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At two megapixels the camera has been widely criticised (though on the whole not by users who have actually taken pictures with it) but that is more than enough to capture video at 1080x720, well above standard definition.

Currently the beta version of the app/hack only captures five seconds of footage at just 10 frames per second. But the developer says that the finished software

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will be capable of 45fps capture. He is not so sure if it will manage the full resolution however, but believes the only limit on the amount of footage that can be captured is the available capacity in the handset's 8GB of storage. And there are other in-built limitations.

"Of course, an iPhone video camera doesn't have a zoom lens system and convenient features like image stabilisation, but for that quick shot to email to friends the MPEG-4 compressed images offered by the iPhone will do quite well."

Installing unapproved software such as this will not appeal to the majority of iPhone users, but it does demonstrate the device's potential ahead of next year's release of tools that will officially allow developers to write iPhone and iPod touch applications

Monster and Friends has posted a short clip of an iPhone capturing video.