iPhone 4G Announced -- Damn is it Sexy.

[MyNameDidntFit]

We knew it was coming (http://www.mature-gamers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10166), but now that the iPhone 4G has been announced, with its full specs and features available at Apple's site (http://www.apple.com) I'm sitting here thinking to myself something along the lines of "and I jizzed in my pants".

Now, take that to mean some serious stuff folks. Usually I look at Apple stuff and go 'pretty, but shit'. This... this I went 'pretty, but OH JESUS THAT IS AWESOME'.

Let me just run over a quick few of the specs that caught my immediate attention and sent all the blood rushing to the nerd centres of my brain:

960x640 Display Resolution.
HD Video Recorder, Editor and Player.
Application Multitasking and Background Apps.
5MP Camera w/Flash (& the pretty nifty inclusion of a manual focus by tapping any area of the camera view).
Three Axis Gyroscope, Accelerometer, Ambient Light and Proximity Sensors.
Extensive Audio/Video Compatibility.


... and it actually looks really, really nice. Seriously. I sound like an Apple fanboy and it's burning me up inside. I haven't had so much internal turmoil since I had to choose between a shotgun and a sniper rifle in AVP.



TL;DR: iPhone 4G looks amazing and now I'm just waiting to see which organ I'll have to sell when they announce the price on the 15th.

[Jason]

Eh.

Nice, and I'd take one if it was offered to me, but I'm not paying £400+ for one. I have an ipod, and I have a camera. My existing phone also manages both of these tasks to a greater or lesser extent. Most of the apps are convenient, if a little redundant assuming you've heard of the internet.

It's fantastic as a James Bond-esque gadget, but for those of us without MI5-sized budgets, it's a little excessive.

Still, as you said - DO WANT.

[MyNameDidntFit]

To be honest, that's about what my opinion has been of everything Apple to date. But this is actually something I'd see myself using all the features of -- HD video recording and editing is damned handy, decent camera, awesome portable media capabilities, the organisational features and, surprisingly*, it's a phone.





*actually a surprise, what with the iPad and all.

[Jason]

Yeah, I guess if you're going to use it all, it's not all bad - doing the maths, a decent HD video camera is going to set you back about £200 on its own, not to mention the other bits and pieces that come with it.

I don't actually have anything against Apple products as such (other than iTunes, which is the software equivalent of Hitler raping a Snow Leopard in a chapel on Christmas Eve) - I actually quite like most of them (apart from the iPad), my beef is with the Apple drones who simply rush out to buy the same product slightly rebranded for £300 a time (see iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad) and claim it's the best thing since Jesus invented sliced bread.
I also dislike Apple's smug and superior advertising image (and the idiots that reflect this image in conversation).

tldr; I like the product, hate the people. :p