My 30 day iPhone 5 Journey

Sorry the Nexus 4 didn't work out, I LOVE mine. You don't love the iPhone 5 either, which I don't blame you, I couldn't downgrade to an iPhone.

You say the new Galaxy S4 doesn't interest you.

So only phones out, or coming out for you are the Windows 8 Phones like Nokia's 920. Or the upcoming HTC One.
 
Tig Bitties said:
Not sure what phone your talking about ? My Nexus 4 gets 5h On Screen time consistently, and overall battery life of around 15 - 17 hours per day.

Right now at 10 hours total, with 44% battery life left, and On Screen time of 4h 9m.
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Just curious, how are you getting that much battery life?
 
How does the "premium high quality" feel of the iPhone 5 come across to you ? Does it feel like the Bentley of smartphones as advertised ?

What color did you get ?

What about the screen, not the smallness of it, but the display tech itself, is it bright, sharp, clear etc... or just ok ?

Battery life so each day ?
 
Tig Bitties said:
How does the "premium high quality" feel of the iPhone 5 come across to you ? Does it feel like the Bentley of smartphones as advertised ?

What color did you get ?

What about the screen, not the smallness of it, but the display tech itself, is it bright, sharp, clear etc... or just ok ?

Battery life so each day ?
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Got it in white.

The design grew on me very fast. I was never crazy about how it looked (always thought the 4S, especially in white, looked better). I used to think the 5 was the ugly child of the old glass 4S and Apple's other aluminum offerings (iPad, Macbooks, etc), but it's really won me over. It's hard not to be enamored by it. Also, the chamfered edges are truly stunning. That reflection makes it really eye catching. It certainly delivers on the premium feel. More so than the Nexus 4. Having the iPh5 has strangely reignited my interest in the HTC One. No doubt because they look similar. I've said this before, the HTC One should've been the iPhone 5. Just a fantasy. But imagine if that were true?

Screen is nice. Definitely bright, definitely sharp.

I'm going to keep a close eye on the battery life in the coming days now that I'm nearly all settled down with my jailbreak apps. Just added SBPhotodialer for quick dials. Put a bunch of my most often called contacts into a folder. Nice and handy. :) So far, though, the battery life seems good. I'm not on LTE, I should point out. Running it on TMobile's refarmed 3G. I cannot wait, though, for them to turn on HSPA+ for the iPhone. I assume it'll happen when they officially get the iPhone this Spring. Who knows how that'll affect battery life.

Just to give you an idea, I took it off charger at 1030 AM, and it's just past 1037 pm now, and I'm at 47%. Except for a few hours in the afternoon, I've been using it pretty frequently throughout the day with all the tweaking. I'm also fetching email every 15 minutes.
 
onthecouchagain said:
Got it in white.

The design grew on me very fast. I was never crazy about how it looked (always thought the 4S, especially in white, looked better). I used to think the 5 was the ugly child of the old glass 4S and Apple's other aluminum offerings (iPad, Macbooks, etc), but it's really won me over. It's hard not to be enamored by it. Also, the chamfered edges are truly stunning. That reflection makes it really eye catching. It certainly delivers on the premium feel. More so than the Nexus 4. Having the iPh5 has strangely reignited my interest in the HTC One. No doubt because they look similar. I've said this before, the HTC One should've been the iPhone 5. Just a fantasy. But imagine if that were true?

Screen is nice. Definitely bright, definitely sharp.

I'm going to keep a close eye on the battery life in the coming days now that I'm nearly all settled down with my jailbreak apps. Just added SBPhotodialer for quick dials. Put a bunch of my most often called contacts into a folder. Nice and handy. :) So far, though, the battery life seems good. I'm not on LTE, I should point out. Running it on TMobile's refarmed 3G. I cannot wait, though, for them to turn on HSPA+ for the iPhone. I assume it'll happen when they officially get the iPhone this Spring. Who knows how that'll affect battery life.

Just to give you an idea, I took it off charger at 1030 AM, and it's just past 1037 pm now, and I'm at 47%. Except for a few hours in the afternoon, I've been using it pretty frequently throughout the day with all the tweaking. I'm also fetching email every 15 minutes.
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The white iPhone 5 looks the best. Sounds like good battery life too.

Just a shame on that tiny screen, ****** keyboard, and lack of customization. At least Jailbreak helps a ton, without jailbreak, that phone would be useless.
 
Tig Bitties said:
The white iPhone 5 looks the best. Sounds like good battery life too.

Just a shame on that tiny screen, ****** keyboard, and lack of customization. At least Jailbreak helps a ton, without jailbreak, that phone would be useless.
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The keyboard has -- much to my surprise and gratitude -- improved a ton. A TON. I can't tell you. The keyboard was one of the biggest reasons why I left iOS in the first place. Hammering out a serious email or text always resulted in missed letters, ridiculous auto corrections, and typos. It was ridiculous.

This is not the case at all anymore. Like I said, I don't know what it is, because my understanding is that the keyboard itself has not changed in years. My best guess is the processor is better now (specks do matter!) and can register taps better.

Of course, the keyboard has a lonnnng way to go when compared to Swiftkey and other Android keyboards.



As for the tiny screen... you really feel it when you're gaming, browsing the web. Kind of sucks, but again, like the keyboard, the extra .5" really does help change the experience. And I must say, I'm really enjoying the comfortable-ness of one handed use. Still don't think it's worth the trade for screen real-estate, but given it is what it is, one handed use is quite nice.

