Maybe it's just me, but I actually prefer the design of the new Touch over the iPhone 5 and the different colors is a nice bonus.
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Live Coverage of Apple's iPhone 5 Media Event [Event Over]
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Clearly the jokers on the interwebs know how to make a better phone! It's funny with the iPhone 4s release people complained about the lack of a new design and now that it has a new design that is thinner, lighter, and larger display they still find reasons to complain. People won't be happy unless their phone has a 12 core CPU with a dedicated graphics processor that can run something like Witcher 2 at max settings all the while being a thin as a cracker. User experience will always trump tech spec games. This isn't 2004 here.
Get real people.
The term fanboys is so over-used. If someone wants to pay $199 for a one-year-old model, why does that make them a fanboy?
Have fun with that POS. returned mine in 20 hours. Light leakage, AWFUL battery life not to mention You pay the same for all apps they just aren't regulated so apps like espn don't fit the screen and have messed up font sizes. But have fun!
Did I mention it takes 6 hours to charge
Well it's a great thing we have trial periods! But I've used one and it is entirely more useful and fun than a new iPhone with an extra row of square icons. The apps were wonderful and Android has features Apple is just releasing and spouting as revolutionary and magical and whatnot.
I've just been holding off to see if Apple would do anything interesting.
But they failed to.
Fantastic presentation! Can't wait to watch and hear it on my large Panasonic plasma and my Bose 5.1 speakers, via AppleTV.
It is easy to pick a part features of the iPhone 5 and claim that other phones have the same features, but do those phones have ALL of the features in one device?
- 16:9 high resolution display that still fits in a normal person's hand.
- An amazing point-and-shoot replacing camera.
- Thinnest uniform design with the best build quality.
- Twice as fast as the previous model.
- Extremely light weight.
- Wondeerful content ecosystem.
What more do people want from a _phone_?
- 16:9 high resolution display that still fits in a normal person's hand.
- An amazing point-and-shoot replacing camera.
- Thinnest uniform design with the best build quality.
- Twice as fast as the previous model.
- Extremely light weight.
- Wondeerful content ecosystem.
What more do people want from a _phone_?
Maybe the phone to actually shape like an apple.
People are just beyond RIDICULOUS
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So the new iphone looks very nice but nothing worth paying extra cash if your contact isn't over. They really could have done something innovative with the programming since it has the extra power.. kinda of a let down in that department. I would suggest Apple to hire a motivated presenter/speaker because that presentation was dry and booorring. It did not make me wanna buy anything lol..
That would be nice. I expect being able to provide new cellphones at the time when the competitors are providing them, not a year later.
iPhone 5 is basically Galaxy II - which is very sad story.
Not bad.
Not bad
Except i have a few issues:
- being only higher, not wider, resolution is not increased by much on a slighter bigger screen size, but just like they did with the iPad 2 to iPad 3, they could have stuffed more pixels in horizontally, so it could be higher than 640 while making it more of an advantage selling point
- The Panorama mode looks really great where you have multiple photos… And while it takes advantage of the widescreen (16:9) on the iPhone 5 and new iPod nano's, it is IO 6 thats doing this, not the phone, so you can easily also do this from the iPad 3, when released next week. (Same with iPhone 4s) although if won't look as good. These *new* features always in software always makes it way to older handsets at some point.....
- Thinner design could have gone allot thinner.
They showed this off with the new nano….. the buttons redesigned, and the form factor went down.
They can do it…. Why did they keep the round buttons on the side of the iPhone 5? Waste of space. Redesign buttons, and slim it down more
If Apple did this, it would look about the same as the Samsung Galaxy S3 on thinnest and/or being lighter. This would have been a better selling point/wide eyed opener.. Not that it already isn't
On the whole... I quite like it....
Maybe Apple already knew what they were doing, and deliberately keeping this for next release. i dunno. Or the price factor.... But i'd gladly pay a bit more for a slimmer design if needed.
Not bad
Except i have a few issues:
- being only higher, not wider, resolution is not increased by much on a slighter bigger screen size, but just like they did with the iPad 2 to iPad 3, they could have stuffed more pixels in horizontally, so it could be higher than 640 while making it more of an advantage selling point
- The Panorama mode looks really great where you have multiple photos… And while it takes advantage of the widescreen (16:9) on the iPhone 5 and new iPod nano's, it is IO 6 thats doing this, not the phone, so you can easily also do this from the iPad 3, when released next week. (Same with iPhone 4s) although if won't look as good. These *new* features always in software always makes it way to older handsets at some point.....
- Thinner design could have gone allot thinner.
They showed this off with the new nano….. the buttons redesigned, and the form factor went down.
They can do it…. Why did they keep the round buttons on the side of the iPhone 5? Waste of space. Redesign buttons, and slim it down more
If Apple did this, it would look about the same as the Samsung Galaxy S3 on thinnest and/or being lighter. This would have been a better selling point/wide eyed opener.. Not that it already isn't
On the whole... I quite like it....
Maybe Apple already knew what they were doing, and deliberately keeping this for next release. i dunno. Or the price factor.... But i'd gladly pay a bit more for a slimmer design if needed.
Seems strange that you mention the design could be thinner. It's already thinnest from any company, ever.
That's like saying to the Olympian, "Oh, you broke the world record. Lame. You could have done a lot better."
Question about 4G connectivity. I currently have the iPhone 4S factory unlocked and using T-Mobile, but only get EDGE data. T-Mobile's 4G (HSPA+) is supposedly available in the Portland area. Will the iPhone 5 give me HSPA+ data?
EDIT: Nevermind, apparently the answer is no. Need to have 1700 MHz band which the iPhone 5 does not support. Wish T-Mobile would speed up their 1900 MHz deployment.
EDIT: Nevermind, apparently the answer is no. Need to have 1700 MHz band which the iPhone 5 does not support. Wish T-Mobile would speed up their 1900 MHz deployment.
They've just put out iTunes 10.7, with support for iOS6, Nanos, and Shuffles. I guess to appease us
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Not so sad really. If the Galaxy III is that much better, why not just get it and be happy?
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Yeah, and which is useless until they release iOS6 also, which won't be before the first iPhone 5 is delivered.They've just put out iTunes 10.7, with support for iOS6, Nanos, and Shuffles. I guess to appease us
http://www.itproportal.com/2012/09/12/iphone-5-vs-galaxy-s3-spec-comparison/
Looks thinner to me.
The big buttons are smaller on the galaxy s3 .. Round buttons take up more space. 1mm slender is hardly much either.
Jus wondering why Apple couldn't have shaved more off by redesigning the buttons to be slim, not round.
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