The iPhone: A Tour of its Features and Capabilities

One of the most fascinating features of the iPhone is its ability to perform tasks that were previously exclusive to computers. One such feature is its "Want it to do anything" button, which can be found on the camera screen. This little button, barely visible on the camera, allows users to assign various functions to their iPhone. For instance, they can use it as a wallpaper, email photo, or even contact information.

iPhone Wallpapers

When it comes to wallpapers, the iPhone offers a range of options for users to choose from. These are essentially wallpapers that were downloaded from the internet and used specifically for iPhone wallpapers. Users can select any of these wallpapers and scale them up to their desired size. In this article, I will be using one such wallpaper, which was created by me, and I must say it looks great on David's iPhone.

To set a wallpaper, simply tap on the image you want to use, and then choose the "Set Wallpaper" option. The iPhone will then scale the image to fit your screen perfectly. If you want to change the size of the image, you can do so by tapping on the "Scale" button at the bottom right corner of the screen.

Once you've set a wallpaper, you can easily switch between different images by swiping left or right across the screen. The iPhone also allows users to create their own custom wallpapers using various tools and apps available in the App Store.

Seaside Photos

Next, I'd like to show you some photos that I took recently at the seaside. As you can see, these are shot in portrait mode, which is a nice touch. However, if you want to view them in landscape mode, simply turn your iPhone around and they will appear on screen. This feature is really neat, as it allows users to easily switch between different orientations without having to go through multiple steps.

When viewing the photos, I noticed that scrolling through them was smooth and seamless. The iPhone's interface is designed to be intuitive and easy to use, making it a pleasure to browse through your photos.

Emailing Photos

One of the most convenient features of the iPhone is its ability to email photos. To do this, simply tap on the photo you want to send, and then click on the "Email Photo" option. The iPhone will then insert the image into an email message with a nice little animation.

To add more details to the email, users can click on the "Add Contact" button and select one of their contacts from their address book. This is a great feature, as it makes sending photos to friends and family easy and convenient.

Unfortunately, there is one drawback to emailing photos on the iPhone. The interface does not support horizontal rotation, which means that if you want to view your email message in landscape mode, you'll have to turn your iPhone around first.

Viewing Albums

When it comes to viewing albums, the iPhone offers a range of options for users. To access their photo library, simply tap on the "Albums" tab at the bottom of the screen. From here, users can browse through their photos, create new albums, and even set up slideshow presentations.

One of the features I particularly like is the ability to view slideshow presentations. Simply tap on the "Slideshow" button at the bottom left corner of the screen, and then select one of your albums from the list. The iPhone will then display a series of images in sequence, with options to add text or effects to each image.

Unfortunately, there's one feature that I think Apple needs to improve upon: the camera. As you can see, it's a standard 2-megapixel camera with no zoom, white balance, or other features to speak of. While it may seem like an oversight at first, I'm sure that Apple will add these features in future updates.

The Camera Application

Speaking of which, let's take a look at the camera application itself. As you can see, there are no buttons or features to be found here. Simply tap on the shutter button to take a photo, and then view it in your album. While this may seem like a limited feature set, I think Apple needs to add more functionality to the camera app.

For instance, some basic features like zoom, white balance, and effects would make a huge difference. Until those features are added, users will have to rely on third-party apps or manual adjustments to get the best possible photo.

The Conclusion

Overall, the iPhone is a fantastic device that offers a wide range of features and capabilities. From its user-friendly interface to its seamless photography experience, there's no denying that Apple has created something truly special here. While there are some areas for improvement – like the camera app itself – I think these will be addressed in future updates.

