Just jumping in here to see what the hoopla was about antenna-gate and read this.
One thing you have to consider is the iPhone 4 doesn’t really multitask from a performance standpoint (to save battery life) and more than likely the difference in video playback quality is due to that. His EVO could be updating / running programs in the background taking up resources where as your iPhone puts that on hold. It’s cool if you want your video to playback the best it can, not cool if you try to have applications running in the background.
Applications that you want or need to run in the background do that just fine. Things that don’t, that just take up resources and battery life don’t. It is actually a very elegant way to handle it… much better than making me hit the task manager and kill apps all the time.
And :lol: @ the Evo not being “that much bigger” than the iPhone. That thing is cartoonish. I seriously considered the Evo, but the form factor was horrid and I would shoot myself if i had to say “well, if I turn off all the functionality, and keep a car charger and an extra charger at the office and carry a second battery, then I don’t mind the battery life” I would stab myself in the face.
Size is pretty close maybe half an inch wider, and I’m.coming from a winmo phone so the battery is even better. It’s not S good As my blackberry but it gets me through my day.
Exactly, things I want to run in the background like pandora, iPod, gps, instant messenger etc do. All the other stuff suspends so it doesn’t eat up battery. Evo buddy tried to make this argument with me yesterday then couldn’t show me an app on his evo that he wanted to run in the background that wouldn’t run in the background on the iPhone.
And while we both started with full batteries and I shot far more video he ended the day critically low on battery while my iPhone was at 64% remaining when I plugged it in before bed.
Justify it how you want, but some of us are power users who need to run multiple applications at a time (not just music and GPS.) Besides the rest of us can always just pop in a 2nd battery
No need for a laptop when my phone can do everything I need just the same and it fits in my pocket… except video editing. A laptop would be redundant.
I’m on the highway right now (passenger) and my home PC is rendering a video. I’ll remote desktop to it in a few minutes to finish my editing over my phone
He has the Nokia N900. Really nice phone. And Josh it’s sad that your phone is almost better than you Sony desktop. Either way both phones are almost equal, but thr n900 has flash
Exactly my point; you’ve gota pay extra to do basic image editing
Edit: I guess it’s free, but still silly that it’s not just part of the stock image software. I used this as an example because someone I know had taken a picture with his new iPhone 4 and wanted to flip the image. I told him just to rotate it but neither of us could find the option… because it doesn’t exist.
But we could go on like this for hours. Buy what phone works best for you, just don’t get sucked into the marketing hype.
I fail to see anything all that exciting there that I can’t run in a background window on my iphone. I mean, keeping Angry Birds and NYSpeed open in the background is your argument? Can do that. Messaging and Media? Can do that too.
Sure, all I can see is an icon instead of a screen shot from my task switcher, but you can’t see anything in those thumbnails anyway.
Mind explaining what kinda of POWER USER tasks you are saying you can do that can’t be done with the iPhone’s variant of multitasking?
The only one I see there that wouldn’t background well in the iphone is gFTP. Suspending that would kill the FTP connection. I’m not sure what I’d need to FTP to or from my phone though.