This is especially true because my entire phone is gesture base now. The only time I ever have to reach for any buttons is to wake the device. =]
 
Tig Bitties said:
The white iPhone 5 looks the best. Sounds like good battery life too.

Just a shame on that tiny screen, ****** keyboard, and lack of customization. At least Jailbreak helps a ton, without jailbreak, that phone would be useless.
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Agree. The iPhone just has to be jailbroken to be worth a crap imo. For me that is. Too bad it now takes them a long time to jailbreak the new ones.
Not sure the date when the iPhone is supposed to get to T-Mobile. Im not going to get one for me but i may get one for my Wife. It is easier for her and she doesnt need any fancy stuff. Then again, the screen is still so small . She uses the Nexus 7 a lot though. She doesnt use very many features at all so i dont know.

She has a Windows 7 phone now.
 
I wouldn't mind tinkering with a white iPhone5 along side my Nexus 4. Would be cool to see what jailbreak is all about, and how to tweak a jb iPhone.

My last iPhone, was the 3G way back in the day, ever since that was the Nexus-One, Nexus-S4G, Galaxy Nexus, and now Nexus 4.

How can you swap SIM cards between an N4 and i5 ? The N4 is micro mini SIM, the i5 nano ?
 
I have my old white iPhone 5 alongside my relatively new N4. I bought a nano Sim cutter tool to cut my T-Mobile Sim and the tool I bought came with a Sim tray adapter so you can put the nano into it and it will fit back into the N4s micro slot. I jail broke my iPhone but its honestly nowhere near my N4. I basically just use my iPhone now for an occasional iOS only game and as an iPod because it is 64gb. I figure I will be in both worlds this year because I have a feeling Google is really going to knock it out of the park design wise this year and just in case Apple shocks every one and makes some cool changes to their software ill have an iPhone to test it.
 
Springboard just crashed on me. :(

All I did was tap the weather in the notification center to check tomorrow's forecast.

I really hope this isn't a regular occurrence with Jailbroke phones...

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onthecouchagain said:
Springboard just crashed on me. :(

All I did was tap the weather in the notification center to check tomorrow's forecast.

I really hope this isn't a regular occurrence with Jailbroke phones...
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Happened all the time when i had a jailbroken iPhone. Not everyday, but every so often it happened throughout the time i had the phone no matter what version firmware i was on.
 
batting1000 said:
You can use the LED flash as a notification light. It's built-in to the OS.
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Thats not what the led notification in android and blackberry are for. Its for when you leave your phone on a table and it lets you know that you got a call while you didn't have it. It continues to pulse after the notification until you turn the screen on.
 
onthecouchagain said:
Why is Auxo so unstable, though?

Cool thread.
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most jailbreak apps are unstable to begin with. even if the coding of the jailbreak app is rock stable but the fact that it injects itself into the runtime blindly like a virus can destabilize the system.

if you run more than one similar apps that modify the same runtime location like the spring board will most likely cause instability.
 
Let me get this straight.

onthecouchagain last experience with an iPhone was the iPhone 4S which wasn't long ago and still uses iOS 6 on his iPad.
onthecouchagain prefers Android OS over iOS.
onthecouchagain doesn't like the 4" screen and prefers something bigger like 4.5" to 4.8" screen.


Yet he can't find a good Android phone replacement for the Nexus 4 out of the hundreds versions of the Android phone available today and went with the iPhone 5?

What does it say about the current crop of Android phones?
 
onthecouchagain said:
-Boy do I miss the dedicated back button. Sure iOS has a button that takes you back but it's not always in the same place. Sometimes it's upper left, sometimes it's lower left (Safari's back button), sometimes it's upper right, and other times it's a "Cancel" button in the lower middle of the screen. You have to search for it, instead of just having muscle memory of tapping back. I post example pictures:

Sometimes the only way to go back is the upper right:



Other times, it's a cancel button bottom of the screen (you cannot tap elsewhere on the screen to get out of this):
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I do like the dedicated back/undo button at times. But it's not very consistent on Android.

Where's the location of the dedicated back button?


Depends on the device.

The dedicated back button might be on the bottom right, bottom left, or the middle. That's like having a samsung mouse where the contextual menu is the left button, but on a google mouse, the contextual menu is the right button.

I prefer it on the bottom left, but on my Note 2, it's on the bottom right.


What does back button do? Depends on the app.


Sometimes it quits the app.
Sometimes it goes back to the previous page.
Sometimes it undos something you just did.
Sometimes it does nothing.


How is it consistent?
 
Hey. I just learned that the dedicated back button does another trick on my Note 2.

It brings up multi-window bar on the left when I hold onto it.

Guess it's a not so "dedicated" back button anymore.
 
hyteckit said:
Where's the location of the dedicated back button?


Depends on the device.

The dedicated back button might be on the bottom right, bottom left, or the middle. That's like having a samsung mouse where the contextual menu is the left button, but on a google mouse, the contextual menu is the right button.
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Is this constituted as a negative now? Unless you pick up a different phone each time you use it, why is this even a problem?

The wife has had a Galaxy S III for the past 12 months. Her back button has been in the same place for the duration of that time. When she gets her Xperia Z tomorrow, it'll be in a different place. She has to adjust to this just once. I hope, against all odds, she will be able to cope with this. Her biggest challenge since going into labour imo. /s ;)

Surely people have the mental capacity to adjust to something so simple? Worrying!

Christ knows what happens if some of you lot drive down a road that's changed since you last traveled down it? Panic attacks aplenty no doubt.

There's a big nasty world out there, ever changing. You'll probably be better off not heading out in it if you can't handle something so simple as above. :D
 
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