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The jailbroken Zephyr solution is way better. No constant icon presence on the screen and works flawlessly without having to bring up a menu. I am surprised Apple has not taken that into iOS6. It feels so native and implementing it would be great.
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Mint S2s are still $350 here in aftermarket. So i doubt GS3s will go down that fast.
Although i won't mind buying one for $350 or less 😀 Hope that happens soon lol.
Except everyone can't fit 4 or 5 fingers onto the screen and using one or two fingers instead couple replicate other gestures. I don't mind the persistent button. It never gets in the way and it even moves out of the way if the keyboard pops up. It fades slightly so you don't always notice it. It's just as fast as using the actual buttons.
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I don't use 4 or 5 fingers.
One swipe up using one finger and i can quit app. I can choose to keep that in apps or not. I enabled it in portrait and disabled in landscape apps.
Two finger swipe towards an edge and i can switch instantly to the next app.
One swipe up in any app and hold instead of lifting finger, and multitasking appears.
Feels so much better and intuitive. In fact after recently restoring the device i could not wait to jailbreak it again because of the missing feature. Found the regular home button use so annoying compared to those gestures.
Technarchy
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That's funny because I just checked the local classifieds and I can score SGSII's for $200 - $300 all day...which means the SGSII is worth about as much as an iPhone 3S. Anyone paying $350 is being ripped off.
There will be no shortage or people waiting to dump their SGSIII after a few freezes, battery pulls, crashed widgets and no Jelly Bean update on the horizon. And then there is the new iPhone which will probably be the biggest phone launch of all time.
I see tons of iPhone 4 for $300 but most S2s are at least $325 new. Also i see less people selling androids than iPhones. It is as if every one is upgrading to an iPhone simply to unload it on the market and use the money to buy something else. I can't blame them, it works quite well. I upgraded to the 4 and bought a nexus easily in early 2011 with money to spare. However, now i have to add cash if i sell my iPhone. People simply aren't willing to accept even straight trades.
Perhaps it is different in states.
I did try the assisted touch and it is a decent approach. I can see people being comfortable using it but i hate the constant button at the bottom and having to go through a menu.
I supplied evidence to the contrary (the fact that it's becoming increasingly popular) but you have provided no evidence whatsoever. Am I supposed to just believe that it won't pick up until Apple offers it, even though it's being/has been rolled out at McDonalds, Starbucks, Café Nero, Post Office, the Olympics and others? Also, Barclays, one of the UK's leading banks, has released a "paypass" sticker that you can stick to any mobile - whether it's equipped with NFC or not.
Barclays customers would have no benefit in waiting until the NFC iPhone comes out, when they can just stick a Paypass sticker to their existing iPhone.
Please provide evidence to substantiate your claims, like I have.
yep. I have never had a problem selling my Android phones on CL. Always get over $300 too. Couldn't sell my 4s forever. I had my 16gb at $400 and no one would touch it. Had to drop it to $350 and then everyone who contacted me wanted the ESN because there are a TON of iPhones sold with bad ones. Finally had to take $325 for it a month after I posted it. Never doing that again.
I sold two of my 4s (which were factory unlocked and in mint condition, with accessories) for $300 and $325. At $350 and $400, no one would touch them. These days people want an iPhone, not for themselves, but for family in other countries, hence the need for it to be unlocked. This was the case in both of my sales.
Right now, I can get the same for my S2 (unlocked, and with accessories).
LSUtigers03
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That won't happen in 3 months. When the Note was 5 months old it had a higher average selling price on eBay than the 16gb 4s.
You provided no evidence. Those NFC pads at Mcdonalds, Starbucks, and etc are collecting dust for the most part. I'll put anything on it that NFC is less than 1% of sales at most spots in America and countries where it's not mainstream yet.
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I have yet to see "mainstream" adoption of facetime and siri.
Everyday I see people with iPhones driving and never taking advantage of those awesome features 😛
blairh
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Finally got a chance to demo the SIII. It had a security piece on the back that did not let me get a chance to hold it properly. The plastic backing didn't bother me from what I could gather.
Screen is sharp but greyish and slightly dim even at full brightness compared to my iPhone. I simply prefer the whites provided by IPS displays.
I'm either going to get the next iPhone this fall or an unlocked LG 4X HD.
Screen is sharp but greyish and slightly dim even at full brightness compared to my iPhone. I simply prefer the whites provided by IPS displays.
I'm either going to get the next iPhone this fall or an unlocked LG 4X HD.
Yeah I'd bet that too, but only because it's fairly difficult to actually pay using nfc right now for a lot of people.
There's no Android app released in the UK that can make nfc payments yet.
Banks have only recently rolled out nfc/contactless debit cards.
Clearly it's growing in popularity. The post office doesn't pay to roll out new nfc readers in all of its branches for the hell of it.
The barclays paytag will raise awareness too.
I'm not saying it's going to become popular overnight, I'm saying it will become popular with or without Apples help. Will Apple speed up that process if the next iPhone comes with NFC? Sure, no argument there.
I agree that with or without Apple NFC will be mainstream eventually. But I don't think it would be mainstream anytime soon without Apple. If next iPhone has NFC, we are looking at mainstream within a year and half or two years. Otherwise I see 5 years.
Nah. You're massively over estimating Apples clout there.
Visa, Mastercard, banks, Google and lots of major retailers, restaurants, cafes and other locations are trialling nfc or have already rolled it out.
Once Visa Paywave and Mastercard Paypass are out, the technology will pick up rapidly.
Bearing in mind Apple isn't even the worldwide smartphone leader, it would be more likely to pick up if Samsung implemented it in all of their phones 😛
This assessment is spot on IMO. While I have my Galaxy S3 and wouldn't trade it in for anything, it is a well established fact that Apple can make technologies mainstream quicker than Android. Why? All new iPhone users will have a set NfC standard. Every phone will function the same. Businesses will be more likely to install these readers if iPhone users use them, knowing that Apple will stick to a single design and not change for years. You don't have that guarantee with Android phones made by different manufacturers, who all have their own agenda.
Apple = stability in the mobile arena. Businesses like stability. Why do you think so many tech stores (like BB) havetons of iphone crap and little in the way of Android?
Only one problem with Apple. If you need to go through iTunes and post your credit card info there to get NFC to work, just expect to lose money out of your account sooner or later. I had my info hijacked 3 times and that was with 16 digit random letter, number and special character passwords. ITunes security is a joke.
I'm sure nfc terminals use a standard that all payment providers will use, otherwise you wouldn't have any idea whether your device would work with the one in any given shop.
NFC could be far easily implemented through advances like NFC enabled SIM cards. Why wait for someone to implement it when you have the option of already making it mainstream?