June 19th, 2009

Apple has introduced iPhone 3GS since Friday, which has 16 gigabytes and has capability to capture video, so even with a fingertip we can trim the ends of a captured video and then upload it to YouTube or MobileMe, right from the phone.

The company said the S stands for speed so if we are used to the old iPhone the speed boost will hit us between the eyes, especially when we are opening programs, playing games and loading Web pages.

The built-in three-megapixel camera is much better, too. The camera still tends to blur moving subjects, and even still life, aren’t as crisp as from an actual camera. But the color and clarity are definitely improved, especially in low light.

The new autofocus feature lets us tap the screen preview at the spot where you want the exposure, white balance and focus to be calculated. Except when the subject is a few inches away, you don’t see much difference in the focusing - but your tap location can make a big difference in the brightness and color (exposure and white balance) of the finished photo.

Better yet, the 3GS now captures video. It’s the real deal: sharp, smooth, 30 frames a second. Once again, it’s not quite what you’d get from a proper digital camera or a Flip camcorder-it tends to “blow out” the bright areas - but it’s darned close.

We cannot beat the capacity, either; in theory, the 32-gigabyte iPhone can capture 17 hours of video - just enough for the elementary-school talent show.

With a fingertip, you can trim the ends of a captured video and then upload it to YouTube or MobileMe, right from the phone. (That part, it does much better than a digital camera.)

The new voice-control feature may be the most useful change of all. Hold down the iPhone’s Home button for a moment, say “Call mom’s cell” or “Dial 800-555-1212,” and the iPhone places your call, crisply and accurately.

The new Compass program looks like a classier version of a regular Cub Scout compass - great when you emerge, disoriented, from the subway. In Google Maps, it adds an indicator beam, showing which way you are facing on the map. No longer must you walk in a circle, staring at the iPhone map like an idiot, just to figure out which way is up.

The iPhone 3GS also gains what Apple calls an oleophobic screen. It may sound like an irrational fear of yodelers, but in fact, it’s a coating that lets you wipe away fingerprints with a single rub on your clothes. It really works to keep the iPhone looking new longer. Maybe fewer people will now bury the iPhone’s gorgeous, slim shape in a homely, bulky case.

Finally, the iPhone 3GS harbors a better, beefier battery, thereby confronting another chronic complaint. It gives you about 25 percent more life a charge (five hours talk time or 30 hours of music), easily enough to last at least a day of moderate use. As Palm Pre owners know, that’s rare on a 3G superphone.

There are dozens more new features on the iPhone 3GS - but the really exciting part is that older iPhones can get them, too. They’re part of a free software upgrade called iPhone 3.0. (You get the upgrade when you sync your phone to iTunes. For $10, the iPod Touch can get this upgrade, too.)

Chief among them: the long-awaited copy and paste commands, which appear at your fingertips when you double-tap text in most programs. Now you can paste text and graphics from a Web site into an e-mail message, for example, or copy an address from a text message into your calendar.

There’s Bluetooth stereo audio, too, meaning that you can listen to your music with cordless headphones, leaving the iPhone itself in your pocket or backpack, it’s has available on the iPhone 3GS.

A handy voice-recording app comes complete with trim editing and e-mailing commands, thereby turning your iPhone into a high-quality, huge-capacity digital audio recorder.

Hey guys, if you’re hope to get a iPhone 3GS tomorrow, you may see the entrance time in US, UK, and Canada below:

United States, people can pre-ordered by phone in-store from AT&T, you can pick it up tomorrow at 7:00AM local time, that same retail outlet.

For Canadian, Rogers / Fido will be handling your iPhone fix or you can also drop by an Apple retail store, which should open around 8:00AM local time.

While for the United Kingdom, the official time starting at 8:02AM, you may get iPhone 3GS at O2, Apple, and Carphone Warehouse stores.

Some people are still striving to receive over-the-air signals to enjoy digital televisions although digital television transition was done last week, as  2.5 million households still had no digital signal, more than one day after television stations thoughout the United States were required to halt their analog signals and broadcast only in digital form.

Television stations switched last Friday as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had expected that some homes would not be prepared although there had been an extensive informational campaign.

Older televisions connected to antennas need a digital converter box, but newer TVs should not, while the government provided coupons to subsidize the cost of the boxes and cable as well as satellite customers were mostly unaffected.

The FCC said it will take weeks for the remaining homes to be hooked up and for stations to perfect their transmissions. Its call center remains open while its teams are in the field, and its Website, www.dtv.gov, is updated to reflect the kinds of problems viewers are having. The help line, 1-888-CALL-FCC, received about 900,000 calls last week, and it counted 95,000 more calls on Monday and 58,000 on Tuesday.

Despite the converter box, some viewers have reported problems receiving their typical array of local stations. The FCC said they should move their antenna in search of better reception and also try a “double rescan,” which involves resetting the converter box and then rescanning the skies for a new lineup.

Television executives have worried that some of the affected populations, especially younger viewers, would simply stop watching TV. Some have speculated that people would watch free TV shows online instead.

The Nielsen ratings indicated only slight declines last weekend; this could be related to digital TV, or a result of warmer weather or fewer major sports events on TV.

Nielsen has projected that the 2.5 million unprepared households was a running tally for the week that ended on June 14, meaning that some homes may have upgraded their sets ahead of the transition on Friday.