Mobile mania

Apple's iPhone finally made its debut in 2008 at a price of Rs 30,000 plus. The iPhone 3G is the first one to come with a plastic-based touch screen panel, which is constructed on the PET-based touch pad technology patented by Apple. The touch screen comprises of two layers of polyethylene terephthalate, a plastic that helps Apple make thinner and cheaper touch-sensitive displays than their existing glass and plastic counterparts.

iPhone mania: Part II

The iPhone 3G not only lets one to surf twice as much faster than the first generation phone, but has many other improvements. With the iPhone 3G, multiple e-mails can be deleted in one stroke and parental controls can be set.

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The iPhone has Bluetooth 2.0, and it has a Bluetooth headset too. There are roughly 25 Bluetooth profiles available, but the iPhone 3G supports only two of them – the handset profile and the headset profile.

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It had other shortcomings too. Though it has an in-built A-GPS (Assisted GPS), there’s no voice guidance, like the other GPS devices in the market.

The revolutionary phone does not feature a photoflash and it has only 2 mega-pixel camera. There`s no video recording option too.

It doesn`t even allow you to send a MMS. Yes, though you cannot send those multimedia files via message, you can, however, send them through e-mail. Despite its share of good, bad and ugly, it is still a fascinating gadget to own.

Text: V. R. Vinod Kumar

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