For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
-Leonardo da Vinci
Above is my first attempt at creating something in the new iMovie app for the iPhone. It was shot and edited completely ON the iPhone. This is a testament to the power of the backlit sensor. Although only 5 megapixels (we say that like its VGA), as opposed to it’s rival EVO 8 megapixel.. the quality is superb in low lit situation, both video and still image.
Editing on this phone was a breeze, very responsive and didn’t slow down one bit. Amazingly, it didn’t drain my battery either! The basic necessities are there, and by no means is this a replacement for Final Cut Pro. Overall, I’m thoroughly impressed.
When you’re ready to export, you have 3 options: Medium -360p, Large -540p and HD -720p, all in the .mov QuickTime format. The clip quickly renders and saves to your photo album. The only downside, when exporting directly to YouTube from your Photos on the iPhone, the quality is degraded. In order to maintain quality, I had to sync my phone with iPhoto and export the file from the laptop onto YouTube.com. No biggy, since the sync/file transfer occurs seamlessly.
Depending on how you use your device, results do vary… however in my case, the EVO’s battery life depleted pretty fast. I would use the device just as I did on the iPhone 1st gen and 3G… I do understand that the battery is removable (and therefore you could possible buy another battery for a second charge) and there are such things as task killers/managers, but one shouldn’t have to take these measures to get a full day’s worth of use. It also comes with the territory of having a large screen to power…however, I believe that there is still room for power management improvement! The touted “true multitasking” is probably the biggest contributor to battery depletion. It is fluid and does a really good job at juggling all your running apps…BUT, this is the very reason why Apple didn’t employ multi-tasking until they came up with a better way of multitasking.
“Apple claims their multitasking will save battery life and resources, unlike the competition. But how?
The reason is simple: This is not 100% true multitasking. Not in the sense that developers define it: All system resources are available to all applications, with the system assuming the role of a traffic controller, giving preference to some tasks and less preference to others as needed.
Free-for-all multitasking will consume way too many resources, especially memory. This will make the system choke, given the limited memory available in these devices. The CPU would also be taxed, and it would deplete the battery life quicker while slowing down applications running on the foreground.
Apple’s method, however, is quite clever: Basically, it allows you to pause applications—like you can pause them in any UNIX-based operating system, while enabling some special services to allow some types of tasks—like receiving calls or playing music—to run on the background.”
Click here to read Gizmodo’s well put explanation in full.
Flash: Having had a phone (iPhone) that didn’t support Flash and then owning one that did (Evo), I now see why Apple thinks it’s unnecessary. a) Flash, at best, loaded very slowly b) When it came to ads, side-bar Advertisements loaded well (how annoying) c) touch interface and Flash… not very applicable.
Apple: Better battery performance, the battery is about two-thirds of the phone’s innards. Just the perfect size, not too small, not enormously big in your hand. The OS seems consistent across the board. Retina Display. SUPER CLEAR.
Small things on the EVO: No native screen capture, no native notepad, only the power button wakes the screen. Volume rocker does not wake the screen…and lastly, for such a large screen, the spacebar in the keypad was very small. My sentences would.look.like.this.,hitting.the.period.instead. of spacebar.
Watch the World Cup and you’ll notice a swarming bee sound. That sound is attributed to what is known as the Vuvuzela, a plastic horn that produces a loud monotone sound. This phenomenon is blowing up the internets.
With that further explained, here is the infamous Hitler meme making reference to the wide spreading Vuvuzela.
So, I currently own an unlocked iPhone 3G running on T-Mobile’s network. I currently pay approximately 60 bucks, unlimited EVERYTHING (text, data, and voice –non-contractual). Since I’ve been with the company for over 9 years, I was grandfathered into these rates.
As an early adopter of new technology, I was strongly considering leaving T-Mobile to obtain an iPhone 4 — just as I had considered 3 years ago with the advent of the original iPhone. Yet AT&T fails again… proving themselves unworthy and ridiculously over-rated…rate plans. It sucks that such a pristine piece of hardware is soiled and imprisoned by ridiculous rates, terms and conditions, and limitations.
