LG’s new phone, the Secret, gives the double deuce to single mega-pixel cellphone cameras with a five megapixel sensor. Yeah, yeah. But more interesting is the promised ability to record DivX movies at up to 120 frames per second using the phone. Of course, you won’t be able to save much to its slim 100MB drive, but you can expand the Secret’s capacity with an SD card. Even cooler: it’s apparently possible to edit the video on the phone’s screen.
I suspect that last feature won’t be a lot of fun to use, but I think it is a great idea. The Secret is obviously trying to appeal to vidcasters and the like. The next iPhone should take this approach: a decent video cam and the ability to edit videos with a portable version of iMovie, then upload your completed video over 3G to YouTube Mobile.
As for LG’s Secret, I for one welcome the coming age of high-resolution cellphone porn movies. No pricing available yet.
LG Secret [Official Site]
I’d love to find a way of ruining the RFID chip in my new debit card while leaving the contact-read chip intact.
By holding my card against a reader, anyone who happens to get hold of it can make an unlimited number of transactions up to about £20 each. No PIN, signature or any other security check required. I assume it could be cloned fairly quickly, so I wouldn’t necessarily realise I had a problem until my statement arrives at the end of the month.
Needless to say, I spoke to my bank about this, who helpfully:
1) Refused to give me a card without this moronic security flaw
2) Spent just under five minutes trying to browbeat me into getting a credit card with a truly horrifying interest rate.
I ended up picking up the LG Venus because I could record up to an hour of video on it – crap quality, but for the same price as a half-dozen other random unattractive phones, it was the perk that got me interested.
Video is undoubtedly the next major frontier for phone vendors to get right, imo.