Sunday, January 6, 2008

Apple iPhone


Apple iPhone is not exactly the best kept secret in the world. Chances are that both on your Christmas wish list, or you can also have it. Like it or not, the iPhone has put the bar pretty high in terms of the interface and user-friendliness and, almost six months after its launch now, the competition is still not managed to fight back with a product likely to generate the same buzz.

Now, not our mistake, the iPhone is not the perfect gadget. It has its flaws, and most of them result from the tendency of the people at Apple to oversimplify things. Plus, they have good care that the only way to upload or download content to and from your iPhone through iTunes.

It is a manifestation of their closed ecosystem product portfolio - if you want their hardware, you need the use of their software. Our hopes for a Euro-3G-enabled iPhone, the drain, the 2-megapixel camera is not changed, either; official third-party application support will not be available in February 2008, and finally on the Old Continent the device will cost 1 4 times more (with the current exchange rate) than in the United States. So why all the fuss, you might ask.

Actually, a picture of you should have kept the handset in your hand and tried it for real. It is nothing like what you have seen. Touch sensitive screens are nothing new, but Apple have a unique user interface that responds to your touch in an almost physical way.

Now that the air is thick with jailbreaking and disclose, it seems the right time to step back doing what iPhone and look at what he could be. We know that there are enough of you who do not like to spend hours reading stuff on the Internet only to their phones. So we look at a number of applications that the ability of the device to another level. And just as a refresher in case you are not caught in the "telephone Jesus' helm, you are welcome in our Apple iPhone overview.

We do not agree jailbreaking or unlocking your iPhone and we certainly do not encourage you to take one of these actions. But if you are interested in what your gadget is able, we take a look at the world of fun modding the iPhone. So it is up to you whether you take the blue pill or the red pill. Stay tuned, we are back after the jump.

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