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I've been an apple loyalist for years, but you are coming across as an apologist.
The form factor is outdated. The most serious problem is the clunky, space wasting, physical home button. It is completely unnecessary and wastes a lot of space that could be used to employ a larger screen without an increase in the size of the phone itself.
Apple is back on it's high horse, trying to sue the competition out of existence instead of acknowledging, and god forbid, that they might actually have better products in some ways.
The main change I'd like to see is a better camera with a better flash. I know that this is an extra=ordinary challenge given the dimensions of the phone itself, but hey, we can all hope.
Ok, tell Samsung to remove the home button the GS3. It's so clunky and could give room for a 5 inch screen.
I cannot fathom the fact that people think the current iPhone design is "outdated". It's without a doubt the nicest and highest quality industrial design on the market today. I think it's the only smartphone that employs metal around the sides with glass on the front and rear. All other devices use cheap plastic or polycarbonate yet their designs aren't considered outdated or ugly by anyone. The iPhone doesn't need a revamped design every year because you or other people aren't content with it's high quality. If you want a design that changes every year, get a Galaxy S3 or something else that runs Android.
An upgraded camera is fine with me and a valid hope, but if the optics are garbage, megapixels mean nothing. The iPhone has one of the best cameras on a phone (next to the Pureview I guess) and also has really good optics. The S3 and One X don't compare. Apple isn't going to upgrade to megapixels just for the sake of making the number higher. I only see them upgrading the optics this year.
I'm fairly confident this is going to be a great device and will have some great new hardware features, but if you're not, hey, that's fine.
I swear, some people in this thread are ridiculous. If a company like Mercedes released a new car, these people would be bitching that it still had round wheels and they didn't "change the form factor".
Do you expect the iPhone 5 to have a built-in space shuttle?
Do you expect the iPhone 5 to have a built-in space shuttle?
I'm kind of torn on wanting the iPhone to get LTE. On one hand, that will add a crap load more people to LTE possibly resulting in lower speeds for my SG3. On the other hand, the meltdown from the possible/likely battery life issue will be priceless.
With the disappointment of 4S, I was really looking forward to a big improvement with the 5. Unfortunately, it looks like a very conservative upgrade without any new ideas in the form factor.
Hate to say it, but apple is getting staid in product development for the iphone.
I DO NOT want to buy a google phone, and probably won't, but gawd, the 5 looks weak.
Wouldnt improvement come from functionality? Design is more of a individual preference, is it not? What if the new iPhone has things it does no phone can do!! What I'm saying is I don't see how just looking at these leaked pictures we can conclude the phone is very similar then all others. Apple is smart they know what people think, they also have a way of making an exclusive feature to there new product be the reason we feel compelled to buy a new one. This phone is carrying a big secret!!! That's what we should be asking what is it that will make it a must have.
It's the one that gazed lovingly into the owner's eyes and whispers "I love you, man."
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It's just gotten a bit boring, that's all.
Time for the New New Thing.
And it probably won't be a phone.
What's so boring?? Like I said on the previous page, the iPhone has the best industrial design for a smartphone on the market today. I don't understand what you want it to look like / do.
The Volkswagen Beetle has looked the same for forever yet no one complains about that. We choose to complain about how the best smartphone industrial design hasn't changed in a mere 2 years.
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Simple,
1. For games it will be centered and the touch controls will be move further out so you can see more of the game screen.
2. For apps taking advantage of iOS views, you will not notice anything. You will get more lines of text being displayed for forms and lists.
3. For any apps using iAd, the iAd box will just be moved off the app view and put at the top.
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I want it to EXCITE me. I'm at five years of living with iOS, now, and it's comfortable and familiar and useful and...
...unexciting. Ordinary. Commonplace.
It's just a fact of life for a successful mature product.
I want what Cook promised - I want my mind blow - unless they're holding something amazing back, this phone ain't gonna do it.
I'm not talking about iOS, I'm talking about the hardware. Then again, not sure what you want iOS to do either. I spend most of my time in apps, not my home screen, so a grid of icons with a wallpaper suits me just fine.
Yep. The one thing I liked about the iPhone/iPad much better than the Androids, was the screen ratio.
After I dumped the iPhone and went over to a Android, the main thing that bugged my was the narrow, tall screen on the 4" Nexus S, which is the same as the screen of the upcoming iPhone 5. It's good for movies, but it sucks for browsing the web, or for reading anything. And I don't particularly enjoy watching movies on a 4" screen....
