I was also surprised to learn that their was no camera and did read about the technical issues with the hardware that was intended for the iTouch camera so it was pulled and delayed. I can't see myself using a mobile device that lacks a camera at this point. On the other hand, I need it for testing/researching/building mobile apps. Suppose a black market iPhone is a better choice (I'm a verizon customer).
N900 is an exciting device... can it be used as a phone w/ data plan or just a pocket puter? On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Rupert Howe <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Ah. That kind of makes sense. > > Not sure whether I mentioned it on this list or just on the artists in > the cloud list, but I got to play with an N900 a couple of weeks ago, > and the image quality looked fantastic... although so far the only > sample videos posted on Vimeo, YouTube, Flickr etc have been crappy - > either shot in darkness or of wide vistas with no colour or detail. > Was just ranting about this on Twitter. If you're going to bother > posting a sample video, at least shoot an exterior and interior close > up of a person and/or some detail with some speech. So frustrating. > > The other good thing about the N900 is that the Maemo OS is open > source, Linux based. Which will allow some room for fun mobile toys & > tools to be built with it. > > > On 28-Sep-09, at 3:08 PM, Julian Seery Gude wrote: > > > Rupert, > > > > I have had the same reaction. > > > > In general I'm happy that there's one more device out there to help > > people join the ranks of shooting spontaneous video. Reliable sources > > have disassembled the new Touch and shown that there's a spot for a > > camera lens which supports the rumor (which Jobs has denied) that > > Apple had to pull the camera off the Touch due to technical problems. > > This sounds like the truth to me because who in their right bloody > > mind would exclude their top tier product from the latest premium > > feature? > > > > Apple is definitely having some issues right now, the current iPhone > > 3.1 software release is VERY bad - truly as bad as any crap ware that > > Microsoft has put out there. > > > > On a brighter note, I'm really glad to see Nokia finally pulling their > > finger out (the Nokia N900 with Maemo - http://maemo.nokia.com/n900/) > > and won't it be grand when there's a photo/video centric Android > > phone? > > > > /jules > > > > On Sep 28, 2009, at 9:27 AM, Rupert Howe wrote: > > > > > I just went to look at buying an iPod touch, thinking that it now > > had > > > a video camera. Because the iPhone does. > > > > > > Turns out it doesn't . Typical Apple WTF BS. > > > > > > But... wait for it... the new IPOD NANO *does*. WTF? BS. > > > > > > Anyway, the quality of the 640x480 H264 videos it shoots looks quite > > > impressive. The colours are quite vibrant and there's a whole bunch > > > of live video effects. Effects, I should add, that those stupid > > > bastards have deleted from iMovie. WTF? BS. > > > > > > You can see samples here: > > > http://www.apple.com/ipodnano/features/video-camera.html > > > > > > Would certainly be a very discreet little camcorder for capturing > > the > > > world around you. > > > > > > But really, though, Apple: WTF? > > > > > > BS > > > > > > Rupert > > > http://twittervlog.tv > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- > > Julian Seery Gude > > [email protected] <julian%40exceler8.com> > > {561} 584-9088 or {skype} exceler8 > > LOCALNa8ion.com and exceler8.com > > On the web: http://www.google.com/profiles/JulianSeeryGude > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
