10 Tricks To Play On Your New iPhone
1. Spin the iPhone
iPhone is accelerometer detects when you rotate the device from portrait to landscape, then automatically changes the contents of the display, so you immediately see the entire width of a web page or a photo in its proper landscape aspect ratio.
See how fast you can rotate the iPhone before the operating system simply gives up trying to reorient what is on the screen.
2. Grease the iPhone
It is a touchscreen, man, but you just know that after your morning coffee and doughnut and several grovelling calls to the boss that you might have trouble getting your iPhone to understand your gestures. See how much gunk you can get on the screen before you (a) cant control the screen and (b) cant read it anyway.
3. Venus fly trap effect for your iPhone
The proximity sensor detects when you lift iPhone to your ear and immediately turns off the display to save power and prevent inadvertent touches until iPhone is moved away.
Go on, wave it about near your ear and see how many times it tries to save power and prevent inadvertent touches before it just gives up and goes to sleep (or cracks open on your skull)
4. Install Office 2008 on your iPhone
Yeah, baby, Universal Office 2008 is coming around the same time as the iPhone (Stateside anyway). And the iPhone runs OS X right? So put this tiny, happy little application on cause you know how much fun typing a Word document on the soft keyboard is going to be, dont you? And Microsoft and Mac get on so well
5. Install Windows Vista on your iPhone
Next step up from #4. Hey, why not give it a go? Just because two-year-old PCs will struggle to get the best out of the Vista monster, doesnt mean your Intel iPhone cant have a go at running it. Wonder if Aero will work?
6. Teach your iPhone new gestures
Some smart-arse developer is going to find out a way to abuse the gesturing-with-your-fingers system and come up with some new interesting ways of controlling the iPhone. Worked for getting the motion detectors on the PowerBooks to flip screens, anyway.
7. Photo feedback loop overload
Get your iPhone to take a photo every second, email it to your Yahoo IMAP account (via your free wi-fi connection of course), then have Yahoo push that email back to you. See how long before that exciting digital flickbook you have just created eats up the 4 or 8GB storage.
8. Send rude audio files to a Zune user
Tricky one. First, find a Zune user. Then send him a cleverly concocted iTunes insult (a fart or something will do if you cant be more creative) over wi-fi. OK, so the incompatible DRM could send one or other of them into meltdown (my money is on Billy Zune) but it is worth a go.
9. Widget overdrive!
See how many pointless OS X widgets you can cram onto the device. You know the ones - weird animations, quotes of the day from people you have never heard of, Sudoku - that sort of thing. Then watch iPhone squirm trying to serve them up to you. 3.5 inches of screen isnt infinit
10. Interrogate your iPhone
An ambient light sensor automatically adjusts the display is brightness to the appropriate level for the current ambient light, thereby enhancing the user experience and saving power at the same time
Pretend your iPhone has done something very, very bad (called Bill Gates and asked for a laptop PC with Vista installed, for example). Shine a very bright light on it and watch it lose it is ambience.
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