Yesterday, Apple announced its iPhone 4 with iOS 4. By all accounts, the device is an amazing piece of technology but hardware alone will not “change the game.” Over the past few months, Apple has been feuding with Gizmodo for releasing picture of the iPhone 4 hardware it obtained from a device “lost” in a California pub. Probably more of a publicity stunt by Apple, the pictures release a few months ago had a tantalizing clue to Apple’s vision of the future. The forward facing camera certainly indicated that video conferencing was on its way, but until yesterday’s introduction and demonstration of Facetime, it was hard to believe that a device so small could deliver a high quality video conference. Amazingly, the technology operating with few hiccups and seem to be extremely appealing for educators. It remains to be seen if carriers like AT&T and Verizon can produce the bandwidth necessary to make instant video conferenceing ubiquitous, but given the potential there is no doubt that this technology can be a “game changer” for distance education.
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