For now, though, the iPhone remains an exciting and innovative device that's sure to delight users of all ages. Whether you're browsing through your albums, taking photos, or emailing friends, the iPhone is a powerful tool that's sure to make your life easier and more enjoyable.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwelcome to my iPhone review each video I'm going to do three three or four sections each of the features so let's get this started right away as you can see this is obviously the iPhone it's a very nice build quality this is the front this is the side this is the silent ring off mode where it's all viate turns your screen on too and then if you switch it back it goes back to regular ringer modood this is your am control it's flip it around back here oh by the way it's a very thin device if you can't tell it's very thin here's your 2 megapixel camera up here as you can see the back is brush aluminum unlike the iPod which is fully reflective down here is the plastic piece I believe the antenna is down here here's the other side nothing's over here just the usual and as you can see there is a reflective bezel around the iPhone which is very nice so you might you you definitely want to get a case to protect this thing and up top here we have the sleep button or the power button if you hold it down for 5 seconds or so I'm not too positive with this is I believe this is your sim card you put your uh paper clip in there or something and it pops it out or something like that but I'm not too sure since I don't have much experience with SIM cards and this is your um headphones Jack flip around bottom here you you have your standard 30 pin iPod do connector this is your speaker phone and this is your microphone now to turn the iPhone on you can either press the home button down here or the power button up here or sleep button rather let's just press the sleep button now it's going to be kind of tough to film this because there's a lot of Reflections in my room but here we go this is your home actually this is your wallpaper screen where it displays the time and you slide to unlock very cool let's see that again it's very nice and this is your home screen try to get a good angle for you guys this is your SMS IAL photos camera YouTube stocks Google Maps weather clock calculator notes settings and then your more main features down here this is the phone feature your email Safari web browser and your iPod music player for this first video I'm going to do the first four our applications on the top let's start out with SMS texting as you can say the touch screen is very nice I love it and the way Apple handled SMS with this is it displays everything like it's a ation so for each contact you have it's a separate conversation just like I chat so it's very cool it's very easy to keep track of everything and if I and if I wanted to call Dan I'd tap call at the top and it'll call obviously I'm going to end call now and then if I click I'm trying to hold it over the camera and and if I hold this and if I click contact info at the top it'll display his email and his phone number and everything and his address if I have it in there but I'm not going to do that for video purposes and say that say a person sends me a link or an email in a chat conversation notice his emails there um please don't email him I'm I'm sure he doesn't mind his being here but if I click the blue arrow then I can either add to contact or add a new contact or add to existing contact but I don't I don't want to show any other contact information for for obvious for obvious reasons so let me go back here and that's basically SMS texting I could go more depth but I don't want to display any personal information next up we have IAL as you can see the widget displays today's date July 16th Monday click it or touch it rather and you can display by list day or month now let's see if I list um on Friday July 13th my event for that day was buy case for iPhone which I did it's over there and I'll show you that later and it's really cool you can edit it you can say start and repeat alert you can do second alerts you can you it's just really cool and if I want to I can delete event but I'm not going I'm going to cancel it so done now you can go back today I can to see the whole day for Friday July 6 I don't know why on there CU I'm clicked on there so July 16th if I click on day it displays today's all the hours listed in order and by month I can click and as you can see any day that I have an event scheduled it has a little dot so if I click 21st it says Seaside Heights down there so I click it and as you can see I'm from I'm in Seaside Heights from July 21st to to July 28th in other words there will be a shortage of videos next week so don't expect any new videos this except for my iPhone reviews but yeah and if and if I want to skip back to today's I can easily click today and it goes back to 16 for me so that's really cool day list and there isn't really much to I account it's it's a very simple application and if you want to you can sync your IAL events to your Mac or PC and vice versa and the next one we have here is a really cool one photos it's very neat and let me go back okay this is your list of photo albums camera roll is the album of photos that you took with the iPhone camera and as you can see it's very cool you can just flick through there's a very ugly picture of me that's the night I got two hours of sleep um you can just flick through your pictures it's really cool it's really neat and now as you can see I mean it's check this out pinching but I'm sure you saw that before but it's still really neat double tap to go back now if I want it to do anything click this little button down here you can barely see it on the camera but down here uses wallpaper email photo or assign a contact it's really nice so let me go back to a more interesting photo to show you something about wallpapers iPhone wallpapers now these are wallpapers that I downloaded on the internet and you know just to use as iPhone wallpapers select them now if I wanted to um set any of these as wallpapers David's iPhone that's one I made use his wallpaper now I could scale out of it wanted to but I already sized this in Photoshop set wallpaper done now let me turn it off turn it back on there you go that's my wallpaper go back to my albums um what else can I show you okay let me show you Seaside uh Six Flags Great Adventure now as you can see this is shot in portrait not landscape but if you turn the iPhone I love that so nice and then you can still flick through them it's really neat I love it and then you just go back here go back to your albums and you can scroll to your pictures it's very nice I love the interface now here I took a lot of pictures