See the news as an iPhone sees it

AltWeeklies (see below), an aggregator of alternative news since 1978, is moving on into the mobile computing age with an iPhone friendly version feed of stories from News, Politics, Movies+TV, Music, Books, Food+Drink and Culture.

You can view the feed from any computer or mobile device that can connect to Internet. It is clean and easy to read on my laptop. I just visited an AT&T store yesterday to test-drive an iPhone so my guess is that this layout for the feed works very well on the much-discussed device.

I was disappointed with the input method, which is a keyboard image on the touch screen. I have my grandfather's English farmer fingers and my thumbs seemed way too big for he little keys. When you are using the keyboard, the iPhone is in portrait, not landscape orientation, so they have to be tiny.

The first thing the salesman asked me about was my iTunes and if I had an iPod, so I realized this device is probably never going to be for me. I carry an iRiver flash audio recorder that is also and MP3 player with a GB of memory (enough music to amuse me from NYC to Seoul, Korea) and all on one AA battery. It connects to iTunes or whatever source I use to get MP3s.

I want a handheld that takes pictures and lets me use the Internet. I'm thinking videos might be nice, too. The iPhone photo display is superb and I would love to be able to take and view my photos on it. The video watching would be cool. But it really seemed like even with practice, I would not be able to type on the thing (big thumbs) and so I am still looking for a phone that is at least as useful as my Nokia 6350.

I couldn't get a connection to the iPhone feed, but I think other devices can get the good-looking feed.

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