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Carriers Currently Testing iPhone 5 in Sealed Boxes?
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or dumb designers not planning for all the ways a consumer would hold their product
The engineer that lost the iPhone 4 in a bar a year ago has never been heard from since.
If they are testing this phone with the carriers, then something must have changed significantly enough to call for this.However, I don't think this is the "Product Transition" that was spoken of during the last quarterly report... Apple is expecting to take some kind of earnings hit due to this reported transition.
How can one test a phone in a sealed box?
Haven't you heard about the new voice operated "assistant"? You just talk to the box and the box does what you ask it to do.
Can you hear me now?
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"High level execs" don't have better things to do than beta test cell phones? They can't trust employees to carry out the tests appropriately?
Dudes, get with it. This is the next generation iPod Touch. iPhone 4G with the same form factor as the iPhone 4 is the next iPhone. Of course there will be a lot of bitching here about how this new cool iPod Touch isn't an iPhone 4. Why boys and girls? You need room for a good sized battery for 4G!!!
Q.E.D. Sylvester!
Q.E.D. Sylvester!
Come on T-Mobile and Sprint! More official iPhones on more carriers in the US! It will drive AT&T and VZW prices down!
Just don't forget and leave it in a bar while testing
Not funny three pages ago.
hopefully not iPad 3, i just picked up my new iPad 2 Saturday
that would be a bit funny, knowing the iPad3 rumor has been there for some time.... but trust me on this, Apple won't be releasing iPad3 in september without having release iPhone5. And releasing both of them at the same time, don't think so
this one would be soooooo awesome!!!
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In fact, you need reading lessons. US gov. overspends 3 times Apples cash on a monthly basis, and their budget is way bigger. Expenditures are at a whopping 3.8 trillion US (thats over 50 times the cash of Apple). Incomes are way less, a mere 2.2 trillion, but still way beyond (30 times) the cash of Apple.
Even if Apple took all their money they couldnt do jack ****. God im happy not to be an American.
p.s. I am well aware that treating "cash" as equal to "budget" is retarded, that was the lesson here.
And there'd be a new Shuttle which would look totally awesome and be made out of liquid metal & curved glass
Instead of the Space Programme taking a 30 year step backwards
It's not sad, even though Apple is secretive there's leaks because people want their products so much, which means they're succeeding , think about it next time.
Sprint ftw!!
Please let one of these carriers be Sprint, and please let Sprint NOT loose their minds like Verizon and AT&T.
Please let one of these carriers be Sprint, and please let Sprint NOT loose their minds like Verizon and AT&T.
This times a million. Android phones really rub me the wrong way, and I'm done with WebOS (while I think it's a great OS, the application support is severely lacking). I would never consider leaving Sprint, since they've treated me so well for the last nine years. But I definitely want my next phone to be another smart phone, and I definitely do NOT want an Android or another WebOS device.
Please, Sprint, for the love of god, do what you have to do to get the iPhone!!!!!
They can perform valid and useful compatibility testing, even in these boxes.
As long as this isn't the ONLY testing being done. They obviously also need to perform real world testing which involves the final iPhone bodies, in real world usage scenarios in real world locations.
Apple did the same thing with iPads when prototypes were loaned out to the big publishers, remember? Sealed storage box with sign-out sheets.
Reminds me of the first iPhone, only that was even more radical. As the WSJ wrote:
Other articles mention how before its debut, only a handful were allowed to see both the actual hardware and UI together. Either they had the hardware and a simplistic test UI (remember that iPhone prototype on eBay years ago?), or they used the real UI running on a screen outside a sealed circuit board box.
Later in May 2007, when mass ATT field testing started, iPod-like skins were used to hide the hundreds of iPhones in technician's hands.
As others have noted, the fake covers can backfire as far as testing goes. Moreover, Apple's insistence on internal secrecy means that employees are unlikely to share experiences that might make someone realize a common problem exists. (The first iPhone had a volume problem that only became apparent during mass ATT field testing with results being shared.)
Reminds me of the first iPhone, only that was even more radical. As the WSJ wrote:
Other articles mention how before its debut, only a handful were allowed to see both the actual hardware and UI together. Either they had the hardware and a simplistic test UI (remember that iPhone prototype on eBay years ago?), or they used the real UI running on a screen outside a sealed circuit board box.
Later in May 2007, when mass ATT field testing started, iPod-like skins were used to hide the hundreds of iPhones in technician's hands.
As others have noted, the fake covers can backfire as far as testing goes. Moreover, Apple's insistence on internal secrecy means that employees are unlikely to share experiences that might make someone realize a common problem exists. (The first iPhone had a volume problem that only became apparent during mass ATT field testing with results being shared.)
Exactly! I think he had one of his fingers over the left booster rocket. Not Apple's fault at all