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written by Duy Phong \\ tags: App, Apple, Google, Mac, OS

It was only a matter of time until this happened. The lawsuit that obviously focuses on the iPhone 4 antenna issue, makes several claims:

• General Negligence (APPLE and AT&T)
• Defect in Design, Manufacture, and Assembly (APPLE)
• Breach of Express Warranty (APPLE)
• Breach of Implied Warranty for Merchantability (APPLE and AT&T)
• Breach of Implied Warranty of Fitness for a Particular Purpose (APPLE and AT&T)
• Deceptive Trade Practices (APPLE and AT&T)
• Intentional Misrepresentation (APPLE and AT&T)
• Negligent Misrepresentation (APPLE and AT&T)
• Fraud by Concealment (APPLE and AT&T)

I don’t like lawsuits as they usually don’t solve the issue, they just compensate it. In this case however, Apple’s audacity and lack of action is such that I can understand why a few people would want to sue the company.

Thank god MacGyver has a fix for this antenna issue.

[via Gizmodo]

written by Duy Phong \\ tags: App, Apple, Download, Iphone, Mac, OS

I’ve had my iPhone 4 for just about a week now. The Engadget and other BGR have had access to the phone before all of us and they gave pretty extensive reviews of the iPhone 4 so I won’t go too much into the details. I just want to tell you what I think sucks on the iPhone 4, and what I think should make you want to buy one.

What I Like About the iPhone 4

• It’s beautiful
• It’s cool
• The screen resolution is amazing
• It’s fast
• The camera is great
• The LED flash
• The front-facing camera
• FaceTime
• The battery
• Fast app switching

What I Don’t Like About the iPhone 4

• The battery
• Fast app switching
• The same old UI
• The antenna issue

As you can see there are more pros than cons. You will also notice that the battery and the app switching appear in both pros and cons.

On my first iPhone 4, the battery was crap. I could barely go through one day on a full charge. I exchanged my iPhone 4 last weekend for these reasons and the battery on this new iPhone is much better. Same usage, same phone, but all iPhones are definitely not equal when it comes to battery.

As for app switching, I love how it works. It’s just great to be able to quickly switch between apps without having to wait for them to load again (that is for apps optimized for iOS 4). However, it can get very messy really quick in the app switcher, often showing over 20 apps in the background for me. Sure Steve-o says not to worry about them, but I still like to be in control of my apps, just like I am with ProSwitcher. With Apple’s app switching, I’m not, unless I manually kill those running in the background.

As for the UI, I think Apple could have done a little spring cleaning in there. The iPhone UI is great and simple, but after 3 years seeing the same stuff, I really get tired of it.

What do you think about your iPhone 4? What do you like about it? What do you dislike about it?

written by Duy Phong \\ tags: App, Apple, Download, Iphone, Mac, OS

Below is an e-mail conversation between Chris T and Steve Jobs:

Chris T writes:

Steve,

I’m a HUGE fan of your products… MBP, Ipad 64gb WIFI, 2 iphone 3g’s and now 2 iphone 4’s… but I have a complaint… What’s the point of building in HD video capabilities when the compression upon uploading directly to youtube makes the video’s useless and not viewable? They’re not even remotely viewable!! I was so excited about this feature on the Iphone 4, but sadly to say, this is a serious disappointment. In today’s world, HD video is pointless if I can’t upload it “as is” directly to the net.

Please fix this issue.

Thanks,

Chris

Steve Jobs replied with:

You can upload them via a Mac or PC today. Over the air in the future.

Sent from my iPhone

[MacDailyNews]

written by Duy Phong \\ tags: 3G, App, Apple, Iphone, Mac

Those without a Mac may not have heard of Apple’s iMovie editing software nor the rocky reception the latest desktop version received. The free application comes as part of Apple’s iLife suite and is included with every new Mac, allowing users to quickly import video, slap on some themes, transitions and music and then upload to YouTube or email to friends. It’s this very basic interface and editing process that had Mac users up in arms when Apple replaced the well-featured iMovie HD with this slim line model, but it’s also what makes it perfect for the iPhone.

When you’re working on a small screen, you need everything to be quick and easy to access and that’s exactly what you get with iMovie. Whether in portrait or landscape mode, you pick your theme, you choose the music and you add your clips, it’s that simple. Whether you work with pre-existing shots from your Camera Roll (which is the easiest method) or record directly onto your blank canvas, iMovie lets you do it in the most natural way via the Multi-Touch interface. You’re not limited to just video either; stored snaps or freshly taken pictures can be dropped into your project at any point. Each of the five available themes (who wants to bet more will be available as an In-App Purchase soon?) has its own soundtrack but you can quickly turn it off and add any song from your iPod as backing instead.

Once you have your media assembled, more fine-tuning is available. If you haven’t already, you’re free to trim down movie clips to more succinct segments using a pinch and drag method which normally works but has the tendency to be hit and miss with clips that run to more than a minute or so. Photos can also be tweaked by adding a Ken Burns effect (the panning across an image technique you see in documentaries) that can be adjusted by setting the start and end points for the movement.

iMovie does its best to help you out as you go and adds transitions between your clips and photos where it thinks you want them. It appears, however, that transitions are limited to a cross dissolve as standard or one that fits with your chosen theme, which is a bit disappointing. Transition style and timing can be customized as you require with a simple double tap bringing up the options screen. In fact, nearly anything on your timeline can be adjusted using the double tap method. You can add new titles to a clip, bring up your video’s audio (which then causes the theme music to duck to a quieter level) or you can include a location. The location feature is a neat trick that uses metadata from the video to automatically include the name of the place it was shot as part of the movie theme and, with when using the Travel theme, even includes a map as part of the opening titles.

Once you’re done editing you can watch your movie back within the app and then export it at 360, 540 or 720p size with a copy of the finished movie sent to your iPhone’s Camera Roll ready for syncing back to your computer. You can also send a finished movie to YouTube and Apple’s MobileMe service, via email or by MMS direct from your Camera Roll, although we would certainly advise a Wi-Fi connection for larger web uploads unless you have a lot of time on your hands. That said, this on-the-fly editing and publishing is quite remarkable, especially given the quality of the footage, and also opens up many possibilities for bloggers, indie directors and broadcasters to make use of. Firing out quick updates from the road or shooting in locations where a traditional video camera can’t go are just a couple possible uses for the iPhone 4 and iMovie.

iMovie for iPhone really is impressive and easy enough to use that you forget that you are editing HD footage on a mobile phone. We did find a few areas where improvement is required, however. As we mentioned before, more themes would have been nice but we’ll no doubt see them in a future update, whether we have to pay for the privilege remains to be seen. We also discovered an odd glitch that caused the movie’s soundtrack to end before the video when exported, even when the timeline suggested otherwise. Finally, as we eluded to earlier, trimming down a clip on the timeline can become a bit of a pain if you want to be precise about your cuts, but then that’s not what iMovie for iPhone is about. Most people will use it and love the way they can throw in all their memories and quickly receive some suitably Apple-esque video output. Those aiming to be the next Tarantino may need to work a little harder to achieve the results they want.

Below is a video we put together in just under ten minutes using the iMovie app on an iPhone 4.

[ iMovie for iPhone 4 Review is a post from 148Apps ]

written by Duy Phong \\ tags: App, Apple, Application, Free, Iphone, Mac, OS