Displaying my texts even when my phone is locked has been one of my biggest gripes, but it seems as though 3.0 takes care of it...
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Next Generation iPhone: 7.2Mbit, Video Camera, More?
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I live in Washington, DC. and ride the metro train a lot. Everyone that has t-mobile, verizon, and other services still plug away on their phone with phone calls and text messages. I glance at my iphone and as soon as I walk in through the doors my reception drops. It would be nice to just be able to access my phone the same areas other services seem to be able to.
Also, everyone is talking about faster speeds. How about first having a reliable service? What is the point of faster speeds if your connection drops every 10 seconds or goes down for minutes on end? It absolutely sucks just standing there and doing funny poses like your a pair of rabbit ear television antenna trying desperately to get reception because your business call keeps dropping off for no reason.
Also, everyone is talking about faster speeds. How about first having a reliable service? What is the point of faster speeds if your connection drops every 10 seconds or goes down for minutes on end? It absolutely sucks just standing there and doing funny poses like your a pair of rabbit ear television antenna trying desperately to get reception because your business call keeps dropping off for no reason.
That's all well and good, but...
None of this matters if they keep offering an 'unlimited data' plan w/o unlimited SMS. What a joke!
If they want to sell a limited data plan--at a reduced rate--and then allow subscribers to add a limited or unlimited text messaging plan on top of that then I will finally buy an iPhone. But not before!
Wake up Apple and AT&T! You are losing out on signing up customers who refuse to be scammed by the current arrangement.
None of this matters if they keep offering an 'unlimited data' plan w/o unlimited SMS. What a joke!
If they want to sell a limited data plan--at a reduced rate--and then allow subscribers to add a limited or unlimited text messaging plan on top of that then I will finally buy an iPhone. But not before!
Wake up Apple and AT&T! You are losing out on signing up customers who refuse to be scammed by the current arrangement.
Please, stop the ridiculous N WiFi rumors.
The current iPhone can't even come close to saturating a G conection. In fact, it can't even saturate a good high-speed home Internet connection.
I have 20mbit/sec (burstable to 25 mbit/sec) service from Cox. I've tested it using SpeedTest from both my PC and my MacBook (forcing connection to the G side of my router), and I am able to attain that speed.
With my iPhone connected through WiFi, the best I've been able to get is 5mbit/sec - on a good day. That's just 1/4 of my Internet connection speed. I've tried it on other's routers and had the same result. As well, other people have reported a similar maximum speed here.
N WiFi is absolutely unnecessary for the iphone. It would be a waste of money and a waste of battery power, and Apple is not that stupid.
That tosses N out the window. As well, it is too soon for 4G. So, we have to look to something else (if it is anything other than people making stuff up) for the meaning of "faster Internet".
IF this rumor is true, it is more likely that they are removing whatever roadblock that currently caps connectivity at 5mbit/sec. This may be processor speed, inefficient software, the interface to the WiFi chip, etc. etc. It's NOT the fact that they are using G Wifi.
It does make sense to remove this cap. You don't get THAT much faster a connection via WiFi currently than you get OTA (at least in a big city with good 3G). Which makes iPhone WiFi somewhat disappointing. I can see a lot of interesting applications opening up, say, in an Enterprise setting, with faster WiFi connectivity. But that doesn't require N.
The current iPhone can't even come close to saturating a G conection. In fact, it can't even saturate a good high-speed home Internet connection.
I have 20mbit/sec (burstable to 25 mbit/sec) service from Cox. I've tested it using SpeedTest from both my PC and my MacBook (forcing connection to the G side of my router), and I am able to attain that speed.
With my iPhone connected through WiFi, the best I've been able to get is 5mbit/sec - on a good day. That's just 1/4 of my Internet connection speed. I've tried it on other's routers and had the same result. As well, other people have reported a similar maximum speed here.
N WiFi is absolutely unnecessary for the iphone. It would be a waste of money and a waste of battery power, and Apple is not that stupid.
That tosses N out the window. As well, it is too soon for 4G. So, we have to look to something else (if it is anything other than people making stuff up) for the meaning of "faster Internet".
IF this rumor is true, it is more likely that they are removing whatever roadblock that currently caps connectivity at 5mbit/sec. This may be processor speed, inefficient software, the interface to the WiFi chip, etc. etc. It's NOT the fact that they are using G Wifi.
It does make sense to remove this cap. You don't get THAT much faster a connection via WiFi currently than you get OTA (at least in a big city with good 3G). Which makes iPhone WiFi somewhat disappointing. I can see a lot of interesting applications opening up, say, in an Enterprise setting, with faster WiFi connectivity. But that doesn't require N.
I thought I remember a front page story from a few days ago stating the current iPhone 3G can only handle 3.6 Mbit/s HSPA?
Displaying my texts even when my phone is locked has been one of my biggest gripes, but it seems as though 3.0 takes care of it...
Wow thanks! That puts a smile on my face. I use the iphone a lot for business and many of those texts are private/personal and a blocking feature is desperately needed. I have heard stories in the office of guys being caught by their girlfriends/wives with another woman by that little lack of security. =)
T-Mobile? That'd be quite a trick since Verizon is the only one allowed to opperate in the tunnels.
Verizon lets Sprint customers roam on their network, but T-Mobile and AT&T would have no way to do that.
