Even Steve Jobs has mobile network issues…
Steve Jobs just announced a new iPhone on his annual WWDC keynote: the iPhone 4 with iOS4. The sleeker phone gets a higher resolution ‘retina resolution’ display (means larger video sizes means more traffic).
The iPhone also gains video calling support. This ‘FaceTime’ feature is going to be WiFi only, he says that the mobile operators have to work on their networks first before they will enable this for 3G. This looks like a proprietary iPhone feature, it doesn’t use the 3G standardized video conferencing stuff.
Users will also be able to film HD (720p) videos, edit them on iMovie for the iPhone, and send them (via WiFi and 3G) to friends or YouTube.
Netflix previewed their iPhone app, expected this summer. The app supports the full movies catalog and allows you to stream (HTTP adaptive) over WiFi and 3G.
Concluding: many new, data hungry, video oriented applications… we are going to see more mobile networks with interruptions…
During his Keynote, Jobs had many mobile network issues. Pages did not load in Safari. WiFi was filling up the radio spectrum (??). He asked the audience to kill their WiFi and close their laptops repeatedly. His primary and backup iPhone 4′s couldn’t connect to AT&T (‘Could not activate cellular network’). Someone in the audience shouted ‘Try Verizon!’. Ouch…
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