Friday, January 19, 2007

iPhone.. er.. the new cool thing from Apple.*

Friday, January 19, 2007 9:56:54 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

Well after reading my friend Rommel's blog, I finally took his lead and headed on to the Apple site to check out the iPhone. My reaction? "mannnn, this is soooooo cool". For those of you who haven't checked it out I refer you to this page and I tell you, prepare to be "wowwed".

I won't say much on it here as Apple does a great presentation in that link I just mentioned but that is as it says "a revolutionary mobile phone". My only question is though.. Do you really use your finger? As opposed to say.. a nice stylus?

Oh and I'm sure by now you must be thinking... but what price are we talking about here... Well, I've done some checking and Gizmodo reports that "The iPhone: Price - $499 4GB, $599 8GB" and also that it ships in June 2007 (Ref).

So folks, you have some months in which to save some cash, you can probably cut back on those PizzaHut trips (for the UK/US folks) and for the local people in Bim, well.. you're being quite wishful that the iPhone will (1) get down here (2) be even in the range of $1000, $1200 Bds and (c) it will be supported by either C&W or Digi.

Anyway, happy hunting! I'm still quite amazed by the "coolness" of this device... The only question now is if it works as seamlessly as is shown on the Apple site. :? ESPECIALLY those "Built-in Advanced Sensors"... I mean "The proximity sensor detects when you lift iPhone to your ear and immediately turns off the display" ? "An ambient light sensor automatically adjusts the display’s brightness to the appropriate level for the current ambient light" ? "iPhone’s accelerometer detects when you rotate the device from portrait to landscape, then automatically changes the contents of the display" ? (All these quotes come from the Apple iPhone site) Those are.. big things... and I really really hope they work well.

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