New Killer Features of the iPhone 4
iMovie App
To make the most of the iPhone 4′s excellent 720p video apability and sound, aspring video editors need the iMovie app (£2,33).
iMovie’s been available as part of the iLife suite for ages, so the user interface will be familiar to Mac users. It’s just as slick and easy to use on the iPhone 4 with the A4 processor speeding things along nicely.
Tap Video footage to bring up video-trimming tools and double click to add transitions, the style of which varies depending on which of the five themes you select. Bright and Modern are the most unobtrusive, but we’d have liked a few more to play with. Once you’ve finished editing you can export in one of three resolutions, the best being 720p HD.
Unsurprisingly for an app that’s cheaper than a paint, there are limitations. You can’t control the volume, and music can go at the beginning of a clip. The phone is also a bit hard to hold without overing the micophone.
However, by making video-editing capability accessible to anyone on the move. iMovie is an essential iphone app.
Face Time
Remember when everyone though that video chat would be the future? Then it arrived and nobody use it.Yes?Well, now apples hopes to change that with FaceTime, the iPhone 4′s video calling function that uses a font-facing VGA camera to facilitate 30fps video conversation .
You active FaceTime via your contacts, but for it to work the person you’re video calling must have both Wi-Fi and an iPhone 4 of their own.
Quality is far better than existing 3G mobile video calls, displayed at a decent resolution. The option to switch the rear cam to show your chat buddy what you’re looking at is a nice touch and there’s no noticeable tag or interference as long as you’re both on a decent broadband connection
You can’t make video call to device other than iPhone 4s – not even iChat user on Macs.
FaceTime’s a nice idea but it need to work over 3G and be compatible with other device if it’s ever to take of, video calling’s been tried before and made little impact – we’re not conviced anyone’s clamoring for it now.
Camera
One of the complaint about earlier iPhones was the mediocre camera. Apple’s upped the quality of the iPhone 4′s one and also hiked the resolution to five megapixels, letting you produce 13×10-inch prints, if you’re that way inclined.
Composing pictures on the sharp screen is so natural and enjoyable and tapping the screen is a simple way to focus. There’s still no solid shutter but response time is quick, and you can also switch from still to video in a trice.
Sharp, with decent contrast, result are better than the iPhone 3GS and also the HTC Desire. the LED Flash means you can finally use the camera in poorly lit areas. you also get a 5x digital zoom – not a lot of use, in truth – and the ability to geotag.
The iPhone 4′s video is a great for taking snap on the go. There’s no way to adjust the setting and hence it’s no competition to a compact camera but in terms of general quality it’s easily in the top rank of smartphone cams.
Multitasking
Love overdue unless you jailbroke your 3GS- and of course you didn’t do that as it would be evil – multitasking on iOS 4 is a bit of fudge present.
To get at it you double tap the Home button. this brings up a sub menu of apps, so you can quickly swap between eBay, Safary, email, games, etc.
The latest spotify app is an example of how to do multitasking well, but many other apps need to be updated to support multitasking. Currently MSN Messenger can’t be left running although IM+ soft of can =, though it’s unreliable.
Most of apps still require you to log out and then back in as needed. No doubt this will change over time
iBooks
The iBooks app and store have been available since the lunch of the iPad, which is obviously ideally suited to displaying books. The iPhone is less ideal, but it makes a decent first of ebookery. The 3.5-inch screen is only bearable for short periods of time, but it’s great for short commutes, Apple’s iBookstore offers over 60.000 new books along with free out of print tittles, which you download to a virtual bookshelf. The choice is piddling compared to Amazon Kindle, but the user experience is better, and there is a Kindle app should you want more Attention to detail is fantastic – as you turn page, you can even see the copy through the page.
More Key Features
- Email Acount Control multiple email account for Gmail, Yahoo, Exchange and more from one unified inbox and organize message by thread. makes processing message far simler
- Spell Checker Compatible with Mail, Notes and Other apps.