Now I have a Galaxy Nexus, which has the same ratio, but on a 4.7" it's much more usable.
Design of the phone is one aspect of the phone. I for one really bought the tear drop design last year it was great. So when I look at the design now I see it as very similar, and a little odd looking, like something is just off. I hate the two tone on the back as well. So "IF" these are the real leaked photos it will take sometime to know if I like it. The iPhone 4/4s to me is a gorgeous phone, it's well built not like the many other plastic phones. I thought it was a nice upgrade to the 3GS. The only two issues I have are the two tone back and the longer and yet no wider front. It makes it look odd but I may use it and in a year see the old phones as being odd looking. I'm glad apple doesn't try to look like the android phones, I don't want change just cause other phones have change. What a phone looks like to someone is a preference thing. Some like 3.5 inch screens some like 4.7 it depends on the individual. This has nothing to do with functionality. The real question and the real measure of success on this new phone is what will it offer that no other phone will. This is we're Apple has to get it right. Each product offers a new exclusive feature or two that helps to push people to go get it. The 4 offered retina display and FaceTime, 4S offered Siri. They all always have a bump up in speed. The new IPad featured first high resolution display on a tablet. So it's always something.
This is what I think matters, what is this phone going to do that no iPhone or any other phone can. They have been so secretive, even in IOS 6 beta they have made sure anything referring to new iPhone was not put in. I think the new feature or features is going to be HUGE whatever it is, it won't be Siri, retina display,camera, it's going to be something new. I think if we look at things we can start getting some idea of what it is. The reason the 4S came out and not this phone was because the feature was not ready yet but now it is. That's what matters in the next phone not if it looks like a galaxy III
This is what I think matters, what is this phone going to do that no iPhone or any other phone can. They have been so secretive, even in IOS 6 beta they have made sure anything referring to new iPhone was not put in. I think the new feature or features is going to be HUGE whatever it is, it won't be Siri, retina display,camera, it's going to be something new. I think if we look at things we can start getting some idea of what it is. The reason the 4S came out and not this phone was because the feature was not ready yet but now it is. That's what matters in the next phone not if it looks like a galaxy III
Nobody gives a **** about the hardware. It's going to look like a rectangle with a glass plate, no matter what anybody does, Apple or otherwise.
There is nothing they can do to make the hardware "exciting" without making radical changes to iOS - that's why iOS is, really, the only thing that matters. So far, there's nothing about iOS6 that looks particularly dramatic - maybe they're holding something back and that changes - time will tell.
All signs point to: Meet the new phone, same as the old phone.
While I'm in agreement with you, Apple has been known to put out dummy's to throw people off to what's really coming out, or make last minute changes.
You do realize that these "high-res" displays are completely useless, since unless you are a nearsighted geek who looks at the screen from 2", you can't see pixels anyway.
It's the same with all the idiots in the video world, who keep insisting that you have to buy a 4k-ready AVR, even though they'll hook it up to a 50" and sit 12' from it (at which distance 720p would be enough).
It's meaningless numbers.
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Benedict Arnold!!!
I sold out for Flash
Now that Flash is not being developed for Android anymore, I am likely to go back to the new iPhone (although there is the damned tethering, which I built in and usable on a stock phone with Android -- I use it only in emergencies, but it's good to know it's there).
And as I am not going back to either AT&T or Verizon, I hope the new iPhone is compatible with T-Mobile (which costs about half of what I used to pay to AT&T).
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What makes you think this launch is going to be so huge? The iPhone has been losing a bit of ground against it's competitors recently and simply making the screen a bit bigger isn't going to make people run out and buy it, especially if it's only taller.
Sure, they will sell plenty of them, but I expect a rather lack-luster launch.
I'm loving my S3 right now.
So much to like and I'm still discovering stuff I didn't even know it could do.
So glad I jumped ship.
So much to like and I'm still discovering stuff I didn't even know it could do.
So glad I jumped ship.
You do realize that these "high-res" displays are completely useless, since unless you are a nearsighted geek who looks at the screen from 2", you can't see pixels anyway.
It's the same with all the idiots in the video world, who keep insisting that you have to buy a 4k-ready AVR, even though they'll hook it up to a 50" and sit 12' from it (at which distance 720p would be enough).
It's meaningless numbers.
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I sold out for Flash
And Adobe sold out on you!
"Mobile Flash Abandoned for HTML5: Adobe Surrenders, Apple Wins..."