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iPhone 4 - video calling to explode?
Posted by: MikeZilla on Jun 10, 2010
The iPhone 4 is here and it’s brought FaceTime with it. Now I thought they couldn’t get a worse product name than the iPad but they have proved me wrong again. FaceTime on the iPhone 4 is, wait for it… Video calling. Apple and their branding gurus have hedged their bets and seem to  come up with a great new package for the iPhone 4, and as always, I wouldn’t bet against it working.
 A quick look at Apple’s iProducts will tell you the lads at Apple are anything but inventive. Prior to the release of the iPhone 4 we’d seen Apple pick up many aging, but unpopular technologies, dust them off and gift wrap them for the public at large. A quick look at Apple products reveals the iPod an mp3 music player mp3’s had been around for nearly a decade before the first iPod and a number of other manufacturers had already released stand alone mp3 players. Yet Apple stuck an “i” in front it’s player and Wham a cultural phenomenon was born.
The iPhone 4 seems to be an extension of this trend. With the iPad hijacking tablet computers (poorly compared to other products on the market) the iPhone needed a bit of a kick in the butt. The iPad being a large iPhone that doesn’t phone.
The iPhone 4 is not as it was originally reported, see-through. The new iPhone 4 does however have both forward facing and backward facing cameras. Add to that a screen resolution of 4 times that of the iPhone 3GS and you have a fairly enticing product.
I fully suspect more people to embrace the video calling feature of the new iPhone 4. I’ve had phones with video calling since my Nokia 6680 almost 5 years ago, yet I think I’ve made to video calls in total in that time. With the iPhone embracing FaceTime.
The iPhone 4’s much improved processing power and broadband like transfer speeds has finally given the iPhone 4 the grunt to add the bells and whistles to video calling with the iPhone 4’s FaceTime focusing on a simplified user experience. Not to mention the fact the iPhone 4 can actually multi-task. Now if only the iPhone 4 could find a way to remove that extra 10 pounds the camera apparently puts on, they may have a winner.
Add to all of this the fact the iPhone 4 can now edit and record 720p HD video and the face of the smartphone market could well be stood firmly on it’s head soon. Even the design of the iPhone 4 is purely functional. The body of the phone is glass and is surrounded by a steel rim. The steel rim acts as an aerial and the body conducts the signal. Meaning the days of the iPhone doing everything well besides actually being a phone may now be over. |
