iphone: the new eyecandy

The first time I saw it, I couldn’t figure what it actually was. Unusually larger than a regular cell phone and way too sleeker than an average digital camera. Then it struck to me that I was actually only 3 feet away from the most eagerly awaited product in the history of technological advancement. Yes, the shimmery silver surface, bearing a quarter bitten apple’s logo, in my classmate’s hand was the iPhone.

Although it was a summer blockbuster of 2007 in the United States, this multimedia mammoth made its way to our neighbouring country India only a few days back. Therefore so much of hype and even more is the urge to lay hands on it. The iPhone commercial pops up in a blink of an eye. And of course there are endless talk shows with tech gurus who never seem to get enough, revealing about iPhone. All these only make us drool over the hard to attain 600 USD priced sleek and posh iPhone.

The who’s who of our very own Kathmandu are already seen showing off their proud possession. Even though I am far from being one of those proud people flaunting iPhone, the iPhone mania has brought me face to face with its nitty-gritty. The story goes that Steve Jobs decided to tinker with a touch screen, and it evolved into an epic, the iPhone. Besides having a virtual keyboard interface, phone and internet capabilities, embedded digital camera function and, inescapably, the iPod muscic player, the new 3G iPhone also supports Global Positioning System mapping and wireless internet. The mind blowing applications and games on this new 3G iPhone could leave anyone asking for more. If merely seeing an iPhone on television could leave an average person wanting for more display of its functions just imagine how hard it would be for the proud owners to take their hands off this incredible iPhone.

iPhone represents the coolest of the cool mobile phone brigade. These cool brigades of mobile phones have everything from touchscreens and gold-plated bodies to features that we’d only dreamed of. They truly are the phones to die for.

Over the past decade mobile phones have gone from plain blue screen to the recent touchscreen ones. Few years ago there were mobile phone commercials that predicted how everything under the sun from movies to music to worldwide connectivity would all sum up in our palm. All such predictions have come true, given the ever evolving cutting edge technology that has changed the picture of mobile phones forever.

An average urban youth, financially dependent on parents (but fascinated by technological gadgets) like me can do nothing but pray for a techno savvy fairy godmother. Well, more than often I’ve to pinch myself to get out of this fairy god mother dream and start practicing pinching in real life. The sole reason being the incredible feature on iPhone that reduces image with a pinch on the screen and expands image by pushing two fingers outward!! Period.