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iPhone round-up
James Oakwood
0 comments 11 January 2007
Now we’ve had time for the iPhone announcement to sink in, we though we'd have a closer look at the phone’s more interesting features. So, in no particular order…
Visual Voicemail
A unique feature to Apple, this allows you to look at your list of voicemails and decide on the order in which you want to hear them.
Multi-Touch
Another Apple patent, Multi-Touch means that the touch-sensitive screen can accept multiple inputs at once. For example, if you open up a photo and want to reduce it in size, you can do so by simply squashing it with two fingers.
160ppi
This number is very important, as it refers to the number of pixels per inch of the iPhone’s 3.5-inch screen. This is Apple’s clearest and most hi-definition screen yet (the Fifth Generation iPod came in at around 130ppi) and should display web pages and videos at perfect clarity.
HTML
Forget torturous WAP browsing, the iPhone will let you download emails from most POP3 or IMAP accounts and display websites through a Safari browser. What’s not currently clear at present though, is whether you can view the Internet from anywhere or only through a Wi-Fi location.
Sensors
The patents continue, with in-built sensors that detect how you’re holding the phone (it’ll automatically flip to a landscape view if you tilt it), give ambient lighting (automatically adjust the screen’s brightness to conserve the battery) and finally, an Accelerometer (which is a fancy name for the fact that the phone automatically stops any music or videos playing when you move it to your ear).
Rounding up our iPhone coverage for now, here's a great YouTube video (courtesy of Mac Format and TUAW), featuring Apple's Phil Schiller giving a hands-on demonstration.
And here's one we found ourselves, of a 10-minute Steve Jobs interview on CNBC.
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