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Except for video recordings, a decent camera, and built-in TV. Those are standard features in high-end phones in Europe and Japan.
by pietro 18y ago
Except for video recordings, a decent camera, and built-in TV. Those are standard features in high-end phones in Europe and Japan.
- jonursenbach 18y agoand Flash
- misuba 18y agowhich, to be fair, isn't supported on any other iPhone-caliber device either.
- pxlpshr 18y agoBuilt-in TV is a joke.
- c3o 18y agoWhy?
- jonursenbach 18y agoYeah built-in TV will never happen on the iPhone because it competes directly with iTunes store purchases.
- cubicle67 18y agooh ffs. Do you people exhibit this constant bitchiness in real life too?
- sounddust 18y agoI live in "Europe" and I've never seen anyone watch TV on their phone before, despite it being free with most contracts. Also, no phone has a decent camera; even the Sony C905 (which is probably the best camera phone available in Europe) is mediocre as a camera, providing very noisy 8MP JPGs with horrible colors. In a few years, a company is going to release a CCD that can shoot high-quality 720p video and decent-quality images and is small enough to fit in a phone. When this happens, I guarantee you that the iPhone will have it just like all other cameraphones.
- delackner 18y agoI saw a guy a few weeks ago on an evening train in Tokyo watching a ballgame split-screen with his email app, where he was writing a reply. He sent the mail, and then the TV app went back to full-screen. I don't watch TV, but that was just amazingly cool. A year ago or so at a mid-scale sushi restaurant some guys sitting nearby were watching the ballgame on their phone, though thankfully they had the sound off.
- atarashi 18y agoI just got back from lunch, where the guy next to me was watching the Japan-Korea baseball game on his cell phone.
- nailer 18y agoAnd the ability to use a phone outside the country your purchased it in. Hey Apple, early adopters travel! Stop raping your customers with stupid activation procedures! (I purchased an AT&T iPhone, using it with an Apple agreed carrier in the UK, the phone won't activate anyway)