Review of the new Apple I-Phone

The new Apple I-Phone may be the new hit product of the next few years.  It certainly is impressive.  Today we tested it with the Saugeen Times and everything worked very well. 

It has a clear crisp user interface that is natural.  It is small and compact with the Apple 'polish' that makes it look and feel like a class product. 

Unlike other products of the same class, it does not try to literally jam buttons on an impossibly small area.  In fact it does not use a keyboard or button interface.  It uses your fingers touching the screen.  If you want to enlarge an object, you touch two fingers to the display and pull them apart.  Shrinking an area means you draw your fingers together.  It's very natural and easy to use. 

The operating system is hidden away and loads immediately with NO delay.  You can get up to a huge 16 gigabytes of Flash Memory so you can load tons of stuff over the Internet.  The Saugeen Times loads very quickly on a satellite  basis and I think it would be much faster via my wireless connection, but I did not get a chance to test that.

If you want to use it around your home, then Bruce Telecom will have a good primary connection to the Internet for you and you should equip your home with a wireless hub.  I'm using mine right now.  I love it.

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If you need a keyboard, then the I-Phone simply loads a pretty large 'virtual keyboard' and you just touch the letters you want.  The are scaled properly for a normal adult hand.  Of course you can't be as fast as a normal keyboard, but it is MUCH faster than the other like device keyboards.

Apple seems to favour Google applications like Google search, Gmail and Google Maps and Google Earth all of which are easy to use.  It has lots of other neat things like calculators of course and the complete works of Shakespeare, which is neat.

I-Phone and the Saugeen Times

The Saugeen Times has been designed for mobile devices from the beginning.  We found, however, that our 'go read more' icon , sometimes known as fast forward, should be made a bit larger in the future.  It should look something like this .  The reason is to be able to select it without magnification.  We will begin with today's articles to make it bigger.  All our other buttons are sized correctly like the 'Home' button shown at the bottom of this column.

Other than that, everything works wonderfully even our videos, which we introduced recently.

If you think this Internet thing is finished developing, you're wrong.  It is THE way to communicate and everyone should be aware of it.  No matter what age a person is now, you will have to  learn the latest to stay tuned in with the world.   We have daily readers who are in their mid 90s.

I'm not ready to give up my great new Dell Laptop, but I would have recommend an I-Phone.  Oh, and did I tell you that you can watch movies and listen to good music on it too.  And oh yes, you can take pictures, which is standard with all these gadgets including my laptop.

For an in depth look at the I-Phone Specs, please see Wiki I-Phone