faroZ06
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Supposedly, the aluminum is for the antenna. I only vaguely know how cell antennas work.
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iPhone 5 Photos and Hands on Impressions
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Supposedly, the aluminum is for the antenna. I only vaguely know how cell antennas work.
kaniSS
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Rogifan
macrumors Penryn
Well in the product video Jony Ive said they started with a design they love so my guess is the stainless steel band is here to stay.
Illuminated
macrumors 65816
I can be patient and wait till next September or when ever the next iphone is released.
Bacchus28
macrumors newbie
Transatlantic pronunciation
Ah, the more cultured British accent. But think about it. Is it spelt "Aloominum"? No, the "u" is fully pronounced, so the Brits have it right!
BTW, so do us Aussies 😉
Ah, the more cultured British accent. But think about it. Is it spelt "Aloominum"? No, the "u" is fully pronounced, so the Brits have it right!
BTW, so do us Aussies 😉
0dev
macrumors 68040
Does anybody else feel as though the iPhone 5 specs are somewhat mediocre? Not to say they're bad at all, they certainly look good, but dang... Some of these "new" features just scream Android 2011 to me.
coachingguy
macrumors 6502a
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Trek2100
macrumors 6502a
In case no one answered you pre-orders begin at midnight pacific time. That's 3 am eastern🙁. I may as well just stay up rather than go to bed at my normal time and get up a couple of hours later.
Any reason Apple doesnt stretch out the iPhone line a little more? As in having a 3.5 and 4 and a 4.5 inch model.
Just bi-curious.
Just bi-curious.
I'm guessing with an Apple employee/handler guiding the process, they had a very limited time. It was too fast, but I think they did the best they could with a monitored demo.
D.T.
macrumors G4
I actually read that there was an original spelling of aluminum (like the current) then it was later changed to aluminium, you know, like titanium, selenium (mostly just for the sound 🙂 ) and the pronunciation of the later spelling (which was eventually changed _back_ to aluminum) depending on where you were and who was currently in charge of standardizations.
Here's a couple of articles:
http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/aluminium.htm
http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2008/06/aluminum-vs-aluminium.html
sticky.chicken
macrumors member
Yeah I'm so disappointed.
So this is how doubling security works for Apple. Remind me to not rely on any of these goons for anything to do with security.
Christ what a disappointment. Angels will fly out of my arse before I believe this is innovation.
http://www.apple.com/iphone/gallery/
Has anyone looked at this iPhone 5 photos at full resolution?
They look horrible. It's like the foreground has some filter/water color smudge effect going on.
Has anyone looked at this iPhone 5 photos at full resolution?
They look horrible. It's like the foreground has some filter/water color smudge effect going on.
I was more excited about the new iPod touch, but once the price was revealed, off contract, iPhone 5 is not that much more expensive, but better everything. Which is the better deal?
MartiNZ
macrumors 65816
Because they finally got the connector small enough that the jack can go where it was always supposed to go, where logic dictates it should go, and where phones being pulled from pockets all over the world will rejoice its being.
No more acrobatics to get the phone up the right way, no more ridiculous cable going away from you when it should be coming towards you - still the best new feature in the 5 ... nay the best feature change iPhone has seen since iPhone.
People complain when other companies like Google does it. Why not when Apple does it?
You can still pinch the phone from a pocket then, then into your palm, is it really that hard? My problem with the iTouch in pocket is always it gettign caught in the pocket.
With the exception of the first image, the flower, all of the images look fine.
The first image is most likely shot at full open aperture, to give an effect called bokeh, which arguably is impossible to achieve with a cell phone imager. You probably see this as smudging.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokeh
Definitely doesn't seem like that. If you look at the waves...they look like they are painted..same with the grass, etc..with brush strokes, etc.
sticky.chicken
macrumors member
If that's the way you roll, so be it. Not sure how being bi-curious is relevant to the iPhone 5, but hey, if this is your thing.....
Are you talking about iPhone 4(S)? It is indeed heavy as a brick (and shaped accordingly).