“During a 90 second segment of his weekly Podcast show ‘Diggnation’ this past Friday, Rose told viewers that Apple may be restricting third parties from authoring applications that run in both the foreground and background partly because it doesn’t want a competitor to its own mobile iChat application that will do just that,” AppleInsider reports.
“More specifically, he claims that a 3G version of the iPhone hardware due in a few months will employ two digital cameras situated back-to-back — one on the front side of the unit behind the transparent touch-screen, and a second one on the back of the handset as it exists today,” AppleInsider reports.
“Combined with the mobile iChat application, the front-mounted cam will pave the way for live video conferencing over AT&T’s high-speed 3G wireless network with computer-based iChat users, as well as other second-generation iPhone owners, according to Rose,” AppleInsider reports.
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Direct link via YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ6JEs5swKg
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It was more fun with the beer.
That sounds awesome. And maybe put a flash in the camera.
A 3G iPhone? No way! I didn’t believe it when Steve Jobs said it before, but now that Kevin Rose confirms it I believe!
Is this not the same guy who claimed to have seen/used the iphone claiming (in a drunken state) that`s it`s incredibly small nano like basically getting everything about the iphone wrong?
Keep in mind, this is the same Kevin Rose who has a track record of being spectacularly wrong when attempting to predict features of upcoming Apple products.
Was he drunk again, I thought he learned his lesson last time he let the cat out of the bag (coincidentally he was half in the bag that time)
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The technology is already there for mobile video chat, we just needed 3G speeds and the extra camera.
@ Jeff
I think you hit it dead on. He`s no Oracle of Delphi, beer does not equal clairvoyance
Maybe it’s a bad day … but I freaking cringe every time I hear ‘they’re punishing us early adopters’. The phone does what it was supposed to when you bought it. Get over it.
whew, I feel better. I need more caffeine!!!
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Didn’t Steve say there’d be Flash in the iPhone over his dead body or something like that?
How did Alex Albrecht possibly think that those things would be for existing iPhones?
This guy is “DIGGing” for some credibility.
For any phone, battery life is top priority.
Dual cameras are a double whammy against battery life…even a flash.
Isn’t DIGG weblogware of the social sorts related…how does this guy know anything more than we do about hardware.
Common sense says iPhone battery life and bandwidth issues have to improve before any type of videoconferencing is going to happen.
This guy needs attention and wants to say that he said it first. He has no scoop, yet desperately still wants to be the fly on the wall.
Kevin Rose is an ass clown. He really has no clue about anything. Perhaps that is why G4/TechTV let him go?
Tell this guy to focus on getting DIGG up to the competition instead of focusing on getting hired by Apple.
As others have pointed out
Apple has a patent on a camera that does just that.
ichat is awesome that way now.
3G speeds would allow such a chat to take place.
He may be an arse, but he might be right too. personally I think it is a cool idea, though i don’t know how practical it would be. Whether or not it’s true we won’t know until it actually comes out.
Yeah, I agree with the comment about early adopters. I’ve been gleefully using my iPhone for almost 9 months, which is what I paid for. Any day now, I expect someone to come out and say how the early adopters of VHS are being punished because now we have Blu-Ray….
And by the way, is it just me, or does that video seem kind of rehearsed?
well of course Apple intends to do this eventually, when is another matter. I’d be impressed (and sold) if they pull it off this year.
Game, set, match.
Beer doesn’t make you smarter??
“He may be an arse, but he might be right too.”
True. And, C1 and I have been saying this since before the iPhone came out – once it gets 3G, look for Jetson’s like video chat.
It’s obvious that video chat will eventually come to the iPhone. Everyone wants it.
Apple as always waits until the technology is available to make sure that it works well.
No cellphone camera in the world has a camera flash that is powerful enough to do any good beyond 2 feet. That’s because they don’t have enough battery power.
Cellphone cameras are dogpoop, compared to even a cheap digital camera. There are lots of engineering reasons why that is the case.
Maybe Dilger is right and people don’t want HiDef, but rather LoDef, because the number of people who act like cellphone pics and videos are useful if only they had zoom, flash and more megapixels, amaze me.
No news here. As I recall, this was a major topic of discussion when the iPhone was released last year.
@Blue Dream: The second camera would only be a power hog if both cameras were powered on simultaneously. Based on Apple’s typical attention to detail, I would expect the screen-side camera to power up only when the iChat app is launched.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the early adapters (iWhiners) for buying crappy iPhone 1.0’s last year and funding the R&D;for the really cool 3G iPhone I will buying this year, for a cheaper price.
Please do not forget to toss your cash at the underpowered MBA 1.0 this year because in about 18 months I will need a fully featured slim laptop for a reasonable price.
Just my $0.02
Ray, the early adapters will sell their iPhone 1.0 on eBay and buy the latest.
They probably will only need $100 to make up the difference and in the meantime they have enjoyed the iPhone while you were waiting.
I would also suggest that you don’t buy iPhone 2.0 because iPhone 3.0 is in the wings.