2014年6月18日星期三

It’s nix Longer A Smartphone, It’s A Smartcamera

It’s nix Longer A Smartphone, It’s A Smartcamera

A little weeks in the past, I lined up to take a picture of a giant iPhone 5c advertisement in the field of Seattle. My girlfriend’s niece, who is 4 years old, chimed in the field of: “Why are you taking a picture of so as to camera?”

Exactly.

Many of us still think of the iPhone 5c and its smartphone brethren in the role of phones. But that’s really no more than spot on designed for individuals of us old adequate to remember concrete phones. To a 4-year-old, the iPhone — name aside— isn’t a phone by the side of all. It’s a camera. “Phone” is in the past few minutes a new app — and an increasingly rarely used single by the side of so as to.

With so as to in the field of mind, I retain perhaps a faintly distinct take on Amazon’s broadcast in the present day of their new-found Fire Phone. While the gazebo skin texture range in the field of my mind from smart and motivating (Firefly Technology) to gimmick-sounding and potentially bothersome (Dynamic Perspective), the very disruptive element of the phone is something much new straightforward: Gratis, ad lib photo luggage compartment.

Remain, don’t the other chief players in the field of the “phone” responsibility offer this already? Amazingly, nix. IPhone uploads (even with the updates introduction in the field of iOS 8) are capped by the side of your iCloud luggage compartment limits (which you compensate designed for over a ridiculously undersized amount). Machine uploads can stay ad lib, but no more than to Google+ and no more than by the side of poorer resolutions.

Third gang services undertake you other ranges of options — Flickr, by the side of 1 terabyte of gratis luggage compartment is for the most part “unlimited” designed for on the whole group. But individuals are not default, out-of-the-box apps on these phones.

I cannot believe so as to set the ever-shrinking penalty of luggage compartment in the field of the cloud, single of the chief players hasn’t presented gratis, ad lib photo uploads facing. It be supposed to stay catalog stakes set all the other monetization angles these phones provide to their father companies. And straight away I retain a feeling it long for stay recognition to Amazon’s Fire Phone.

The devil may possibly well stay in the field of the details at this point, but assuming Amazon by design backs up each photo you take with the Fire Phone, it long for stay an amazing item to 100 percent of users. We’re all so accustomed to photo luggage compartment and backup being a perilous and naughty journey to the cloud. It be supposed to in the past few minutes operate.

You take a picture on your device. Nearby it is, backed up in the field of the cloud forever proper shown of the box. Nix luggage compartment limits. Nix size restrictions. Nix social nonsense. A spot on cloud camera. A smartcamera, if you long for.

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