I did some research, and it looks like I’d have to pay 200% (per month) of what I am with T-Mobile just to have a similar package with AT&T. CRAZY! Stupid. Deal breaker. I understand that the unit is subsidized and is now affordable up front, but damn, AT&T really makes the money back on the phones in the long term — the 2 year long time. Stupid sales trickery.
Looks like I’ll just wait for an opportunity to buy it outright or find one on craigslist to unlock. AT&T, you grind my gears. More power to the unlocking devTeam who I have full trust in to find a methodology of jailbreaking and unlocking the new firmware.
I really can’t complain, things are going…for the better. A year since graduating, things are panning out slowly but surely–nonetheless going for the better. It’s crazy how and where life can take you sometimes, but it’s important to stay adaptive and to remember there’s always a reason behind everything, known or unknown.
My online endeavors are blooming, both the ones that have launched and the ones still in Excel Sheets and Word Document business plans. Taking my time, I know it’s well worth it. Especially while I work up the necessary and obtainable capital.
With the challenges I will soon face, I ask You to bless me with the strength and courage.
I’m so excited that even after a fun,yet very tiresome day…somehow I’m managing to blog my stream of thought at 4:48 in the morning. Why? I guess I just can’t hide it.
Keep checking back, there will be plenty in store.
Okay, I promise this is not an Apple dedicated blog. There’s just been tons of news lately, and I’ve gotta put my two cents in.
So 4.0 has tons of new features to come, most notable is the Multitasking and Folders. In a nutshell: You can now (finally) switch between Apps via a sliding task manager that pops up below the dock; very elegant and unlike any other task manager on any cellphone unit. Folders will now enable you to organize/consolidate your icons by category into groups represented by a single icons.
Now, to the point of this post. I was watching the keynote that Jobs held today at Cupertino and watched it to the very end. The last segment of the keynote presentation was probably the most intriguing for me, and that was the introduction of iAd… yes.. as in iAdvertisement.
Jobs almost lost me on this one, as my initial reaction was “?”, “why!?”, and “uhhh… wtf?!”. After giving Jobs a chance to fully explain, I was sold. With the iPhone, not only has Apple captured the telecom market,create and nuture a solid app market/industry via the App Store, drive iTunes sales via the iPhone, introduce iBooks (a book store now with 4.0)… he is now taking a share out of the advertising industry.
At first, it may sound like Jobs is in over his head and over capitalizing on almost EVERYTHING. But watch the video… you’ll see that he’s re-innovated the way advertising has been done both online and within apps.
The function of the ads in the first place, is to help generate funding for the developers to keep them going and to help keep free apps, well… free. The only thing is, those apps are annoying, lame and static. They’re in the way. We ignore them and want to continue on with our app usage. Furthermore, even if we were interested in the ad, we are more inclined to either check it out later or choose not to click on it at all, as it will cause alot of opening and closing and switching back and forth between apps. This dynamic makes for the ad impressions to be inefficient and ineffective. Ineffective ads make little to no incentive for advertisers to continue advertising with the app developer.
This is where Apple’s innovation kicks in. They’ve built iAd into the OS so that it is native and will display advertising in a way we have not seen before. Super interactive without having to leave the app that you are currently in. The possibilities are endless, it’s almost as if you have an app within an app. Keep in mind, this does not mean your phone will be laced with commercials and advertisements all over; this is feature that is available for developers to add within the apps they choose to. The ads lay at the top or bottom of each screen in a small banner, just as they have been in the past in other apps that you might have downloaded.
With this being said, Apple is offering 60% of the ad revenue back to the developer. It really seems like a win win situation for all parties: Advertisers are now capable of reaching more of their potential markets with new and improved interactive ads, giving incentive to advertise with developers. Developers can potentially profit and maintain their projects/free apps. Lastly, Apple now has a hand in the advertising market share. Genius.
The “i” in all of their products must mean “innovation”.
