First iPhone 3G S video: The auto-focus is cool

June 17, 2009 | Paul Boutin | Comments |

Attention iPhone fans: While you’re installing the 3.0 software, watch the clip below. The video was shot with a new iPhone 3G S, which has improved what was already an exceptional camera for a mobile phone.

In this clip, the auto-focus is surprisingly good at keeping the image sharp as the phone’s owner swing its eye across a desktop. Why do people love Apple? Besides everything Apple makes is pretty, and the company has good instincts for what to automate, such as focusing a camera, rather than leaving it in the user’s hands.

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  • shuelin
    Man that video looks nice.
  • cloud2
    so whats this do to firms like Qik???
  • Richard
    The iPhone is the dumbest thing to come along since cuff links. Extra, and very much unnecessary.
  • spideri
    But it fails to focus when it gets close...
  • Amir
    Paul - are you serious about writing
    "what was already an exceptional camera for a mobile phone" ????
    2MB is since 5 years on other phones in Europe. Why didn't they release a 5MB camera which is standard with Nokia, SonyEricsson and sub-standard with Japanese models.