New Chinese blog photos claim to show new iPhone’s camera and compass
A Chinese blog has blurry photos that appear to show an iPhone — possibly the next-generation model — using autofocusing with its camera, movie recording and the digital compass.
The series of images from UMPCFever make side-by-side comparisons between an older iPhone and the device running the new firmware, which is claimed to be a new iPhone brought over from the US and deliberately shot with blurry detail to avoid confirming details of the physical design. The claim is suspected of being at least partly true as many of the shown features would simply refuse to run on an iPhone 3G, even with iPhone 3.0 firmware installed.
Autofocusing is the most obvious difference and works simply: as with many touchscreen cameras and
to reach about 1,000. This is the first time a particular cell phone has been used on such a huge scale at a Japanese university.
The gadget will work as a study tool for students, but as it also comes with GPS, which the university plans to use to check student attendance. Truancy is a big problem in Japan, where regular attendance is an important factor in determining a student’s grade. Students often fake attendance by getting classmates to answer roll calls.
Several schools are now featuring the iPhone around the world in prominent and important roles, from studying to note taking to (now) attendance.
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