It'll also make web browsing quite a bit nicer. Especially paired with the full screen Safari from iOS 6.
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iOS6 is probably the most underwhelming release of iOS to date
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It'll also make web browsing quite a bit nicer. Especially paired with the full screen Safari from iOS 6.
Or portrait view for web pages
or for photos
You tend to see the world through your own narrow and microscopic lens seemingly oblivious to your own RDF.
1) Portrait view for web pages will just have less scrolling involved
2) Photos will still have the same aspect ratio so they will display the same since only one dimension has been changed.
Try again.
The screen is diagonally larger, but only taller, not wider.
1) Nobody cares about scrolling less. They want a wider and taller screen so that there's less zooming involved in reading text, clicking links, seeing inline images, etc.
2) Pictures are a set aspect ratio that isn't widescreen. You'll see pictures with black borders around them.
I know for a lot of people it might be great but Facebook integration just doesn't interest me 
So far not overly excited for it.
So far not overly excited for it.
I really don't understand who is disappointed for ios6.
In the first post it is written that the feature x should be present in first release; feature y on iOS 3, etc.
If you are with Apple till now with iOS 5, perhaps these features are not so important... If you liked iOS 3-4-5, why don't like iOS6?
Is Android the OS to beat? Why? Is there something better on Android? I don't find features in Android so beautiful I need on my iPhone. I will find some new features in iOS 6, which are very useful and complete the iOS with something that was missing, which make better iOS. WOW! I'm glad to see that!
Finally, for who says that the Galaxy S3 is the phone to use this summer... Why? Is there some new OS in that phone different from ICS? I will wait to see iPhone 5 to make a comparison with a phone released 1 month ago!
In the first post it is written that the feature x should be present in first release; feature y on iOS 3, etc.
If you are with Apple till now with iOS 5, perhaps these features are not so important... If you liked iOS 3-4-5, why don't like iOS6?
Is Android the OS to beat? Why? Is there something better on Android? I don't find features in Android so beautiful I need on my iPhone. I will find some new features in iOS 6, which are very useful and complete the iOS with something that was missing, which make better iOS. WOW! I'm glad to see that!
Finally, for who says that the Galaxy S3 is the phone to use this summer... Why? Is there some new OS in that phone different from ICS? I will wait to see iPhone 5 to make a comparison with a phone released 1 month ago!
You have a historically incorrect view of OS development if you believe Android came out with all useful features from the get-go. Seriously wrong.
I'm not starting or adding to the Android/iOS debates here: I agree it would be useful to start Wifi/on/off from the notification center. But it is not really that big of a deal missing it. No ulcers over it here. Maybe in iOS6 will add it as a minor feature?
Each OS has gone through incremental feature add ons. Sure cut /paste was missing in the earlier OS (which was strange considering Apple invented that 25 years ago). But all of that is water under the bridge.
But back to Android and a few examples. The earlier Android phones had a great hardware feature: removable SD memory cards. Good for photos and such. EXCEPT it was not possible to store and use (without rooting) Applications on the card, so Android users were limited to the internal small memory. Whereas Apple iOS allowed full memory access for app storage, from day 1. That is more important than wifi toggling.
Also when the dual core's Android hardware came out, it was not fully supported natively (using both cores) by Google. Individual mgfr added a layer on some phones, but in fact the iPhone 4 (with iOS 5) single core beat most of the dual core Androids in browser speed tests. Apple made better integrated software, and when the dual core 4S came out, it was nearly as fast as the iPad, a beat nearly all Android, even tho the 4S is at a slower clock speed (hence better battery life). That is good engineering.
So getting 'features' that look great on paper, doesn't' mean much, if they are useless. There are many more little missing features that have cause some, not all, Android users to come back to iOS.
I was looking at Android phones a year or 2 back. There weren't many reasons to change...esp when I learned that my favorite apps weren't there. Why would I switch to Android so that I could save one step to toggle wifi, when it took a full year for a Wall Street Journal app to come out for Android? I read that daily.
Some friends have download apps for Android that caused rebooting the phone daily...great feature.
My point is that not all is perfect in either iOS and both give features out incrementally. If you and the OP must have some that are missing, go to Android and I understand that ICS 'fixed' a lot of the missing features that iOS currently has...so it is good that you waited But don't argue that Apple delays features that really bother all of us. Some are quite minor, but not really annoying.
Atachments..yup if I can compose an email first, and then add attachments that would be nice. But in reality, I mostly open up excel (docs to go) or camera roll, etc, pick the file and then use the iOS to send it as an attachment. I really have not felt frustrated by that.
