Apple has released their new iphone, in 4Gb, 8Gb and 16Gb.
there was a price drop of 200$ on the 8Gb iphone, which has made a considerable increase in
the number of people going for iphone. on the other hand, people made comments who had
already taken iphones earlier. so a 100$ credit was given to the existing customers.
now the price is 499$ for 4Gb, and 349$ for 8Gb.
lets see some of the features of the iphone:-
Steve Jobs the proudly described the iPod as a beautiful piece of hardware that had amazing
software inside it. However, the iPhone doesn’t feel fragile. It’s got enough weight (4.8 ounces) to it to feel substantial when it’s in the palm of your hand. Pictures of the iPhone don’t do it justice:
it’s smaller than it looks. Roughly the width (2.4 inches) and height (4.5 inches) of a
full-size iPod, depth is the dimension that makes the iPhone feel tiny: it’s shockingly
thin, measuring less than half an inch.the iPhone appears to be built to last, with a screen
that proved quite resistant to scratches and drops.The iPhone’s back side is a textured
silver, rather than the polished stainless steel of the full-sized iPod models.The good news
is, the screen’s so bright that in most situations you don’t notice the fingerprints. But
it’s enough of an issue that Apple includes a small black chamois cloth in the iPhone box.
The dominant physical feature of the iPhone is its black glass face, punctuated by a
single physical button on the bottom and a speaker slit near the top for listening to phone
calls. But the Home button isn’t the only physical button to be found anywhere on the
iPhone; on its side are a pair of volume buttons, which (depending on context) will let you
raise or lower the volume of the phone’s ringer, music or video playback, or conference-call
speaker-phone. Placed right above these two buttons is a switch that slides back and forth;
in one position the iPhone will emit sound from its external speaker, while in the other it
will only vibrate to warn you that something’s going on.
There are buttons for volume, wake/sleep button, which when pressed once
iPhone goes to sleep and locks instantaneously.you can still receive incoming calls when the
phone’s in this state.Press that same button and hold for a few seconds, and the iPhone will
shut down completely.Opposite the wake/sleep toggle on the iPhone’s top edge is a recessed
headphone jack. It’s a standard 3.5-millimeter jack—the very same sort used on the iPod—but
because it’s recessed many third-party headphones won’t fit.
The iPhone comes with a set of stereo ear-buds that sound pretty good, exponentially better
than the ear-buds that shipped with the original iPod.These ear-buds also include an inline
microphone that’s also a clicker: click once to pause or play your music, or click twice to
advance to the next track.
On the iPhone’s back face is the tiny lens of its compact, two-mega pixel camera. It doesn’t
zoom and doesn’t work well in low light, but with still subjects in well-lit areas it
produces nice results. The camera also can’t record video, at least not with the current
version of the iPhone’s software. It’s also got three different wireless technologies
inside: a standard GSM cellular connection with support for AT&T’s EDGE network, support for
802.11b/g Wi-Fi networks, and Bluetooth.
The iPhone’s display is excellent. Yes, it’s big and bright, but its most impressive trait
is its high resolution: It’s 160 dpi, more than twice the traditional Mac screen resolution.
Jamming that many pixels together in such a small space means that everything on screen
looks smooth, not pixelated.Digital photos and videos look gorgeous.
The original Macintosh changed the world by providing a physical control to move a cursor
around on a computer interface. But the iPhone does it one better—instead of pushing around
a mouse in order to make a disembodied arrow or hand move up on the computer screen, it’s
your finger doing all the moving. When you touch a photo, Web page, or e-mail message on the
iPhone and slide with your finger, it moves along with your touch, as if you were moving a
real, physical object. There’s no cursor on the iPhone because your finger is your
pointer—which, despite what your mother might have told you, is just what fingers are
designed to do.The iPhone’s designers seem to agree that typing is the best way to enter
data on a small device, but they’ve ditched the physical keyboard and replaced it with more
touchscreen space.a keyboard automatically slides up from the bottom of the screen.
Another remarkable feature is that we can turn the phone to turn the screen from landscape
to portrait position, and vice versa. the screen turns accordingly all the data when
rotated, and we can get a wider look of the screen.
When an incoming call arrives, the iPhone gently interrupts what you’re doing to display
Caller ID information about who’s calling. You can set any of 25 built-in ringtones as your
ring and assign custom ringtones to individual callers. Unfortunately, you can’t use your
own music or sounds as ringtones.Once a call is in progress, the iPhone’s large screen gives
Apple room to make it clear what your options are while on the phone, including placing
people on hold and creating conference calls.The iPhone uses iTunes to sync the contents of
your Mac’s address book (or a set of groups within the address book) with its internal
contacts list. syncing everything is probably the best approach, since your contacts are
also used for e-mail addressing.
