Maybe not for your current iPhone, but possibly the next iPhone will definitely have a video recording feature. After a few vague findings of UI elements and files pointing towards the possibility of editing and uploading video, nerds have finally been able to enable the video recording UI.
The interface shows the normal iPhone camera interface but with a switch on the bottom right which toggles between still camera photography and video recording. The video recording is not presently functional in iPhone 3.0 beta, and the interface is not accessible by default. Only when configuration files were modified telling the firmware that a Video Camera was present will this interface appear.Other interesting capabilities found in the configuration files include “auto-focus camera”, “magnetometer” (digital compass), and “Voice Control”.
It is almost safe to assume that we’ll see video recording and gang as big features in the next generation iPhone. We’ll most probably see some dramatic changes to the core of the hardware as well, including a faster processor and graphics unit. They couldn’t possibly whip out a video recording on current generation iPhone hardware and expect people to be happy about it.
Hopefully we’ll see this announced by Steve Jobs at WWDC and released along with the iPhone 3.0 SDK a few weeks later.
[via MacRumors]
