I'm incredibly pleased and proud to say - Welcome to NZiPhone.com, the home of the iPhone in New Zealand!! NZiPhone.com is a companion site to NZMac.com, New Zealand's largest Mac website dedicated to supporting the New Zealand Macintosh community.

NZiPhone.com, like its counterpart, is dedicated to bringing New Zealanders all the news on a truly amazing Apple product.

Built on the ground-breaking open source Joomla content management system, NZiPhone.com takes full advantage of the new Joomla 1.5 framework to build an easy-to-use website using the latest technologies and functionality previously unavailable in Joomla. Now that the site is officially launched, over the next few weeks NZiPhone.com will continue to evolve to meet the needs of the iPhone community in New Zealand and businesses wishing to advertise their products on the site.

As with NZMac.com, the heart of the NZiPhone.com website will be its discussion forum, providing iPhone users from all walks of life with an opportunity to discuss the iPhone and get help from other users as to how best to make use of this incredible product.

The NZiPhone.com website will have many features similar to NZMac.com, but will not be as detailed in its community focus. That said, users will still be actively encouraged to participate, submit content and reviews, as well as win prizes in competitions on the website.

The iPhone is only days away from an official launch in New Zealand. Having had the opportunity to see and use the first iteration of the iPhone, the thing that staggered me so much was how easy and intuitive it was to use. Every person I passed the phone to was quickly browsing and stretching images, typing in text and playing videos. It is a truly revolutionary piece if technology nd already, other mobile phone creators are trying to keep up or match the creativity, simplicity and power of the iPhone. When it arrives in New Zealand, it is going to change the phone, iPod and mobile market for some time.

If you have any questions about the site, please use the contact form or post in the forum.

Regards, Philip Roy

About NZMac.com
Launched on January 1st, 2003 by Philip Roy (www.bluengrey.com), NZMac.com is a website dedicated to supporting the New Zealand Macintosh community. It includes the latest New Zealand Macintosh news, discussion forums, international news and reviews. Through the use of discussion forums, buy/sell areas, NZ news, user blogs, events and information with a specific New Zealand flavour, NZMac.com provides a web site that Mac users in New Zealand look to as their main source of all things Macintosh.

About Philip Roy
An Apple user since the days of the Apple IIe (remember those?), Philip's obsession with the Mac was rejuvenated whilst living and working in London. As well as being a freelance web and multimedia developer, Philip works part-time for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Massey University, as their E-Learning Facilitator. With a background in teaching, he was recognised as a Flexible Learning Leader in New Zealand in 2004. Philip also wrote the multimedia section of New Zealand Macguide Magazine from Issue 1, 2002 until the demise of the print publication in late 2007. Philip is currently completing is Master of Education in Online and Distance Education, has a particular interest in the use of web-based conferencing systems and has presented internationally on the subject.

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