The iPhone's camera may be thoroughly eclipsed by several of its competitors, but the insane popularity of Apple's baby means that we've seen
tons of accessories aimed at making that 2.1 megapixel sensor
somewhat more useful -- like the Snapture Flash here, which tucks a xenon flash with red-eye reduction into a sleeve-type case. Although it's powered by the phone, it's apparently quite low-power -- SnaptureLabs estimates that you'll take 1000 shots before going dry -- and there's some sort of "speaker amplification" built in as well, just in case you're super into enhancing mediocre parts of the iPhone experience. Bad news? You'll have to jailbreak your phone to get the Snapture app working -- hopefully that'll be remedied by the time this thing ships. Check out some sample shots at the read link.
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posted Dec 23rd 2008 10:36PM
Thoroughly eclipsed?
Try completely.
This has massive FAIL all over it...
How are Apple users (beautiful smart people) suppose to caress the revolutionary aluminum back plate?
Forget the flash
try making a camera that isn't ridiculously blurry from minute movements.
eyEi you just won part of the Internet with beautiful smart people.
"Forget the flash"...
This coming from "Flashpoint"!?
Beautiful smart people who have only the greatest phone ever cre...
Ahw hell, even with /sarcasm/ aimed sharp, I can't stomach talking like iEye...
Engadget calling something Apple made crappy?
RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I second that complete surprise.
It's NOT Apple made... hence the apparent crappiness
The camera's Apple made. Hopefully.
Its made for Apple...
Not by! Hence the acceptance of crappiness!
Are you people finding the title THAT hard to read? It infers that both the flash add on device AND the iphone camera are both "crappy"
Haha I agree with you, Patriot. But unfortunately for them the title does not just infer that both are crappy, it BLATANTLY states "crappy flash to CRAPPY IPHONE CAMERA."
PS. I wish I could italicize instead of typing in bold. Bold makes it seem like I am screaming instead of drawing attention to the words. Shitty.
I wish you would type in bold INSTEAD OF CAPS
Crappy flash and crappy camera? How about a crappy zoom lens?
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.10813
Knee to the groin you caught me. I definitely said bold instead of caps. Dammit :/
This device was not approved by Apple. If it has a fruit logo then it would be another story.
It must be the effect of the Christmas break... I assume you have to love Apple to get anywhere high up the Engadget ladder. Now all the Apple-lovers are on holiday, leaving their underlings to write articles unchecked. THE REVOLUTION HAS BEGUN.
I don't think crappy and iphone ever appeared in a headline together...
@chezzo Check the masthead, homey. :)
Finally it happened!
yep! the clownphone.
the whole phone is crap !
Bite you tongue!
i second that and... i forgot to tell u im the "other" dude in your head that tells u being a pc rocks.....sorry you had to find out this way.
as much as I may agree with your testament, this is a ignorant comment by anyones standards
:P
But when we call any other phone crap we are "stupid fanboys?" How is that fair?
Because he doesn't have a company logo in his icon and he's not comparing it to whatever device you think he is a fanboy of. Nothing about the statement says what he'd rather have, thus he's not being a fan of anything, just disliking that particular phone. When people like you say something about another product with your little apple icon and saying that other devices don't live up to yours, even though it is extremely inferior in many aspects to other devices, that might cause some to refer to you as a "stupid fanboy".
If you can justify that any phone is crap, then I'll accept that without fanboism.
Finaly someone GETS THE FACT THAT THE IPHONE SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
4G technology- Analysis of the photo capabilities and images.
Wow, thanks for that awesome comment!
P.S. I LOVE your user I.D.... -1
It'd be good if they incorperated this in a nicer looking case.
Would be good to see some sample photos aswell to see if it actually does any good in dark nightclubs etc.
Wow that molding looks terrible... Looks like they made this item in the same plastic factory that makes sex toys for women, and one of them fell into the mold and they just said "eh, say it's for the iphone and it'll sell".
I'm glad to know you are quite familiar with the plastic used to make sex toys.
I agree. I can't believe that theres an entire market for crappy looking bolt-on accessories for the otherwise slick iPhone. It's like buying a Mercedes and then bolting on a garish, oversized spoiler.
@Adam
Yeah well your mom is into some kinky shit... I'm just tryin to keep up.
/mom joke
True, in this case (no pun intended) a wrap around styling is stupid, because you would need to take it out and use it while it's attached. However, for wrap around backup batteries it is (in my opinion) the best design. That way, you can charge the internal battery all the way while it's in your pocket and detach the iPhone (or any device) to use it *cough* show it off *cough* as intended.
I gotta say this
Although dire on paper, Its pretty good if the lighting is ok....
Playing sim city, and raging thunder, and using apps like shazam and flixter, not to mention facebook, photoswap, and amazing google maps implementation.... I think it's an oustanding phone, and it has made my life 1000 times easier than the blackberry...
Just give me copy and paste, and flash, and you, mr. Jobs have yourself a customer for life.....
Ps by far fastest 3g phone I've used here in the I'm on O2
Question, does anything in the iphone SDK prevent the use of extra accessories like this?
Any app built requires the final go ahead from Apple
I don't think so, but the accessory (which uses the dock connector) won't ship unless the manufacturers do that whole 'built for iPod' thing.
If it worked over WiFi, it wouldn't use Apple's proprietary connector, and hence wouldn't need a license. They could submit the app to the store, and Apple would have no good reason to refuse it. That's all theoretical, mind you - connecting a flash over WiFi to a phone less than a centimetre away is obviously overkill, and Apple doesn't need a reason to refuse apps.
The shine off Apple user's clean bright teeth should act as a sufficient flash
@aYe aye
Interesting. I can see that you have (as of this moment) ranked up a whopping three comments. All in reply to this story. iEye, is that you? Come on lil' fella, don't be shy!
Why are they promoting (supposedly) innovative technology on the old model?
another crappy peripheral for a crappy phone...
woo-hoo?
Useless.
seems like people turning on the top dawg,.I guess they happy with their storms Glides n instinct,
The iPhone's camera is only 2.0 megapixels. Just to make this post make the iPhone look worse.
A 2.0 megapixel camera can make fabulous looking pictures if it has a decent lens and sensor. This one sure as hell doesn't, but faulting it because of its megapixel count is kind of pointless.