Apple iPhone review: Is it the best? (See all reviews)

The User Interface is simple, consistent and very fast – no lag at all.
You can access all the phone’s functions with just a few taps and all of its actions are animated in some way, meaning the icons will smoothly slide in instead of just popping-up.

Short presentation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgW7or1TuFk

Here is a few of the gestures Apple has assembled for the iPhone user:
-Drag - controlled scroll up / down through lists
-Flick - quickly scrolls up / down through lists
-Stop - while scrolling, tap and hold to stop the moving list
-Swipe - flick from left to right to change panes (Safari, weather, iPod) and delete items (mail, SMS)
-Single tap - select item
-Double tap - zooms in and out (all apps), zooms in (maps)
-Two-finger single tap - zooms out (maps only)
-Pinch / unpinch - zoom in and out of photos, maps, Safari

The main flaw of the virtual keypad is the lack of any tactile response when you press a key - a quick vibration for every key touch would have been useful.

A type-assistant, to auto-complete your words and help minimize errors, has also been added.

Unfortunately the iPhone user does not have many options to personalize his device: the themes are preset, almost all the alert types are fixed and you can’t even use your own ring tones.

The iPhone’s main menu contains a series o colored icons that will give you access to all the features the handset is loaded with.
In the bottom of the screen you will find four icons that represent the phone’s main functions: phone menu, the mail folder, the Safari Web browser, and the iPod player.

The voice quality and the reception are above the average even though the loudspeaker’s performance is not so impressive.
All missed, received and dialed calls are stored in the Recent section.

The phonebook is quite traditional and the only innovation would be the Favorites list, where the most accessed contacts are stored.
All the contacts can be synchronized with your Mac or Pc using iTunes.

As on many other smart phones, the SMS application is not complicated and but well organized.
The messages are divided into threads on both sides of the display: sent items on the right side and inbox on the left.

Here we could find two major drawbacks of the iPhone: the lack of Multi Media Messages (MMS) and the impossibility of sending a message to multiple recipients.

The iPhone has a very good mail client that supports POP and IMAP accounts plus Yahoo, Gmail, Mac and AOL mail but unfortunately we have also spotted some flaws: it does not offer a spam filter, does not support push email and doesn't have cut/copy/paste features.