I would have paid full price for just this one new iPhone feature
I love it when technology and simplicity come together. That's what Apple has accomplished with the new iPhone 3G S. Until the 3G S there was no way to capture video with your iPhone. Well, at least with the out-of-the-box iPhone.
Not only did Apple add video capture and recording with the iPhone 3G S but Apple also made it drop-dead simple to share your recorded video with others.
I found this out over the weekend when I shot my first video of my son jumping off a diving board at a public pool. To shoot the video I just pressed the camera icon on my iPhone and then used my finger to slide an on-screen switch from camera mode to video mode. Then it was a simple matter of pressing record to start recording and stop to stop recording.
After recording the video, I pressed one more button to distribute the video and selected YouTube as the destination. I entered a title and description for the video, a few tags and a category and before I knew it, the video was uploading to YouTube straight from my iPhone.
A few minutes later this was the result:
If you can not see the video above, please use the direct link to the video.
2 comments for this blog post so far...
June 23, 2009 at 10:54 am
katy
very tempted to get one…
Patric - there seems to be a problem, anywhere I click on this post, it takes me to Youtube of the vid. ie while trying to post this comment in this comment box.
June 23, 2009 at 8:14 pm
Patric Welch
@katy: If you’re thinking about getting one, you definitely should. Not sure what’s going on with the clicks on this post. Sorry ‘bout that.
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