So nobody brought a girlfriend or a wife and it was me and five guys. Fine by me, I get along fine with men and men-talk, and it’s easier for me to slip away for computer or reading time with a bunch of men who’d never notice I was gone.
Got to see the iPhone for the first time and I’m very impressed. The pixel count makes the image so crystal clear and sharp. The glass screen and the scrolling and enlarging ease of use more than calmed my doubts about the teeny-tiny useless graphics, especially for web use. Simple to get online, awfully neat to flip the phone and change the view, good e-mail program, automatic You-Tube, great system for arranging and playing tunes, decent size (8 gig) hard drive and memory, neat mapping and some other fun features. I was anxious to see how hard it’d be to type on it, and it is, but not anywhere as bad as I thought. It seems to have an automatic "you meant this, right?" spell-check and the keyboard does enlarge for some apps. You also learn to type differently–back to the two-finger method, but with your thumbs! My nephew was already quite adept at this.
For my purposes, I wouldn’t have the use of one to justify the price. The majority of what I do on computer is writing or reading and those (even with the cute little magnifying circle) aren’t the iPhone’s best features. For commuters though, this is ideal. I see it as a necessity for yuppies and likely teens who need to have the latest tech toy. But there is a future in this and Mac has already brought this product to a high level at its debut and I can see this well becoming tweaked enough to be as normal a thing to own as a home telephone or a tv. Both of which are facing obsolescence.
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