Whats an iPhone 5?
If its real, could someone please send me the link on apple's site for it? Thanks.
If its real, could someone please send me the link on apple's site for it? Thanks.
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The iPhone 5 might actually have some real competition from the Galaxy S III...
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Found a picture of it. Looks like they improved the antenna
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ukpm/4764273405
Oh good. I was so afraid they'd turn it into something like this. Notice how the new design doesn't even require an antenna?
http://bit.ly/hbOMT1
To me, the competition isn't necessarily coming at Apple hardware wise (it is, but I don't think that's ultimately that important), but more so with software. While Windows Phone 7 hasn't gained much popularity, it has some great ideas and is aesthetically unique. ICS is widely considered either up to par, or better than iOS 5 by reviews and publications and users who have tried both OSes.
iOS 6 needs to bring it. Waiting for Apple's small incremental updates is becoming frustrating. Personally, I want to see a better keyboard, browser, and voice navigation.
iOS 6 needs to bring it. Waiting for Apple's small incremental updates is becoming frustrating. Personally, I want to see a better keyboard, browser, and voice navigation.
Yet there were lines for days and shortages of stock for this "lackluster" upgrade.
Specs dont measure the success of a device... Sales figures do.
Apple seems to think so. It's all their ads focus on...
(I agree, there is more. I notice a difference between the 4S and 4 whenever I pick the 4 up. But the average consumer sees siri commercials, and nothing more, so they expect Siri to blow their mind).
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How is he generalizing? "I see time and time again" does not equal "I always see". You either misread the post, or are simply reading what you want to see.
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Yet there were lines for days and shortages of stock for this "lackluster" upgrade.
Specs dont measure the success of a device... Sales figures do.
I completely agree. When apple launched the iPhone, their sales figures weren't number one either. If you look at the Galaxy S line, it is climbing year after year, much like Apple did, to get to the top. I think it's a very rare thing to see one group of devices dominating the market be taken over in a single year by another device. It takes time. Will it happen? Who knows. Sales figures suggest Samsung is doing very well indeed.
This is true, Blackberry was the dominant smartphone when the first iPhone was released... seems like a distant memory now doesnt it.
Yet there were lines for days and shortages of stock for this "lackluster" upgrade.
Specs dont measure the success of a device... Sales figures do.
I think it took 10 months for Samsung to sell 10 million Galaxy S2 units and it took a quarter for Apple to sell 43 million iPhone 4s models.
They have sold over 20 million of them. And there are many other Android devices to choose from. If the GS2 was the only one, they would have sold a lot more of them since 850,000 android devices are activated everyday.(up from 500,000 some months ago)
If you take that number times 300 days (roughly 10 months), you get 255 million sold in those 10 months.
Even if you use the 500,000 pr day that is 150 million devices , but it was reported recently that it is now 850,000 a day.
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The bottom line is, if you want iOS, you have a choice of three models. If you want Android you have... Christ I don't even want to count. Comparing the 4S to a single model of Android isn;t really a fair comparison. That said, the fact that it is even comparable speaks a great deal about Samsung's device IMO. What Samsung needs to do now is get worldwide releases closer together. There are some carriers that are JUST NOW getting the SGS2. That is certainly hurting their numbers some.
And when Apple comes out with a digitizer pen for the iPad, because many people have a need for one in their occupations, Apple will declare it "magical" and again show us how they came out with a new idea.
It's all marketing.
I'd rather the Sony Xperia S or ION since the NXT UI in its refinement resembles the quality I'm used to in ios.
ION has tribals LTE/HSPA+, S has HSPA+. Both have quality screens imbedded batteries and rapid charging.
ION has tribals LTE/HSPA+, S has HSPA+. Both have quality screens imbedded batteries and rapid charging.
Yet there were lines for days and shortages of stock for this "lackluster" upgrade.
Specs dont measure the success of a device... Sales figures do.
Good sales doesn't necessarily make a product better. "Better" is also relative to the user, so I don't want to make a blanket statement here and say an Android phone is better for everyone.
And all the iSheeps here will blaaaah that any tablet without a pen is useless and going to die.
I am seriously considering selling my ipad for the galaxy note 10.1 just for the pen.
Oh wow, another iPhone killer. Just like the DROID, DROID 2, DROID BIONIC, and DROID RAZR MAXX. Or any of the other lesser Android phones. Android phones are going to continue to fly off shelves. iPhones are going to continue to fly off shelves. End of story.
Actually, the only choice you have is the manufacturer's label on the back. If you took the label off, nobody would be able to tell the difference as they all have about the same exact specifications to them. Which is what Android users live on, specs.
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Only people like you think like this.
If only this were true though. There are threads upon threads of what everyone want the specs to be in the iPhone 5 on this forum from Apple users. 1 gig of ram, quadcore, NFC etc etc. IPhone users are about specs too.
Not all Android phones have the same specs either. Look at the Nexus, S2 and Razr all popular and they have different processors, different ports like HDMI out, NFC in the Nexus. Etc etc if specs aren't important to you why do you care?
If YOU can't tell the difference between Android phones I wouldn't group everyone in with you. Its insulting for someone to call ME ignorant even though the differences are obvious to me.
Erm... one can get a stylus for the iPad. Amazon UK lists 22 different ones, with most being under £10.
As for the iSheep crack, well...
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A stylus on a iPad is a far cry from a stylus on a wacom digitizer. Its like comparing a sidewalk chalk to a high quality pen.
So YOU can tell the difference between quad core processors running at different speeds? I'm impressed.
You mean like how the 326dpi on the iPhone 4/4S is more than the human eye can process?