iPhone Interface

I've had an iPhone since the first generation iPhone, and I believe it to be beautifully designed. The iPhone does not even look like a traditional cell phone, mostly because it has no keypad. Apple chose to make most of the phone's features available in a touch-screen GUI, omitting the keypad, allowing for maximum space for the touch-screen, making it easier to use the phone's many features; surfing the web with Safari, watching videos on YouTube or the iPod, using countless apps, etc. The size of the iPhone affords good grip because it is the perfect size to either hold with one hand, letting the phone rest on one's back four fingers while using your thumb to function the touch-screen GUI, or gripping the iPhone with one hand, and using the fingers on your opposite hand to function the touch-screen GUI. The iPhone has a very simple rectangular shape, but the placement of the home button (the round button with the rounded square in the center) allows for easy access with your thumb, and the sleep/wake button is conveniently located on the top of the iPhone to the far right, perfect for an easy push with one's index finger. In order to operate the iPhone GUI, one must press either the home button or the sleep/wake button, then slide one's finger across the bottom of the screen. After unlocking the screen, the GUI is comprised of a home screen with 16 of the apps the user feels they utilize the most, and any extra apps can be placed and organized on separate pages. In addition to being able to customize multiple pages of apps, there a silver bar on the bottom of the screen with the four apps the user feels they must have at their access at all times, no matter which page of apps they are on. With the birth of the iTunes App Store in July 2008, it became possible to have many pages of apps, so your home screen (your first page of apps) can always be accessed by tapping the home button while on any of the pages of apps, and you can customize a function for if you tap the home button twice (by default, tapping the home button twice brings up the "Favorites" category in the phone).