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iPhone and the iSight

March 10, 2008

UPDATE: NO FORWARD FACING FRONT CAMERA AT WWDC!!

noSight in sight

I wanted a walkie-talkie wrist watch since I first saw Dick Tracy. Then a few years ago I bought  some cool walkie-talkie watches. They were pretty sweet and came in handy for quick communication at a newspaper I used to work at. Total Recall made me want a video phone soooo bad and I drooled over a prototype I saw at Staples in the early ’90s. It’s 2008!!! … I mean, we have the tech to fake a moon landing, but the iPhone can’t make video calls?

Why doesn’t the iPhone have an iSight?
I’m not sure, but looking at the diminutives of
it at the top of my iMac, and on the macbook air, it should be possible. I mean, how freakin’ dope would it be to video call using Skype, or iChat? Perhaps, the molasses of Edge is what kept it from being introduced in the first place: ATT doesn’t want bandwidth hogs.

iPhone and iSight

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