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Sold iPhone 5, sick of headphone jack on bottom.
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Ok..... Seems like you need a bit of help if you know what I mean but sure, ok. Of course you'll be using your 4s for a long time as this is the new place for the hp jack.Yes! man i really sold my iphone 5 because of the headphones jack placement and many other little annoyances like horrendous battery life , and i have tried everything from all the other posters sugested ,maybe my phone was one of the first with a bad battery , i dont know.
And to the horror of the crowd that wants the next iphone as thin as a piece of paper and with the same weight as a sheet of paper oh ! how can i say that , not enough weight in your hand to feel like something well made - annoyance , and for the gods sake Apple , why you could have not kept the same thickness as iphone 4s and added a thicker battery to get you trough a couple of days of Lte, i mean in my opinion iphone 4 feels perfect in your hand meaning weight and thickness of it.
The speed i liked when At&T was providing it , but for speed i already have my ipad Lte, and 4s is not that bad either.
So that's all folks! all my annoyances with the iphone 5 , which resulted in selling it and waiting for the next big iphone from Apple , and no i am not a troll , thats just my opinion and you can have a diferent one too thats the beauty of our great country.
between the 4s and the 5 (with a backup 3gs in between the Nexus and the 5 release, ugh even jailbroken)
I think top has its perks, so does bottom.
For gym, top is better. And car possibly too depending on your mount but I just lay my phone down near the cup holders.
For listening to music with the phone in your pocket, bottom is more intuitive. The cable clutter at the bottom looks better too while charging and listening.
Either way, if I didn't like it I wouldn't go back to something else.
The main thing, only thing really, I miss about my 4S is that it was jailbroken.
Without my tweaks, my iPhone isn't "mine."
really? well good luck..most android phones these days also have headphone jack at the bottom of the device.
I particularly liked the bottom headphone jack placement, now whenever I try to take a picture with my phone, the headphone cord wont be in the way of the lens.
but honestly....this is how I feel about this post
to be fair u cant turn the iPhone 360 upside down unlike the iPad. not sure why apple disabled that.
are they afraid that people are so dumb that they r gonna hold their phone upside down trying to call someone? ^^
Maybe they just didn't think anyone would actually want to hold their phone upside down. You can play temple run and subway surfers upside down iirc.
I thought they were clever and funny. I have always liked their commercials making fun of apple idiots (like we all are)
That's not the least bit true. When I turn my phone 360 degrees, everything, and I do mean EVERYTHING, works exactly the same as not turning it at all.
OP clarified he/she meant while using the phone one handed. I still don't see why it's an issue unless OP is resting that specific corner in his/her palm but even then....
I am also sure that is probably why apple did this... sad but most likely true.
Zing! You beat me to it! LOL
I will say I hold my phone in the same way as the OP, and my pinky hits the plug, but it never bothered me. Didn't think about it till I read it. Then again, I'm not using headphones that often.
The headphone jack on the bottom is my one gripe about the 5. Being left handed the cord sits right on my palm and I've sort of had to relearn how to hold the iphone one handed. Is it an annoyance? Yes. But not a reason to dump the phone.
since when ?You do know that you can turn the phone around and the screen will be in the right position...
i preferred when the jack was on the top. why? only because if I'm listening to music in bed at night and go to prop the phone up on my chest to change a song or look at the screen, now the cord is in the way, so i cant prop it on myself, lol.
i am not going to return the phone just because of that reason though!!
seriously
i am not going to return the phone just because of that reason though!!
seriously
lol yep 180 whoops
only on the iPad, just tried temple run again on the iPhone and it doesnt rotate
I don't know I'm not an apple engineer. It's pretty weird to use the phone upside down anyway.
The symmetrical thing bothered me at first (and still does
). I don't think the bottom of the phone "looks good" because it's not balanced. I was kind of surprised that the leaks matched the final product because I didn't think Apple would actually sacrifice speaker/mic layout for the headphone jack. But whatever...it's not like I stare at the bottom of my phone 