Hey guys, John here with a two part review for you of the Apple iPhone. As you see I’ll get into the features of the iPhone. Let me tell you a little bit about the phone itself.
First off, this is the phone. I’m sure you’ve all seen it in videos in the Apple store. It’s got one button on the bottom which serves as the Home button. It’s got the speaker right there that we’ll see here.
On the top of the phone is the headphone jack with a 3.5mm headphone but you can’t use all headphones because it’s recessed. I’m not sure why Apple did that but it is. We got the Power button right there. At the back of the phone, it’s got the Apple logo. Here is where your antenna is. The left side of the phone has a switch that turns the ringer on and off; kind of great simple for meetings and a volume up or down. The bottom of the phone, it’s got the familiar iPod dock what you use to charge it with and the right side of the phone has nothing. So, you guys can see it’s very, very, very thin. And the back too also is a camera oh right there.
Overall, I’ve been using the phone since it came out pretty much. And I’ve been very, very, very pleased of it. The call quality is good. No better or worse than anything else. The build quality of the phone seems excellent. The built-in speaker is good. We listen to music, it’s not actually very loud.
The GUI on the phone itself, you can tell why it took Apple so long to come out with the phone. For those of you that might not know GUI or G-U-I, it’s a Graphical User Interface essentially the operating system, what you see when you look at the phone. And I’ve never seen anything more fun to look at. It’s got—even when you’re minimizing applications, the Zoom Out effect. As you guys will see when I get into the review. Eventhough all these effects might seem just more like fun features, the phone does serve as a very powerful business tool. Email functionality is certainly serviceable. Web browsing is by far the best I’ve used on any phone and I’ve certainly used my fair share across all platforms in most carriers.
One of the complaints I’ve heard with the iPhone is the AT&T coverage. I can’t really speak to that—is more you live where I am AT&T coverage is excellent. I had AT&T before so there is no trouble there at all. Lock of 3G is certainly a problem but you know that going to the phone that doesn’t have that. 8GB of storage which what I have; since it would be plenty for m but I can see why people would want more and I’m sure future models will have that. But again, overall, I’m very, very, very happy with the iPhone. Everywhere I go it seems like there’s a crowd around me. I just want to see and play with it. It’s that day—of a product.
So just in conclusion, if you have the resources to pick one up, it’s absolutely worthwhile. It’s a great phone. For me, activation was a piece of cake. It took 10 minutes by the people having some trouble but Apple is doing their best I know to fix it, any questions, you know, just go to your Apple store or call AT&T or app. So guys, here is Part 1. Enjoy the review. Ask questions if you got them. Thank you all for subscribing, enjoy.
All right guys, let’s get down to it. So here, we have the iPhone in its off position. First thing that you need to do is turn your iPhone on is you need to push the one button here or the button on top, the Power button, press the Menu button. It comes up prompting you to unlock. Slide the lever to the right to unlock. And that brings you to the iPhone’s main menu. And as you can see, it consists of four rows of three and then a bottom set of four hot keys.
I’ll walk through kind of quickly each one here but you’ll see it’s Text, Calendar, Photos, Camera, YouTube—Maps, Weather, Clock, Calculator, Notes, Settings. On the bottom you have Phone, Mail, Safari and iPod. So, well start from the top here. The first thing you have is Text. Click on Text, it pulls up your most recent text. If you push the Settings button, it gives you a list of all the recent people that you’ve texted. The Text are set up very easily; very similar to iChat and for Macs. You can scroll through. When I type, it appears in the green. What here in this case, my girlfriend has typed, it’s in the gray and you can scroll through very easily.
Go back to Settings. One of the cool thing that the phone does in order to delete text, you slide your finger to the right over the name. Pull up little Delete thing, it deletes the text; kind of cool. Calendar is a general calendar. I’ll show you what it looks like, what you have today. If you got something going on today, it shows up below there.
Photos is I think one of the shiny features of the iPhone. Hit Photos, it pulls up all the photos that you’ve synced. I’ll put my camera roll finger taking with my camera. Let’s give an example; picture my cat. It lets you scroll through just by flicking your finger. It goes to the next picture.
I might go get to on the Web. You’re able to zoom in just by zooming. If I were to—if this was a landscape picture for example, if I return it sideways, as you can see the picture would rotate with it; kind of a cool feature. You also have the option for Photos to—instead of scrolling your finger, go to next. If there’s a picture you want to delete, you can just hit delete and very kind of cool fashion gets deleted. It sucked right into the trash can. You also have the option is Photos. You hit the Menu button down there; to use as wallpaper, email photo, assign to contact or cancel. Now the photo is here. Camera is a very simple camera, big shutter appears and then you’ve got your view finder.
There is no way to zoom on the camera. There are no functions. It’s take a picture of what you see. That is definitely one of the drawbacks of the iPhone. And you push the button right there to take the picture.
YouTube is actually one of the features that I find myself using the most. And one of the features that I didn’t think I was going to use it all. It’s actually very cool. You hit YouTube and you can search. You can view featured videos, most viewed, things you have bookmarked or even a few options. I’ll just show you real quickly what the video looks like.
We’ll go down to featured and let’s find one here, okay. Should I pick one? Hit Play. It turns horizontal. It turned it for you. It starts to buffer and there it goes. It’s very cool, if you just tap the screen, the Menu pops up. You can pause, fast forward, rewind, bookmark, email it and you can fast forward by dragging your finger across. If you’re done, simply hit Done, pulls you back to the main menu. Okay. Sorry, I got to play over this kind of quickly. YouTube cuts them out after a couple minutes, stop, hold up stop—
It’s got Google Maps. That’s very familiar environment for online. I’ll show you real quickly. Hit Google Maps. There is local Apple Store, hit Maps again. It pulls up just a very familiar Google Maps application. Weather, pull up weather for where you are. Clock, it pulls up the clock. Calculator, it’s calculator. Notes, just a simple notes program. Setting gives you a very limited customizing ability. Air plane mode turns off the wireless features. WiFi and some usage which tells you how long you’ve been using the phone since you last charge, how long you’ve been using the phone period for call volumes and how much data you sent and received. And you have the option of resetting that information as well.
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