Apple of desire
The Apple of desire
The new iPhone is hot, writes Alex Bilmes, but it is not the only gizmo in town
One might be forgiven, amid the considerable hoopla, for thinking that there is only one new gadget available to buy in the run-up to what is doubtless known, in Silicon Valley, as the holiday season. And the iPhone is certainly a gizmo to be reckoned with. It’s pretty, it’s pleasingly tactile and, like everything else made by Apple, it’s brilliantly intuitive, with a touchscreen so responsive that it even works with sausage fingers like mine.
Stroll into the cavernous Apple cathedral on Regent Street, pick up a demonstration iPhone, start fiddling and you’ll soon be retouching family photos, poking Facebook friends, downloading the Radiohead album, studying the racing form, checking your emails and editing a Bafta-worthy short film. You might even find time for a phone call. The iPhone does everything you’d expect from a mobile phone and much more — even in 2007, when we expect mobile phones to mix the drinks, stuff the turkey and offer a nick-of-time refutation of Richard Dawkins’s teachings on religion before we sit down to our annual paper-crowned lunches. All for £270.
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