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My First Day with Apple's iPhone
iPod, the Internet, and More
The internet browser works fairly well over WiFi. I didn't really have any problems learning how to navigate around the miniature interface. The most effective way I've found to move around is to tap for clicking on a link, tap and hold to pan around and pinch or pull (two-fingered gestures) to zoom in and out. Pages are slower to load, but I didn't find it unbearable or unreasonable. Edge however is the biggest sore point with the phone. Much of this is related to the fact that I'm only getting about 50-60kbit/s. If it was 150-200kbit/s it wouldn't be an issue. I mention more on this in the next section. The iPod experience was great, as this is the first widescreen video iPod. Moving through cover flow was attractive and the ability to watch widescreen movies is fantastic. There were occasionally loading delays on cover flow, but for the most part the animation was smooth.        Watching movies was great; you'd think it would be painful to watch a movie on such a small screen but the high resolution display makes up for the fact that the screen is only 3.5" diagonal.
Page 1: Introduction
Page 2: Out of the Box Page 3: iPod, the Internet, and More... Page 4: Bugs and Issues Page 5: Overall Initial Impression 
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3 User Comments 1 - Posted by
MichaelHarper
on July 2, 2007 - 3:00 pm So I was totally ragging on this device, and on the fanboys, and on the hype... until this morning, when i held one. The EDGE network speed sucks balls, but the browser itself is awesome, and the pan/zoom functionality of the multi-touch screen is very intuitive and functional. The soft keyboard was more functional than my T9 phone, but less than some real QWERTYs I've tried. I need to play with the keyboard some more, but I'm leaning towards buying one.
2 - Posted by
Brian
on July 2, 2007 - 3:54 pm The thing with the keyboard, from what I have read from people who have used an iPhone longer than one day, say that it gets easier with time. Within a couple weeks, it becomes rather easy to use. So you can't really judge it entirely on your first experience like many people are. Personally though, as I hate typing on anything smaller than a full-size keyboard...
3 - Posted by
handrail
on July 3, 2007 - 9:26 am meh. all tiny keyboards suck anyway. i'm sure the iPhone one will be no different than learning to graffiti on a PDA.
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