so as you can see it's scrolling very smoothly I love it and okay let me show you how to email a photo okay here's a picture of our dog wizard I'm sure you see her in our other videos now again you click the picture down you click the little graphic down here email photo now look it drops it into the email with a nice little animation that's really cool click this can add one of my contacts add Kristen my sister say hey this of course I'm trying to type sideways here because the camera is on my right this is Wizard trust you the keyboard really is easy to use it's just I'm sucking right now this is Wizard so if I sent this there's wizard send and if you listen there you go it's the same sound effect that you hear in Apple's mail and lots of pictures of my family and pets as you can see tons of pictures so yeah there is one downside there's Jasmine um as you can see the interface doesn't go along with the rotating of the phone only the picture so if I did this I would have to turn it just to see it upright and I really hope Apple changes that universally with the whole iPhone or like you know like every application cuz unfortunately the only thing that supports horizontal right now is picture rotating and the Safari web browser and watching movies of course but yeah I'm I'm hoping that's in a future update so it's really cool and you unfortunately you cannot send messages via your cell phone yet two other phones I mean you can only email your photo this is one of those things where I don't know what apple is thinking it's it's obviously not there for a reason but I think they'll include it eventually but yeah it's pretty obvious that they're going to add that and as back to my albums and if you want to look at all the pictures just click on photo library this is insane all these pictures I just missed S I clicked the bottom thing oh yeah and if you want to click view slideshow click the play button down here and you can set up your slideshow preferences in your iPhone settings my mom probably doesn't like my displaying these but oh well it's just for display purposes yeah as you can see very cool and that's your photos application and now to the fourth and final application for this video the camera which I have to be honest is pretty disappointing especially from a company like apple who's known to put features in stuff but basically all it is is a camera no no no extra features and taking pictures with this is a little um not creepy I don't know why I say creepy it it's a little weird cuz it's actually a touchcreen button so you don't really feel it when you take a picture but there you go and it puts them in your photo library down here and as I showed you before you can flip through your photos very quickly as you can see and there's the photo I just took if I want to zoom in my iPods pinch it there you go there's my iPad Shuffle and you can click and and you want to throw it away trash can button delete photo a cool little animation and that's basically it to the camera this is probably the most disappointing aspect of the iPhone in my opinion there is no Zoom whatsoever there is no white balance There's No Effects basically you just take a picture put them in your photo album and that's it I mean it's fast the interface is nice and clean but as you can see there's room down here for buttons just clicked that by accident so I think Apple will add features as time progresses but for now the camera definitely needs work and it is 2 megapixel but I said that in the beginning so and that's the camera applicationwelcome to my iPhone review each video I'm going to do three three or four sections each of the features so let's get this started right away as you can see this is obviously the iPhone it's a very nice build quality this is the front this is the side this is the silent ring off mode where it's all viate turns your screen on too and then if you switch it back it goes back to regular ringer modood this is your am control it's flip it around back here oh by the way it's a very thin device if you can't tell it's very thin here's your 2 megapixel camera up here as you can see the back is brush aluminum unlike the iPod which is fully reflective down here is the plastic piece I believe the antenna is down here here's the other side nothing's over here just the usual and as you can see there is a reflective bezel around the iPhone which is very nice so you might you you definitely want to get a case to protect this thing and up top here we have the sleep button or the power button if you hold it down for 5 seconds or so I'm not too positive with this is I believe this is your sim card you put your uh paper clip in there or something and it pops it out or something like that but I'm not too sure since I don't have much experience with SIM cards and this is your um headphones Jack flip around bottom here you you have your standard 30 pin iPod do connector this is your speaker phone and this is your microphone now to turn the iPhone on you can either press the home button down here or the power button up here or sleep button rather let's just press the sleep button now it's going to be kind of tough to film this because there's a lot of Reflections in my room but here we go this is your home actually this is your wallpaper screen where it displays the time and you slide to unlock very cool let's see that again it's very nice and this is your home screen try to get a good angle for you guys this is your SMS IAL photos camera YouTube stocks Google Maps weather clock calculator notes settings and then your more main features down here this is the phone feature your email Safari web browser and your iPod music player for this first video I'm going to do the first four our applications on the top let's start out with SMS texting as you can say the touch screen is very nice I love it and the way Apple handled SMS with this is it displays everything like it's a ation so for each contact you have it's a separate conversation just like I chat so it's very cool it's very easy to keep track of everything and if I and if I wanted to call Dan I'd tap call at the top and it'll call obviously I'm going to end call now and then if I click I'm trying to hold it over the camera and and if I hold this and if I click contact info at the top it'll display his email and his phone number and everything and his address if I have it in there but I'm not going to do that for video purposes and say that say a person sends me a link or an email in a chat conversation notice his emails there um please don't email him I'm I'm sure he doesn't mind his being here but if I click the blue arrow then I can either add to contact or add a new contact or add to existing contact but I don't I don't want to show any other contact information