Well this can't be tremendously surprising. Apparently
American Beauty director Sam Mendes is in the process of putting together a series of commercials for Apple's
next iPhone, which according to a tipster is being referred to internally as the Mammoth / N90. Besides that tip (with a handful of juicy details), a trusted source has confirmed to us that the ads will feature at least one spot where a mother and daughter are having a video chat conversation using the new front-facing camera that's been spied on the face of that iPhone floating around
Vietnam and
Northern California. Adding weight to this story, a cursory search on Twitter revealed that there's at least one actress who is up for a role in the "f***ing apple commercial" in New York, and another fellow who is auditioning for spots in California. We don't know much more than that, but we're fairly confident that this confirms video chat is coming to the next iPhone, and that that said iPhone isn't very far from our grasp. Remember folks,
June 7th is just a kiss away.
posted May 24th 2010 10:08PM
@LiQuiDFuSioN
Take it from someone who knows. No actor worth their salt wants to be in commercials. But given how many of us there are, and how much respectable work there is to go around, they are a necessary evil.
@safe travels I think she's saying it with excitement/amazement, not out of spite.
@MrPacMan36 that links down. secret police responded quicker than expected.
@skyblaze
I choked on Hot Tamales when I read the "cell tower exploded" part.
Kudo to you.
@DoctarPeppar You must work for HP then, where it's perfectly ok to leak future project information, huh? How are those palm tablet and webos handsets coming along?
@tseliottt
Hang the DJ.
@vanglorious I agree dude, I think she WANTS the commercial.
I mean, who in their right mind would put in for an audition, and then pray NOT to get it?
Wonder how long the battery will last when you use that for a little while lol.
Cool feature but the phone dies fast enough as it is. I don't see it being very useful for a long talk other then just for show.
@Adamd21 Iphone 4g battery last 4 years and takes .4 seconds to recharge. Don't tell anyone though its secret information lol.
@Adamd21
Again with the battery life...seriously will people stop complaining about battery life in smartphones..I'm getting tired of it.
@DoctarPeppar
Well it is kind of the single most important part of a phone lol. I think it is a huge deal since all these new features are pointless if you can't use your phone for more then a few hours. It is a mobile device and you should not have to keep it on a charger all the time.
@Adamd21
I don't know what you are doing with your phone or what phones you have been using, but the last 3 phones I have owned (Samsung Omnia HD, Omnia 2, and iPhone 3g) were all able to last the entire work day (9-12 hours) without being on the charger. I think that is reasonable enough time to expect out of a pocket sized device with moderate to heavy usage. But the bottom line is all phones use the exact same battery technology -- there may be software optimizations but they will only maybe squeze an extra half hour to an hour out of it, if that. We won't be seeing any new battery techs hit consumer devices for quite some time -- so I would say if you think smartphone batterys don't last long enough that you should probably get used to it or switch to a dumbphone :P
@Adamd21
It's probably unlikely anyone will want to hold up their iPhone for super long video chats so the impact on the battery in real world usage probably won't be too significant. Not much different than running any app that utilizes network/backlight for the same period of time. Point is if you're going for multi-hour video chats your arm will get tired holding up the phone before the battery dies. Anyone who wants to do this will probably also want to dock the phone to avoid holding it up.
+5 to the Doctar
I could barely tolerate the complaints in 2008 when US cell users must have finally upgraded from some old B/W LCD on CDMA to a full screen smart phone with 3G.
We were all like WTF in Australia, since 3G phones have been training us into the daily recharge for years.
Personally the iPhone has incredible battery life considering all that is going on in it all the time. Same would go for Android and others I have no doubt.
My iPhone lasts as long as my previous Nokia, LG and Motorola 3G phones and yet I hammer it with all sorts of stuff constantly.
Pfft, I'm just waiting for someone to compare and complain about laptop to desktop powered on life.
second kid looks emo enough to get the gig
@MFrasier
LOL he's the perfect fit.
He just needs some tighter pants and maybe an "android sucks" t-shirt.
Video chat! Wow, how novel!! Jobs must have been sitting in the audience for the Evo presentation. What's next for Mr. Copy Cat? WiFi hotspot?
@Kelly S Be careful you have just activated the Apple Signal. The fanboys are on their way.
@Kelly S Lol except that the Evo does video chat everywhere while the iPhone only does it over wifi... i think apple missed the boat on that one but the jailbreak community will free it of that asap
@Kelly S
You naive idiot. Copying video chat? This has obviously been an aim of apple for a while. The damned phone was leaked quite a while ago. Regardless saying they are copying video chat is like saying the EVO copies touch screen of iPhone. They didn't create just made it popular. Stupid moron. I'm not a fanboy nor am I trying to sway anyone but apple haters are just plain stupid. No offense. Idiot.
P.S. I wouldn't minde wifi hotspots but at@t suck large amounts of suckage.
@Btbessey you really come across as a jackass in that comment, why do people think that calling people morons and idiots will help drive their point home on engadget?
Also, if the Evo was copying the touchscreen cell phone it would be from the iPaq who was the first on the market with it, HTC built the first touchscreen phone, then apple made it better like they said, then evo even better *(personal opinion)* so circle of life i guess
@Btbessey how has it "been an aim a apple for quite a while?" wtf are you talking about? The evo was announced way before any iphone was leaked.
I'm just gunna be fucking sick if apple is all like "oh this is the RIGHT way to do video chat" give me a fucking break.
How do you know it only does it on wifi? How in the he'll would you know anything? And I will laugh if these are all fake iPhones and apple is coming out with that LG thing from iron man 2. Doubtful but wouldn't that be LE-GIT
@Btbessey
"No offense. Idiot."
