My time with iPhone
I purchased my iPhone on release day which was roughly 2 months ago. It exceeded my expectations in every way, and continues to prove itself a worthwhile purchase. The phone has received plenty of press talking about how great it is, but I don’t think I’ve heard anyone talk about one of my favorite features. The pinch zoom is neat and all, but it is not nearly as useful as iPhone Safari’s double tap zoom.
The double tap zoom intelligently zooms in on the block level element that is tapped. With the column format of many websites this works brilliantly. Double tap on the block level element again, and it zooms back out. Double tap on another block level element and it re-zooms to focus on that one. It is fantastic, and part of what makes Safari on iPhone such a viable web browser. I love this feature so much that I really miss it when I browse the web on a PC. This is a feature that can and should be added to traditional browsers.
Another feature of the phone that caught me off guard was the surprisingly adequate built in camera. It has served me very well in situations where I needed to snap a photo of something interesting. At 1600×1200 the photos it takes far exceed the throw away photos I’ve taken with every other phone I’ve owned.
Here is a random photo I took with my iPhone:
