WILLIAMEDIA

I have had my iPhone back for about a week and am still enjoying it ever so much. Even-though I am a virgin of the smartphone category. You don’t have to look far to find good and bad reviews of the iPhone and heated arguments weather its technically a smartphone. My opinion here is that compared to my past ghosts of cellphones the iPhone is a definitely a smartphone so use that as the basis for my declaration as such. These past cellular devices I used include a total of five phones; two Nokias and three Motorola models, the most recent being the Motorola SLVR V6. Thinking about those phones now I realize that I am a virgin to qwerty keypads, writing & receiving emails on the go, and resetting your cellphone because the operating system crashed.

Ask me and I will declare to you that virginity has saved me for this very phone. My virgin fingers allow me to dance on the iPhones touch screen interface because a lack of exposure to physical qwerty keypads found on other smartphones in the market today. I have already increased in speed in a short week typing faster than I ever did with a num pad keyboard on my SLVR. I think where today’s tech journalists fall short is judging technology with their past influences involved in their reviews.

Today’s list of tech journalists have been learning to type on qwerty keyboards for awhile ever since they were given a voice in journalistic publications helping consumers decide what technology today means to them. While they have been training those fingers for the races I have been stuck just being able to call my parents to tell them I got home Ok. These fingers have been waiting for the amazing future of possibilities for the cellphone. The latest arrival is touching your phone, music, videos, and pictures with the Apple iPhone. While they are nowhere near the first to integrate touching into a phone they certainly get attention for their implementation of recent multi-touch research and technology. Apple engineers have been one the first to declare a end to a stone wall that is the physical keyboard on a cell phone which has been declared as taking up valuable real estate on our small pocket devices. Their version of multi-touch technology has made for some great commercials for selling the ability to touch your media and for a highly conversational discussion on humans interact with a computer.

With the keyboard and mouse locked into a firm position as the choice for how most people interact with their computer, designers like Apple’s engineers are looking for something revolutionary. We will see if the multi touch tech becomes a regular part of interaction with the everyday computer but the ones who will decide that hopefully won’t be the authorities of advice in today’s’ tech journalism. While they have not trounced the technology completely but have left some of us with the argument that humans usually want the tactile feeling that a real keyboard gives us. Don’t misunderstand me I am not calling them the village idiot just pointing out where the argument falls short. I do thank today’s tech journalists for their knowledge in the industry and look forward to future generations of tech journalists have to offer.