Day at the Beach
First video I’ve taken with the iPhone 4. Still amazed at the quality of it.
iPhone 4.
So, so sexy.
My iPhone 4 arrived at 11:45am on the 23rd. I’ve been playing with it so much that I fear I may be going blind and developing hairy palms.
SO… how is it? AMAZING. Seriously, the screen alone is worth the price of the upgrade. The marketing hype behind the Retina Display actually doesn’t do the Retina Display justice. It’s just that damned clear.
If that’s not enough, throw in the new camera. The pictures this thing takes are clearer and bigger than digital cameras that cost $50 more than the subsidized price of a 32GB iPhone. The video looks great when still, but it doesn’t handle panning or tilting very well – yet still better than the Flip HD. iMovie for the iPhone is absolutely worth $5, but it suffers from 1.0 versionhood; there are only 5 themes and applying a theme’s title to a clip lasts for the entire duration of the clip, which seems odd.
The A4 chip really screams, and actually blows the 3GS away at most everything. The new multitasking features of iOS4 really shine on the new hardware.
There are, of course, a lot of stories going around about the antenna and reception issues. These problems are NOT unique to the iPhone 4. Placing your hand over the cellular antenna causes signal to degrade on not only all generations of iPhones, but other phones such as the Nexus One as well. I’m reasonably certain that if Gizmodo hadn’t jumped on this bogus story, hardly anyone would have ever noticed it.
If anything, I’ve noticed significantly better reception with the iPhone 4 in low-signal areas (like where I live) than with the 3GS.
WiFi now uses 802.11n, which means I can stream movies from AirVideo even faster. The iPhone 4 also has nearly twice the speed of the 3GS during a USB sync; I moved 28GB of music, apps, and photos to my iPhone 4 in under 45 minutes. On the 3GS, it’s closer to an hour and a half.
All in all, I’m definitely pleased with my purchase.
I HAVE BEEN CHOSEN
Yeah, that’s right. One day early.
Yep, I’ve got wood.
8:30am
I stayed up until 8:30am yesterday for this.
Good thing I did, too, because around 10PM they sold out of pre-orders. That means 650,000 iPhone 4s will be delivered on the 24th. It’s worth noting that that’s more than the HTC EVO – the purported iPhone Killer – has sold to date.
NPH.
Posted by Michael in General Information on June 14, 2010
The dance in the end kills me. Pure gold.
WWDC ’10 Scorecard
It’s about 20 minutes away, so here are my last-minute “predictions.”
Confirmed:
iPhone HD iPhone 4
AppleTV using iPhone OS
“New Features” in OS4 not present in beta
Safari 5 with extension support
OS X 10.6.4
Rumored:
MobileMe Free/Premium
OS X 10.7 Announcement
iTunes Streaming
Wild Speculation, all with equal likelihood of being true:
Cures cancer
Beatles on iTunes Store
iPhone on Verizon
I could probably go into more detail, but I don’t want to.
Update: The rumor mill really sucked this year.
15 Reasons Not To Buy An Android
With the new 4th Generation iPhone coming out soon (also known as the iPhone 4G-HD-DS 2000 Ultimate Edition), there has never been a better time to post inane garbage on the internet as to why you should avoid it like a plague-ridden whore. Since we here at True Internet Facts like our whores plague-free, and we only post the truest of True Internet Facts, we felt it was our duty to tell you why you shouldn’t buy an Android, either. So, since you like facts, in very specific order here’s 15 of the little bastards.
Number 8:
You can only buy them in the color pink. HOT pink. With little butterfly decals that don’t come off. EVER. I mean, seriously. I wanted fuchsia.
Number 97:
The camera only takes pictures at night, and is solar powered. During the day it still takes pictures, but who wants to see the stupid pictures you took with your cell phone?
Number Q:
The android in the Android logo cannot supply a valid birth certificate, and as such, should not be allowed to be a corporate mascot.
