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Zaprudering the iPhone commercials: email
The iPhone commercials that just recently aired offered a nice look into some of the built-in programs in action. Take email, for example. It's one of the four main iPhone modes (the other three are: Phone, Safari and iPod). The videos revealed a number of mail features:
- The number of unread new mail items in your inbox appears over the mail icon in the dock at the bottom of the iPhone main menu.
- In the inbox, unread items are tagged with a familiar blue dot. The standard blue paperclip indicates attachments.
- When displaying individual emails, a taskbar at the bottom of the screen presumably allows you to refresh your inbox, transfer mail to folders, delete mail, reply to the current message and write a new message. At the top of the screen a button may lead you back to the current mailbox, show you which item you are viewing in the mailbox (e.g. 2 of 11) and allow you to move to the previous or next message. Direct actions on the message scroll you up and down the currently displayed email.
Gallery: Zaprudering iPhone email
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
manish said 7:34AM on 6-04-2007
what's the time 9:42 in every shot of the iPhone from apple?
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Steve said 7:30AM on 6-04-2007
Er, sorry to burst your bubble, but all of this was easily gleaned from what's already been up at Apple's iPhone/internet/mail page since January...
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Steven said 8:07AM on 6-04-2007
"Er, sorry to burst your bubble, but all of this was easily gleaned from what's already been up at Apple's iPhone/internet/mail page since January..."
That's exactly what I was going to post. Nothing new here. Move along....
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eric Vicenti said 8:10AM on 6-04-2007
Yeah. What did pop into my head was something else, that was also there before, but I just realized. The bottom right button is PROBABLY just a new mail button, but it also looks like a checkbox, and we all know that todo's are coming in Mail in Leopard, and we all know the iPhone runs 'Leopard'.
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Steven said 8:21AM on 6-04-2007
"but it also looks like a checkbox"
It's not a checkbox. If it was, there would be a check in it, instead of a pencil or pen (whatever that is).
I think the buttons at the bottom are:
Forward, Move to Folder, Delete, Reply, Compose
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Steven said 8:24AM on 6-04-2007
"..and we all know the iPhone runs 'Leopard'."
We do?
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Ilari Sani said 8:36AM on 6-04-2007
One new thing is the more prominent Podcasts button on the bottom of the iPod view.
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B deR West said 9:31AM on 6-04-2007
@6: Well, when Jobs announced it at Macworld, the raphic behind him said "Core Animation," which is a feature new to Leopard. So, in essence, the iPhone runs a version of Leopard, unless they've discovered how to add Core Animation into Tiger. At the same time, it isn't logical to put out a brand new phone that will have an outdated OS in six months. Why not give it the new OS and not tell anyone straightaway?
The iPhone ads (and the phone Jobs demo'ed at Macworld) all had times of 10:41, and I assumed that's because that's the time it debuted at the expo. But 9:42, iono. Maybe because the numbers look nice? Maybe it was the time the ads first aired on ABC (p.m.?)?
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CyBeR said 10:10AM on 6-04-2007
The iPhone runs MacOS X. Not so much Leopard, as leopard is quite specifically for macs and the iPhone isn't one.
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Matt said 10:12AM on 6-04-2007
I never knew this previously, but if you look at the inbox, in the upper left corner it has a button for Mailboxes, so maybe you could have multiple accounts, could be interesting.
This could be old news, but it's a first for me.
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Nick said 11:18AM on 6-04-2007
@5:
I think the first button is Refresh. See the shot of the inbox, with the same icon to the left of the "Updated" time.
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Moose said 11:37AM on 6-04-2007
I wonder what happens to the mail numerical icon when you exceed 99 emails. Pill shaped icon, maybe?
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russell said 12:22PM on 6-04-2007
9:42 is probably a rounding error up from 941, the dimensions of the life-giving monolith in 2001. Let's hope that's not due to an Intel chip error.
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miguel said 1:21PM on 6-04-2007
For me cutting my computer teeth on a tandy ex, the iphone just blows me away. I put off buying a new cell phone for now. saving for a iphone :-)
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brian said 6:29PM on 6-04-2007
But enough about email. Did anyone else catch that the 'Maps' icon shows Apple's campus?
http://www.google.com/search?q=1+infinite+loop,+cupertino,+ca
It jumped out at me because of the '280' icon (I used to live in the area) and upon closer inspection I noticed a distinctive street shape. :-)
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Darren said 8:13PM on 6-04-2007
Hmmm. That UI looks amazing, but a refresh button? Last updated? That doesn't sound like push email to me.
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Marcelo S. Sandoval said 1:34AM on 6-05-2007
The calendar widget displays the current date (based on the date on the phone in the opening shot)! I assume it will refresh on a daily basis to show the current date every day.
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BdeRWest said 5:32PM on 6-05-2007
@ 16: Well, .Mac and Yahoo! might be push e-mail, but tons of others are only POP3 (including Gmail). So why would you make a phone that doesnt' cater to both?
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