Apple's January 27th Event

VaderDSL · 27 Jan 2010 at 18:33

Hmm maybe I do like it

perhaps I can replace my iphone 2G with this ... hmmm

bigredshark · 27 Jan 2010 at 18:33

strongly suggesting it's double the res of the iphone...

BFCTom · 27 Jan 2010 at 18:33

Just looking at the updates now, doesn't look all that -definitely not enough for me to buy one.

I guess I have an iMac, MBP and iPhone so there's nothing I would use it for anyway.

ic1male · 27 Jan 2010 at 18:33

So no camera then? It would have been perfect for iChat and Skype or something like that.

manic111 · 27 Jan 2010 at 18:34

Marky said:
HUGE selling point

Who would have thought of running apps full screen

rp2000 · 27 Jan 2010 at 18:34

bigredshark said:
In a browser it's flash based, on the iphone it isn't.

doh!!! I forgot, they are using the h.264 Youtube streams

All makes sense now. (The same streams you can get by using Click2Flash on full size macs).

rp2000

muon · 27 Jan 2010 at 18:34

Running facebook mobile at full screen? That's quite horrible.

Need windows and multitasking.

Wicksta · 27 Jan 2010 at 18:34

bigredshark said:
strongly suggesting it's double the res of the iphone...

That's pretty poor.

Marky · 27 Jan 2010 at 18:34

ic1male said:
So no camera then? It would have been perfect for iChat and Skype or something like that.

I agree that is a little disappointing...

Marine Iguana · 27 Jan 2010 at 18:35

ic1male said:
So no camera then? It would have been perfect for iChat and Skype or something like that.

Nah that will be added next year so you need to buy a new one :mad:

Kainz · 27 Jan 2010 at 18:35

Anyone know anything about that A4 SoC powering it? I was expecting the tegra.

ic1male · 27 Jan 2010 at 18:35

Marine Iguana said:
Nah that will be added next year so you need to buy a new one

LOL, of course!

*slaps forehead*

smyth · 27 Jan 2010 at 18:35

Marky said:
I agree that is a little disappointing...

Don't worry they'll add it in 12 months time saying it's a new revolutionary new feature!!

Izi · 27 Jan 2010 at 18:38

VaderDSL said:
Hmm maybe I do like it perhaps I can replace my iphone 2G with this ... hmmm

was that a joke?

rp2000 · 27 Jan 2010 at 18:38

bigredshark said:
strongly suggesting it's double the res of the iphone...

480x320 X2 = 960x640 resolution? Not even HD by most common definitions. Maybe it is 720P exactly or something when you take out the top status bars and the extra bits on the side? (The apps running full screen still seem to have a border, which maybe disappears for full screen video)

rp2000

Marky · 27 Jan 2010 at 18:38

Gameloft should come up with some good games hopefully...

VaderDSL · 27 Jan 2010 at 18:39

Izi said:
was that a joke?

hehe not very well disguised. So far as others have said doesn't really bring anything apart from a bigger screen

Fillado · 27 Jan 2010 at 18:39

How on earth will games like Chinatown Wars work on this?! Little bit silly...

IceBus · 27 Jan 2010 at 18:40

It now looks like they're trying to pitch this as a gaming thing... I've never seen that as Apple's niche. On my iPhone I want stuff to waste 5 minutes, not sit and play for hours.

ic1male · 27 Jan 2010 at 18:40

rp2000 said:
480x320 X2 = 960x640 resolution? Not even HD by most common definitions.

I'm guessing they don't want to cannibalise 13" Macbook sales...