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iPhone was launched worldwide last Friday. If you didn’t know that, you have either been locked in a cupboard or on another planet. In typical apple style the media went into melt down to cover the queues of people ( or devotees) desperate to get their hands on it first.

Some of my colleagues simply strolled down to the shop after the queue dies down and bought on without too much fuss.

So I asked them, what does the iPhone do that my windows mobile doesn’t do? No one could really answer this in a way that I could consider definitive. Then, over my morning coffee Ray, our lead architect handed me his and said ” see for your self.”

In the moments I had to play with it, I started to get the picture. There was no one feature that stood out for me but the experience was a wonderful thing. Its a solid piece of kit, its easy to navigate and just fantastic to use.  Essentially, what apple have done is take something that works and add ’sex appeal’ to it. Typical apple really.

The enormous screen helps matters considerably and makes for a far better experience than my HTC touch.

Word has it that there is a growing uptake in apple technology for business use. For instance, using mobileme your iPhone takes on push email functionality and starts make your old blackberry quiver in the corner of you desk. Lets face it 20GB of hard-drive in you pocket could also become handy too.

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