Yes! Please! From the looks of this picture the black aluminum still scratches like crazy. I can't stand that.
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Apple's Prototype iPhone 5S Based on New A7 Chip
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Yes! Please! From the looks of this picture the black aluminum still scratches like crazy. I can't stand that.
If you are having issues with your home buttom try enabling AssistiveTouch. You can enable it in Settings -> General -> Accessibility. You can't do everything with it, but better than nothing.
Interesting observation. I'd be surprised if they changed the home button layout on the 5s, but maybe.
That's not what he said at all. He thinks iOS 7 represents change for the sake of change, and therefore prefers iOS 6. He did not state that his preference for iOS 6 alters reality and makes iOS 7 change for the sake of change.
I don't agree, I think fingerprint authentication is very useful... at least to me.
It will be to everyone who understands the theft implications. Fingerprint ensures the only way someone gets into your device is by wiping it. Now Apple has a way to disable that phone so a thief can't use it. What they've done now is steal a brick. All they can do is resell your device for parts (screen, body, etc.) or hope they can scam someone else with it.
Haha, i take tons of pics during my travels and have them all organized by folder on my phone. it's nice to sit at work and look through them to remind myself that there are great things to look forward to in life while slaving away at my desk
the pics are from my iphone 4 through to my iphone 5 so that's approximately 2-3 years worth of photos. I sync with itunes which backs my pictures up(i think...?) and, because im super paranoid, i also connect the phone to a windows computer once in awhile and copy all the pictures folders onto a backup drive i have. the downside here is that i lose all of my organization
the pics are from my iphone 4 through to my iphone 5 so that's approximately 2-3 years worth of photos. I sync with itunes which backs my pictures up(i think...?) and, because im super paranoid, i also connect the phone to a windows computer once in awhile and copy all the pictures folders onto a backup drive i have. the downside here is that i lose all of my organization
Holy smokes man! Back those pics up and free up some space
I could very well be a buyer (as a current iP5 owner) with another 2-4 hours of usable battery life and some photo system improvements (especially in the area of flash/low-light pictures).
If it does have n A7 chip in it that's nice and all, but it will STILL be slow or the same speed due to all those animations! I would never have believed it until that jailbreak app was released that lets you turn all those animations off with the result of massively boosting the performance of any iPhone!
Can we turn the animations off or down in iOS7? If not I'm sure my iPhone 5 will still be more than fast enough. Be interesting to see what they do with the GPU if it does have an A7, I've not found the tri core GPU in my 5 to be lagging in anyway but a dual core PowerVR 6 series will be a massive boost.
Can we turn the animations off or down in iOS7? If not I'm sure my iPhone 5 will still be more than fast enough. Be interesting to see what they do with the GPU if it does have an A7, I've not found the tri core GPU in my 5 to be lagging in anyway but a dual core PowerVR 6 series will be a massive boost.
I'm on iP4 so an A7 would be HUGE. But I'm still waiting for iP6 since I can live with my iP4. It's still in great shape.Shaping up to be a worthy update for those of us who have 4Ss on a two-year upgrade cycle.
Not sure I agree. The A6 series is still one of the top performers in terms of graphical performance (not including the Snapdragon 800), but it appears to be lagging behind in terms of CPU power. I think we'll see a dual core CPU with a modest frequency boost or a single CPU coming in at around 2.0ghz.
dual flash vs RAM upgrade
I think improving quality of photos is more noticeable to people than increasing the quantity of RAM, which would only be noticeable when working with demanding apps on your phone, which few people do. I just hope they have a better CMOS sensor, that doesn't crank photo size, but just quality, especially with the new camera focus of iOS 7.
As for the usefulness of a fingerprint sensor, I would love to never have to type my passcode in again and setup privileges for family members and significant others, so they don't get into things like my work email, photos, or messages without my permission.
As for the increase in processor speed, I'm excited.
As for the person that said Jon Ive should have kept his hands off iOS 7. I completely disagree. I think the update has many improved features, and aesthetically its much better in many respects than iOS 6. Sure the icons are a little playful looking and too bright, but they are still much better than android icons IMO.
I think improving quality of photos is more noticeable to people than increasing the quantity of RAM, which would only be noticeable when working with demanding apps on your phone, which few people do. I just hope they have a better CMOS sensor, that doesn't crank photo size, but just quality, especially with the new camera focus of iOS 7.
As for the usefulness of a fingerprint sensor, I would love to never have to type my passcode in again and setup privileges for family members and significant others, so they don't get into things like my work email, photos, or messages without my permission.
As for the increase in processor speed, I'm excited.
As for the person that said Jon Ive should have kept his hands off iOS 7. I completely disagree. I think the update has many improved features, and aesthetically its much better in many respects than iOS 6. Sure the icons are a little playful looking and too bright, but they are still much better than android icons IMO.
Phone bumping might not be liked by Phil Schiller, but as someone on the go a lot, it'd be nice to leave most of my wallet at home. Metro North here accepts NFC, and in Denmark I recall machines taking NFC. But I have an iPhone so I can't use these things...
Does anyone see something wrong with 1GB of RAM? I do. It is 2013 and Apple continues to lack 2GB of RAM? I want to buy an iPhone perhaps, and the lack of hardware innovations is holding me back at this time tbh. I already have an iPad 4, so I know what's it like to have an A6X.
I posted this in another thread and I disagree about the CPU not being able to be quad-core and have lower energy consumption. It is possible to do this and here is why. It is definitely possible to make a quad-core with better energy efficiency and I think this is the type of thing Apple would do.
I myself am hoping for a Quad-Core Processor but I'm hoping that Apple implements it with a big.LITTLE configuration. We all know that Apple's A6 Swift Cores are a customized chip that are similar to ARM's CortexA15. These more powerful cores mixed with lower powerful but similar Cortex-A7 cores (still more powerful then the Cortex-A9's used in the Apples A5 chip by around 20% and more power efficient by 60%). This will allow for better battery life by offloading less demanding processes to the A7 and more demanding ones will be saved for the A15. This will help Apple to really increase the battery life of the next iPhone while maintain strong performance.
For more information on this ARM details this kinda configuration nicely.
http://www.arm.com/products/processo...processing.php
There is still a lot of motion blur on the LED flash. It almost looks as though there are two LEDs in a "pill-shaped" configuration. But that can't be true.
I haven't run into any issues with only having 1gig of RAM. 2 gigs of RAM has become standard on high end Android devices because ICS and Jelly Bean is unstable with anyting less than 2 gigs. Eventually Apple will have to increase the RAM on their devices, but I'm not sure anything would be ganed by it at this point (outside of reduced battery life).