Apple (AAPL) updated their iPhone web page with all new info including a 20 minute video guided tour of the iPhone and more!
So far most of what we've seen on the page is a redesign and lots of press kit info with more photos of the iPhone.
20 minute video play by play
- side of the iphone has volume up and down and silent ringer switch
- top of the phone is the sleep wake/button, headphone jack and what looks like a sim card slot
- bottom of the iphone has speaker, mic and iphone connector
- home button on the center on the front
- lock the iphone by pressing the sleep/wake button
- turn off the iphone by pressing and holding sleep/wake button then slide dinfer across screen to confirm.
- iPhone syncs with your address book and you can use this info with google maps, safari and mail.
- while you are on a call you can access the address book or any other applications
- favorites list for one tap dialing
- list of missed calls shows up in a list in red
- very easy to add contacts to address book
- visual voice mail allows you to listen to voice mail in any order. New vm's are in blue. Easy to call back from voice mail list.
- easy to swap calls or merge them with easy onscreen button interface.
- ipod section sorted by artist, album, songs, videos and more
- coverflow looks really cool
- videos play in landscape, can play in anamorphic or full screen as well.
- "more" allows you to choose how you want to organize your ipod navigation
- headphones have a button attached to it to act as a remove control to the iPhone. It also allows you to answer phone calls. music fades out when a call comes in. One click answers the phone. Another click will resume music.
- iPhones photo album is awesome. Assing photos to contacts or use them as wallpaper.
- Safari can sync bookmarks from a pc or mac. Very easy to get to websites
- Double tap to zoom in or out
- Google is default search, tap in the URL field then a screen comes up with a google search. You can change this to Yahoo search.
- new pages can be open in safari
- keyboard has a .com button for easy url input when in safari
- supports rich html email for inline images
- very easy to delete emails
- email can open .doc (microsoft word documents)
- in email: tapping on a url launches safari, tapping on a phone number launches the phone.
- sms's look like iChat along with iChat sounds
- sms's will pick up where you left off
- stocks and weather applications use network to get the latest data
- google maps works just like you'd expect
- zoom out by tapping with two fingers
- maps has bookmarks too so you can bookmark your home location
- car button is for traffic conditions, green means things are running smoothly, yellow is trouble ahead.
- step by step instructions are given to get to your destination
- You tube defaults to the most popular videos
- can bookmark and email YouTube videos to your friends
- Settings: can turn off network, has airplane mode - no iphone or bluetooth
- choose ringtones, looks like standard mac sonds as well as a few new ones.
- can choose wallpaper from wallpaper album or one of your own photos
- can change how often iphone checks email
- also change font sizes in mail
- other config settings shown: usage (how long your phone has been used) sounds, brightness, wallpaper, general, mail, phone, safari, ipod and photos
- go to Apple on June 29th to actually use one or buy one!
Thats it!
Oddly missing: iPhones built in camera phone. How does it work?? What kind of photos does it take? How many megapixels? Does it take video?
Looks like the iPhone will be available at the Apple Store Online. At the bottom right of the iPhone page it says: "Buy online. Browse, shop and buy your iPhone online. Coming soon."
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We'll go over the video with a fine tooth comb and list any other interesting things we find.
