I finally had a chance to touch it. That's right, I was there at the Houston AT&T Experience store at 6pm when the iPhone finally went on sale. I can't say if there were more customers or members of the media there! Wow.What can I say, the device looks pretty impressive.
In this video, I get a full tour of the phone's features with AT&T Vice President of Sales, Ken Fisher. Plus, I try to cut in the massive line that had wrapped around the building. The result wasn't positive.
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WATCH WHAT HAPPENED WHEN I TRIED TO GET AN ADVANCED COPY OF THE IPHONE
Ken Fisher, AT&T Vice President of Sales shows us what the iPhone is all about, plus we talk with those who waited at the front of a very hot line.
No doubt it is easy to use and can you believe that video quality?! Even on this above web clip, the iPhone video looks very good. And yes folks, it is easy to use. There is a large button on the lower part of the device that takes you back to the graphically driven menu that is very intuitive.
There are a lot of rumors floating around about the phone such as it does not have a keyboard or does not offer text messaging. False. It has both. The keyboard is just virtual and on the screen.
I have never seen anything like the picture options. In the above video, Fisher easily flips past pictures quickly and enlarges them by "pinching" them. Same for the real Internet. This is not the mobile Internet we are used to on current phones, it is the real deal. How can you read the full Internet on the phone? Well the screen is very large, but you can once again, "pinch" the screen and enlarge the text to the size that is easily readable to you.
Fisher told me the iPhone works just like an iPod at this point. Nothing more, nothing less. The camera is two megapixels.
No we have to sit back and watch these early adopters who stood in line on Friday to see if the iPhone lives up to the hype.
Big thanks to triple threat (producer/photog/editor) Michael A. Carl (he likes that middle initial thing).
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