Prob. better posted in attrumors.com. Since apple is not the one putting up new towers.
And from my experience, I had one dropped call last month. And my service has been even better then my service I had with tmobile for years, all stories are relative and anecdotal when it comes to call "quality" I'm afraid.
I'm hoping it does have a N chipset so that I can then set my router to only run in N mode. Right now I have to add G compatibility just because of the phone. Setting it to just N is going to increase throughoutput over my wireless network. I don't really bother how fast the iphone downloads.
Be great if as well as the regular iPhone they offered an iPhone Special Edition:
Metal back
8mp camera that shoots 720p video (think Flip Mino) + Flash, focus etc.
32gb
Faster CPU and 256mb RAM
30 hours audio playback, 20 hours 2g talktime, 10 hours 3g talktime, 12 hours video/web browsing
£299/$499 + Contract.
Metal back
8mp camera that shoots 720p video (think Flip Mino) + Flash, focus etc.
32gb
Faster CPU and 256mb RAM
30 hours audio playback, 20 hours 2g talktime, 10 hours 3g talktime, 12 hours video/web browsing
£299/$499 + Contract.
On the whole "not showing preview of text messages" thread, yes this is available as an option in the 3.0 upgrade but it is currently available in the 2.0 release branch but in a rather weird way. You have to make sure you have the "passcode lock" enabled and then a new option will appear that will let you turn off message previews. Very useful but I'm glad they got it working in 3.0 without the need for entering a passcode every time.
On the "next iPhone" thread, I would agree with all the rumored additions (video, 7.2mb chip, faster processor) but hope there will also be storage increase (32GB sounds about right) and RAM upgrades in order to help out with crashing apps. As for the name, I think it will be iPhone Video as well but I think they'll need something more than just a 3MP camera with video; will need a forward facing camera and ability to do video calling (maybe even a service through mobileme that lets you do voice chats with ichat on a mac?? maybe??)
On the "next iPhone" thread, I would agree with all the rumored additions (video, 7.2mb chip, faster processor) but hope there will also be storage increase (32GB sounds about right) and RAM upgrades in order to help out with crashing apps. As for the name, I think it will be iPhone Video as well but I think they'll need something more than just a 3MP camera with video; will need a forward facing camera and ability to do video calling (maybe even a service through mobileme that lets you do voice chats with ichat on a mac?? maybe??)
So do you want the 1st gen 2G phone or the 3G 2nd gen phone, or could I perhaps interest you in the 2nd gen 3G phone which is of course totally different than the 3G 2nd gen.
Consumer:
I like it!
This is all I want:
1) Better (photo)camera: 5 Mpixels and autofocus. I give nothing about video recording, I think I have 1 video left on my computer in my 4 years of phones with this function. But I guess technically it would be nothing for Apple to add this function (and hype it) since this is basic as an mp3 ringtone nowadays.
2) LED light. Yes: "light". I use this quite often (used it as light on my bike for weeks since that one was broken for instance). LED is worthless as a flash for the camera, you need Xenon for that. If they could do both (like my SE K850i, which has a triple LED by the way) it would be great, but otherwise I prefer LED.
3) Bigger screen/smaller body - Of course they can't change it much, but every I'm happy with millimeter.
4) Some innovative feature nobody expects!
5) Better battery
6) Faster working device
That's it. I don't care about the internet speeds since it's fast enough for me. The rest is all software, and I think 3.0 covers most of it.
1) Better (photo)camera: 5 Mpixels and autofocus. I give nothing about video recording, I think I have 1 video left on my computer in my 4 years of phones with this function. But I guess technically it would be nothing for Apple to add this function (and hype it
) since this is basic as an mp3 ringtone nowadays.2) LED light. Yes: "light". I use this quite often (used it as light on my bike for weeks since that one was broken for instance). LED is worthless as a flash for the camera, you need Xenon for that. If they could do both (like my SE K850i, which has a triple LED by the way) it would be great, but otherwise I prefer LED.
3) Bigger screen/smaller body - Of course they can't change it much, but every I'm happy with millimeter.
4) Some innovative feature nobody expects!
5) Better battery
6) Faster working device
That's it. I don't care about the internet speeds since it's fast enough for me. The rest is all software, and I think 3.0 covers most of it.
It's true. I have T-Mobile and I never get service in any underground Metro stations. I did just read an article, however, about Metrorail signing contracts with AT&T and TMobile to add service, but I wouldn't expect that to be implemented any time soon (hopefully measured in months, however, than than years a la the Silver and Purple Lines
).
Personally, I'm in no need of a video camera. If they do add one, fine, but I just hope it isn't to the detriment of the whole iPhone thing. There's a difference between convergence (which is where I think Apple have done a beautiful job) and a device that tries to do everything, and ends up doing everything crap, even the basics.
Status Notifier (you need to jailbreak your phone to install it) does just that, I set mine to vibrate once every 1 minute and display a little icon in the status bar (where the carrier and bettery status is displayed). Wouldn't wanna miss that feature.
Agreed. That Marvell PXA168 ARM looks pretty sweet! Of course, I'd like to see a big storage bump, but that is a whole other story...
Which is why I think they'll simply refer to this one as the iPhone again. The technical name will be 3rd gen iPhone, but I think the name itself will simply be iPhone.
