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Jobs Says Over-The-Air HD Video Uploads Coming 'In The Future'

One of the key features of iPhone 4 is its ability to record high-definition video in 720p. Users have found, however, that getting the HD video off of the device requires connecting it to a computer for download. While Apple offers users simple options for sharing videos directly from the iPhone via email or MMS, or by uploading the videos to MobileMe or YouTube, those mechanisms result in compression of the files, losing significantly quality in the process.

MacDailyNews reports that one of its readers emailed Apple CEO Steve Jobs to ask about this issue and express disappointment at the inability to directly upload HD content to the web while on the go. In an email reply, Jobs notes that the ability to upload HD content over the air is coming "in the future".

You can upload them via a Mac or PC today. Over the air in the future.

Sent from my iPhone

While Jobs gives no timeframe for when we might see such a feature, it does give users looking for this capability some hope for the future. HD video uploads via 3G would obviously place a greater strain on carriers' networks and also eat further into customers' data limits. For that reason it might make sense for Apple to either roll out the feature as a Wi-Fi-only at first, and perhaps offering it via 3G further down the road with user-selectable options for varying export quality.

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21 months ago
Good to know i guess

:apple:
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21 months ago
Of course. AT&T will let them use as much bandwidth as they like considering all new customers are limited to 2GB now which will quickly be used up with something like this.
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21 months ago
this of course will only happen via WiFi. never on AT&T's end....
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21 months ago
queue the... get it to make a phone call feature first comments
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21 months ago
This really strikes me as one of those things that they put off just to save time. It'll probably be something in 4.1 now that they've had a few more weeks to polish everything.
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21 months ago
He could have a response to every question being 'In the future' and we'd get yet another write up about an uninformative blah email from jobs.
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21 months ago
How is this even news.

Just more of Jobs' vague retarded drivel. It'll come in the next iPhone or the iPhone after that, and technically his statement is correct but is useless to any user today.

This shouldn't be reported as news because people who don't understand the stupid marketing games that Jobs and his cronies play will actually believe that this means a fix is coming sometime in the near future, not in 2016.
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21 months ago
With the removal of unlimited data, it's completely unacceptable to be thinking that the network stability should be taken into account.

I can see why its not on facetime.. bandwidth is important there, but i should be able to use my 500mb data for whatever i want, with no restrictions.
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21 months ago

How is this even news.

Just more of Jobs' vague retarded drivel. It'll come in the next iPhone or the iPhone after that


How is it news? You think it will come in 2011. The news suggests it will come in 2010.

Thus, you learned something. How is that not news?
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21 months ago
AHEM... Entering RANT zone.....

OK... this isn't really entirely a comment on the article but I went through the horror of registration just now (what is up with sites being a pain to register lately?) to say the following:

With the recent rumors.... should this site perhaps change the name to iPhoneRumors? iRumors maybe? :D

I love the iPhone and all but GOSH! It's been constant iPhone this and iPhone that for the past while. It's a stupid cell phone people! (Granted it's a lovely cell phone but a cell phone still.... :eek:)

Leaving RANT zone....

Well, there. I feel better now. :D

*moves on* ;)
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