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Next iPhone — Front-Facing Camera, A4 Processor
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."
Um, in a fricking phone over 3G? no thanks.
If you want to videoconference over skype at Least use your laptop and a real net connection. I cant stand the idiots that try and skype into a conference call on their 3g internet in their laptop, all choppy and dropouts. we usually simply tell them to call back on a real connection. Most of the time we cant stand people using wifi for longer calls because of the cyloning and video problems that even a faster 802.11g connection has.
If you want to have a useless choppy blocky videocall? it would be perfect.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Considering how poor of quality many third-party iPhone apps are, it's a great thing that they couldn't sit around in the background eating up battery.
App Store is a seriously controlled environment and they already impose strict guidelines for developers. How does an idle application even eat up more battery? It's not like your RAM needs more power if it's used a little bit more. The background app doesn't need to do any drawing and is usually on pause (unless it needs to do certain tasks in the background, and then it makes sense).
How does it not make things simpler?
Because you have to travel the menus to locate your app you just switched out from and load up whatever you were doing, and even to perform a quick copy-paste you need to:
1) save your document
2) close app 1
3) locate app 2
4) open app 2
5) copy
6) close app 2
7) locate app 1
8) load up the document you were working with
9) scroll to the point you wanted to paste to
10) paste
11) do the same again because your copypaste missed something
Yeah, seems really convenient and simple.
I do actually use Windows Mobile, as my phone is HTC Touch HD. Granted its the customized WM, but the system is still same.
I hate that Microsoft is going the Apple route with Windows Mobile 7. I'm quite certain I won't be buying any phone with it, nor will I go with Android as the privacy intrusion with it is not a good thing.
Whenever I need a new phone, I guess it'll be Linux phone this time. Nokia's N900 is already top-of-the-line and I probably should had went with it already.