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Appleinsider - Apple's next-gen iPhone has video camera

Kinda sucks for ppl with 2g and 3g.
Because everybody knows it's possible with cycorder and stuff.
I guess there is always jailbreaking....
 
Video/better camera = good news.

Possibility that you might have to pick between good 3D gaming performance OR video/better camera = bad news.
 
The Phazer said:
Possibility that you might have to pick between good 3D gaming performance OR video/better camera = bad news.
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I read it that way first to, but I don't think that is the case: "The addition, however, is reportedly just one of several hardware related tweaks...Another, that same person says, will be a significant boost to gaming hardware". That paragraph wasn't written very well.
 
Eso said:
I read it that way first to, but I don't think that is the case: "The addition, however, is reportedly just one of several hardware related tweaks...Another, that same person says, will be a significant boost to gaming hardware". That paragraph wasn't written very well.
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Maybe. Hopefully.

Phazer
 
If you hook the iPhone 3G up to Xcode and look at the console messages while using the camera under MMS functions you can see some messages mentioning "etcetcetcVideo" with an error about a missing codec.

This might be related to video functions.
 
The Phazer said:
Maybe. Hopefully.

Phazer
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Wouldn't it be trippy if one of the models was one with dpad controls on the left and right sides?

Not saying its going to happen but talk about a game changer to the Sony PSP and Nintendo DS world.

Edit: of course with the new API that lets devs talk to the hardware, someone just needs to make a dpad that you insert your itouch/iphone into so apple really doesn't have to do it themselves.
 
Considering you can see a live preview of still photos on the current phones and jailbroken apps can record video, this isn't really news. If there's actually software that does it, then yah. But the current phones have video capability. It may be crappy and only through jailbreaking, but it's there.
 
If this is true, it'd be great. I am a Palm Centro user currently, and I have been eager to change to the iPhone. My contract with Sprint expires this fall, so news of impending kick-ass changes to the iPhone whet my appetite. :D
 
Wirelessly posted (iPhone 3G (white): Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_0 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Mobile/7A238j Safari/525.20)

Keva161 said:
Typical, only upgraded to the 3G 2 months ago.. grr
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Yeah, that sucks. But you knew the iPhone is on a one year refresh cycle, with the next refresh just three months away. IOW, it seems kind of silly to have bought an iPhone 3G halfway into its life cycle.
 
I wonder if this could potentially replace the flip mino hd? The iPhone easily has the processing power (arm cortex A8?), the disk drive size (32gb?), and potentially the graphics power (new powervr chip?).

The only "if" would be the quality of the lens (with the flip is just average) and apple putting a little effort into image processing quality to deliver good quality vids similar to the flip, especially in low light.
 
str1f3 said:
I wonder if this could potentially replace the flip mino hd? The iPhone easily has the processing power (arm cortex A8?), the disk drive size (32gb?), and potentially the graphics power (new powervr chip?).

The only "if" would be the quality of the lens (with the flip is just average) and apple putting a little effort into image processing quality to deliver good quality vids similar to the flip, especially in low light.
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Interesting thought. And didn't Cisco just buy the company for around $600 million dollars.

Whoops.
 
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