iPhone Video Recording screenshot found

Chauncey Dupree
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April 07, 2009
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Macrumors is posting the screenshot of what appears to be iPhone 3.0's video recording interface.  It looks pretty basic but indicates that it will be part of the Camera.app. 

The video recording is not presently functional in iPhone 3.0 beta, and the interface is not accessible by default. Only when configuration files were modified telling the firmware that a Video Camera was present will this interface appear.

Other interesting capabilities found in the configuration files include "auto-focus camera", "magnetometer" (digital compass), and "Voice Control".

The "pooh your pants" feature in all of this is the "auto-focus camera".  That implies that the camera on some of the new iPod, iPhone, etc. devices is going to be more point and click worthy - perhaps that 5 Megapixel jobbie we've heard so much about.

Combined with the GPS, the Magnometer could be used to build 3D worlds in a future iPhoto type of application.  The application would know the location and direction of the photos shot.  Photosynth, watch out.

We also like the idea of voice control in a camera: Being able to say "Snap!" and having it take a picture instead of you rather than doing the rusty trombone reach around..

Jailbreakers and other smartphone users: Yes we know we've had video recording/5 megapixel cameras  for 300 years.

 

 

Comments (17)

it1294 (not verified) | April 07, 2009 - 10:04am

Now we wait until summer

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | April 07, 2009 - 10:13am

What is this, "Use offensive Language In Our News Stories Week"?

Seth Weintraub | April 07, 2009 - 10:46am

If you know what it is then you should be ashamed

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | April 07, 2009 - 1:22pm

Yeah I was talking about that. The writer takes out the word "crap" and leaves "rusty trombone"...wow

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | April 07, 2009 - 10:21am

You know the apple peeps are sitting in a room right now debating wether or not to allow the first gen iphone users to use this function in the free 3.0 update, or only allow 3g and the new iphone users use video recording.
Bastards

ulfoaf | April 07, 2009 - 10:35am

I hope even the 3G is included. We don't know yet, from what I can tell.

Darren (not verified) | April 07, 2009 - 10:51am

Video recording on the 1 and 2 gen iPhones sucks because the camera wasn't made for it. Cycorder and the like are crappy hacks that barely work (6-15fps? really? ) by forcing the camera to take a series of still photos as quickly as possible then stitching them together with audio. The result is decidely worse than any current $29 feature phone - absolutely not apple quality.

Why would you expect apple to enable crappy quality video on a camera that wasn't shipped with the feature to begin with? And how exactly is that greedy? Are you one of those people who thought the EDGE to 3G upgrade was just a money grab too?

ulfoaf | April 08, 2009 - 7:50am

From the comments, it sounds like really bad quality. Hadn't seen them. It was kind of strange that Apple released a $600 phone that couldn't do, as you say, what a $29 phone can do. I was hoping this was a delayed feature. There is no stereo Bluetooth yet, either. I've given up hope on video on 3G for sure. You can't always tell why features are not included. There are always tradeoffs between technical, time to market, development costs, and resources to work on the features. Despite the lack of common phone features, we and millions of others still bought them and enjoy them. Their strategy definitely worked.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | April 07, 2009 - 10:58am

If it were availiable to the iPhone 2G and 3G then I am sure it would be readily accessible through the Beta and there would be an API availiable as well to develop applications to record "video notes" and such, or record videos and upload to youtube. But it's not, so this is going to be a selling feature of the new iPhone.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. Battery life and hardware limitations are in the current iPhone 2G and 3G for this to be feasible.

Boubitch (not verified) | April 07, 2009 - 12:32pm

You are certainly and unfortunately right

ulfoaf | April 08, 2009 - 7:31am

Sounds like it can safely ruled out. I've never seen jailbroken video, but I am hearing it is pretty bad. Battery use is not a big deal to me, definitely is to Apple marketing.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | April 07, 2009 - 10:30am

magnetometer" (digital compass)

Damn, that means the iPhone camera could record not only the time, date, and location of the photo, but also potentially the orientation of the lens in space.

That's pretty cool for a hand-held camera phone.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | April 07, 2009 - 10:34am

And you're pretty dull for a human being

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | April 07, 2009 - 10:36am

I never thought I'd see the line: "rusty trombone reach around" in an iPhone article.

San Francisco Barber (not verified) | April 07, 2009 - 10:38am

"doing the rusty trombone reach around"

LOL, you're doing it wrong...very wrong.

Pete Mitchell (not verified) | April 07, 2009 - 10:14pm

Chauncy Baby . . . you might wanna do a little research before publishing your spoon feed eps . . .

In all probability, iPhone 3.0 will utilize Omnivision's 3.2 megapixel sensor integrated module with its proprietary "wavefront coding" technology. WCT will provide instant focus of the entire depth of field, even with targets in quick motion. Auto-focus is something much less advanced and more limited in function . . .

If iPhone 3.0 indeed incorporates wavefront coding, the world will discover a new level of imaging . . .

mac (not verified) | April 08, 2009 - 12:25am

getting back on topic, why is there so much debate as to whether this is a good thing?

Surely, having as many features as possible on your iPhone is the best thing for everyone?

I personally am looking forward to having video on the iPhone and hope Apple carry on updating the features.

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