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Keynote is over, and I have to say, the iPhone 5 is disappointing.

Are you disappointed by the iPhone 5 as revealed in the Keynote?

  • No

    Votes: 666 56.5%

  • Yes

    Votes: 512 43.5%
  • Total voters
    1,178
Calidude said:
They can. All recent Android phones in the past 2 years can run Jelly Bean just fine. It's just that when you have different manufacturers, not all of them want to roll out the latest software for their hardware. You have to understand that there's hundreds of different kinds of hardware and one software base. It takes a lot of time to keep them all up to date so many of them don't bother.

This isn't a defect with Android, its a defect with manufacturers. Just get a Nexus and you'll never have a problem.
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Also, Motorola is now committed to android updates now that it's owned by Google. So that's one source.

And when you are talking iOS 6 for older iphones. Well you don't get the full iOS 6 experience with older phones. And the older phones are slower with the newer OS. Even apple can't really get around it.

So i'll call it a wash.
 
aidogz said:
I would rather die than have an Android
I could tolerate a Windows Phone if the App base built up a bit more. At least they've remained innovative.
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What's so bad about Android?

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It looks like this situation about been disappointed with the new iphone is almost 50-50. I think this year Apple is going to loose almost 50% of his iPhone customers. That's a lot!!!
 
definitive said:
watched the original iphone video earlier today with jobs saying how their phone is 5 years ahead of anything out at the time. iphone 5 is probably 2-3 years behind android at this point...
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Which android phone from 2-3 years ago would you choose instead of this one?
 
aidogz said:
I would rather die than have an Android
I could tolerate a Windows Phone if the App base built up a bit more. At least they've remained innovative.
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Exactly. to me it just seems like Android is forever making minimal updates like "oops, we forgot something".. Kind of like an anoying friend who texts you 15 times to tell you one thing instead of making ONE message, gettign everything out at once.

Which I can respect from Apple because some things folks feel are necessary about having on a phone arent. Example: Evo 3d.
 
Sdahe said:
What's so bad about Android?

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It looks like this situation about been disappointed with the new iphone is almost 50-50. I think this year Apple is going to loose almost 50% of his iPhone customers. That's a lot!!!
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It's been shown that some apple fans when shown images of apple production exhibit similar brain activity to the very religious do when shown religious images.

In other words Steve Jobs Arkbar!
 
knickerblogger said:
the 4s has a 800mhz dual core so ~1.5GHZ would be 2X faster. It is definitely not quad core, I also disappointed about the resolution which should have been 1280x720. It doesn't matter if you can't see the difference the point is that it would have mirrored better.

I don't see how this is any better than a HTC One S. All you can really say is that the front camera is better and I guess people here will argue that iOS is better.

I don't see any reason as to why 75% of my friends waited for this with their old cracked 4S's:apple:
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Weird.. 75% of your friends have old 4s phones (isn't it less than a year old?) that are cracked???
 
HeyGreggie said:
Dude, you havent sat with the phone an hour, day, or week to confirm the batter life is the same. Stop.

NFC is in it's infancy, and not many vendors even USE it currently which is why it's not even implemented yet.

Software not improved? Did you just wake from a nap?
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Abandoning Google Maps in favor of Apple Maps is a MAJOR step backwards.

Have you spent any time with iOS6? I have and several of my colleagues have and we all agree that it is underwhelming. Sure, it's a solid OS, but it is an incremental step up at best and you will be STUNNED at how much you miss Google Maps.

A lot of things about these arguments are subjective, the maps issue is not. If you say you like Apple Maps better than Google Maps, you either don't need maps or you are lying, period. There's no in between.
 
Oh look it's Calidude who made this thread... I can't take anything he posts seriously as all it is is "hate..stupid..fails..android is better"

Seriously Calidude you don't just troll this forum, you have trolled the Steam forums in the past and that has gave you bad rep.

Your posts are overall negative with NOTHING nice to say if it doesn't run Android or is about the Nexus. I feel you make these threads just to cause nothing but drama. If you dislike Apple and the products they announce then why are you here...

I have some alternatives.

http://www.cultofandroid.com/
http://www.androidcentral.com/articles/rumors

I bet you will be a lot more nicer over there, face it. Your goal here is to advertise android and the nexus and drilling any negative part about what was announced.

You even went so far as to copy a picture off Apples site, go into paint and say "kill me now"

I can't believe that people are falling for your trap like your last major thread...

iOS 6 disappointing.. what next, how about some iPod touch threads from you while you are at it.

So Calidude troll if you must, post nothing but negativity but as usual you get banned, then you come back for more... and more then you get banned again.

It's fine to be negative, I also share some disappointments from past events but you take it to the next level.
 
I was intrigued when Android came around and then it took forever for the first remotely good phones to come out and then more years to mature to be close to iOS. Now I won't leave iOS just because Android is closely as good by now.
 
