Life is grand

I had a few minutes to play with an iPhone my boss brought back from New York. It is heavier than expected and feels solid, not like the plastic-fantastic feel of a Nokia N95. It is also smaller than I thought, the thin body and the rounded edges feel good in the palm of my hand. The screen, which feels just like the glass it is made from, was smudged but you don’t notice the smudges once it is turned on. That bright, gorgeous screen shines right through. I didn’t have time to do much with it but I dialled in a few numbers with the on-screen keypad and it feels fine to me. I tried it one-handed, typing with my thumb and that worked too. The slide mechanism to unlock the screen is really slick.

Only bit I didn’t like is when it goes into standby you have to hold down the button on the top and then unlock with a slide.

Initial impressions are good, it feels like a quality Apple product. Hopefully I’ll get some more time with it over the week and try out its browser, WiFi and, oh yes, the phone bit.

This entry was posted on Monday, July 9th, 2007 at 4:17 pm and is filed under Post. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.