Subparagraph 2:
It doesn’t connect to the real internet; it connects to a lesser internet ran by a conglomeration headed by Walmart, AOL, and BP.
6:
They’re free at the local free clinic, but only if you’ve got gonorrhea. So, win-lose. At least you come away with gonorrhea.
Agent 007:
Shit, I forgot to put my Netflix in the mailbox today.
12 Fluid Ounces:
The Android produces clean water emissions, which then trip the water sensors and void the warranty.
Number 3/5:
The Android’s touch screen only picks up touches if your skin is white.
Number 97 Second Edition:
The Android automatically posts every stupid thing you say on Facebook.
Amendment Zero:
The batteries are so bad that they’re actually making the sun burn out faster.
Two-hundred-sixty-three:
The SIM card has very sharp edges and may cause people to commit suicide.
Lucky #13:
It’s responsible for the Star Wars Prequels.
666 The Number of the Beast:
When exposed to bright lights, it produces dangerous levels of concentrated High Fructose Corn Syrup.
12:00PM:
It steals your megahertz.
π:
Syncing not available on Commodore 64 computers.
True Internet Fact #3.1.3
Monkeys throw their feces because they like the smell it leaves under their fingernails.
You know the one I’m talking about.
App of the Week
Each week I bring you my picks for the best new iPhone app I’ve discovered in the past week. This week, I take a look at scvngr and Geocaching.
Free App:
scvngr – “A game about doing challenges at places.”
Initially, I assumed scvnger (pronounced: “Scurvy Avenger”) was going to be like loopt, whrrl, or foursquare, in that it revolved around ‘checking in’ places and hoping that your friends bother to ‘check in’ as well, so you can all meet up for a burrito or to kill a hobo. While this is a part of the app’s functionality, the real meat is that it shows you nearby locations and lets you do challenges such as “pretend to be an astronaut,” “throw a baseball,” or “murder a hobo using only a burrito” at specific places, and then give nearby onlookers scurvy or something.
It’s a neat idea, and can be a lot of fun if you have friends who like to do things beyond watching movies and grabbing dinner when you go out. If not, then you’ll probably feel like a complete moron for trying to mimic a mannequin while people stare at you for being such a freak.
But, hey, it’s free, and if you’re looking for cheap entertainment, it’s worth a shot.
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Paid App:
Geocaching
Price: $9.99
Geocaching is a hobby that’s been around for about 10 years, which started with the advent of highly accurate GPS receivers. The idea is that you (or whoever) hides a container of some kind at a specific location, hidden from the average person, post its GPS coordinates on the Geocaching website, and then search for caches left by other people. The caches may be as small and simple as a log for people to sign, to something big enough to hold a variety of tchotchkes and miscellany that people trade or move from cache to cache. It’s honestly a lot more fun that I make it sound.
In the past, you would go to the Geocaching website and load up your GPSr with a bunch of coordinates to caches you want to find, then go out and look for them. The iPhone app, however, will get your current location and then display all nearby caches. The iPhone GPSr is accurate enough that I’ve found about 30 caches using nothing but it and this app, and have only missed 3 so far. It’s NOT accurate enough, however, to use for actual cache hiding, as it may be as much as 50-65 yards off (or more, depending on reception). You can post new caches from the app, though, so if you have a better, dedicated GPSr (I have an old Garmin GPS72 that still does the trick), you can input the coordinates from it.
It’s far from perfect; once you’ve found and logged a cache, you can’t view it again within the app, and the handling of travel bugs and trackable items leaves a lot to be desired. But, if you’re into Geocaching and you own an iPhone, it’s absolutely worth the $10 to be able to do everything from a single device in your pocket.
If you have a suggestion for an App of the Week, email me at tremorx@me.com.
True Internet Fact #1139B-Sigma
Iron Man is unquestionably the greatest superhero of all time. Iron Woman is a command that should be immediately obeyed without question.