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iPhone 3.0 New Features Overview
Part five of five: Voice Memos
Sean Carruthers: Hi I'm Sean Carruthers and welcome to the fifth in a five part series on the new iPhone 3.0 software update. Now we're going to look at a new application on this update called Voice Memos, which is a brand new feature. If you've ever been out in the field and wanted to record something, but not have a little portable recorder with you this is a handy little function. Now you can see right here it's a little microphone on the main screen and if you click it you'll actually get a much bigger microphone. Now this microphone is actually not recording on the screen itself, but it's recording through the microphone on the iPhone. Not much is happening down there on VU Meter until we start recording. So to do that we'll press on the record button down here.
So now that we have a recording we can just speak into the microphone and away we go. Now I'm a little bit further away from here, so it isn't picking up much, we can tap on the desk here right near the microphone and you can see the VU Meter down below working indicating that there is levels. Now this isn't necessarily always the most convenient way to record something because you're not always recording yourself. Maybe you're recording someone that's with you, so one thing you can do is take the whole thing, flip it around like so and you'll notice the microphone flips around, so now the controls are the opposite end so that you can actually use the controls even when the microphone is now up here recording someone else that you're talking to.
So we're going to actually flip her back around to the regular orientation and we're going to press stop, because we're done with our recording, so the button down below will stop the recording. Now you can start another recording at this point if you like or if you prefer you can click on these three bars here, which is the menu option, it'll take you into the things that we recorded previous and this one right here is now actually the one that I was already recording, right at the top you notice that there's a pause control here. You can click on that to stop it and if you want to get more information on this, you can press on the button, the arrow off to the side, which fly open this little menu, it'll tell you when it was recorded, it'll give you the option of sharing it or trimming it. Trimming it, well if you recorded something that you want to get rid of, say the first minute or so, because you were setting up or whatever, you can actually start trimming from either end here and then once you are satisfied with it you can click trim and cancel because you don't want to do that at this point.
You can also share it, so by clicking on the share button it'll allow you to email it to someone else and you can cancel again. You also notice there is another arrow right here that we can click through and now we can label it. So if it's a podcast or interview lecture, idea, meeting or memo you can just click on one of these eight here and it will automatically label it for you. But if you want to call it something else, for example we're recording this for tutorial, so we're going to hit custom and we're going to enter in tutorial, like so and click done and now it's labeled as tutorial and when we go back over to the voice menus I see we've got tutorial right at the top there, that's the one we just recorded and you can also see one where I mistyped tutorial below. There you go, so you can transfer these things back and forth using your iTunes library, anything that you record in this will automatically be synched back to your iTunes library as a regular audio file. That's it for the voice memos function on iPhone 3.0. Thanks again for watching, don't forget to check out the other four parts in our series.
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