Video chat. It's been available in asia for ~5 years? yet no one uses it. Will it be different in North America?
If Facetime comes to the iPad, ie. if/when it get's a camera. Then I think we'll see a many more people using video chat.
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#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
But to be in that situation, you've already committed to sitting.
So yes, it will be perfect when I'm standing up near my WiFi hotspot and want to video chat with someone I know who has the same brand new phone as I do and is also standing up near their WiFi hotspot. I'm quite surprised that it's not at least compatible with the video calls in iChat. 3G will definitely happen, but they have a built-in base of millions of users on iChat that could have helped kick things off.
...or the cafe, or the coworking space, or at your friend's house. Since the call comes first, it's a fortuitous enhancement you sometimes add to an ordinary call. Your way, you are either already sitting and working, or you had to plan ahead. Big diffence.
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#144I'm not sure I follow the "Retinal Display" name. Is this just branding on a 300dpi pixel resolution? Or is there something to do with multi-resolution support for apps (those coded in the old resolution will still get up-converted text resolution, it sounded like).
All I saw was an opportunity for fragmentation. If a developer wanted to make an iPhone app that took advantage of the new resolution - he'd either be limited to the original iPhone resolution, or to only the consumers that had the iP4. In either case, I can't imagine games running their own UI would look better as the images are limited to their original resolution. Only the UIBuilder interfaces will look sharper. W…
the screen doubled on the x and y - not too hard for the developers - just have 2 version of your bitmaps or scale the higher rez down.
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#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
Smart phones were available in the US for ages before the iPhone, yet Jobs' and Apple's star power helped them to become more widespread. The whole "reality distortion field" can be used for good if it's to help spread adoption of interesting technologies, imo. I think the fact that it's coming from Apple will help adoption, even if the implementation is the same or even worse.
It's not smart phones that do this legacy video chat, it's 3G feature phones, which are pretty much non-existent in NA. Pretty much every [candybar, flip] phone in asia has 3G and a front facing camera, so you can video call anyone, anytime. Part of the reason people don't is because it costs extra. Actually since these phones were around before youtube and real mobile browsing, the main marketed reason to get a 3G p…
Normal 3G video chat has one disadvantage: the video quality is so bad it makes puppies weep. Most of the time you can't really see who you're talking to unless you already know who it is. It's probably mostly due to bad encoders, and partly lack of bandwidth.
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#146Please just say its coming to Verizon already.
I think AT&T giving discounted renewals six months in advance is good indication that they will be losing exclusivity early in 2011.
Interesting. Wouldn't it be an advantage for another network to leak that information to deter signing with att?
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#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
Steve couldn't get on that vaunted AT&T network. Someone shouted "Verizon". Haha.
Hurr Hurr but look at the pictures - it's on WiFi. http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/06/apple-...
I was more shocked that they didn't have a separate 'staff' AP setup on a different channel.
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#148I am beginning to wonder whether iAds is the reason Apple don't want Flash on their mobile devices.
When half a dozen easy non-conspiratorial technical reasons just aren't enough, make up some unverifiable accusations of unfair play instead!
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#149HD display and movies, 5MP camera, increased battery life, folders and multitasking, gyroscope... I have all this on the Nexus One and that is a 6 months old phone. I think this WWDC is signing the end of an era: jobs has lost his famous innovative advantage and now he is running behind. Android/HTC had these features in their last generation phones and with EVO coming out they are going to make the iPhone 4 obsolete…
I wasn't aware that the Nexus One had a gyroscope.
I don't know if it does through the same sensor but the
NEXUS one is aware of its absolute position, look for "google sky maps" on youtube for examples. It may be using magnetometer (digital compass) and 3 axis accelerometer.
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#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
I honestly did not realize that the adoption of them was that widespread. Thank you for the correction, that definitely does make a difference to my post. Still, don't you think that video chat at no extra cost will be a rather huge innovation? If part of the reason it isn't used is because of the cost, wouldn't make it free help that? I know that video calling isn't necessarily better in plenty of cases, so I don't…
Yea, who knows. At least it'll set the trend to put front cameras in smart phones. Eventually the capability will spread enough that you can use it when you want, but I suspect that after the novelty wears off people will go back to regular calls, even if it's free. Why? People are really good at perceiving presence even if we can't see someone. It's just not necessary. Think about this: What fraction of time do you…
"And you can use the rear camera, so they can see what you're seeing"