New details about the iPhone

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随着上市日期越来越近....更多细节慢慢披露出来...

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New details about the iPhonePosted Jun 23rd 2007 2:24PM by Ryan Block
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Remember the winning Engadget commercial,"The Long Arm of Steve Jobs"? We posted it after the break, but findingsomeone who's spent some serious time with a pre-launch iPhoneand getting them to talk is basically a lot like that. Still, wemanaged to smuggle out some freshly leaked details from a very trustedinside source who's been fooling around with a unit. Here's what theyhad to say:
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• The keyboard was simply described as "disappointing".Keyboarding with two thumbs often registers multiple key presses (twoor three at a time) resulting in a lot of mistakes. The best way totype is with a single finger (as shown in most of Apple's demos), buttwo thumbs is supposedly very difficult. After trying it for a numberof days our source gave up using their thumbs.
• Thetext auto-correction only works well for simple words, but doesn't workfor proper names. We can only assume this bit will get better with timeas Apple fills out its predictive text dictionary.
• "It won't replace a BlackBerry. It's not good for text input. It's just not a business product."
• The touchscreen was said to, in general, require somewhat hard presses to register input, and needs some getting used to.
• Inaddition to its dock, the iPhone comes packaged with a polishing cloth(the thing's supposedly a fingerprint magnet, no surprise) and theusual smallish power adapter.
• The Bluetooth headset willdebut in the $120 range, and will come with its own dock for chargingboth the phone and the headset. The headset will feature a miniaturemagnetic charging interface á la MagSafe.

Click on for more impressions on the headset, browser, YouTube, and more.

• The Bluetooth headset has a hidden LED and is supposedlya very small and elegant device. Sound quality is said to be "typical".There is no clip; like many headsets you're expected to just let ithang out of your ear, as previously shown.
• Thebrowser "worked well" but page load speeds on EDGE were just as slow asexpected. It sounds like 3G users will have a tough run with this.
• Users must scroll through the address book (or use the alphabet-drag onthe side) -- one cannot bring up the keyboard and type in a name, asmany of us are used to.
• Shocker: YouTube over EDGE didn't work well at all, and will basically necessitate use of WiFi.

Ok, that's all we've got for now. At this point we're just really looking forward to putting the spurs to this thing -- Apple is hyping this productlike nothing we've ever seen before, and we're ready to bring everydetail to light. In the mean time, here's that commercial again.

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