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Been fiddling around with my new iPhone a lot since I got my hands on it last week. I can only say that I am so amazed by its capabilities. Despite some problems(solvable ones), I still think that this device has the potential of reaching perfection to the needs of business users.

1. Onscreen keyboard. While it is only onscreen, this feature works excellent be it during writing your next blog post or your next email. It does not do word suggestion like a windows mobile does but it remembers your writing trends, ie the most often used word or even the width of your typing. What I really like about the keyboard is that you accept the word suggestion with a space and you refuse it by tappin on the word suggestion. Perhaps Apple really thinks typing mistakes is a common thing. This is highly intuitive. You can also complete your sentence with a double tap on the space.

2. The safari browser. This is the best mobile browser I have ever used. AJAX pages work with minimal limitations. Sites using extensive CSS look just as they would on a desktop browser. The only drawback is the lack of java and flash support. Perhaps it is a strategy to do so. If flash and java are going to be supported, many people might switch to mobile computing instead. I’ll be waiting anxiously for Sun and Adobe to get their respective platform released on the iPhone.

3. Third party apps and the app store. This could be Apple’s gold mine for future mobile apps. Since this is not limited to only the iPhone, iPod touch users can also join in the fun. But seriously the platform for developing iPhone app is vast and only the hardware limitations of the iphone will restrict the growth of the app store. Apple made the iphone development platform almost similar to mac osx development. A mac osx developer can switch to iPhone development with little difficulty. And for the non mac developers, Apple has made vast resources available to any participating developer. The resources and samples are pretty good and they are almost like real working apps on their own.(Ok maybe not… with some apps being refused entry to app store)

More to come…

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