iPhone
Aha! Things become clearer. So now the question is: iApp or iDevice?
[quote]"Aye, Apple are working on this with one of the companies which was involved in the keynote. "
MPEG4 is being looked at as the format for having video phones that arent incredibly poor like those currently availible
Yeah and if you go to <a href="http://www.iphone.org/" target="_blank">http://www.iphone.org/</a> guess where you go to?<hr></blockquote>
Credit goes to a couple of posters on the following thread:
<a href="http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=12445&startNumber=10#comments" target="_blank">http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=12445&startNumber=10#comments</a>
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[quote]"Aye, Apple are working on this with one of the companies which was involved in the keynote. "
MPEG4 is being looked at as the format for having video phones that arent incredibly poor like those currently availible
Yeah and if you go to <a href="http://www.iphone.org/" target="_blank">http://www.iphone.org/</a> guess where you go to?<hr></blockquote>
Credit goes to a couple of posters on the following thread:
<a href="http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=12445&startNumber=10#comments" target="_blank">http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=12445&startNumber=10#comments</a>
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<a href="http://www.newton.com" target="_blank">http://www.newton.com</a>
hmurchison has a great point in that most people won't want to spend the money on a fancy phone. But if this is an iApp, then one could easily and cheaply use their Mac as a video phone.
Dave
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<strong>It seems as tho some people don't know their Apple Rumors 101... That link is very old and has been talked about pre i**** v1 AND v2. <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>
This is frustrating. Was I not clear, or do people just not bother to read? We have NEW information about said rumor.
<strong>Rather then an iPhone device I would rather have some powerful video phone software built into Mac OS X. How cool would it be if you could dial a friend's computer and have a video phone call between your Mac's. Or you could interface with the regular phone network and make a voice call. Cool, but I can't see it happening for a long time.</strong><hr></blockquote>
But will MPEG-4 allow this to come sooner than we thought? The new standard is small, high quality, and best of all encoding/decoding is Altivec enabled. Makes you think...
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This is frustrating. Was I not clear, or do people just not bother to read? We have NEW information about said rumor.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Hmmm kinda like...
Now here's something that'll really curl your toes... Some genetics dude is now on the Apple board of directors and now click here... <a href="http://www.mammals.org/" target="_blank">http://www.mammals.org/</a>
Hmmm makes you wonder don't it? Exactly what has Steve and company have been working on behind locked doors?
Sorry just because MPEG4 was shown to work over a phone and a WinCE device doesn't mean we need to bring out that old iphone url any more than having a genetics person on the Apple BoD means we should bring out mammals.org. <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" />
Dave
[quote]Post from MacNN article comments:
Hmmm... just thinking out loud here. The following thought may well be technologically naive, but here it is:
Could streaming MP3 or QT audio be used as the basis of a higher quality internet phone? I'm thinking that enhancing the telephonic experience would be the next great conquest in the digital hub strategy.
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Aye, Apple are working on this with one of the companies which was involved in the keynote.
MPEG4 is being looked at as the format for having video phones that arent incredibly poor like those currently availible.<hr></blockquote>
I've already mentioned that the site (iphone.org) alone is meaningless. As with mammals.org, newton.com, getaclue.duh...
But the info above tells us of a concrete product in the near future that will provide consumers with video telephony.
Please read, think, and then stay on topic.
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I think that this technology is going to change the world. There's only pent up demand from the 1950's for people to have video phones.
F'rinstance, I live in Indianapolis with Wife and Kids (1,2,3). My folks live in Maine, so we don't get to see each other very much. It would be awesome for my kids to communicate face-to-face with their grandparents, show them where one has lost a tooth, *see* my son learning to talk, there's no end of it, no end at all.
This will be huge; mark my words.
Aries 1B
I also think that Phil Schiller's demonstration takes us a step closer to i****v1 and i****v2.
"Kormac 75/76/77 might just be right" :cool:
(Now get out your stop watch and time it: how long will it take Matsu to get in here urging us to roast Kormac at the stake and/or to nail his foreskin to the nearest cross?) <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
Aries 1B
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The new iMac looks alot like videophone prototypes ive seem from years ago
--Pres
<strong>iPhone plus mpeg-4, plus gigawire....could be interesting....I can't think of the BEST way to use these three things, but they all seem to relate.</strong><hr></blockquote>
And, do you know exactly what Gigawire is?
Instant video messaging would be very popular (consumer)and it wouldn't have to be real-time.
Video conferencing (enterprise) does have to be real-time, but you would have to be on a good connection and not on a beach, like in the commercials.
Think iApps not just iDevices. iPhone might just be like iTunes with a little clip on camera to the FW port.
<strong>Well it won't be hand held unless you want video of my ear...</strong><hr></blockquote>
That is the point, it doesn't have to be handheld! There is plenty of reason to transfer real-time video to a desktop now. There wasn't a few years ago. I've used SeeYouSeeMe-type stuff and its too complicated, etc. But if you could have internet telephony and video in a simple iApp sitting on the desktop, that would be full of digital hubbiness.