iPhone 4

Ravings of a Technogeek - every Monday, Wednesday and Friday......usually....except for 2 weeks when I am incredibly busy. I thought I should probably post about about the sexiest thing ever to come to the earth. I have included a photo of the past sexiest thing on the planet (Megan Fox) for comparison.


So, you have probably guessed, at 3am this morning, Apple started their press conference and released their latest iPhone - the iPhone 4. It turns out this was exactly the phone that was leaked, except this one seems really really really pretty. So apart from changing the looks, there are over 100 changes on the inside. I don't know all of them for sure, but Steve went through the main ones. 


Firstly, it has the A4 chip, like the one in the iPad. This makes it very very very fast. They also managed to shrink everything so they could grow the battery. I'm very happy about this. I never really had a problem with my 3G's battery but .....faster.....longer battery ...what could be bad???


Another thing displayed and I think is AWESOME is the 4's ability to record 720p HD video. With its new 5mp camera it can take excellent pictures and its LED Flash (which can stay on while videoing), those pictures can be taken in the dark. Now you might think, as I did at first 'pfffft 5mp, thats nothing' well Apple has dished out some of their trademark jargon to convince us that 5mp is plenty. For once, it actually makes sense. You see.....I don't really understand it. It is something to do with the number of photons in each pixel...which sounds right... OH WELL :) 


One of the reasons the iPhone 4 looks so brilliant is because of its display. Apple has implemented something called Retina Display Technology. What this means (I think) that, although the screen is only 640p, it has much smaller pixels. Text, photos, basically any curved lines are now much much smoother because there are more pixels making them up. I hope that whole bit actually made sense.


I could ramble on for hours about the 4's dual mics for noise cancellation, or the iMovie application making 720p movie editing being just one tap away, but I do not want to. There are, however, three more things I would like to focus on.


 Firstly, Apple is trying to make a case, and it actually looks pretty good. It can be seen below and it is called the "Bumper". This is because it is more like a silicone, well...bumper bar, that fits around the aluminium edge of the phone, leaving the glass back and front exposed. You might be thinking. 'Great. Now I have two places to shatter my phone' but you would be wrong. Firstly, Apple has developed a glass that is apparently, stronger than plastic and sapphires. Secondly, the "Bumper" extends from the phone, like a regular case, meaning if you drop it, the case will hit the ground first. 


Very quickly, it now has a gyroscope. This means it can sense movement as you turn, jump or be doing similar things to the accelerometer, but on more scales.


Lastly, the front facing camera wound have no point without video calling. FaceTime is a service built into the phone application that allows for excellent quality video calls. Unfortunately though, only between the iPhone 4s and, for the mean time, only over WiFi. This is quite surprising to me that they did not integrate iChat and allow it to talk to computers. I'm almost positive though Skype will be able to call to computers, be it a Mac  or PC. What they are doing however, is attempting to make their way of doing video calling (e.g. codecs) universal, which means, someday, you might be able to call between iPhone 4s and HTC phones, or Nokias. 


So there is much more I could say, but I will let the professionals say it for me. For way, way, way more information and videos, go HERE. This phone should be available in the US on June 24th, along with the renamed iOS 4 on June 21, free to all devices excluding the original iPhone and the 1st gen touch. The phone should be available in Australia some time in July. I will definitely be getting one and I will do a full review of it then. 


Till next time,
AndrewCow


P.S. the Word 2010 video should be up this weekend:)

Blu-ray

Hi
Lol. I have not posted in ages but oh well. Ok so Blu-ray. This comes up because I am about to watch the Avatar blu-ray on my 1080p TV. Just a side note, 1080 is the number of pixels going down the side of the screen and p means the pixels all appear at once apposed to i, where the odd lines of pixels appear 1/30 of a second, that is 0.033, before the even lines, making p better......where was I..... OH YES. 1080p TVs and Blu-ray.

Now some people say there is no point in blu-ray. They say 1080p makes no difference. They are crazy. Ok. Now I couldn't be bothered to make my own comparison video but the maker of the Microwave Show(Is it a good idea to microwave this?) made a very good one already. Now watch the whole thing if you like, but what you should watch is around 2:05 in this video here(MAKE SURE YOU PUT IT IN 1080p). It shows the difference side by side of high definition and standard  definition footage and cameras.

So, it's just plain false the difference between HD and SD footage and therefore DVD and Blu-ray is unrecognizable. What some people say then however is, "I see the difference, but don't care. Why should I switch to something so much more expensive. Firstly, the cost. It will go down in 1 year and be the same price as normal DVDs. The same thing happened with DVDs and videos. Secondly, just imagine Avatar in all its HD brilliance......now imagine it in the grainy colour that was video.......it would look crap....

Lastly. Some people say Blu-ray will not survive because no body is buying it. Well the way I see it. It was the exact thing with DVD. People said it would not survive. The thing about Blu-ray is, it does something nothing else can. Firstly, full HD, secondly, 3D. I will not go into 3D but basically, there is so much data needed for it, Blu-ray is the only option.

So I hope that settles it. HD and Blu-ray and 1080p are worth it.

AndrewCow

NEW iPHONE (I love Gizmodo) - Part 2

Hi
FINALLY the iPhone post. Now because I am sure you have already seen everything about the iPhone 4G or whatever, I will make a quick list of new features we expect will be in the new iPhone, most likely being announced on June 7.  Here we go:)

• Bigger battery(same size of phone but smaller components)
• Different shape - although it is almost the same size, it is a much squarer shape
• The screen looks to be HD, although no one can be sure
• It seemed to have what looked like a secondary Mic for noise cancelling
• Flash!!!!!!!! That is a camera flash not the program flash. I hope you didn't get your hopes up(By the way, the next post will be the death of flash for iPhone)
• What looks like a better camera, but once again, no one can be sure
• There is a weird split in the top of the case as shown below - no idea what it is for
• by the way, the hole next to the head phone port is the noise cancelling mic
• Also, the back of the phone seems to be a glass type material or something. Oh yay:) now we can get not only a cracked screen, but a cracked back.
• There is a front facing camera:) yay lets all Skype grandma on my iPhone
• Lastly, the side volume buttons have been separated.....no idea why and the SIM card slot is now microSIM(much smaller) and no the side

So that's about it:) I really like the look of it:) Multitasking. Front facing camera. HD!!:) I WANT ONE NOW

AndrewCow

p.s. Oh.....by the way reading back at that post I realised many people would not get the whole lets Skype Grandma joke........Its an Internet nerd thing:)