- Folders instead of having numerous home screen you flick through endlessly to find anything, iOS 4 lets you organize apps into folders – one for utilities comes as standard ad you could add one for game and so on. Simply hold down an app and move it over a second to create a new folder.
iMovie App
To make the most of the iPhone 4′s excellent 720p video apability and sound, aspring video editors need the iMovie app (£2,33).
iMovie’s been available as part of the iLife suite for ages, so the user interface will be familiar to Mac users. It’s just as slick and easy to use on the iPhone 4 with the A4 processor speeding things along nicely.
Tap Video footage to bring up video-trimming tools and double click to add transitions, the style of which varies depending on which of the five themes you select. Bright and Modern are the most unobtrusive, but we’d have liked a few more to play with. Once you’ve finished editing you can export in one of three resolutions, the best being 720p HD.
Unsurprisingly for an app that’s cheaper than a paint, there are limitations. You can’t control the volume, and music can go at the beginning of a clip. The phone is also a bit hard to hold without overing the micophone.
However, by making video-editing capability accessible to anyone on the move. iMovie is an essential iphone app.
Face Time
Remember when everyone though that video chat would be the future? Then it arrived and nobody use it.Yes?Well, now apples hopes to change that with FaceTime, the iPhone 4′s video calling function that uses a font-facing VGA camera to facilitate 30fps video conversation .
You active FaceTime via your contacts, but for it to work the person you’re video calling must have both Wi-Fi and an iPhone 4 of their own.
Quality is far better than existing 3G mobile video calls, displayed at a decent resolution. The option to switch the rear cam to show your chat buddy what you’re looking at is a nice touch and there’s no noticeable tag or interference as long as you’re both on a decent broadband connection
You can’t make video call to device other than iPhone 4s – not even iChat user on Macs.
FaceTime’s a nice idea but it need to work over 3G and be compatible with other device if it’s ever to take of, video calling’s been tried before and made little impact – we’re not conviced anyone’s clamoring for it now.
Camera
One of the complaint about earlier iPhones was the mediocre camera. Apple’s upped the quality of the iPhone 4′s one and also hiked the resolution to five megapixels, letting you produce 13×10-inch prints, if you’re that way inclined.
Composing pictures on the sharp screen is so natural and enjoyable and tapping the screen is a simple way to focus. There’s still no solid shutter but response time is quick, and you can also switch from still to video in a trice.
Sharp, with decent contrast, result are better than the iPhone 3GS and also the HTC Desire. the LED Flash means you can finally use the camera in poorly lit areas. you also get a 5x digital zoom – not a lot of use, in truth – and the ability to geotag.
The iPhone 4′s video is a great for taking snap on the go. There’s no way to adjust the setting and hence it’s no competition to a compact camera but in terms of general quality it’s easily in the top rank of smartphone cams.
Multitasking
Love overdue unless you jailbroke your 3GS- and of course you didn’t do that as it would be evil – multitasking on iOS 4 is a bit of fudge present.
To get at it you double tap the Home button. this brings up a sub menu of apps, so you can quickly swap between eBay, Safary, email, games, etc.
The latest spotify app is an example of how to do multitasking well, but many other apps need to be updated to support multitasking. Currently MSN Messenger can’t be left running although IM+ soft of can =, though it’s unreliable.
Most of apps still require you to log out and then back in as needed. No doubt this will change over time
iBooks
The iBooks app and store have been available since the lunch of the iPad, which is obviously ideally suited to displaying books. The iPhone is less ideal, but it makes a decent first of ebookery. The 3.5-inch screen is only bearable for short periods of time, but it’s great for short commutes, Apple’s iBookstore offers over 60.000 new books along with free out of print tittles, which you download to a virtual bookshelf. The choice is piddling compared to Amazon Kindle, but the user experience is better, and there is a Kindle app should you want more Attention to detail is fantastic – as you turn page, you can even see the copy through the page.
More Key Features
- Email Acount Control multiple email account for Gmail, Yahoo, Exchange and more from one unified inbox and organize message by thread. makes processing message far simler
- Spell Checker Compatible with Mail, Notes and Other apps.
- Folders instead of having numerous home screen you flick through endlessly to find anything, iOS 4 lets you organize apps into folders – one for utilities comes as standard ad you could add one for game and so on. Simply hold down an app and move it over a second to create a new folder.
