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Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Apple iPhone

I just met a guy with an Apple iPhone.

Wow.

It is super cool. The screen resolution is amazing. The image rotates as you rotate the phone. You can double tap the image to get menus, you can make a pinching motion with your fingers to zoom in and out.

YouTube is pre-installed. The videos load quickly and look great. Better than on a PSP.

The internet browse is also cool. It understands divs so you can double tap areas of the website to zoom in.

Wow, wow, wow.

The screen uses optical glass and is really hard to scratch.

It’s much thinner than I expected. It’s like the size of a closed Motorola Razr phone, but a little wider and longer.

My geeky senses are tingling.

Oh, and Evan is a nice guy too.

Did you get to touch him/it?  That’s awesome.

We were in Portland and Seattle over the long weekend and I had two iPhone sightings while we were there. Both sightings were of the Ostentatious Status variety: the iPhones were not actually in use; they were simply placed very prominently out on the table top…

I totally touched the iPhone. I browsed the internet. I looked at Evan’s photos. I looked at the menu. I checked out YouTube. I am in love.

And, over the wire came a note yesterday saying publisher HarperCollins “will make samples from 14 new books available in digital format for Apple Inc.‘s iPhone.”

Clearly I need one. Come on Canada! Go data rates!

When will you start disassembling car engines or pimp up an old motorcycle? You could, you totally could. I love how you talk tech, Monique!

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