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8 Things iPhone 5 Still Can't Do (per Yahoo!)

1. "NFC for mobile payments" I would have liked this - Me too.

2. "An improved texting solution on the keyboard, like Swype" NO Not for me, but others like it.

3. "SD card support for extra storage" Stupid - Would be hard to fit it, but if SD you can download camera photos

4. "A 128 GB option" I suppose - Yes please.

5. "Non-proprietary dock connection" Stupid - I honestly thught the new connector was for Micro USB

6. "A micro-HDMI port" NO - Me neither

7. "Replaceable battery" Do people not know that having a non-replaceable battery lets it be bigger? - But not as big as more than one battery

8. "While we're at it, better battery life!" ok - See #7
 
brayhite said:
Look dude, I'm in the same boat as you. I'd have liked to see NFC in the iPhone 5. It'd be cool to say "Yeah, I have that too." But would I use it? Probably as much as I use Bluetooth (re: very rarely), which goes along with my argument to begin with.

There was a problem with voice quality. Apple sought to apply what appears to be an easy fix for that on their side, as long as networks supported it.

There isn't a real "problem" that NFC is solving, from what I understand, that isn't being solved by other technologies. So Apple isn't seeking to apply a "fix" for it in their iPhone.
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you really dont use bluetooth much?

i find myself using it more and more..daily in my car it connects me to the stereo and plays my music and allows phone calls. I tether to my laptop via bluetooth..wireless headphones when exercising.
bt is awesome
 
The 2011 11" Macbook Air, a $1,000 computer, had 128 GB of storage. A phone DOES NOT need that much storage at the moment, nor is it really practical.
 
rsnc said:
you really dont use bluetooth much?

i find myself using it more and more..daily in my car it connects me to the stereo and plays my music and allows phone calls. I tether to my laptop via bluetooth..wireless headphones when exercising.
bt is awesome
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Which further proves my point.. BT is working just fine for those who use it. Why should Apple had invested the time months ago to insert an NFC chip and redesign the innards of the iPhone when the existing BT technology does its job well enough to warrant another year or two before doing so?
 
On a side note: the Samsung GS3 battery is only good on paper. Just go to android central forums and youll see so many reports of abnormal discharge rate and inconsistencies...actually at this rate I don't know what to believe, is it the user, android os, or just Samsung quality control
 
brayhite said:
Original article here: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/8-things-the-iphone-5-still-can-t-do.html

The summarized list is:

1. "NFC for mobile payments"

I'm surprised, I guess Apple is saving it for iPhone 5S or 6?

2. "An improved texting solution on the keyboard, like Swype"

Personally don't have a problem with Keyboard/Texing.

3. "SD card support for extra storage"

Why would Apple allow this when they can charge $100. I paid $30 for a 32GB Lexar Class 10 microSD for my S3, which gives me 48GB.

4. "A 128 GB option"

I love watching Videos, which takes up the most space and 64GB is more than enough for your average user.

5. "Non-proprietary dock connection"

The only point I support.

6. "A micro-HDMI port"

IMO it's more for Tablets and TBH with AirPlay/AllShare what's the point.

7. "Replaceable battery"

8. "While we're at it, better battery life!"

If you need 8 hours, bring your charger. LOL

I'm 99.9% sure this article was written purely for SEO purposes and to generate ad revenue for Yahoo!, no better than this (humorous) Onion article from this year's iPad release.

Quality article, Yahoo!. Explains why I'm going there to play fantasy football (much to my chagrin), not to read their "news".
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I only agree with the Connection. I guess more of a PITA to carry two cables.
 
txflyfish said:
On a side note: the Samsung GS3 battery is only good on paper. Just go to android central forums and youll see so many reports of abnormal discharge rate and inconsistencies...actually at this rate I don't know what to believe, is it the user, android os, or just Samsung quality control
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More then likely something the user is doing to drain the battery, but doesn't realize whatever they did will drain it. That's what I like about android, you can install something and monitor the usage and find the culprit whilst monitoring it.

iPhone can do the same, but not via an app, rather using internal diagnostics and trawling log files. It's why apple prefer to control the entire experience if they can, less likely for the battery life to skew from the specs, android more likely as they hand greater control to the end user.
 
One thing about the lightning proprietary connection.... Given the popularity of ios devices it wont be long before the market is flooded with cheap knock offs. Those knock offs are gonna be the same quality as the third party micro USBs. I don't see availability and quality being that big of an issue here
 
Note to Melissa Mayer:

Perhaps Yahoo wouldn't suck as a company if they actually wrote articles worth reading and delivered services worth using.

I guess we could write an article called "5 things Yahoo still can't do" and actually have it make more sense.
 
knemonic said:
A lot of people see it the other way.

They gave a case because it was overblown. The media had been looking for something to really jump on Apple and this was prime timing, something they could really blow up to make Apple look bad.

They made a huge issue that is a common problem with many phones, and Apple had to provide a response that was measurable, so they gave away a free case.

No other company has done something like that. I mean, my friend has the Playstation phone, it literally reboots on a daily basis, sometimes when he simply gets a text. Yet they haven't done anything for him, ever.
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Then a lot of people are wrong in my opinion.

