Tue 10 Jun 2008
Steve don’t need no steenking video
Posted by shelbinator under Geekery, Media, Mobile, Rant, Sci-Tech
For a split second I saw the $199 price of the new 3G iPhone and thought I might soon be abandoning my Nokia N95, after a mere three months. Then I clicked through the pages and realized that the drastic price cut must come from the fact that Apple still doesn’t think its mobile device with a camera should shoot anything but still photographs. (And when you take them, it seems you still can’t MMS them to other normal phones.)
Even CNN iReport’s story request was characteristically boring-sounding because of it: “Ever used an iPhone to snap a pic? Send an iReport. http://tinyurl.com/5m733c,” they said on Twitter. Ever used a pencil to do math? Ever used a car to drive to the grocery store? Ever use a match to light a cigarette? Yawn; we want to see sketch art, Formula 500 and forest fires, not the most basic use possible for ordinary household objects.
Ever take a video clip that doesn’t blow on an iPhone? Now that would be an iReport!
This is really getting to be like packing for a family road trip and leaving the baby in the carseat on the roof of the damn car.
June 10th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Yeah, while the price of the new iPhone is enticing, from what I’ve read, there isn’t much difference between the new version and the old besides the 3G support (and it isn’t even full 3G). To top it off, AT&T also raised the price of it’s data plan by $10 a month, so you end up paying more over the term of the contract.
I’ll stick with my N95, thanks.
June 22nd, 2008 at 6:17 am
How did I miss this one?
Anyway, I can’t believe you even considered ditching your N95 for that… that THING. Shame!