Apple seems to be on a high since its most breakthrough innovation - the iPhones. The mobile Phone market is marked with the rising competition where you will find, every other company including technology giants like Google, Microsoft and Nokia joining the bandwagon with their latest products. Apple is also constantly on the edge to ward of any competition with the addition of new value-added features to the iPhone, to make it more exciting and user-friendly.
One of the latest additions from the house of Apple is an application called iAno, which is capable of converting your cell phone into a piano. This application based on Multitouch technology upon installation on ‘jailbroken’ iPhones presents a fully functional Multitouch piano. One such musical innovation released earlier for iPhones was PocketGuitar, which made music as similar to a guitar.
Multitouch has been a great boon for technology, as it takes interactivity to unparallel heights. Multitouch technology has made iPhones a craze among the people with its ability to accomplish the rotating, flipping, dragging and enlarging images with the tip of
Presently, the iAno features represents a four-octave keyboard and the arrow keys at the top, which are used to navigate around. This application software is administered to pack in polyphonic sound that allows five key presses to be heard simultaneously. The developer of this new software, Mr. Aardvark also has plans of updating iAno with a complete 88-key keyboard, sample sets that are switchable, recording and playback, as well as support for loading MID tracks.
Therefore, it is not a distant dream, when we can have a complete “iBand” from iPhone as few more musical instruments are surely to follow the iAno and the PocketGuitar way. The keys on the iAno keyboard even animate on touch and can be pressed at any one time. While the on-screen navigation allows users to easily move up and down the scales by octave or partial octave. It can also play in concert with the iPhone MP3 player.
