Netflix on the iPhone this summer — free app. (Netflix membership, of course, needed.)
Farmville on iPhone by end of June. And Guitar Hero, available in the app store today.
iPhone 4. Glass front and back, steel sides. Mighty pretty. One-quarter thinner. Two cameras (one for photos with flash, one for video conferencing).
New iPhone display 4X the pixels; 326 per inch. Apparently 300 is as good as our retina; so the display is better than we can see. The images are amazingly sharp. 960X640 resolution.
They added a gyroscope. I’m not sure I know what that does, but I guess it makes the iPhone into a Wii-like device.
5 megapixels, 5X zoom, tap focus and LED flash. And HD video. 720p at 30 frames per second. Omigoodness. And with editing software (for $4.99).
This is a pocket device we’re talking about.
iPads are so April.
The new operating system will permit more than one application to run at a time. Yay! And folders for apps. Out June 21st.
iBooks coming to iPhone 4. Great, I like reading on my iPhone and like having choices where to get the books.
One downside, look for more ads in apps.
Video calls, iPhone 4 to iPhone 4 over wireless only for now. It’s called Face Time. The demo (an ad we’ll be seeing soon I imagine) shows two people communicating via sign language on the phone.
16GB or 32GB; white or black. June 24th. $199 or $299 with AT&T upgrade offer.
iOS (new software) free for iPhone and iPod touch (except won’t work on first generation touch like mine) June 21st. Not all features will work on older models.
Um. So how is Netflix on the phone going to work with ATT data plans?
The new data structure is a max of 2GB. A movie is about 1GB.
And how good will the stream really be?
I’m just sayin’….
Also, unsure about this “They added a gyroscope” because iPhones already have one. Maybe it’s an upgraded sort of gyro?
No, the gyroscope is new. It is perhaps the accelerometer you’re thinking of. As I understood it, the iPhone will now have six axis (or is it axes?).
Good question about the data plan. I don’t think that streaming videos are all that large, but I honestly don’t know. I intend to keep my unlimited plan. I understand we can.
I did a little homework, Karen. 2GB would be between 6 and 12 hours of video a month depending, of course, on bit rate. Not much.
Netflix (and the others) are going to be relying on wireless (no limitation).
Ah, I guess I thought the accelerometer was a gyro. My bad.
Sorry, on the Netflix issues, I was thinking downloading a movie. I rarely stream movies because even over WiFi it can be blippy. My father in law loves the Netflix box he uses for streaming, but continually curses the stream (which is pretty good but still not great.) Yes, streaming would get you more movies for the ATT data rate but I still question quality. And as you said, WiFi helps that immensely.
Oh and…I haven’t decided yet about keeping my unlimited data plan, which we can, as you say.
When I look at my data usage, despite using the iPhone a lot, I never even come near the max 2GB on the new plan.
If I can save a couple bucks on my monthly bill, I’ll take the new plans.
Still researching.
I use very little data, so wonder about keeping unlimited, though I usually figure $5 a month, who cares? It’s worth $5 not to think about it. (But I have an unseemly number of roll-over minutes, too.)
I find Netflix streaming works ideally here at home wirelessly to my new TV. I have had problems in other locations where it becomes unusable. I can’t imagine trying to watch a movie using 3G.
I did watch Hombre, a 60s classic with Paul Newman during a recent flight, but that was of course a file on the iPhone, not streaming. Movies should be grand on the iPhone 4 with it’s dramatically increased resolution.
I definitely have no plans for an iPad now. But new iPhone yes, by July 1 I hope.
($5 a month more is the difference between the unlimited plan I have now and the new 2GB plan.)