Short Books on iPhone: What Is it? Part 3

Posted on March 10, 2008
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The main menu of Apple iPhone is represented by 2 groups of icons: 3×4 matrix plus a row of 4 icons beneath it. The interface features radio network signal indicator, GPRS/EDGE/Wi-Fi indicator, time, Blueetooth and power reserve indicator. Depending to the launched application the color of indicators can change in order to increase visibility.

Main menu elements (from left to right, from top to bottom)
3×4 matrix

Text (short messages)
Calendar
Photos (photo albums)
Camera
YouTube
Stocks
Maps (Google Maps and Google Earth)
Weather (forecast)

The lower part

Phone
Mail (e-mail client)
Safari (web-browser)
iPod (multimedia player)

Launch of each application is accompanied by 3D-effects which can be chosen and set according to your own taste. Text applications automatically switch on screen keyboard. In comparison to Windows Mobile Apple keyboard is easy to use. It features only Latin alphabet and doesn’t support key combinations like Ctrl+C or Ctrl+A. Besides letter buttons the keyboard has Shift, BackSpace, Space and Enter buttons. When you work with a browser the lower row of buttons features only the buttons 123 and return plus the buttons @, “.”, .com and Go.

The keyboard will hardly be very convenient for big texts, it is much better to use Bluetooth-keyboard. The operation system doesn’t feature a task manager so if you press the main button the applications fold and when you access it again they are launched from the same position with the filled in data. All the free memory of the device can be used as operational memory.

The calendar supports 3 modes:

List
Today
Calendar

To create a new event one has to press “+” icon. Besides the name of the even you can enter the venue, time, repetition. Each event can be accompanied by a text note. The service Maps works with American maps. Besides the analogues of Google Maps and Google Earth one can get information about transportation routes. Weather forecast is updated each time you connect to the Internet.

Clock includes 4 programs:

World time
Alarm clock
Stopwatch
Timer

The calculator is nothing out of ordinary – just an average calculator with memory.

Short Books on iPhone: What Is it? Part 2

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2 Responses to “Short Books on iPhone: What Is it? Part 3”

Robert Michel on March 10th, 2008 11:48 pm

I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.

Robert Michel
Ethan on March 17th, 2008 2:26 am

It must be awesome device! The application uses the inbuilt microphone on iPhone. The app analyses the played note and gives out the result of which string is to sound at the moment.

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