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Next iPhone — Front-Facing Camera, A4 Processor

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the yes-have-some dept.

As a quarter million pre-orderers wait for their iPad on Saturday, the millions of iPhone users can start speculating in earnest about the next gen iPhone. The rumors start by saying "It will be dubbed the 'iPhone HD' and will include a double resolution display, a front facing camera, multitasking support, and the blazing A4 processor."

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  1. Flash on Linux by Enderandrew · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I always hear that Linux gets the short-end of the Flash stick.

    Flash is buggy and unstable on all platforms. Since I run nightly builds of Firefox on Windows with out-of-process plugins, I haven't had one single Firefox crash. However, I've seen Flash crash left and right. Apple's crash reports show Flash is the number one cause of application crashes on their platform.

    Linux support used to be terrible. The Linux player was way behind, and Adobe didn't seem to care to update it.

    Today Linux is the only platform you can get an official 64-bit version of Flash. One can argue that Adobe has treated Linux better than the other platforms by giving them a 64-bit Flash before anyone else.

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    http://blindscribblings.com - Tasty pop-culture in conceptual fashion.
  2. Re:Hopefully Not by Ryvar · · Score: 5, Interesting

    iPhone battery life is, I've found, *entirely* dependent upon your location.

    Placing an average of 10 5-15 minute calls a day, my iPhone 3G which is coming up on 2 years old lasts 2.5-3 days in the Boston metro area.

    Back when it was 6 months old, placing 5 15-20 minute calls in the heart of San Francisco plus a little Google maps had the battery go from a full charge to completely drained in 6 hours. Similar results in the 7-8 hour range occurred on my next two visits.

    Contrast to the Sprint Mogul, which consistently had a 36-hour battery life no matter where I was.

    Presumably number of towers, number of competing phones, ambient radio noise and building/terrain geometry, etc. are the primary factors. Either way, my point is that this is a very relative thing: the iPhone is simultaneously the best and worst smartphone I've ever had in terms of battery life, depending on which city I'm in.

    --Ryv