Beyond a Cell Phone

Apple computers are always famous for its humanization and convenient interface. These advantages are extended on the iPhone carrying MacOS X system. The interfaces, operation, functions and ideas of iPhone are all landmark-designed/ PhoneDaily takes readers into the new revolution of the cell phone's interface.

1. Full-image Interface--Intuitive Running
Although iPhone builds the MacOS X System, it is easily to find that it is designed specially for cell phones and influenced by MacOS' visualization. Take the function keys of MacOS X for an instance; they are all changed to icons with a few characters. The interfaces of iPhone are the same. It is just less than 10% of characters. The most amazing part of iPhone is its logical guidance. For example, there is an arrow in the standby picture. Customers would naturally to push the arrow, which is the method of unlocking. When entering the main menu, you will find all are icons.
The followings are the main functions of iPhone, such as phone calling, email, surfing online and iPod. Some relative functions will be shown and it is easy and simple.

2. iPod Style Choose Music by Icon--Wide Screen Movie Play
The selling point of Apple iPhone is undoubtedly the Music Player, so iPhone builds iPod inside. The capacity is 4GB and 8GB. It also allow customers to download movies and tv programms in iTunes Store and enjoy in iPhone. You just need to click iPod, and then its interface will appear. Its music kind, icons is the same as iPod.

iPhone builds direction transducer inside. If you put iPhone horizontally, the interface of music presentation will change to the unique Cover Flow, and the album packet photos will list in the form of 3D which can be chosen by clicking Left or Right, like a jukebox. Of course you also can change music at any time. iPhone also supports Movie Player. Under the 3.5inches 320 x 480 pixels screen, you can choose 4:3 or 16:9 screen mode, like the Wide Screen TV at home.

3. Retune to Basic The Selling Point--Speech Function
The Hi-tech Apple knows clearly that simplicity is beauty. Steve Jobs says that, one selling point of iPhone is speech function, the most basic function of phone, which can be known in the interface. Contactors are combined with the address list of MacOS ordered by alphabets. Each group of telephone number includes several options. Pick up the number you want just by scrolling.

After finding the phone number, you can get through it by pressing it. The page of diling is quite gorgeous and the intuitive interface can easily help you to click the keyboard, three-people meeting and keep calling. iPhone coperates with Cingular Network in the US and pushes out Visual Voicemail. It is visual message system. The messages will be listed by the names. You can know clearly who left messages to you. Just press it, you can hear the messages immediately and press it again, you can call you friend back exactly. SMS also adds the chatting mode similar to Palm Treo 750v, but it is changed to Apple design, which gets more charming like iChat. It is better that you also can get the virtual keyboard although iPhone is Touch mode. It is easy to input English, number and characters. You can also expect the Chinese input mode in the Taiwan Version.

4. Moving Photo album--Simple and Plentiful Picture Editor.
With 3.5inch wide screen, iPhone is surely a moving photoalbum. Customers can classify the pictures. It is easier to find and you can enjoy your pictures with the direction transducer.

It is also very easy to edit the background picture. First, you choose a photo you want, and then press the screen gentlely. Another interface appears, where you can send your picture to your friends through email, make call-in photo or wall paper. The most amazing this is that you can zoom in or out the pictures to a proper size by your fingers and make it as a beatiful screen background picture.

5. Safari Widgets--The New Experience of Surfing online on iPhone
In order to appease the cell phone, PDA, a lot of websites have PDA versions. But if iPhone is popular, it is possible that they don't need to make additional version, because iPhone builds Safari browser like MacOS X inside which can present the full and complecated HTML websites. Customers will see a full page of layout first. If he wants to read the detail, just click that area and then your content will be shown horizontally or vertically.iPhone can also support many page presentation. It is also ok to open many pages. In addition, the cell phone also implants the MacOS X's Widgets. Weather, share price etc, all can be shown through simple interfaces.

6. Built-in Google--Map Moving E-Map
Apple cooperates with Google. Google Map is added into iPhone. Customers can type the address online and check the address. You also can zoom in or out to check the map. There are also guidance, tourism places introduction, etc, which is even more useful than E-Map. The coolest is that it connects with Google Earth so that you can see the photos from satellites.

Posted by William Jones

Beyond a Cell Phone - iPhone

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