The Jay On The iPhone

How cool is that?

My current geek-in-residence, one Timothy “Evil” Schultz, stood in line for ten hours on Friday to get the iPhone (then spent the next 24 hours dealing with activation, just by the by). When I saw him, and it, on Saturday, I only had one question for him.

How does TheJay.com look on that beast?

As you can see, the answer is pretty balls awesome. The sunlight in the pic is a bit harsh, so let me assure you that the colors of the iPhone screen are as vibrant as any Pixar film and as crystal clear as a high end digital monitor. One of the cooler features of the phone is the ability to literally “pinch” or “pull” the screen to zoom in or out on something. So all bets are off on the relative downsides of checking the net on a cell phone. I was able to read one of my columns with ease (and I laughed my ass off, but then again, hey, narcissist!).

I watched a movie on it (Akira) and that looked great. I texted, took pics (of myself, natch) and made calls using only my index finger. I felt pretty all-powerful, which is a great sub-conscious feature. Even better than my feeling awesome, which is a pretty routine situation, obviously, is the coup de grace of iPhone convenience. That being Visual Voicemail. On the iPhone, when you have multiple voicemails, you can read a list of them and choose which one you want to listen to, as opposed to having to cycle through them. That my friends on a scale of 1 ot 10, is a 12.

If I didn’t hate Cingular with an intensity I didn’t think possible outside of Reese Witherspoon’s Cruel Intentions devil face, and wasn’t saving up for a high-end wine refrigerator, I would be all up on the iPhone like Britney Spears on parental restraining orders. As it is, I’ll just have to settle for knowing that TheJay.com not only reads brilliant on the iPhone, but looks brilliant as well. And that now I have one more device to sneakily tune to this website when I’m walking through the Apple store (twirls mustache). Well played… Apple.

Bangarang!