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Live Coverage of Apple's iPhone 5 Media Event [Event Over]
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Can someone please explain to me what everyone is moaning about ?
You have a phone that looks different, a new style, a new design.
You have a thinner, lighter phone
You have a bigger screen, with pro level color accuracy
You have an improved camera, both hardware and software side
You have your A6 SoC that you all wanted, 2x as fast CPU and GPU
You also have LTE
All while keeping the same battery life ?
Oh, darn it, theres no NFC. That makes it such a big failure.
Not.
I don't actually know what else they could of done.
It's the typical moaning. We got the same after the 4S announcement. Really, this was a good product. It's unfortunate for the excitement factor that everything leaked over the last 2-3 weeks, but this is a good update and a nice phone. About all they could have done was add a bigger display version to mollify the "bigger is better" crowd, but that crowd isn't Apple's core market.
Samsung's approach is similar to Nokia's. They throw lots of products with minor design differences out into the market to see what sticks. Apple's is different. They release one significant update and cultivate a market.
Can someone please explain to me what everyone is moaning about ?
You have a phone that looks different, a new style, a new design.
You have a thinner, lighter phone
You have a bigger screen, with pro level color accuracy
You have an improved camera, both hardware and software side
You have your A6 SoC that you all wanted, 2x as fast CPU and GPU
You also have LTE
All while keeping the same battery life ?
Oh, darn it, theres no NFC. That makes it such a big failure.
Not.
I don't actually know what else they could of done.
None of these are reasons to buy a new phone, though.
A new style doesn't warrant an upgrade.
Faster specs are nice, but most of us don't use applications on phones that demand it (like people who upgrade their desktops regularly do).
LTE is a catch-up to the rest of the market.
The camera's nice.
Apple hasn't done anything new with the iPhone hardware or taken any risks since the iPhone 4, which was another leapfrog.
Not so sure about the new Nano. I can bring the 6th gen with me clipped on my belt loop and no one even knows I have it.
Hrm....yeah. This looks good. I still think this is useless if they have the touch.
Just have a click wheel iPod and a touch iPod.
Just have a click wheel iPod and a touch iPod.
Why is the new iPods more exciting than the iPhone?
because we didn't know much about them in advance.
Totally different feature. It's awesome they're finally adding the ability to queue up songs on the fly like that, I wish they had that feature in ipods.
Cook announced that they were dumping Ping months ago.
hahhah. thanks for the laugh, mate.
iterating & refining is just the sort of innovation apple is expert at. thats a good thing.
The new Nano looks interesting. If I needed a standalone iPod for general use, I'd buy it.
The UPS guy is bringing my 6th gen model today, but that form-factor works better for the car.
The UPS guy is bringing my 6th gen model today, but that form-factor works better for the car.
Can someone please explain to me what everyone is moaning about ?
You have a phone that looks different, a new style, a new design.
You have a thinner, lighter phone
You have a bigger screen, with pro level color accuracy
You have an improved camera, both hardware and software side
You have your A6 SoC that you all wanted, 2x as fast CPU and GPU
You also have LTE
All while keeping the same battery life ?
Oh, darn it, theres no NFC. That makes it such a big failure.
Not.
I don't actually know what else they could of done.
It's all good, just not as good as Samsung phones. Nobody really cares for a super slim phone. Bigger battery would be a much smarter choice. Screen size and resolution are both smaller than what Android phones have (not to mention ridiculous black-boxing for a majority of apps). Camera is the same. The new camera features (like panorama)... Everybody has had them for quite a while. "pro level color accuracy"? Sure. How exactly do you calibrate you iPhone for that? Besides, even if it was true, nobody really cares for super color accuracy on such a small screen.
Wow, i seriously underestimated that. I would say the average person doesnt have more than 10-15Gb.
