A few days ago I had the chance to play around with Ange’s brother’s iPhone. While this was the sec­ond time I’d had one in my hands, it was the first time I was able to have a good play around with it.

The inter­face is sim­ple enough and set­ting up the phone to receive exter­nal mail was prob­a­bly the eas­i­est thing I’ve ever had to configure.

The one app I did spend a fair bit of time with was Safari, the iPhone’s web browser. The tac­tile nav­i­ga­tion is very nicely done. You scroll up and down the page with one fin­ger, and use a pinch­ing motion with two fin­gers to zoom in and out.

One of the first web­sites I looked at was my own. I was curi­ous to see how it looked in the tiny screen. While the Geor­gia font ren­ders amaz­ingly well — far bet­ter than in Fire­fox even — it’s a huge effort to nav­i­gate around the rest of the website.

I think it might be well worth attempt­ing to make a mobile ver­sion of my web­site. Yes, I’m well aware what I said in the widescreen web­sites post, and the iPhone’s native res­o­lu­tion of 480x320 is a far cry from the mighty 1680x1050 of my mon­i­tor. But I think this could be a neat, lit­tle side project. With a lit­tle help from web tuto­ri­als like NETTUTS it might actu­ally be some­thing fun to do. Who knows, I might even learn something.

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