Phone call quality and camera

Dialing on the Apple iPhone's touchscreen is easy enough, but it's difficult to dial one-handed without looking at the screen, as you might be able to when you press tactile keys on an ordinary mobile phone.

Call quality was mixed in our initial sample of calls. Most sounded good, with just an occasional hiss to remind us that we were on a cell.

We loved how the Apple iPhone screen darkens while on a call, and the internal sensors reactivate it when its moved away from the caller's head (no more accidentally activating hold with your cheek).

We also loved the Apple iPhone's visual voicemail feature - what a pleasure to pick and choose which voicemails to listen to first (you either see the number, or the contact's name if he or she is entered in your address book) or to switch among voicemails with a click of the finger.

The speakerphone seemed inadequate, though. Even on maximum volume, our caller sounded faint, and had difficulty hearing us clearly.
The Apple iPhone's 2Mp camera lacks any adjustments and has no zoom. Shutter lag is longer than with a dedicated digital camera - or even the better cameraphones we've seen. Syncing nearly 258MB of images - that translates into 392 JPEG photos - took a little over five minutes.

Photos looked eye-popping on the bright, brilliant screen. Colours closely matched the originals, and we saw no issues with images being cropped to fit the screen. Most of the time we felt images were sharp and faithfully reproduced. Occasionally, we felt our high-resolution image lost some clarity in the conversion to the iPhone's format.
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