Fan-wars crack me up. LOL
@Kelly S
I'm sick of the anti-Apple choir denouncing this innovation. Let me be clear, I am not claiming that Apple invented video conferencing on phones, a front-facing camera, the wheel, or the universe, but the iPhone will be the first phone to make the practice popular. This technology will be heavily used in the consumer market (an area where previous smartphones with video-chatting and the Evo can't reach). The consumer market is where innovation gets the biggest push.
Please be excited that this technology is being brought to the forefront of consumer electronics. No one is losing by Apple implementing this feature, and the phone market will now expand so that most smartphones will, too, have video-conferencing. Apple has never wronged you, stolen your property, or laid with your mother. Please lay off the hatred - what are you trying to prove?
@Kelly S actually Video chat over mobile phones is nothing new. Feature phones like a Sony K800 has had this feature.
@dorothymantooth "...what are you trying to prove?"
That no three positive integers a, b, and c can satisfy the equation a^n + b^n = c^n for any integer value of n greater than 2.
Can you help?
@dorothymantooth i dont know if i would consider being trendy an innovation... its not revolutionary its just something that will go mostly unused due to a small screen and wifi only capability...
*i have not seen the final iChat app but if its implemented in the same way as on the mac it will be useless due to the iPhone's tiny screen
@Kelly S
I've never been good at math, but creative dodging! Haven't seen diversion like that since my last trip to DC.
@SteveyAyo
It isn't about being trendy, it's about bringing a technology to the forefront of usage so that it must be improved. Video chatting, even on computers today, still isn't perfect. Having millions of consumers utilizing it will encourage the development of the still buggy technology.
As a side note, I can't count the number of times that I've been and needed to join in a video-conference. A cell phone wouldn't be my first choice, but sometimes it's my only choice.
@dorothymantooth yeah i guess as a person that has no need for video chat this doesnt excite me at all, if im in a place with wifi i would use my laptop for this not my phone, with advancements in Augmented reality apps i can present a building/product digital model over video chat so i guess in a few years ill need this function, it will be interesting to see the implementations from apple and google...
@SteveyAyo
I get where your coming from, and I know that not everyone will use video-chat, but I do see extended-family video conferences becoming even more popular now. I agree that Apple and Google will be the ones to push this technology, and I really don't get the hate coming from both sides. I understand Jobs frustration in Schmidt staying close to Apple for the iPhone development and then creating his own OS, but all this other nonsense isn't helping anyone.
@SteveyAyo
And yet I bet you support video chat on the Evo, don't you? Because it's so god damn awesome on the Evo? Yeah, that's what I thought. It's not that you don't care about video chat, you just don't care about anything made by Apple. That's because you hate Apple. Haven't we been over this? Your opinion is useless here because it's not even slightly objective.
@Jack "i dont think i would use video chat ever, EVO or iPhone id probably play with it and then just give up on it, it just seems a little awkward of course i much prefer text messaging over phone calls anyways so it wouldnt make sense for me to want this feature"
-Quote i posted about an hour ago, no i dont like video chat on any phone platform so you can try calling me a fandroid or whatever you want but clearly im not
@Kelly S
Actually, Wikipedia can:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat's_Last_Theorem#Wiles.27_general_proof
WOAH IM FUCKING SHOCKED
@thrash1256
For real. Especially after that leaked iphone hd clearly had a front facing camera. Still looking to see what they do to make it more special than any other video chat or if they're just make it sound like a revolution.
Even though eg blanked the Twitter account name. They have his picture.
Well hey i hope she gets the job, but probably not now that she leaked info on it lol...
Remember Jobs... before you go on a tangent about how revolutionary this is...
...The Evo had it first
@skyblaze
You how Jobs is
"We werent the first to the party, but were gonna be the best."
~iPhone OS 4 event"
@AlienSix i would respect him more if he would just once acknowledge how vital the jailbreak community was/is to the evolution of the iPhone, but i dont think someone like Jobs would ever credit people for "misusing" his device. 4.0 was a veritable checklist for jailbreak utilities people use everyday
@skyblaze I'm pretty sure both companies (HTC and Apple) had this in the hopper for a while...
The EVO just happens to have a release date a few days (or weeks) before the iPhone v4.0.
@skyblaze
Apple Hater it will be the best on the iPhone
@xolan99
Htc already has more than 1 phone with front facing cameras. The windows mobile 6.1 phone, htc kaiser (att Tilt), had a camera for video confrencing, but the att/us version had it taken out. Most of the good things in cellphones are taken out in the us.
@skyblaze The evo was announced first but you can't be serious to think that the next gen iPhone and potential video chat weren't in the works until the evo was announced. Apple is a little more prepared then to throw something together last minute. Android Froyo looks amazing, but still not a finished product in my opinion.
@TheLondonExchange
Was wondering when you were going to comment? What is your evidence that it will be the best on the iPhone? Because its Apple?
@XChrisX
And iPhone OS is a finished product?
@MegaJapan
It's the most polished of the current mobile OS's. I have a 3GS, an N1 running Froyo, and a Pre Plus (plus various work Blackberrys, but who cares about RIM anymore??) and the iPhone OS is the most consumer friendly and intuitive OS. Android is fun for a techie like myself, but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone that isn't extremely familiar with technology. WebOS is easier to use than Android, but it is still buggy, has few applications, and sucks battery life down like no one's business.
@dorothymantooth "...and the iPhone OS is the most consumer friendly and intuitive"
Oh, you mean like the position AOL held in online services many years ago.