Short Books on iPhone: What Is it? Part 2

Posted on March 9, 2008
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The first thing that one notices is a brilliant sensor display and almost total absence of any control buttons. On the facial side right under the display there is a single button which is used to go to the desktop (main menu). At the top of t he left side there is a slider for turning on/off vibromode and a volume button.

At the top of the device there is a lock and sleep mode button which at a long-duration pressing causes the device to shut down. Right beside the button there is a 3.5-mm socket for head-phones to which unfortunately not all the head-phones’ models can be connected as the socket is suppressed into the body.

In the middle of the upper side of the device there is a socket for SIM cards. AT&T SIM card comes as default, and the device is linked to the network of this operator and at the moment iPhone doesn’t work with other operators.

In the lower side there is a socket for a charger, synchronization cable (which is the same with that of iPod). To the left and to the right of this socket one can see two groups of apertures. To the right is a microphone, to the left – the loud speaker of a speakerphone. There is nothing on the right side of the device.

In the back of iPhone there is an eye of a 2.0-megapixel camera. It should be stressed that there is no autofocus and a flash but any other settings – shooting is totally automatic. To my mind, it is totally predictable – what for to make things more complicated? All you do is press the button and get a photo, press once more and get one more shot. That’s it.

Everything is diabolically simple. A mirror icon of an apple is situated on in the middle of the back of the body.

The accumulator can be extracted from the device only using special tools. In order to do it you will have to open the body. By the way, the device has quite a powerful battery.

According to Apple the power reserve is 8 hours of talk and 250 hours of stand-by. If you want to use the phone as player, the battery will last over 24 hours which is an absolute record among the similar devices.

The “heart” of the smartphone is a Samsung processor (with around 620 MHz). At the moment it is one of the most powerful processors used in mobile phones.

Software

As has been already mentioned the device works under OS X which was deprived of all the excess elements and adapted to work on a handset. Full download takes about 5 seconds. In a stand-by mode one can see desktop wallpaper and block icon. The phone can be activated by touching this very icon.

Now let me tell you a few facts about the peculiarities of the screen of iPhone. Firstly, iPhone is the first device that can identify simultaneous touch in several spots (Multi-Touch). This function is used for changing the scale of a document (touch the screen with two fingers and then pull them apart), and in games (for instance, in auto races where you can control a car with your fingers).

By the way, the display of the device recognizes only touch with the pads of one’s fingers, thus we assume that it is heat sensitive. One cannot use a stylus or a nail to control the device and continuous touching the screen inevitably leads to its dirtying. At the same time the visibility is not affected.
Another peculiar feature is a position sensor owing to which the smartphone automatically changes the orientation of the screen according to how it is positioned relative to the horizon. If the device is put on its side the images will automatically shift to the horizontal mode. Other pleasant details are an inbuilt photo sensor, which can manage the brightness of the display in the automatic mode. It can be switched off and set the brightness manually, for instance, in economy mode.

to be continued…

Short Books on iPhone: What Is it? Part 1