The long-rumored Apple iPhone was unveiled at Macworld recently. The features that interested me the most are the "pinch" gestures for zooming and shrinking text and images and the sensor that rotates web pages to landscape orientation automatically when you turn the phone on its side. It's also an updated iPod of sorts, with different menu layout and Coverflow, which is a snazzy if not totally necessary feature. I suppose there are folks who pick songs by flipping through their album art. I just browse it to admire the pretty stuff.
Sure, it's not a 3G phone, but most networks aren't 3G capable just yet. They'll come in 4 and 8 gigabyte models pending FCC approval. The best thing about this is that the worthless Motorola RAZR (what a stupid naming model they have) will be old hat. You can put all the aluminum in the world around it, and still Motorola's poorly written, crash-prone, ugly OS resides within. The thing that excites me most about more sophisticated phones? More Google app goodness on the go. I would be in heaven to have quick, easy access to Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Reader from my phone. I can't heap enough praise on Google, they just get it.
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