As I walked down Marlow High Street I stopped by the Sainsbury’s to withdraw some money. It’s such an utter arse having to withdraw money, but some transactions are better completed with cash (e.g. buying a pint of coke) in order to avoid the 30-second pantomime that is the chip-and-pin payment procedure.
As I retrieved my cash, I turned toward the High Street and woosh — I saw it: my first iPhone 4 in-the-wild.
The chap was walking along the street with his friend fiddling with the device. I spotted the casing and the distinctive style immediately.
And I felt nothing.
I should point out that I was just a leap from the Vodafone shop next to Sainsbury’s, but I didn’t feel the need to run there and grab an iPhone 4.
Indeed, when I upgraded my 3GS to iOS4, I felt nothing again. Oh, so it’s got wallpaper… Oh, so you can not-quite multi-task. I tried multitasking with ZumoDrive — do you know it? It’s a brilliant service that let’s you store hundreds of gigs of data in the cloud and pull it down/stream it when you need it. I like to listen to the BBC In Our Time podcast this way. I tried running ZumoDrive then I ran maps. And did it work?
No.
It’s not as if I was asking for the world, was it? This may well be because the ZumoDrive chaps haven’t upgraded the app to use the iPhone’s bollocksy half-arsed semi-shit multitasking functionality.
I am thoroughly, thoroughly surprised at my reaction to the iPhone 4 OS and to the iPhone 4 itself.
Oh I’ll get one.
But for some weird reason, this time around, I haven’t felt like I’ve needed to own one immediately. I don’t feel I need to queue for one. Or get excited about it’s arrival.
So in due course, I’ll upgrade. I can’t believe how totally underwhelmed I am by it right now.
You're just having a bad day… Give me a couple of days and I'll show you some lovely HD footage that will change your mind. ^_-
Do you think? I'm not so sure, James!
Couldn't care less? Blogged it though…
Aye but I think it's rather interesting that I reacted in that manner. And I wonder if I'm the only one. So I've published the post to find out…
I've just used iMovie for the first time. It's quite stunning. I have no idea how it performs so well. My guess is that it's using Open CL and bringing extra in horsepower from the GPU.
Try this video out. The original is much higher quality, but this is still pretty good for YouTube.
http://youtu.be/HwJn3n7ZbLk?hd=1
Ok, I'm sold James, that is very, very good
i am sold as well, it felt like i was there watching the bee with you!
It's lovely compared to iPhone 3GS, but not on par with the demos I've seen of pre-release Nokia N8 HD footage. I'd like to see a direct comparison between the iPhone 4, and N8 when it's released. I suspect the N8 will be considerably better!