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	<title>Comments on: Getting My New PDA &#8230; In a Month</title>
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		<title>By: Brian K. Jones</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey! 

Yeah... about the camera. 

The camera on the iPhone is really a &#039;just barely good enough&#039; camera. I&#039;ve used it a few times. It&#039;s passable. If you&#039;re taking pics of scenery or relatively stationary objects (like, something that&#039;s not a 1-year-old on the move), it&#039;s really fine. But if you were looking to replace your powershot, you were going to be in a losing proposition anyway, because *all* the iPhone camera does is take 2MP pics. There&#039;s no control over any part of the camera AFAIK. There&#039;s an on-screen view finder, and a button to take the pic. That&#039;s it. No WB, no aperture, no color replacement, no... nothing. 

On my iPhone (purchased about 2-3 months ago or so) you can&#039;t even send pictures from your iPhone to your buddies. 

Another big annoyance you, specifically, will go bonkers about is that there are (or, were - didn&#039;t see any updates on this from yesterday&#039;s events) no voice commands on the iPhone, so that nice bluetooth headset you have is that much less useful, because the iPhone cannot be used while driving in a completely hands-free way. 

All of that said, I still think that it meets the 85% rule. The camera is good enough for 85% of the pics you&#039;re likely to take, the phone is good enough for the 85% of the time you&#039;re not in your car, and the available disk space is good enough for... well, that might be another story, but regardless, you can at least retire the blackberry and clamshell, which are the two biggest gadgets you carry :-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey! </p>
<p>Yeah&#8230; about the camera. </p>
<p>The camera on the iPhone is really a &#8216;just barely good enough&#8217; camera. I&#8217;ve used it a few times. It&#8217;s passable. If you&#8217;re taking pics of scenery or relatively stationary objects (like, something that&#8217;s not a 1-year-old on the move), it&#8217;s really fine. But if you were looking to replace your powershot, you were going to be in a losing proposition anyway, because *all* the iPhone camera does is take 2MP pics. There&#8217;s no control over any part of the camera AFAIK. There&#8217;s an on-screen view finder, and a button to take the pic. That&#8217;s it. No WB, no aperture, no color replacement, no&#8230; nothing. </p>
<p>On my iPhone (purchased about 2-3 months ago or so) you can&#8217;t even send pictures from your iPhone to your buddies. </p>
<p>Another big annoyance you, specifically, will go bonkers about is that there are (or, were &#8211; didn&#8217;t see any updates on this from yesterday&#8217;s events) no voice commands on the iPhone, so that nice bluetooth headset you have is that much less useful, because the iPhone cannot be used while driving in a completely hands-free way. </p>
<p>All of that said, I still think that it meets the 85% rule. The camera is good enough for 85% of the pics you&#8217;re likely to take, the phone is good enough for the 85% of the time you&#8217;re not in your car, and the available disk space is good enough for&#8230; well, that might be another story, but regardless, you can at least retire the blackberry and clamshell, which are the two biggest gadgets you carry <img src='http://www.a440.org/steve/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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