iPhone

[letsgohunting]

Yeah Panasonic and sony bravia and toshiba flip phones have been the staple in japanese markets for ages. They all integrate with japanese life really amazingly - they have electronic pass-tags in the phone that you can swipe on a subway boarding machine and it automatically charges the fare to a specified account. Wish we had that sort of integration.

Although;

[driftke70]

my friend dice had a toshiba phone that had better game graphics than a few psp games ive seen that he bought 3 years ago

[trueno85]

All a software update is going to do is change the way the reception is represented on the screen. It's not going to do anything to help the reception issues

At least they've finally admitted there is a problem though

[ke70dave]

nah the choice seems to be "docomo" phones. from what ive seen in osaka anyway.

ive not seen this integration you speak of, but it wouldnt surprise me.

[letsgohunting]

Look up signal tests done on the phone - it gets better signal than the 3gs and 3g. I have a 2g and have never had any signal problems relating to dropped calls etc, so I'd be inclined to believe that while signal can drop holding it certain ways, it wouldn't affect it in real life usage.

[jet81j]

my 3g always has reception problems. last night it droped out when i walked 2m away from where i was and then i went back to the same spot it came back in lol.

the video quality looks awesome on iphone 4.

[driftke70]

vossys iphone is basically a text only device he has so many call problems and its a 3gs

[driftke70]

also those statistics people release about apple stuff are always bent,
like they use the term "smartphone" sales,
it might be the only phone considered a smart phone in japan,
sales of smart phones in japan might be stupidly small to begin with as their non smart phones are up to the same level.

if one in every 500 people buys an iphone in japan, thats 255408 phones
if one in 20 australians buy an iphone thats 1200000 phones

[driftke70]

you conveniently forget to mention they use these


from the film maker
"I had major concerns about transferring footage from one iTunes account. I thought it may cause problems... so I didn't try it."

"No, there is no way to add a title to a photo. You can only apply a title to an entire clip and you can't split a video clip beyond chopping the end of the clip added that clip again and then chopping the beginning of the clip. They really need to add title duration or the ability to split a clip."

and before you say "it doesnt make that much of a difference, here is a comparison video of the 3gs"


why would you spend so much money making a phone do that when you can buy an awesome camera for less?

[letsgohunting]

All that OWLE thing does is make the phone heavier and slap a wide angle converter in front of the normal lens on the iphone. The video is still from the iphone. The fact that there are all these awesome accessories that people make for it makes it even better.

The reason why you'd spend money on making the video better is because if you're like me, you have a DSLR and a phone. Camcorders in general are pretty rubbish IMO - tiny little chip and you may as well be using a phone. DSLR are gives the best video quality under probably 50-100k pricepoint because of their giant sensor and interchangeable lenses, but are an effort to use and lug around (no AF in video, massive file sizes etc). If the video in your phone is good, it's a great compromise, and it's not a sole video device so it's not like you're paying whatever it costs just to use it for video, it's a phone. If the video is useable, all the better.