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IPhone 4, the new and improved Swiss Army Knife

Filed Under: Gadgets
Jun.09, 2010

Or should I say the new Apple army knife?

I’ve been talking about the IPod and it seems to me a bit of a burden to carry around. Regardless of all I said in the past, I still recently acquired an IPod touch. I found the justification in a rebate, and the fact that I could watch training videos on the go. But I quickly realized that an IPod touch is incomplete without the phone, and it is the internet part of the phone that I’m interested in because it will be constantly connected and I wouldn’t’ have to find a hot spot and so on.

Therefore I set my eyes on the new IPhone 4. I was watching a video with all the technologies incorporated in it and I got really excited about this thing. Gadgets haven’t got my attention in years, I haven’t been excited about gadgets since I was 12 or so, but Apple really did it with this IPhone. The pictures I’ve seen from the older IPhone models were always qualitative but I would have a bit of a doubt since they weren’t large enough. Now with 5 mega-pixels it should be enough. Sometime ago I owned a 12 megapixel point and shoot Sony that used to take horrible shots, however the old Sony F707 which had only 5 mp took amazing shots. If the photo sensor in IPhone 4 has similar quality to the other Iphones and F707 then it is just enough for a point and shoot. So I don’t see a reason why anyone that has an IPhone would buy also a point and shoot camera.

The ability for 720p video is great for a phone.  I own a Sanyo Xacti and it was he 1080p at 60fps that attracted me to it, but the 720p is only 30fps and it is has a shutter problem at 30fps, the image gets jittery when panning. Now if the IPhone comes with 30fps at 720p and good image quality then no one will want to buy a camcorder anymore when they get an IPhone. That should be enough for a vacation. We don’t need the zoom and all other stuff that camcorders bring in, unless you want to something semipro or pro. In addition you have IMovie right there for $5 what else can you want? Well there can be quite a few things that would go well with the IPhone I’ll enumerate them at the end.

The retina Display, WOW, that thing is amazing, but you know what would be more amazing? That retina technology in my 30” Cinema display, that thing would be just amazing. Moreover Apple could start making TVs with that technology. If they are going to do it, those TVs are really going to be out of this world. And I bet you that the design will be awesome too. How funny will it be if they actually do make a TV which will become the de-facto standard?

What else would I wish from this IPhone?  I would like this IPhone to have 720p at 60fps and more for slow-motion. In addition I would like it to have the ability to take SD-cards for those vacations where you don’t want to carry the laptop with you in case you overdraw the 32 GB space. In addition it should have the possibility to be directly connected to a USB Hard-Drive and give you the option to dump videos and pictures on it. I would also like the IPod touch with all the features of this phone, but without the phone part, if that makes it cheaper. But I think Apple should just make it a Phone and sell it as an IPod touch, and when you want the phone feature enabled you can just call them up, until then you can use it for VOIP at $30/month.  Anyway I haven’t been excited by a gadget in a very long time, and IPhone 4 changed that. Despite how much I want it I’ll have to wait, because there is no IPod touch like the new IPhone and I have a company phone, no monthly fee takes precedence. But if they decide to come up that IPhone / IPod touch I want or better, then I might just get it. Another hindrance is the AT&T reducing the unlimited data plans…

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Carry on daily devices

Filed Under: Gadgets
Dec.15, 2009

It was a long time ago when I had my first carry on music device. At first I was very excited about it, and 3 days later I forgot of its existence and its use. It became a chore to remember to take it with me and carry it around.

Nowadays we have all kinds of digital music players and they can hold thousands of songs. I did the IPod thing with one of those mini ones with a B/W screen. It lasted for a little time and then I got bored with it, it became a hassle too.

I had to remember to carry it and recharge it, and renew the music in there because I did not want to have all the crap in there. By the way, how do all of you manage 15 thousand songs in there? In addition when do you have time to listen to all the music? And if you’re telling me that you listen to music while you’re studying, no wonder your GPA sucks. I’ve seen the movie myth where they show the main character doing some homework while listening to music. That never works not on math, and not when memorization is required.

Anyway I can’t just get used to the carry on music device. Just today I saw someone in the train with three bags and the eternal Ipod. And it wasn’t enough that she could barely manage the 3 bags, but the moment she sat down she took out her Ipod and started untangling the ear buds to listen to some music. Kudos to her because she could manage all these at once. But given today’s age we already are carrying at least two devices with us. One cell phone and one music device. That is only in happy cases. But there are people out here that carry more. Well done to all of them for being the perfect consumers. So how many gadgets can one person carry at once? I would say a portable gaming device, a phone, at one time there even were portable DVD players and some people actually were sitting in the train using those things.  But the DVD player conflicts with the gaming device so it would be one or the either. So we have a Cell phone, a gaming device/ DVD viewer, music device, reading device -the Amazon kindle, and who knows what else people are carrying these days. But I can guarantee that soon enough we all will be carrying Batman belts for all the junk we carry with us every day. I wouldn’t be surprising if we’ll see belts already that have all these features. Maybe I should sell my own. Regardless of that, the people at Apple had a great idea unifying all those gadgets into one. Because these iphones can do almost all the other individual gadgets can.

One thing is really, really expected, and that is an iphone that can easily be unified with an exchange server without lots of hassles and then no one would be able to take Apple for cell phone domination, business, and consumer. The main problem that they have to face right now is the reliability of the technologies that would make the iphone compatible with Exchange (the e-mail server).

Good luck to all of you gadgeteers outhere, but remember that sometime you just need to have your mind empty, completely if possible, and there is a very rewarding experience.

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