For the past two years, I've been using a Blackberry. I love the phone. Instant email and a full QWERTY keyboard.But now I have ditched my digital love for a new affair. The iPhone now sits on my desk, next to my computer, like an adolescent sitting next to an old man on a bus stop bench.
The phone is phenomenal. Faster internet and a friendly user interface. Plus, there's GPS on the phone--and it's amazingly accurate.
At work, I've already used the phone several times, instantly looking up numbers, directions and email. And forget dialing 411. Connect to the net, find the number, and just press the highlighted link the phone automatically recognizes as a phone number.
The connection is far faster than my old Blackberry which I purchased 24 months ago (months are like years these days when it comes to technology).
One thing I'm finding fascinating is the absence of buttons. The iPhone doesn't need no stinking buttons! (Only a few for turning on and volume.)
Now it seems buttons seems so uncool, so out-of-date, so.....old.
Apple's new device, I think, will continue to revolutionize the digital age of journalism.
What's next?
I'm guessing videoconferencing. Soon reporters will be able to broadcast breaking news instantly from their phones until a live truck can arrive.
Even then, the iPhone may be obsolete, replaced with a faster phone with a better video camera. But that seems so far away down the time-line....or is it?
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1 comments:
i can't wait for the day any reporter (or viewer) can use their Flip cheap camcorder to take (or stream) footage of breaking news and hook that up to their broadband-capable cellphone for the internet link to the station.
I don't know if the iphone has the interface for an external webcam device, but if it does you would be pretty set for breaking news until a microwave or satellite unit could arrive.
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