Apple has never been one to bow down to negative criticism. Despite outrage at removing floppy disk drives from Macs, they never added them back. Despite outrage at Flash missing from iOS, they never added it. Despite outrage at Blu-Ray drives being missing from Macs, they never added them.

Why would they give out cases on this particular issue? Because they acknowledge there is a fault, that's why.

The difficulty with your friend's problem is that there's probably not as many people experiencing the problem. The antennagate issue went viral (and didn't affect my HTC Desire, Galaxy S2 OR Galaxy S3, by the way) and Apple had no choice but to make a statement.

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knemonic said:
I mean, iCloud, no other phone company has brought anything comparable and as robust to their phones, yet I don't see an article saying 8 things the S3 doesn't have.
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Google prefers to take an actual cloud approach, i.e. you store things on THEIR servers. Photos can be automatically uploaded to Google+ and accessed from any platform that can run a web browser. What's more portable than that?

Likewise with Google Music, upload your songs into the cloud (their servers) and then listen to them on any compatible device.

Contacts, calendar and email sync is supported on a lot of devices too.
 
brayhite said:
Which further proves my point.. BT is working just fine for those who use it. Why should Apple had invested the time months ago to insert an NFC chip and redesign the innards of the iPhone when the existing BT technology does its job well enough to warrant another year or two before doing so?
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bluetooth and nfc are not interchangeable..although there is some overlap
 
brayhite said:
1. "NFC for mobile payments" - Agreed. The tech really should've been in there, if thats the way things are heading (especially with Passbook).

2. "An improved texting solution on the keyboard, like Swype" - I feel like Swype is overhyped. I have it on my Razr Maxx, and while it seems cool, I've disabled it. It gets more words wrong than I would've expected. That said, it is nice to have the option to switch.

3. "SD card support for extra storage" - Agreed. I feel that 64GB is enough for most people, but it would be nice to have removable media, to quickly transfer pictures, etc without having to sync.

4. "A 128 GB option" - Agreed.

5. "Non-proprietary dock connection" - Agreed. I can't wait for the day when either 1) all gadgets will use the same wire (micro-USB or whatever) so I can have one wire coming out of my computer, or 2) when everything is wireless. I kind of hate having to know that I'll need yet another wire/dock/adapter for my phone.

6. "A micro-HDMI port" - Meh. I'll either have to buy a micro-HDMI-to-HDMI cable/adapter or a dock-connector-thing-to-HDMI adapter, so it doesn't really matter. Plus, Airplay is an option.

7. "Replaceable battery" - My iPhone 4 had very good battery life. As long as it lasts a full day, I'm okay with it being non-replaceable. My Razr Maxx also has a very good battery, and it is also non-removable. I don't want to be one of those people who has to carry backup batteries.

8. "While we're at it, better battery life!" - Agreed. Its a bigger battery, but it lasts as long as the 4S's battery (more consumption for the screen and LTE). I wouldn't have minded a slightly thicker phone for a battery that lasts even longer than it does now.
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rsnc said:
bluetooth and nfc are not interchangeable..although there is some overlap
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The original point was that NFC isn't adopted by enough of the industry for its mobile payment abilities to warrant installing it yet. Then the point was brought up that NFC allows you to do so much more than mobile payments, which is true, but most of these abilities can already be achieved via BT and QR codes.
 
Blueline29 said:
The only thing on that list that I'd really, really have liked to have seen is the 128 GB option. Yes, it might be more than I'd need right away, but I'd really rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it.
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The primary idea behind not needing as much storage is pulling your data from the cloud. iCloud isn't quite there yet but services like google play are.
 
JMG said:
The primary idea behind not needing as much storage is pulling your data from the cloud. iCloud isn't quite there yet but services like google play are.
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That reminds me. A really nice feature of Google's cloud offerings is that you can browse the Play Store via a web browser on a separate computer to your phone and install apps using the browser. They're then downloaded to your phone so long as you're logged into the same Google account.

This allows ingenious apps like "Plan B." If your device is stolen/lost/whatever, you can log into your Google account on a computer and install the "Plan B" app on your lost device over the cloud. It will then send an email to your Google account with the coordinates of where the device is located.
 
matttye said:
That reminds me. A really nice feature of Google's cloud offerings is that you can browse the Play Store via a web browser on a separate computer to your phone and install apps using the browser. They're then downloaded to your phone so long as you're logged into the same Google account.

This allows ingenious apps like "Plan B." If your device is stolen/lost/whatever, you can log into your Google account on a computer and install the "Plan B" app on your lost device over the cloud. It will then send an email to your Google account with the coordinates of where the device is located.
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Or just have Find my iPhone activated and do the same thing...
 
brayhite said:
Or just have Find my iPhone activated and do the same thing...
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Isnt that turned off by default? I can't remember whether it was or not on my iPad, but Google seems to suggest it's off by default.

With Plan B, all you have to do is sign into a Google account during the initial set up of the device.
 
matttye said:
Isnt that turned off by default? I can't remember whether it was or not on my iPad, but Google seems to suggest it's off by default.

With Plan B, all you have to do is sign into a Google account during the initial set up of the device.
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It asks you when you set up the device if you want to turn it on, I believe. Could be wrong, though.
 
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