Bigger screens? I like the sharp retina display and the current size. If you wish to have a bigger screen that is fine, but not at the cost of resolution which is what most run of the mill androids do. Image quality is very important to me. So is overall phone size. The nokia lumia 900 is way to large for me to handle, and it doesn't look great for text. Apple chose to increase the length to go to HD, but keep the retina resolution. To get wider, they would have to go even longer.
'It just works'. Yes, perhaps overused term. But just yesterday (and I don't understand this) a friend pulled up a restaurant web page on a Gingerbread Android, and was not able to open the Dinner menu. I looked at it, and yup, pressing the link resulted in nothing. I didn't bother trying on my iPhone, figuring it was a Flash file (which Android should open).
Anyhow, I did try while we were driving home, and the iPhone opened the file in my browser. It was pdf. So they and I are novice Android users...but in this case, yes, the iPhone, 'just worked'. Maybe someone can explain where the pdf went on Android.
There are many more examples to show that all OS's (Android and iOS) come out with tiny feature fixes over time. You and the OP only chose those that interest yourselves.
So if you only know Apple form the iPhone forward you don't know Apple. That was the posters point. Spec wise, many laptops beat Apple, but many times those 'specs' are badly implemented...Apple tries to bring out good hardware with matching software.
Look at the phones camera. The 4S camera is superb, many Androids are not that hot.
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Haha nice. These guys always talk about Apple's sales being proof that its the best product but if you show them Android's sales...somehow sales figures don't matter anymore and Android is a piece of crap no matter what anybody says.
I kind of agree with you... I had an Evo 3D before my 4S and I loved it. But after using the 4S for a half a year I hold my GF's and it feels wayyyyyyyy too large for my liking.
That being said, if apple DOES make the screen larger simply to add an extra row of icons, I'm going to go insane.
I bet you've never owned an Android phone yet somehow you feel confident that iPhone is superior to Android.
I think iOS 6 is the best release yet. Very excited about having Siri on my new iPad and also super excited about 3D maps and Facebook integration!
I think the 3D maps are going to revolutionize mapping, and Passbook by next year will be one of if not the most-used app.... but the rest was pretty disappointing. Seems like they're just prepping it to debut on a Mac, probably for OSXI or OS11
I hate all the bitching and moaning. ios is not all things to all people and never will be. Nonetheless, it gets better and more complete with each release and is a damn good mobile OS already. Do we really have to focus on the few things it lacks rather than everything it does well and has improved on? I mean wifi toggle? Yeah it would be nice. But jesus h christ, if that's your big complaint (with your phone let alone in your life) I think you're doing ok.
It just blows my mind that we have these amazing pocket computer phones with robust OSes and hardware faster than the computer I took to college (and I'm not that old... I had an iMac g3) and people can make a 15 page thread to complain about how it's soooo disappointing because it's missing a goddamn wifi toggle or whatever the gripe of the moment may be. I'm not saying be complacent and never move forward but how about just a LITTLE appreciation for how great the mobile experience has become in a VERY short period of time?
And if android or any other OS is so great, use it. Honestly, nobody will miss you.
It just blows my mind that we have these amazing pocket computer phones with robust OSes and hardware faster than the computer I took to college (and I'm not that old... I had an iMac g3) and people can make a 15 page thread to complain about how it's soooo disappointing because it's missing a goddamn wifi toggle or whatever the gripe of the moment may be. I'm not saying be complacent and never move forward but how about just a LITTLE appreciation for how great the mobile experience has become in a VERY short period of time?
And if android or any other OS is so great, use it. Honestly, nobody will miss you.
I haven't used iOS6 yet, so who knows, I may feel in the end that it was a great release. I expect to see more out of iOS6 after the next iPhone is out. As of now though, I guess I was expecting just a few more features, that's all. iOS5 felt like a great release to me.
Your post makes no sense. If I only know Apple from the iphone then I don't know Apple?
Umm, we're talking about the iphone here. Were we talking about their laptops and desktop computers? That's strange, I could have sworn we were talking about the iphone and the ipad.
You like the sharp Retina display and image quality is important to you? The HTC One X says hello. Even my S2's display is good.
The Lumia is too large for you to handle? Do you have Burger King hands? What are you going to do when the iPhone eventually becomes larger with a larger screen? Are you going to trash it and stick with the iPhone 4S because it's too large? Or will you all of a sudden have a change of heart like the typical Apple fanboy and proclaim that Apple's new larger phone is magical and "it just works."
North Korea and it's people never cease to amaze me.
OMG I forgot about this gem. Should be required viewing for some of the folks here.