I think Apple have been very stubborn about NFC implementation. They obviously realise that vendors are waiting for Apple to implement it before they rush out and buy NFC receivers. I would have been happy even if they had gone off and done their own mobile payments thing with bluetooth or something...but to hold back on it for yet another year is downright annoying. Mobile payments is clearly the future and it feels as though we are being used as lab rats - dangling features just out of our reach year on year.
 
For me my iPhone 4s is awesome enough. Had they upgraded the MP of the camera then I might have upgraded.. but they didn't. They did upgrade it to HD for the front facing camera but that is not enough for me. The LTE, is nice but I can live without it until the next update next year.

I will update next year. I did go ahead and bought 2 pairs of the ear pods though, they look like they would work a ton better than the regular earphones. It will be better for me to upgrade to iPhone 6 from the iPhone 4s I should get more bang for the buck next year.
 
I'm curious as to what the symbol will be for the new "Lightning" connector, considering the Thunderbolt symbol is a lightning bolt? It can't be a cloud, as that's the symbol for iCloud.
 
iphoneuser2040 said:
I think Apple have been very stubborn about NFC implementation. They obviously realise that vendors are waiting for Apple to implement it before they rush out and buy NFC receivers. I would have been happy even if they had gone off and done their own mobile payments thing with bluetooth or something...but to hold back on it for yet another year is downright annoying. Mobile payments is clearly the future and it feels as though we are being used as lab rats - dangling features just out of our reach year on year.
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You realize there has been mastercard pay pass for quite a while now and that it works with google wallet if you have a android phone? Lots of retail locations like starbucks etc in Canada have the terminals already.

Apple likely isn't into NFC because it hasn't figure out a way to set the game up to it's benefit.
 
Those who think that this new iphone is in top of the food chain are really fanatics. Well let me tell you... it is not. Right now I can say that Samsung and Android are in the top. This year 2012 will be for Android and Samsung.
 
MMOTotal said:
Oh look it's Calidude who made this thread... I can't take anything he posts seriously as all it is is "hate..stupid..fails..android is better"

Seriously Calidude you don't just troll this forum, you have trolled the Steam forums in the past and that has gave you bad rep.
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Trolling? Really? Criticizing a product is trolling now? Please. Look at the poll. Apparently there's 264 other trolls in this thread. :rolleyes:

Also, Steam forums? What are you even talking about?
 
I really don't understand why some people continue to post here. I can understand being disappointed in the new iPhone or being critical because it is missing a certain feature you wanted. But those who keep referring to Apple as "crappie" or continue to talk about how useless IOS has been the last few years, what exactly are you hoping to accomplish. Do you honestly believe that you are going to change anyone's mind who believes that this update is good. If not are you only here to troll.
 
Calidude said:
Trolling? Really? Criticizing a product is trolling now? Please. Look at the poll. Apparently there's 264 other trolls in this thread. :rolleyes:

Also, Steam forums? What are you even talking about?
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Yeah.. you don't fool me. I said what had to be said and you know yourself what you are like.

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splashnader said:
I really don't understand why some people continue to post here. I can understand being disappointed in the new iPhone or being critical because it is missing a certain feature you wanted. But those who keep referring to Apple as "crappie" or continue to talk about how useless IOS has been the last few years, what exactly are you hoping to accomplish. Do you honestly believe that you are going to change anyone's mind who believes that this update is good. If not are you only here to troll.
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Reminds me of someone who created this thread.
 
I really was hoping for a better Camera update.

-Panorama Mode
-Improved Image Stabilization on video
-Taking pictures while recording video
-Take pictures faster
-Improved video on Camera facing you

Not really a huge upgrade but I'm using a iPhone 4 right now so the 8mp upgrade will be nice for me, but I was hoping for more.



Seems like most of the updates are actually iOS related rather than iPhone 5 related.
 
MMOTotal said:
Yeah.. you don't fool me. I said what had to be said and you know yourself what you are like.
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I've said many times that Android isn't perfect and that I'd go back to iPhone if they cleaned up their act and started making the product appeal more to tech geeks. It doesn't have to be exactly like Android, just more like OSX.

Anyway, you focusing on me as an individual is more dramatic and trollbait than anything I'm doing. I'm focusing on the product and you're focusing on another poster to start some kind of flamewar.

Get back on topic.
 
Calidude said:
I've said many times that Android isn't perfect and that I'd go back to iPhone if they cleaned up their act and started making the product appeal more to tech geeks. It doesn't have to be exactly like Android, just more like OSX.

Anyway, you focusing on me as an individual is more dramatic and trollbait than anything I'm doing. I'm focusing on the product and you're focusing on another poster to start some kind of flamewar.

Get back on topic.
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Again, you don't fool me and I'm done with your threads. Ignored from now on.
 
Calidude said:
Every single rumor was true. No big surprises. Just wideband audio and an A6 processor which doesn't seem to be quad-core. No NFC.

The big features are...panorama mode. Great.
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So LTE is not a big feature. Yeah, your not prejudiced in any way. :rolleyes:
 
Disappointed considering that this was supposedly the last product over which Steve Jobs had a heavy influence. Will probably be trying the Lumia 920 this fall.
 
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