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
camera-equipped phones, it’s only necessary to tap a particular point of the screen to focus the camera on whatever object is in that point; an aiming rectangle helps confirm where the focus rests. The mode appears to work in both photo and video capture and has a very visible effect on certain shots, bringing text into focus that would otherwise have been blurry with today’s fixed-focused model.
Such a feature is expected not only to prove useful for better photos but to enable barcode scanners and other image recognition apps. These usually wouldn’t work with current iPhones as fine details are often unreadable.
Several blogs are now saying this appears to be legitimate. Here’s the site and photos (translated with Google): http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.umpcfever.com%2Fnews%2F%3Fpostid%3D2514&sl=auto&tl=en&history_state0=
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