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Snapture adds flash to iPhone

Tuesday, December 23, 2008 · 10:24 am · 14 Comments

“Snapture has until now concentrated on enhancing iPhone photos with software. Now, the company is doing the same thing, only with hardware,” Charlie Sorrel reports for Wired.

“This prototype unit contains a Xenon flash, allowing the iPhone to take decent photos even in low light. The slide-on case also features an LED lamp for lighting video,” Sorrel reports.

“Video? Oddly, yes. Like the Snapture application, the SnaptureFlash requires the iPhone to be jailbroken to work, as the regular, unhacked iPhone won’t send a trigger signal to an external flash,” Sorrel reports.

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14 Comments

marco

Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 11:36 am · Reply

now if only Apple would bring video, flash, copy & paste and MMS into the iPhone, they would truly have the best phone out there… No one can then say the iPhone is missing the $9.99 basic Samsung features. No matter how good it is… it is still missing the BASIC features found on every single phone…

Could you imagine if they had these features. No one can then say the iPhone doesn’t have this or that. The iPhone would then be the best device by far.
iPhone owner

Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 11:38 am · Reply

marco,

The iPhone already is the best device by far.
Zorrin

Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 11:56 am · Reply

@ iPhone Owner

While I agree with you, marco still has a very good point. There’s no good excuse for Apple leaving out extremely basic features when they have added so many enhanced ones. I say that as an iPhone owner who is very satisfied, but would very much like to see video, MMS, and flash (both for photos and Flash for the browser) added. If they can be added via Jailbreak Apple can certainly add them in-house.
Jeremy

Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 11:56 am · Reply

As neat as this sounds it’s going nowhere if you have to jailbreak to use it.

@marco

This is thw way this kind of thing always goes. People who are too impatient to wait for the manufacturer to implement feature A, B,or C buy unsupported add-ons and software hacks. Then the manufacturer adds it in in the 2.0 or 3.0 version and these guys go out of business.

These guys aren’t going to have much of a business to start with though, I hope their margins on the thing are astronomical.
Bart

Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 12:01 pm · Reply

Ah, the copy&paste;feature…. when will people just stop asking about it?

A copy&paste;action is by definition <strike>flawed<strike> not-so-good user-interaction. You shouldn’t have to copy some text from one place to another. The OS should provide another (and easier) function instead, to assist your initial intention.

On a computer, a general purpose machine, I can see the need for copy&paste;, because it’s very difficult to cover every angle, so to speak.

But on a phone, with it’s limited functionality, a copy&paste;solution should be used as a last resort. I’m sure Apple realizes this and are developing a nice consistent interaction framework….

I hope Apple will put off the copy&paste;function for a long time and come up with something better.

-Bart
copypasteflash_man

Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 12:41 pm · Reply

I’ve only had the iphone a few weeks now and although I love it, I’ve needed copy paste a few times just to be able to copy some text (such as address) from one program to another. My partner who loved her blackberry which I made her get the iphone says the biggest thing she misses is the search for email. She gets about 200 work emails a day. Very busy. And no search is a big show stopper for a real business worker.

I showed a friend the iphone the other day and she said ‘How do I send a picture’ I showed her via email and she said ‘but my friends mobiles don’t have email so I can’t send it to them’.

And everytime I whip it out to take a picture at night, everyone always says to me ‘where’s the flash?’. urgh!

So the iPhone is a 95% perfect device. Add Cut/Copy/Paste, Flash, Video, MMS, Email Search and we’re done.
MacintoshSoftwareList.com

Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 12:49 pm · Reply

Does it add firewire?
Mac__ATTY

Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 1:14 pm · Reply

@ Macro and copypasteflash_man: I agree totally. There is no reason for the iPhone not to have MMS, SMS forwarding, copy and past, physical flash and flash. The majority of these features could simply be implemented via software. I would like to see a group of iphone users start a petition to demand Apple add these features or allow a 3rd party developer to do it. It also pisses me off that Tech Journalist never ask Steve Jobs and other Apple executives about these missing basic features on the iPhone. These features are on the Black Berry Storm… its ridiculous that we do not see features on iPhone.
marco

Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 1:28 pm · Reply

go to apple.com/feedback

from what i have been told from Apple… they read your feedbacks and take it very SERIOUSLY!

I know Apple can do it… Why? I believe they will intro it slowly just to get sales for iPhone 3.0 or 4.0
So for example… iPhone 3.0 will have a flash and video…
iPhone 4.0 will have copy and paste and flash support.
iPhone 4.1 may include MMS etc…

It’s in the pipelines… when is the next question!
Predrag

Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 1:35 pm · Reply

but my friends mobiles don’t have email so I can’t send it to them

Virtually every cellphone carrier out there has e-mail to SMS/MMS gateway. This site has virtually every single local US carrier listed.

It is clear that MMS has absolutely no purpose. It is a poorly conceived protocol with extremely limited functionality, which is obviously completely duplicated by ordinarly e-mail.
Cubert

Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 2:19 pm · Reply

@ copypasteflash_man,

You are a guy but call your girlfriend your “partner”?
predrag is a tard

Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 4:33 pm · Reply

” …It is clear that MMS has absolutely no purpose …”

Did you really type that out? Wow.

Tell that to the dozens of people I know who routinely send picture messages to each other EVERY DAY and are always amazed that the iPhone cannot send or receive MMS messages. And they do not have any desire to access it through a clunky email service. Most phones do not do email well. At all. And they do NOT have data plans so they will have to pay for that access. Did you really think this through or just type in what you wish was true?

Your solution is no better than receiving that irritating text message that wants you to log onto a website and enter 12 letter user names and passwords to see a photo.

You my friend, are very short sighted.
Predrag

Wednesday, December 24, 2008 - 12:06 pm · Reply

What a maroon…

I mean, if you know dozens of people, than it really must be so. And yes, iPhone CAN send that MMS to those SAME people, just as easily. Instead of sending it to that phone number, just add the @carrier.whatever after the number in the iPhone. If nothing, the iPhone interface is easier to manage than the MMS/SMS interface on any other phone.

You obviously didn’t understand what I said. Those other phones DON’T NEED e-mail in order to receive e-mail. Let me rephrase what I had said to make it really, really clear: EVERY phone can receive an e-mail message. They get it as an SMS, or MMS (if there’s attached media). Carrier receives an e-mail for that user (sent to 9876543210@carrier.whatever.net) and, via its gateway, converts the message into SMS or MMS (truncating extra text, if the message is too long).

For iPhone owners, all it takes is just getting the correct carrier suffix (i.e. subscribernumber @ whatever).

So, again. All those dozens of people who need to receive these MMS messages CAN receive them from any iPhone (or non-iPhone) user. And instead of using two different interfaces (email and MMS) for what is essentially same purpose, iPhone people can just send e-mails.

As much as you’d love to believe otherwise, with the rapid emergence of smartphones MMS is dying.
TheConfuzed1

Wednesday, December 24, 2008 - 9:17 pm · Reply

I wish people would stop making excuses for the lack of copy & paste! It should have been there from the beginning!