for for obvious for obvious reasons so let me go back here and that's basically SMS texting I could go more depth but I don't want to display any personal information next up we have IAL as you can see the widget displays today's date July 16th Monday click it or touch it rather and you can display by list day or month now let's see if I list um on Friday July 13th my event for that day was buy case for iPhone which I did it's over there and I'll show you that later and it's really cool you can edit it you can say start and repeat alert you can do second alerts you can you it's just really cool and if I want to I can delete event but I'm not going I'm going to cancel it so done now you can go back today I can to see the whole day for Friday July 6 I don't know why on there CU I'm clicked on there so July 16th if I click on day it displays today's all the hours listed in order and by month I can click and as you can see any day that I have an event scheduled it has a little dot so if I click 21st it says Seaside Heights down there so I click it and as you can see I'm from I'm in Seaside Heights from July 21st to to July 28th in other words there will be a shortage of videos next week so don't expect any new videos this except for my iPhone reviews but yeah and if and if I want to skip back to today's I can easily click today and it goes back to 16 for me so that's really cool day list and there isn't really much to I account it's it's a very simple application and if you want to you can sync your IAL events to your Mac or PC and vice versa and the next one we have here is a really cool one photos it's very neat and let me go back okay this is your list of photo albums camera roll is the album of photos that you took with the iPhone camera and as you can see it's very cool you can just flick through there's a very ugly picture of me that's the night I got two hours of sleep um you can just flick through your pictures it's really cool it's really neat and now as you can see I mean it's check this out pinching but I'm sure you saw that before but it's still really neat double tap to go back now if I want it to do anything click this little button down here you can barely see it on the camera but down here uses wallpaper email photo or assign a contact it's really nice so let me go back to a more interesting photo to show you something about wallpapers iPhone wallpapers now these are wallpapers that I downloaded on the internet and you know just to use as iPhone wallpapers select them now if I wanted to um set any of these as wallpapers David's iPhone that's one I made use his wallpaper now I could scale out of it wanted to but I already sized this in Photoshop set wallpaper done now let me turn it off turn it back on there you go that's my wallpaper go back to my albums um what else can I show you okay let me show you Seaside uh Six Flags Great Adventure now as you can see this is shot in portrait not landscape but if you turn the iPhone I love that so nice and then you can still flick through them it's really neat I love it and then you just go back here go back to your albums and you can scroll to your pictures it's very nice I love the interface now here I took a lot of pictures so as you can see it's scrolling very smoothly I love it and okay let me show you how to email a photo okay here's a picture of our dog wizard I'm sure you see her in our other videos now again you click the picture down you click the little graphic down here email photo now look it drops it into the email with a nice little animation that's really cool click this can add one of my contacts add Kristen my sister say hey this of course I'm trying to type sideways here because the camera is on my right this is Wizard trust you the keyboard really is easy to use it's just I'm sucking right now this is Wizard so if I sent this there's wizard send and if you listen there you go it's the same sound effect that you hear in Apple's mail and lots of pictures of my family and pets as you can see tons of pictures so yeah there is one downside there's Jasmine um as you can see the interface doesn't go along with the rotating of the phone only the picture so if I did this I would have to turn it just to see it upright and I really hope Apple changes that universally with the whole iPhone or like you know like every application cuz unfortunately the only thing that supports horizontal right now is picture rotating and the Safari web browser and watching movies of course but yeah I'm I'm hoping that's in a future update so it's really cool and you unfortunately you cannot send messages via your cell phone yet two other phones I mean you can only email your photo this is one of those things where I don't know what apple is thinking it's it's obviously not there for a reason but I think they'll include it eventually but yeah it's pretty obvious that they're going to add that and as back to my albums and if you want to look at all the pictures just click on photo library this is insane all these pictures I just missed S I clicked the bottom thing oh yeah and if you want to click view slideshow click the play button down here and you can set up your slideshow preferences in your iPhone settings my mom probably doesn't like my displaying these but oh well it's just for display purposes yeah as you can see very cool and that's your photos application and now to the fourth and final application for this video the camera which I have to be honest is pretty disappointing especially from a company like apple who's known to put features in stuff but basically all it is is a camera no no no extra features and taking pictures with this is a little um not creepy I don't know why I say creepy it it's a little weird cuz it's actually a touchcreen button so you don't really feel it when you take a picture but there you go and it puts them in your photo library down here and as I showed you before you can flip through your photos very quickly as you can see and there's the photo I just took if I want to zoom in my iPods pinch it there you go there's my iPad Shuffle and you can click and and you want to throw it away trash can button delete photo a cool little animation and that's basically it to the camera this is probably the most disappointing aspect of the iPhone in my opinion there is no Zoom whatsoever there is no white balance There's No Effects basically you just take a picture put them in your photo album and that's it I mean it's fast the interface is nice and clean but as you can see there's room down here for buttons just clicked that by accident so I think Apple will add features as time progresses but for now the camera definitely needs work and it is 2 megapixel but I said that in the beginning so and that's the camera application\n"