The iPhone

Yesterday, I had my first encounter with the iPhone, and now I'm trying to convince my wife the iPhone is something the whole family can enjoy! Starting out with the phone features, I was impressed at how the iPhone handles voice mail. First of all, the iPhone has a caller id-like feature for voice mails, and when you look at your list of voice mails, you can select the specific voice mail you want to hear, rather than having to listen to all previous voice mails to get to the one you really want.

I was a little skeptical about the interactive touch screen before actually trying it, and after only a few minutes I was a pro at navigating the menus and entering text.

The real star of the show was the photo application. When viewing a picture, I was able to increase the picture size (zoom in) by simply pinching my thumb and index finger together at the center of the picture, then expanding my thumb and index finger towards the corner of the screen, and wammo! the picture size instantly increased.

Finally, I was impressed with the ability of the iPhone to open .pdf and other files. Although I did not try opening a MS Word document, I read on many websites that the iPhone will open MS Word documents too! Side Note: as an alternative to MS Office, try OpenOffice - it's FREE and allows you to open and save files in the proprietary MS format.

While my review of the iPhone barely scratched the surface (this is such a cliche`, and what does it mean to "scratch the surface" anyway? Was this the way wood was refined before sandpaper was invented? Ouch, talk about slivers under your nails!) of the many great features of the iPhone, I encourage you to get your tech on and play with one today!