When you return to a task you were previously using, things will generally be just as you
left it. For example, if you’re looking at a Mail message and then press the Home button to
check stock quotes, when you tap on Mail again you’ll be back to that same message. There’s
a Favorites list, too, so you can create a short list of your most commonly dialed numbers.
However, creating and accessing favorite people should be easier than it is right now.The
iPhone also lacks a quick-dial feature that you’ll find on many other phones, in which you
hold down a particular button to call your most frequently-called contacts.When you’re on a
call, tapping the screen brings up six commands—Mute, Keypad, Speaker, Hold, Contacts, and
Add call.
One of the iPhone's most unique phone-related features is Visual Voicemail, which displays
messages by showing you the name of the caller and the time of the call; messages that you
have not listened to yet are marked with a blue dot.
If you want to use a Bluetooth wireless headset with the iPhone, you should be able to do so
without much trouble.
Using Mail on the iPhone couldn’t be much easier: tap the New Message icon to create a new
message, and then choose a recipient from your Contacts list (or type in an address
yourself). If you’re reading a message, pressing the reply button will give you the option
of replying to or forwarding the message.Moreover, the iPhone doesn’t filter mail, nor does
it have any built-in spam catcher.That means if you’re relying on a client-side filtering
program such as C-Command Software’s SpamSieve (5 mice), you’ll be stunned at the amount of spam you’ll see on your iPhone. The solution: Use a mail server with server-side spam
filtering, if you can.Another, much more minor, missing feature is the ability to assign
signatures for each of your e-mail accounts.
Web pages load in full, scaled-down to fit on the iPhone’s screen. Tap twice on any part of
the page and Safari automatically zooms in, making text readable and enlarging photos to
fill the screen. The experience is as close an approximation to the Web you experience on
your Mac as you could possibly get on a screen the size of the iPhone’s. The biggest is the
fact that perhaps the most common browser plug-in in existence, Adobe’s Flash, is nowhere to
be found. Over the past few years, the melange of different browser plug-ins for features
such as embedded Web videos have largely been replaced by a single video player format:
Flash. Although the iPhone’s included YouTube player solves the problem for that popular
video-sharing Web site.The iPhone also won’t play back Web audio or video being streamed in
the Real or Windows Media formats, although Mac users can play such media on their Macs.
Due to its large, high-resolution screen, the iPhone excels as a video player. It’s the
largest canvas a video iPod has ever had, at 480-by-320 pixels. (The current video iPod’s
display resolution is 320 by 240.) And the widescreen aspect ratio, while not quite a
Hollywood-standard 16:9, is still better for watching widescreen movies and TV shows than
the 4:3 ratio of the video iPod.
There’s also no support for embedded lyrics in music files, and no voice-recorder support,
either with the iPhone’s internal microphone or with various iPod voice-recorder add-ons.
The bad news is that Text can’t send MMS messages, which are similar to SMS messages but can contain multimedia. Because of this limitation, you can’t send a picture you snap with the
iPhone’s camera to another phone via Text. (You could send that photo via e-mail.) What’s
worse, the iPhone has no support for any Internet-based instant-messaging network. AOL’s SMS gateway works okay in a pinch—and when your buddies are initiating the chats—but it’s no replacement for a full-blown AIM buddy list. And if you’re in a location where you’ve got
Wi-Fi network access but no cellular service, there’s no fallback.
The Calendar and Notes programs help the iPhone fulfill its role as a personal information
manager, but they’re like night and day when it comes to their utility. In contrast, the
Notes program is fairly useless. It’s cute, with its brow header and yellow legal-style
ruled background. But notes don’t sync back to your Mac, so you have to e-mail them from
your phone if you ever want to free them from the iPhone.
Maps is powered by the same data you get when you visit Google Maps with your Web browser, but its interface is so slick—from the ease of finding addresses in your contacts list to
the whizzy turn-by-turn direction animations—that it not only puts the Google Maps
implementations on other cell phones to shame, it makes the Google Maps Web site itself look
dowdy. The only thing missing from the Maps equation is that the iPhone doesn’t know where
it is. Not via built-in GPS (it has none), nor by triangulating signal strengths from nearby
cellular phone towers. It’s too bad, because with some knowledge of where it’s currently
located, the iPhone’s Maps program would be perfect.
The Clock program, on the other hand, is more than just a pretty face. Yes, it lets you see
what time it is in major metropolises such as London, Moscow, and Cupertino. But it also
lets you add multiple alarms, set a stopwatch, or initiate a countdown timer.
The iPhone tech specs claim battery life of up to eight hours of talk time, six hours of
Internet use, seven hours of video playback, 24 hours of audio playback, and 250 hours of
standby time.
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