Apple iPhone 8GB (US)
01 JUL 2007
Launch price
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Stuff says
Without doubt the sexiest mobile phone ever made. Though expensive, its unique interface and excellent performance assure it iconic status.
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For years the iPhone has been whispered about as technology’s holy grail, destined from its conception to be the greatest gadget ever made. Take the world-beating iPod, add a mobile phone and a few extra years of user-interface evolution, then package it up with the genius of the world’s most imitated industrial design team. Surely success is guaranteed?
Maybe. But history is strewn with the carcasses of technologies that didn’t live up to the hype. Just ask Motorola, whose previous attempt to produce an iTunes mobile met with nothing but derision.
Fortunately, the iPhone is no ROKR. In fact, Apple has succeeded in crafting a unique phone that is superior everything else on the market. In one great leap Apple has rewritten the rules for mobile web browsing, invented a completely new touch-sensitive interface, and evolved the iPod.
It’s all in the touch
In the hand, the iPhone oozes sexiness; its wide, high-resolution screen is encircled by a halo of chrome and wrapped on its back side by cool brushed metal. When you hold it, it’s thinner and lighter than pictures would suggest: it feels like you are holding the future.