WWDC14 keynote was today. New software, no new hardware. The voice messaging via text is something that I’ve wanted for a long time. Interested to see how it affects texting-while-driving habits, and the resulting effect on accident rates. Will iPhone users get in less car crashes?<\/p>\n
I wanted to put an idea out there. It’s something that I’ve thought about for a while with mobile phones, and I’m hoping for in the new iPhone.<\/p>\n
The most natural way to hold a phone is vertical (portrait). The most natural image format to us is horizontal (landscape).<\/p>\n
Why not allow people to take landscape pictures while holding the phone vertically? Why must I hold the phone awkwardly (and risk dropping it) anytime I want a decent picture?<\/p>\n
There are a few ways of solving this.<\/p>\n
The first is to simply take the existing image sensor, rotate it 90 degrees, and call it a day. This would work, but it’s not Apple-ish. It means you would have to hold the phone sideways if you actually wanted a portrait shot.<\/p>\n
The other option (that I like) is to put a bigger image sensor in the camera, and downsample the image taken via software. That way you could have a massive picture (if you want), but easily get the type of picture most people want from a camera. <\/p>\n
Service people’s defaults as the default case. This seems the most Apple way to do things.<\/p>\n
Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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