wish they made the jump to 128GB phone
i guess since other phones come out with such crappy numbers they didn't feel need to raise it up
Probably saving that amazing feature for the IPhone 6
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Apple Announces iPhone 5s With 'Touch ID' Fingerprint Sensor
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Probably saving that amazing feature for the IPhone 6
The larger screen alone is a reason to do the upgrade. Is sounds like you are making excuses.
Just for the sake of argument, pretending that statement was actually true if the new phone has new features and improvements, how do those somehow not count if the info was leaked? Isn't what matters how good the phone is, as opposed to how good the phone is minus what we knew about it already? Are people buying a phone or buying a keynote speech about a phone?
Is there really no risk that people are going to start getting their fingers chopped off to gain access to these new phones? Does the sensor require a pulse?
I bet no one on the planet thinking about security and iPhone in the same conversation thought about this! Its a good valid point tho...theiv's will be asking "which finger u use" lol....I'm sure within the next year we will hear at least at minimum 1 story of such incident....finger tip lost for $500 mobile device....this will be worst than those who sell organs to buy apple products...as more criminals will be inclined to such things....there's a huge market for these premium phones in middle east, africa and South America.
I'm due for an upgrade and this is the iPhone I want to upgrade to but no preorders means I will not be buying one any time soon. So stupid.
And anyone saying this is a weak upgrade, did you miss the part about it being twice as fast as the last iPhone for CPU and graphics?
And anyone saying this is a weak upgrade, did you miss the part about it being twice as fast as the last iPhone for CPU and graphics?
No pre-orders
I feel so really betrayed , waited since the beginning of this year, now i got to wait till september 20 or later
BAD
I feel so really betrayed , waited since the beginning of this year, now i got to wait till september 20 or later
BAD
Personally, I like a smaller phone. I hope Apple retains the nice small form factor for the most of us that prefer it, perhaps a larger "cheap" model for others.... the 5CS..
It's about as close to being a non-feature as one could get and still be a bullet point.
64-bit addressing allows a device to make use of RAM space greater than 4GB, but since this model has less than that (1GB, 2? I couldn't find the RAM spec on Apple's site), about the only benefit I can think of is compatibility with certain development tools, which may help end users by helping devs port some games from OS X.
I was more than a bit surprised that Apple made such a key talking point out of the 64-bit thing. Are they planning on providing >4GB soon? Now that could get interesting.
to all those saying apple should've dropped the 16GB and gone 32/64/128.
For us buyers that would've been great. Apple would have to charge the same amount for the 32 as it did for 16 otherwise the prices are too high. So we get more for the same price.
However it means apple would be selling iPhones for less profit, not much but enough.
The majority of the people don't even need 16GB and 32GB even less. Thats because there are still a lot who don't need huge apps, being games, or tons of videos, tvshows and thousands of songs with them.
Apple makes the most profit while satisfying a decent amount of people with what they get for their money. The rest spends more money and apple makes even more profit.
My guess is it will take at least another 2 generations for the 16GB to disappear.
For us buyers that would've been great. Apple would have to charge the same amount for the 32 as it did for 16 otherwise the prices are too high. So we get more for the same price.
However it means apple would be selling iPhones for less profit, not much but enough.
The majority of the people don't even need 16GB and 32GB even less. Thats because there are still a lot who don't need huge apps, being games, or tons of videos, tvshows and thousands of songs with them.
Apple makes the most profit while satisfying a decent amount of people with what they get for their money. The rest spends more money and apple makes even more profit.
My guess is it will take at least another 2 generations for the 16GB to disappear.
Unless you must have the absolute latest, or the features are essential to you (camera mainly it seems), or you're rich enough not to mind taking a cash hit each year, I'd stay on a 2-year upgrade plan and get the redesigned model next year (iphone 6). The cash hit is probably less than for a Samsung, of course (one of my colleagues blows 300-400 each year for a new phone).
Personally, I have a 4 and I'm holding off for the 6 when it comes
Developers can't use it for authentication? TouchID is crippled right out of the gate....only two uses.
I was thinking the same. Lighter anodized (or non-anondized) aluminum "colors" are less likely to show wear from the infamous "Scuffgate", the main reason I bought a white 5 model. My friends with black iPhones have to use cases otherwise it looks like it lost a fight with a cat. The retail black floor models are in embarrassing condition, a floor specialist admitted they use markers at close to hide the wear.
Ive claims he hates cases, well, produce a phone that doesn't need a case.
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ARE *YOU* SERIOUS? £80 is such an easy way to identify the suckers, tech whores, morons and pretentious gits in the room, I never thought it'd cost so little to brand them!