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AJ Kandy
Creative Director

AJ brings over 17 years' experience to KMA+C.

Previously in charge of Branding, Interactive and Creative at telecom software maker Interstar Technologies, AJ also served as Art Director at magazine publisher EMG Media. He's also worked on projects for Power Corporation, Air Canada, Merck Frosst and BCE Teleglobe.

AJ is a graduate of Concordia University's Communication Studies program.

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Touched by the hand of Jobs

At YULBlog this past Wednesday, I got to hold an iPhone for the very first time — Boris’ one that he got in the States, and then SIM-hacked to get to work on the Fido/Rogers GSM network.

First impressions:

  • This thing is breathtakingly small. It fits in the hand very, very comfortably.
  • It’s incredibly elegantly designed. It’s a bit like a river-polished stone, seamlessly curved; the entire front of the device sits behind glass. The only surprise was finding out that the Home button is actually a physical button.
  • The screen is gorgeous, with a very high pixel density.
  • The “grammar” of the touchscreen and gestures is very intuitive.
  • In some ways, this was like seeing a Macintosh in 1984.
  • Boris has a very impressive Rolodex.

Of course, using the iPhone in this fashion means that you miss out on the one truly gotta-have-it feature, Visual Voicemail. When will Fido/Rogers get in on the action? Or will it take a new MNVO, say, like Videotron (piggybacking on other people’s networks) to bring this to the People?

October 5, 2007 7:44 AM

Comments

The iPhone is very sweet. I particularly like how the Web browser is implemented. The re-sizing is like magic. After having tried to surf the Web on a Palm device, which was a miserable experience, using the iPhone (and iPod Touch) Web browser was like waking up from a nightmare.

But it won’t fly in Canukistan until the carriers get the feeling of competition and lower their data rates. While some people don’t mind spending a couple of hundred dollars a month so they can be cool, most of us would not.

Personally, I’m partial to the iPod touch, as I have virtually no need for a phone, but I like the wifi and the various media players on both devices. I tried to buy one in San Francisco two weeks ago but they were flying off the shelves as fast as they could stock them, so I kept missing them.

wrote blork on October 10, 2007 9:49 AM

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