Your iPhone 3GS can play 1080p video just fine (but will Apple let you?)

Aug 21st 2009
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Go ahead, I dare you to explain to me the utility you derive from playing 1080p video on your iPhone 3GS. A post on a Chinese forum suggests that the phone is perfectly capable of playing 720p and 1080p when encoded with H.264; Apple currently limits playback resolution to 640×480. The angle right now is, “How dare Apple artificially limit the resolution that we can play?” Well, one, it’s Apple, what do you expect and, two, can image how quickly the battery will deplete when playing 1080p video?

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