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CES - iPhone is so dated!
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With at&t you can keep your unlimited data plan if you upgrade. Just upgraded 5 phones (2x iPhone 5 & 3x Note 2) and kept all unlimited plans.
I wasn't actually trying to zing anyone, just the comment about any phone looking vanilla on the front is silly. I mean how vanilla is this?
Vanilla? Yes. Good looking? Yes. Looks like everything else? Yea, that too.
What else does someone want? What else could there actually be? It's a black rectangle with a home button. Just like a million other phones. What other design could there be? A round phone? Maybe a pyramid shaped phone? No, the shape and design makes sense. Hell, before we had cell phones all phones had the same basic shape and all had their number buttons laid out the same.
Some camps on here criticize android hand sets for having soft keys while at the same time saying the iphone should ditch the home button. What will it have then? A magic connection to your brain that tells it to wake up? No, it will have a friggin soft key.
So you think I can upgrade my iPhone to that shiny new Sony Z
and be able to keep my plan? That would be amazing, will call AT&T
right away to ask. The plan was the original iPhone plan,
so I'm still doubtful as it was sold with iPhones only....
Sorry, but that Sony smokes the iPhone on every level.
And trying to say iOS is better than anything is simply stupid.
iPhone OS is garbage, I hate it to the point of hating using the iPhone.
All the apps are useless as there is no simple way to store and access
files. Using iTunes to transfer simple files to my iPhone is the most
moronic Apple idea ever. Hopefully they are really waking up
with their pants way down.
90% of all iPhone users I know are thinking about switching.
If only I could keep my unlimited data AT&T plan, I'd get one of these
in a heartbeat...
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That is not a nice looking phone IMO.
Character?
It's a phone. They all look pretty much the same when it comes down to it. What do you expect- what do you want the front of your phone to look like? 
Character?
Agreed. As far as hardware is concerned every phone is going to have the same design. Save for a few minute and niche details.
I wasn't actually trying to zing anyone, just the comment about any phone looking vanilla on the front is silly. I mean how vanilla is this?
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Vanilla? Yes. Good looking? Yes. Looks like everything else? Yea, that too.
What else does someone want? What else could there actually be? It's a black rectangle with a home button. Just like a million other phones. What other design could there be? A round phone? Maybe a pyramid shaped phone? No, the shape and design makes sense. Hell, before we had cell phones all phones had the same basic shape and all had their number buttons laid out the same.
Some camps on here criticize android hand sets for having soft keys while at the same time saying the iphone should ditch the home button. What will it have then? A magic connection to your brain that tells it to wake up? No, it will have a friggin soft key.
I'd prefer a capacitive button or on screen button. Could be completely software on screen. Home button could be swipe from the bottom. Etc etc.
You act that your lack of imagination means there's no alternative.
Sincerely,
A 4S owner with a dying home button
I don't see why you wouldn't be able to keep it. I've had it since I got my first iPhone (3G) and was able to keep it when I upgraded to a Samsung Captivate, switched back to an iPhone 4, and still with my S3. They had to 'swap' it to an LTE plan, but it's still $30/month and unlimited.
Like I said, there are already phones with capacitive buttons. Where does my lack of imagination come into this? You either have a physical button or a capacitive button/area, or both.
OMG, those images shows just how dated iOS is. Apple couldn't even bother to update icons with a more modern look.
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iPhone is alive and well
And there are plenty of people out there who don't want to upgrade their phones via Samsung Keis (having done it a couple of times, I call them sensible) or wait on their carrier for features they want now. Apple needs to answer the big screen and widget brigades (as a techie, I love both), but it has time.
To put things into perspective, my none techie dad spent the afternoon getting his replacement PS3 working and wanted to know why it couldn't be like his iPad. And Sony isn't all that bad!
Is expecting a significant device OS upgrade to simply arrive, happen and work perfectly with zero effort on the part of the owner really dated? Having updated my S3 to Jelly Bean (superb when you've got it BTW), Apple's approach looks a bit bleeding edge to me.
And there are plenty of people out there who don't want to upgrade their phones via Samsung Keis (having done it a couple of times, I call them sensible) or wait on their carrier for features they want now. Apple needs to answer the big screen and widget brigades (as a techie, I love both), but it has time.
To put things into perspective, my none techie dad spent the afternoon getting his replacement PS3 working and wanted to know why it couldn't be like his iPad. And Sony isn't all that bad!
Is expecting a significant device OS upgrade to simply arrive, happen and work perfectly with zero effort on the part of the owner really dated? Having updated my S3 to Jelly Bean (superb when you've got it BTW), Apple's approach looks a bit bleeding edge to me.
Yes! Pretty much exactly the same!
I would hardly call an extra row of icons after 6 years progress!
1) some of them have changed.
2) why change everything? They look fine and they're just going to confuse people by changing the icons. What's the point in that...
Change for the sake of change is stupid.
The iPhone isn't outdated, far from it, and iOS has evolved since it was introduced. I mean, come on, we didn't have FaceTime, the notification center, a gyroscope, GPS, the App Store, or even that great of a camera on the 2G.
Funny how something that LOOkS like what it was 6 years ago is still the benchmark for other companies to compare themselves too.
4 years old and Android reviews are still promising no lag this time !
Ios has changed and improved of course. But not at the speed or effectiveness as android. If you want to compare pictures of old Ios vs now Ios and call that innovation or evolution or whatever compliment, imagine pictures of old android vs now android; what would you call that then?
To be fair Android desperately needed a facelift before Honeycomb. It hasn't changed much since then, just slight tweaks (could use another overhaul, IMO).
iOS was better-looking out of the gate, and I still think it's the better-looking OS in most regards (aside from the egregious Game Center). But Google is definitely improving and willing to improve, unlike Apple. Matias Duarte seems committed to polishing up and enhancing the software design, which makes me more hopeful for Android's future than iOS's, in that department.
From a look standpoint iOS has not changed much, but from a feature standpoint it does with each new 1.0 update
Again what makes android then from a features stand point? Android still has more flexibility and features at this given time. If you can say ios improving enough by saying it adds features then what is android doing? Likewise what is touch wiz doing, which now has more features than stock Android?