Comments on: Steve Jobs on the new iPhone 4: “It’s like a beautiful old Leica camera”

By: anna

anna — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:50:34 +0000

Did a little photo-gallery comparing the features on the two. Reminded me how beautiful those leicas are
http://www.shinyshiny.tv/2010/06/gallery_iphone_4_leica_camera_similarities.html

By: Eugenio

Eugenio — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:32:02 +0000

1.5 years Ken? Wow, you are very lucky. My Iphone G3 lasts only 3 days…. 3 DAYS! (Now I know what 3 stand for). After that period o time the wifi goes wrong and then many things were bad. It’s kind of self destructive. After 3 months I sold it for pieces (not for $3 hopefully). So yes… like a beautiful Leica camera…jaja. Mine is from 1954 and it’s like new and I shoot all time with it.

In fact, finally I found the glass on the back… is the little double window for viewfinder-rangefinder… You could me told that guys.

By: Ken Elliott

Ken Elliott — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 12:21:02 +0000

Yeah, except my 50-year-old Leica is working fine, and my 1.5 year old iPhone is starting to fail. As with others, my Bluetooth headset has to be within 2 feet (.7m) to work without excessive static. Lots of things starting to go wrong – yet I’m still 6 months away from the contract ending.

Remember when Steve said the iPod HiFi was better than his home stereo? Yeah…. How’s that POS doing today?

By: LR admin

LR admin — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 02:17:25 +0000

LOL, this is funny!

By: dicko

dicko — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 01:49:55 +0000

What he means in that in 40 years’ time, we will still be using our iphone 4s and looking up serial numbers on a compiled list and be able to see “…my iPhone left the Chinese factory on July 22, 2011 in a batch of 200,000…” just like I do with my M4.

By: Eugenio

Eugenio — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 00:28:39 +0000

I have a IIIf (an “old beautiful Leica camera”) I’ve tourned it many times and I don’t see the glass on the back. Maybe I am missing something?

By: ysr

ysr — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 00:04:24 +0000

Thats an insult to Leica! :/

By: BillV

BillV — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 22:54:12 +0000

You mean the new iPhone will be as unreliable as my old M3 and M4-2! I dumped them in the late 1980s, since they spent time in Leica’s repair shop at least twice a year.

By: Sqeener

Sqeener — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 22:41:57 +0000

its like a beautiful Leica- with limited data plans.

By: Stephen B

Stephen B — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:25:42 +0000

Yeah I picked up on the Leica comment too. Can Apple just do the right thing and get together. Just imagine a cheeky little Leica lens on a iPhone. Even one made by Panasonic (to exacting Leica standards) would do. Game over.