Thursday, 11/20/2008

Music and Phone Resource Guide

The Apple iPhone is a multimedia and Internet mobile phone. Functions include a camera phone, multimedia player and mobile phone. It also offers Internet services including email, text messaging, web browsing, voicemail and local Wi-Fi connectivity. Input is accomplished by a touch screen with virtual keyboard and buttons.

Features

• Touch screen - The 3.5 inch liquid crystal display touch screen is designed for use with a finger, or multiple fingers for multi-touch sensing. No stylus is needed, nor can an ordinary one be used. For text input, the device implements a virtual keyboard on the screen. It has automatic spell checking, predictive word capabilities, and a dynamic dictionary that learns new words. You will not have to be extremely accurate when typing as touching the edges of the desired letter or nearby letters on the keyboard will be corrected when possible.

• Scrolling - The iPhone uses a direct manipulation model of scrolling. You move the content up or down by a touch-drag-lift motion of the finger. The speed for scrolling is computed based on the speed and acceleration with which the drag motion is performed. Scrolling through a long list is accomplished by sliding a finger over the display. After the finger is lifted from the display the content continues to scroll for a short moment before stopping.

• Other inputs - The iPhone display contains three sensors - a proximity sensor that shuts off the display and touch screen when the iPhone is brought near the face (to save battery power and to prevent random inputs from your face and ears), an ambient light sensor that adjusts the display brightness, and an accelerometer (to sense the orientation of the phone) that changes the screen in a 90 degree direction. The iPhone has three physical switches on its sides: sleep/wake, volume up/down, and ringer on/off.

• Phone - The iPhone allows conferencing, call holding, call merging, caller ID, and integration with other cellular network features and iPhone functions. A playing song fades out when you receive a call. Once the call is ended the music fades back in.

• Voicemail - The iPhone includes a voicemail feature that allows you to view a list of current messages on-screen without having to call in. Unlike most other systems, messages can be listened to in a non-sequential order by choosing from an on-screen list.

• Camera - The iPhone features a built in 2.0 megapixel camera located on the back. It also includes software that allows you to upload, view, and email photos. You can zoom in and out by un-pinching and pinching the photos through the multi-touch interface.

• Multimedia - The layout of the music library has sections divided alphabetically. Scrolling is achieved by swiping a finger across the screen.

• Internet - The iPhone has built-in Wi-Fi. The web browser displays full web pages as opposed to simplified pages as on most phones. Web pages may be viewed in portrait or landscape mode and support automatic zooming by pinching or double-tapping images or text. The iPhone also has Bluetooth built-in. It works with wireless earpieces that use Bluetooth 2.0 technology.

• Email - The iPhone features an HTML email program that enables you to embed photos in an email message. IMAP and POP3 mail standards are supported, including Microsoft Exchange. The iPhone will sync with email programs such as Outlook, entourage and web based email accounts such as Gmail.

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