iPhone with iChat, a Mixing Pot of Greatness

Perhaps apple pie would be a better metaphor?

A day or two after I wrote the With the 3G iPhone’s Release Only a Week Away, There are Many Questions article, and then www.crunchgear.com released pictures emailed to them buy a third party source and updated information on the 3G iPhone. They report that, from the pictures, it is obvious that the new iPhone is thinner and does have video chat! The phone/iPod/web browser comes with TWO cameras, one on the back like before, and now one on the front exclusively for video chatting. We can now assume that iChat comes installed, as we first predicted. Also, CrunchGear’s pictures claim that there is now a Product(Red) version of the 3G, where ten percent of the sale goes to fighting AIDs. The new iPhone sounded great before, and now we know it looks great.

UPDATE:  Though We didn’t get exactly what we were looking for at the keynote, we weren’t all that disappointed

Flip Mino is Out and Ready for Action

The Flip Mino, after first being released about a month ago in a shopping magazine is finally out. This new Ultra-Cool Ultra-Tiny camcorder has joined the ranks of the Flip family and has far surpassed its predecessors. It has an hour (2 gb) of storage space matching the other two (Flip, Ultra) in storage space yet shedding 40% of its sleek covering. It comes with simple editing software and the ability to upload to YouTube and other video sites from the screen that comes up when you plug it in. There are no-push buttons on the mechanism which operate the screen designed for on the go filming, built up with an anti glare shield. Finally, there is a rechargeable battery instead of the AA’s that have powered its ancestors which is a massive relief and ups the coolness factor around 85%. This is an overall brilliant design with classy features… with a hefty price of 180 dollars. To buy a Mino click here. For pictures click here.

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With the 3G iPhone’s Release Only a Week Away, There are Many Questions

 

(Photo above is most likely fake)

The 3G iPhone is announced monday morning, and some people are wondering what to expect. Of course, it will be better and faster, and hopefully be thinner, more like the iPod Touch. We have heard rumors of video chat on the iPhone, but that’s hard to believe. No one wants to look at the camera, then turn it around to see the other person, blah blah blah. We have also heard rumors that the camera is on the front, but thats hard to believe because you can’t look at someone while taking a picture. But, the camera will be a video camera, something the old iPhones don’t have. It will also come with a better version of iChat, although we’re not sure if it will come installed. Despite all this, MacRumors.com reports that the new iPhone will have:

a telephone application, a video conferencing application, an e-mail application, an instant messaging application, a blogging application, a photo management application, a digital camera application, a digital video camera application, a web browsing application, a digital music player application, and/or a digital video player application.

Yes, all this would be great, but someone would just wonder how they do this. Video conferencing on phones has been attempted by minority carriers like Voce here in the United States, but the networks couldn’t support it well. But some of these things we’ve already seen and just expect them to be better, but things like the photo management application and blogging application seem strange. It is hard already to type on the iPhone, so who would want to blog in it? Also, how many pictures are you actually going to have on it? It seems as if Apple wants to make the iPhone a mini MacBook, or another one of there computers. That would be great, but I don’t think they can do it on such a small screen.