Finally caved in.....

Coming from a Droid X that I moded and fidgeted with daily to obsession, I really like the locked down aspect of the iPhone simply becuase it curbs my OCD a bit. I just want to use it and not spend countless hours rooting, roming, etc.

 

The iPhone is not something you "cave in" for. It is a huge jump up from your previous phone. So if were to go from an iPhone 4s to a Nokia then you would be caving in.

 

I think your not interpreting his meaning of his 'caving in'. In the context he means this is a good thing. I caved in and bought a Porche, etc.

 

Hahahahah -- well said . . . very well said

 

Don't bother with that argument.

Glad you like the phone. I was a die hard Android user but I am really liking the 4S. Camera, Graphics, just general high polish on apps, UI, etc. Great phone.

 

Congratulations and welcome aboard. I'm sure you'll find a lot of ways to use the interconnection of the iPhone and iPad.

 

Welcome! The koolaid is delicious. For all the complaints from users of other platforms, I can't imagine using anything else.

 

Android is to messy, has problems, and other buggy things.

Android standby couldn't even last a day for me (xperia x10)

 

THIS. I can't tell you how many ROMS and tweaks I went through in the past 2 years before I got my iPhone... Almost a GODSEND lol

 

No zoom on video. You wouldn't want it anyhow as it would be digital. The 4S has a sort of image stabilization and does so by cropping the outer edges of the video-does a good job IMO- and this is probably why they eliminated the zoom.

 

How would cropping out the edges make it look like there is IS (image stabilizer) on? One would think that if it is that way then the rest of the picture is also shaky. Which in my mind, doesn't make much sense reading your post.

AFAIK the IS is made possible through the gyro sensor and the CPU to process it.


The zoom is never really needed on a digital camera as you can always "zoom" digitally when editing videos or pictures afterwards if that's what one wants. It'll do the exact same thing as cropping a photo.

Swipe from left to right to get the "delete" button to show on a song in the list of all tunes.. That's how you remove them without using iTunes, always been that way to remove things from pretty much any app or such that has a layout similar to it on iOS.

 

Digital Image stabilization like that found in the iPhone 4S usually comes at a price, though. The way it usually works is that the camera crops a smaller portion of the video frame and stabilizes just that portion. As a result, the stabilized footage sometimes doesn't look as crisp and sharp as non-digitally-stabilized footage.

 

I see, thanks for replying!

Now i am curious on how the stabilizer really works in the iPhone 4S and what the deal is with it so we all know I'll see what i can research and i'll edit my post if i find anything that is worth mentioning that may be from a trustworthy source!


EDIT: Found info from appleinsider, but i don't know if they are trustworthy, anyhow i'll quote them which is also from what i've read from several other sites before (thus i mentioned the reason i thought was correct for the IS in the 4S)

http://www.appleinsider.com/article...e_4s_and_its_8mp_camera_s_is_for_shutter.html

And i also found another site that pretty much explains what you did which is from tuaw dot com which i never heard off. But here it is:

http://www.tuaw.com/2011/10/14/iphone-4s-video-image-stabilization-in-action/

EDIT2: I seem to find more sites that claim that it is in fact the gyro that stabilizes the image, even wikipedia states it, but wikipedia is for anyone to edit pretty much so i don't give much for that.. Hehe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_4S#Camera

 

Found this and it makes sense on why it crops-it uses the cropped area as a buffer.

Digital image stabilization
Video image stabilization.ogv
Short video showing image stabilization done purely in software in post processing stage.

Real-time digital image stabilization is used in some video cameras. This technique shifts the electronic image from frame to frame of video, enough to counteract the motion. It uses pixels outside the border of the visible frame to provide a buffer for the motion. This technique reduces distracting vibrations from videos or improves still image quality by allowing one to increase the exposure time without blurring the image. This technique does not affect the noise level of the image, except in the extreme borders when the image is extrapolated.

Unfortunately, many still camera manufacturers market their cameras as having "digital image stabilization", when they really only have a mode with a sub-optimal image exposure time, resulting in pictures with less motion blur, but more noise.[16]

The main disadvantage with this solution is that motion blur from shake under medium to low light conditions will be impossible to correct by the post processing images stabilization system, so in real life this will only work well for short exposure times (daylight).