Techno Blog

Bye Bye Android phones, welcome home iPhone 4.

I took back the HTC EVO and sold my Nexus one on craigslist in favor of the new iPhone 4. Why? For my daily use I ended up carrying around the iPhone 3gs and a android phone. I used the 3gs to take photos, listen to music and play games. The Android phones I used for browsing the web, email and twittering.

I have had the HTC EVO for a day and the HTC Nexus one for about two months. Both have their flaws and benefits. The EVO is under the reign of Sprint meaning any functionality has to pass through the carrier. The Nexus one's keyboard & camera are not so great.

Of the two phones the camera on the EVO really shines. It has natural colors, shoots in lower light and operates at 5x the speed of the nexus one. Honestly the Nexus one's camera is a piece of junk. The iPhone has always had good color rendition but lacked detail and resolution. I also found it hard to compose a well aligned shot on the iphone screen for some reason. Bring on the EVO's huge screen to make shooting much easier.

Here is a shot from tonight's sunset.

Not so bad for a camera phone. Image editing
software on Android is another story. Not so hot. I would love to build a better image editing app.

The iPhone 3gs is becoming my defacto camera. Not because it is a great camera but because of all the awesome software on it. Photoshop mobile and The Best Camera app allow me to quickly adjust and add cool filters to images. They are just fun apps to use. Then with the imagefield import module I can quickly ftp the files to my server and post them. The FTPOnTheGo iPhone app allows you to bookmark the ftp folder so it is super fast to post photos.

My Dream would be to be able to shoot with a full size camera then have access to the images via the iPhone. That would allow easy uploads and editing of high quality images shot through real glass. It might be closer than we think: http://www.airstash.com/ I will order one when they ship. This would allow traveling with just the iphone sans a laptop.

This is a little review of the Canon G10. Overall a great little pocket camera. Over the past few months I have shot about 2000 images with the G10. It's quality is acceptable in well lit situations where you can use ISO 200 and lower. Inside at ISO 400 and above the images are noisy and terrible.

Video quality is pretty good. I have been shooting a lot of videos of Luca and edit them in iMovie. THe only note is to not Zoom when shooting in video mode. This crops the clip rather than zooming the lens.