well I guess I need to watch this video when I get home from work. Seems worth watching from what I've read on here
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I agree with Steve about the Camera in terms of quality, however, the lack of a Digital Zoom or Video is embarrassing. The picture quality on my phone is great with good lighting as he stated, but it is very easy to make the picture blurry if the camera is not held steady enough. Probably the biggest part of the phone that needs improvement (and the speakers volumes are too low as well).
On a side note - the o2 tariffs are awful! It's not going to be very hard for Orange, Voda etc to retain customers looking to break contracts or jump ship by simply saying 'we'll give you more for your money - and a free upgrade to our latest handsets...'
The British press are renowned for their challenging, impartial approach. Shame they haven't applied this quite so rigourously to the Madeleine McCann story over recent months!
The lack of autofocus is another joke. This camera isn't worth using...
If Vodafone give me a free phone that retails at over £200 like last time, I will sell it straight away - then I'll pay for more than my entire contract for that year. Awesome. In fact, I sold my last phone for £230. My contract is £15 a month. That's £180 for year - so Vodafone have essentially paid me to use a phone. £50. Let's go buy a shuffle!
This is europe, we have been screwed by politicians, manufacturers, etc etc all too often, and the audience/press has become increasingly critical, and aware of their rights, and rightfully asks questions that reflect that. I don't think they were rude, they were just direct and frank, and rightfully so. I think Steve did a good job in answering these, as honest and open as he could, given Apple's "we do not disclose anything we haven't released or annouced yet" policy.That video is hilarious. The audience asks him such rude questions, he doesn't know how to respond. He resorts to saying things like "All I can tell you is that we were faced with a lot of decisions, and we think we've made the best ones."
Rude? How are they in the least bit rude? They asked pertinent questions. Putting SJ on the spot does not equate with rudeness.
Edit: We surely learn something about Steve Jobs that we don't learn from typical keynote video streams. He's not the cool patient deliberate guy that he likes to be perceived as. He's got temper, and you don't want to meet him when he's in a bad mood. That makes him very human. I actually like him better after this video.
The press weren't rude, they asked things that people want to know. Why sugarcoat questions and be 'polite', it doesn't serve anyone's interest.
Edit: We surely learn something about Steve Jobs that we don't learn from typical keynote video streams. He's not the cool patient deliberate guy that he likes to be perceived as. He's got temper, and you don't want to meet him when he's in a bad mood. That makes him very human. I actually like him better after this video.
...But the beauty of the iPhone should eventually convince the cynics.
did you seriously thought that he was a "cool patient deliberate" guy?
I've seen and heard him quite a few times loosing his "cool-patient-deliberateness" vibe...![]()
Yes, but at least the newspapers are up front about their political orientation! In the U.S. newspapers still, on the surface, claim to provide fair and balanced news when in fact they are incredibly political and biased. To the average, uncritical reader this is much more dangerous.
The way U.S. journalists and media has failed the American people with regard to the Iraq war is perhaps the biggest let-down of all times. There is virtually no news about the conditions in Iraq, except for the occasional weep story about some poor little Iraqi child who was alsmost blown up but then was given a chance to a better life in the U.S.. Truth is, hundred of little children are killed every month. millions are displaced AND the U.S. is one of the worst in accepting Iraqi refugees with only a 3-400 since the beginning of the war. Contrast that with tiny Sweden, where around 30,000 iraqis have been given residency as a result of the war. U.S. media is superficial, sensationalist, corrupted from corporate sponsoship, fearful of private interest retaliation if they ask tough unfavorable questions, and individual journalists so career-ambitious that they're fearful of stepping out of rank and doing their job. There are a few exceptions, like public tv and radio, but they have to beg every year for viewers to donate money so they can keep going - it always makes me sad to see them forced to do that.
Anyway...my morning rant. I'm turning on the BBC through my amazing Squeezebox device (if you haven't seen one yet, check it out! Couldn't live without it)
That is astonishing! I didn't realise it lacks such a basic function![]()
Hmmmm, not sure if that is true. I've taken a lot of pictures with my iPhone and not one had a focus issue.