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More iPhone OS 3.0 secrets revealed: Wi-Fi 802.11n and video editing
Developers have had the iPhone OS 3.0 beta for nearly a month now and are continuing to uncover new features. Initially reported by TAUW and AppleInsider, a few of these features hint at Apple's next iPhone hardware revision.
Reports are that the iPhone OS 3.0 firmware beta now includes driver support for a new Broadcom Wi-Fi chip that might support high-speed 802.11n Wi-Fi and improved support for 5 Ghz Wi-Fi networks--a logical step for Apple, since this feature would improve compatibility between the iPhone, current MacBooks, and Apple's newly refreshed Time Capsule and Airport Extreme Base Station.
There is also more evidence that the iPhone will soon support video features, including uploading, as was previously reported. Now it appears--according to Ben at BenM.at--that the software may also include video-editing and -recording capabilities.
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You can see this information and a better view of the images in German at BenM.at or via in English Google Translate.
Most companies (read Microsoft) would kill to have a software suite work 1/10 as good as iPhone 3.0, or even 2.0 does.
True, but you have to agree that most people "defending" good products online do so in rather notorious ways.
Besides, a really good product speaks for itself sufficiently, it doesn't need people to fight like idiots over its pros and cons online.
Anyone who doesn't bow down to anything and everything Apple does is called a "fanboy" by the site sheep here.
You have no idea how buggy the beta is so how in the world can you say , "It's not that buggy." It IS that buggy. The keyboard in the text message screen doesn't show up 50% of the time, the phone freezes at the end of any phone call (I test with my SIM in there occasionally) and requires you to hold down power + home, you tube does not work, every once in a while you cannot dial on the dial page because the screen just doesn't do anything, at least twice a day the phone will stop making noise and you must turn it off and turn it back on to get a ringtone or audio playback, at least once a day every application crashes on start up and requires a restart, it has more trouble connecting and holding a 3g signal that it did in 2.0, the maps application takes 25 seconds OR MORE to start up and be usable, etc etc etc.
I could sit here and list a page of problems I've found but why bother when the audience is a bunch of sheep who are going to classify you are a fanboy to begin with. Windows 7 build 7000 was a good beta. It was buggy but the problems didn't result in operating system instability. iPhone 3.0 beta and iPhone 3.0 beta 2 belong back in Alpha stage.
Stop being fools and start acting like developers and business persons. Grow up; you give geeks a bad name, one and all.
For anyone who has jailbroken their iPhone...there is a app that you can download to record video.
I know because I used it several times and it works just as well as any other phone with video recording.
Drew
Believe me I've tried so many touchscreen phones
{storm, instict, dare Omnia HTC etc etc}
and they all lack usability
wat good are features if you cant use them ?
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by Angarvin517
April 13, 2009 8:29 PM PDT
- yeah the battery will drain if your recording a feature length film. otherwise its not really an issue. You need to understand that a device with only a screen packed with features and no manual buttons (besides volume and power) is going to drain batter life rather quickly. If you turn the brightness down, turn off the EQ in the ipod, turn off push, only turn wifi on when you know its available, and change the email so that it updates atleast once an hour or when you open the mail app/ you'll increase battery life tenfold. With my jailbroken iphone 3G that has all these features that you complain it not having, minus cut-copy-paste, my phone exceeps a days use and blows all these other phones out of the water. And no, im not a fan boy. I only own Windows based machines. One Vista laptop, One Windows 7 Beta PC. Apple has just dominated that phone market....that simple
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