A Look at the iPhone
No matter how many of them can’t afford either the phone or the service contract for it, some of my friends can’t seem to stop talking about Apple’s new iPhone*. David Pogue of The New York Times has an amusing video of it via YouTube.
When I was at my local Apple store a few days ago to show the store to a visiting friend who lives in a city without its own, we noticed a mob around the iPhones. The one no one was looking at had a dead battery. I didn’t even hold the phone. We didn’t stick around in the queue to try to look at another. (I should note here looking at them and going to the store was my friend’s idea. Personally, I think there are far better things to see in the area, like the woods where I hike.)
Oh, yes, and just in case any of you are wondering: I absolutely do not plan to purchase one any time soon. Not only do I find the price outrageous, but I don’t want to put myself in a position where I might have to do a lot of product testing. Not that I’ve heard anything about the iPhone not quite functioning properly–I definitely have not. It’s just that with my luck, that’s what I’d end up doing with a newly released gadget.
Thanks, jhota, for sharing the video link with me.
*Maybe I’m taking it for granted (something Labyrinth tells us not to do) that I don’t have to tell you the iPhone is Apple’s latest hot gadget and is a fairly sophisticated phone that seems to simplify a lot of tasks modern cell phones try to do, like take pictures, run programs, and surf the Web. I think it might even handle phone calls.
