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New iPhone SDK build shows video playlists, portrait-mode playback

An anonymous tipster sent us a short video showing new capabilities of the iPhone 2.0 software. It's a little hard to see around his building's attractive fluorescent lighting, but hopefully you get the gist.

It appears that videos will be easily playable in portrait or landscape orientations, using data from the iPhone's accelerometer. (Though it's been possible to play embedded QuickTime videos through Safari in the vertical orientation since firmware version 1.1.1.)

Also, mercifully, it looks like video playlists are in our future.

Update: The video has been updated with a far less glarey version. Thanks, anonymous tipster friend!



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dagamer34

If someone can make a suggestion to Apple to put in the next firmware update, ask them to have video-specific brightness please. Usually I don't care about the brightness and set it to low to save battery life but a video is hard to see at min brightness. Please add!

June 15 2008 at 10:22 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Stevensnewest

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June 12 2008 at 7:39 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Frederico

speaking of iPhones. Why can't tuaw post video that plays on iPhone?

June 12 2008 at 2:04 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Rudy

and theres still no mms or copy and paste

June 12 2008 at 1:43 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Josh

Ok.

So please tell me why we still don't have copy and paste, no MMS, no A2DP stereo BT streaming, but we have the wondrous ability to play video in portrait mode.

June 11 2008 at 11:30 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ryan

How about when you are watching video, and you want to increase/decrease the brightness?

Exiting to go into Settings there is painful...and the Nano even has a brightness control built into the video playback. Hopefully this is brought to the iPhone/Touch, or someone can patch it via the app store.

June 11 2008 at 7:58 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
loren

where did that contacts icon come from?

June 11 2008 at 7:34 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Kevin

Thats great and all but where is the option to create a contact straight from the pop-up dialog when a number is clicked on a webpage without dialing first? USB mass storage for file transferals?

June 11 2008 at 7:21 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Phil

All I want is the ability to change the darn iPod equalization settings from within the iPod app on the iPhone. As it stands now, anytime I switch to a podcast, I have to hit the home buttton, tap the settings button, scroll down to iPod settings, tap it, then tap equalization and then choose the right EQ (!). Then double click the home button to get back to the iPod player. That's just crazy.

June 11 2008 at 5:16 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
james

yes, yes, please let us disable this. I usually watch videos on the phone in bed and it's always going the wrong way in Safari...

June 11 2008 at 4:47 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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toypaj

Using Safari you can view the sites etc in landscape (while lying down):

Hold the iPhone sideways with the home button to the left (so the display is landscape)

Then rotate it so the Home button is at the top of the phone (portrait orientation) and it will stay in Landscape as Safari won't flip upside down.

I made a quick crappy quality video here using iSight and YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp4bKpfwZGg (I didn't have any fluorescent lights so I used my Macbook screen for the reflections :D )




June 11 2008 at 5:58 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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