Arstechnica has a good article talking about how the connector for Apple’s new Lightning Adapter may be able use the metal shielding as a 9th wire, making for a 9th wire and making Lightning USB 3 compatible. If so it could live up to it’s Lightning name.
Still have my iPhone 4, but went to the Apple store to check out the iPhone 5. It sounded great, but not too great, but I was wrong.
The first thing you notice is how light it is. It makes the iPhone 4 seem heavy, but it still feels well built and solid. And the mostly metal back is much better than the glass iPhone 4 and 4S. The phone is thinner, and lighter, and taller.
The taller screen looks better even at the same resolution. And the bigger screen is just better. Wide screen shows look great and having an extra row of apps on every screen is fantastic.
And the lightning connector is impressively small. Still if it is not faster, it sucks to make every previous accessory either incompatible or have to work with an adapter.
if all of the speed tests are true, this is a really impressive phone. I so want one! Ha!
Since RedGiant bought PluralEyes and DualEyes, the licensing has changed, so you need to head over to RedGiant to get a new installer and a new license to make it work again. A pain, but i love RedGiant, so it is OK.
Bare Feats has a great speed test for DaVinci resolve on Mac. What I Find the most interesting is that last generation video cards from MacVidCards are beating out current generation GTX680 Fermi video cards, but that is likely a Mac Driver issue. They have some common drivers for the new cards thanks to the new MacBookPro, but don’t have full drivers of yet (still cool that many PC NVIDIA cards will run).
So there is a lot of controversy and ire on the web over Apple’s removal of Google Maps and adding their own map with less functionality. And for the most part I agree.
As for Googles Maps application, I liked having street view, and more accuracy, but Google maps on iPhone was dreadfully slow. And no turn by turn directions on iPhone, but yes on Android also sucked. Of course I only have an iPhone 4, so no turn by turn directions for me (though they work for Tom Tom, so why not here). And while I could get them on my iPad, that would require me to have the internet turned on all the time, and I don’t have that, as most places I go have WIFI anyway (though I do have the 4G Verizon model).
The apple Maps app is fast though, and I like the 3D view (though again can’t use it on my iPhone where it might be useful), though it doesn’t over much area, but downtown LA looks cool. My biggest problem so far has been inaccuracies in traffic, and it might have to do with crowd sourcing the traffic from other iOS phones, and maybe not many are out at 6 Am when I leave, but I had an extra 30 minutes added to my yesterday travel home time because the traffic report in the app was so wrong. That is unacceptable! And it mostly just shows RED and accidents, no Orange, and the roads are already yellow, so you can’t see when it is yellow. I want more date for traffic, faster and more accurate, as being in LA, it is all about traffic!
And if maps in inaccurate, it is pretty useless. How can they have bought 2 companies and be using Tom Tom data and have it wrong?
UPDATE: Tried using the traffic function again this morning, and in Los Angeles at 6AM, it was totally incorrect. Showing no red on the Freeway where I was, where it should have been solid red, and showing clear where it should have been orange later in my drive. I would rather not have a traffic function than have on that is this bad and this off!
So with the iPhone 5 Apple updated and downgraded it’s connector to the new lightning connector. The good news is it is smaller, and will work in either direction. The bad news is it is the same speed as the old adapter, sends less data, so many old accessories won’t work, and for those that do it requires an adapter at $28 for a direct or $39 for a cable.
Youch! Honestly i would rather have had the old adapter still so all my old devices would work. Especially since Apple said they won’t make docks for the iPhone 5, and i prefer my iPhone and iPods in docks!
Sure I have an iPhone and an iPad, but even with the largest models of their generations and a bunch of apps 64 GB doesn’t leave much room for music. Not only that but I rip all my CD’s at Apple Lossless, which is about half the size of CD quality with no loss of quality. That leaves me with my venerable iPod Classic with 120 GB harddrive (there was once a bigger model, but it is no more). Still not huge, especially with hard drives growing every year, but sans a plethora of apps it can store quite a bit of music. And there is nothing else that matches it’s size. Sure eventually static memory will get larger, but so does app size as screens get better. And don’t even get me started in how much space large photos take up on the new iPad!?!?!
And streaming music doesn’t work for me as long as data plans have caps. And even most unlimited plans are not even close to unlimited! As streaming could be the future, but only if it can be all your songs just as they are in your computer!
I know it will never happen, but i would love a new hard drive based ipod, say 320GB, with an updated interface. It can still be scroll wheel, but playlists needs a fast scroll like artists have! It could store most of my music and mean i can just worry about apps on my iOS devices!
Photorumors has the news on a new Hasselblad mirrorless camera. The specs sound pretty good, though I am surprised to see only an APS-C sized sensor from a company that normally makes medium format cameras.
Some pretty impressive specs, though not cheap for APS-C:
24.3MP APS-C sensor inside
25 AF points
ISO range: 100 to 16000
10 fps
Shutter release time lag: 0.02 second
3 in. LCD
OLED viewfinder
The grip is made out of real wood. The company used carbon fiber, titanium, leather and gold to build this camera.
Italian design
Sony E and A mounts compatible
Price : around EUR 5,000 (around $6,500)
Shipping in 2013
Petapixel has the news on this new Entry Level Lensbaby Spark! It has a 50mm f/5.6 lens with a 13 inch minimal focus distance and will be $80 from Amazon!
Get very cool swing and tilt type effects, though obviously with much cheaper glass (or more likely plastic).
I have actually wanted a lens baby for a long time, so this would be very very fun to have.
CanonRumors, TechHive, and DSL News Shooter, all have articles.
For about $2100 they are offering the body that is a full frame 20.2 Megapixel Full Frame Sensor and includes both a GPS and WIFI! This is almost a $1000 less than the next full frame sensor.
Doesn’t have the swing out LCD of my 60D though. Nor does it have a headphone jack for audio monitoring, so you really need a separate audio recorder! The WIFI will be amazing though, when you can control it from your iPhone or iPad! HOW COOL IS THAT? Think of remote focus pulling?!??! AWESOME!!!