By Ben Bowers – As I groggily took my place in line at unspeakably early Saturday morning hours, I questioned if all the hype was justified. My previous smart phone was 3G compatible and served me well over the last year. So what if it didn’t have a glossy back, touch screen, or a brand that let people know you stood for everything hip (overly?) in the world.
My doubts melted though the moment the sales attendant placed the gleaming white bar in my palm… right then and there I started drinking the iPhone koolaid…
Despite pushing limits in design with its revolutionary touch screen, storage space, and string of sensors monitoring everything from the position of the phone in your hand, to the ambient light levels of the area around it, to the proximity of your face to the phone when making a call; it seems like the real strength of the iPhone is its instinctual understanding of how people want to interact with technology.
Unlike other phones on the market which hide their features behind layers of submenus, the genius of the colorful icons peppering the iPhone’s screen is in their uncanny ability to fuel curious explorations of all of the phones features. In fact from my early estimations, so far the phone could potentially replace at least some every separate device/tool you already own.
