the iphone le.. and i'll be your driver whenever you come back! hahaha!
Can you see what phone I am STILL using? Haha. Btw, what are you using now and are you guys still into the phone craze?
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