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New Features in iOS 6 Receive Spotty Support from Older Devices
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Are you one of those who believes in "the more you buy the more you save"? If you keep your phone for 4 years, you think of it as giving $500 to Verizon? Or as saving $300 (by not buying a new phone)? Not to mention pre-paid options where you'd save even more. And I can tell you a little secret, you can save even more if you go and buy on-contract iPhones from ATT, Verizon and SPRINT. Just imagine - $1500 of savings.
Yes they do. Apple still sells the iPad 1 in the refurbished section of their online store.
I second this. I backed down from the thought when I heard all that iOS6 was going to offer but I can't get any of the goods on my iPhone 4? I'm still going to have to jailbreak to FaceTime over 3G and the turn by turn navigation was huge. This totally sucks on their part.
More WTF moments I've noticed playing with the iOS6 Beta on the latest iPad (3rd gen) with 3G:
- Location based reminders are not supported!
- Turn by turn navigation is not supported!
There is NO good reason for this. It has GPS, it has 3G, it's the VERY LATEST HARDWARE they have.
Also, while the new 3D visualisation is OK (for the two cities I was able to find that actual implement it), the rest of the new maps are really messy and the whole app is slow. I think it's pretty global, being based on TomTom data, but lines overlap, streets don't line up with satellite images etc. I think leaving Google Maps is going to prove to be a big mistake.
- Location based reminders are not supported!
- Turn by turn navigation is not supported!
There is NO good reason for this. It has GPS, it has 3G, it's the VERY LATEST HARDWARE they have.
Also, while the new 3D visualisation is OK (for the two cities I was able to find that actual implement it), the rest of the new maps are really messy and the whole app is slow. I think it's pretty global, being based on TomTom data, but lines overlap, streets don't line up with satellite images etc. I think leaving Google Maps is going to prove to be a big mistake.
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And Samsung just gave us another reason to seriously consider their phones. They announced so called TecTiles. Those are NFC tags that can be purchased and programmed from your Samsung phone (about $3 per tag). here is how Anandtech describes some usage scenarios:
Some of the use cases included making a tag for the nightstand which would silence your phone and set your alarm, or another for your desk at work which would set the phone to vibrate. Another use case includes making a tag with either your WiFi PSK or that of a guest network for allowing guests to easily attach to your network. I could see myself putting this to use, as entering my 29 character random PSK into each new review unit gets old, fast. Either way making NFC tags easily accessible for consumers is a huge step in the right direction toward making the technology more prevalent.
You're missing the point. What are you buying--are you buying a device, or are you buying a service? Cell phone contracts are really services contracts--not devices for sale. The question is whether you are maximizing the value of your $2000 contract, and whether the $200 in savings you get from avoiding an upgrade exceed the depreciated value of that $2000 contract created by retaining an inferior device that does not receive certain features/upgrades. Spread over the life of the contract, your $200 outlay amounts to an $8 surcharge on each month of your contract.
People who don't upgrade their phone are like the people who plunk $2000 on a new HDTV and then refuse to pay the $5 monthly fee for access to HD channels (though obviously in that analogy, the circumstances are reversed).
And we haven't even talked about the myriad trade-in/resale options that reduce the effective cost of that $200 outlay even further, down to practically $0. Best Buy trade-in value for a 16GB iPhone 4 stands at $230.
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My thoughts exactly. This is standard fare for Apple. The newer the device the more features you get from the OS upgrade. I still remember the whining and complaining tha 3G owners could not change their background in iOS 4.
Android devices are fragmented on hardware, supported features, OS versions, OS variants (forks), app stores, and it's all magnified by very slow adoption of the the latest version of Android. Surely Apple has fragmentation. The mere fact that iPod touch supports different features than iPhone introduces some fragmentation. But to equate the two is simply ridicuolous.
The only way to have zero fragmentation is to never offer a new device with new features.
This is wrong. Everything build on an old target iOS firmware will work for future ones. It only gets complicated when you implement new iOS 6 APIs and want to backwards support people running iOS 4.x/5.x.
Not rocket science. If you want all features of ios6, upgrade your phone, otherwise stick with what you have and stop whingeing. Bunch of spoiled babies thinking iPhone 4 that will be two years old by the time ios6 is released should be upgrade able for ever
Are you so naive to actually believe that?
Let's call it the way it is, Apple is withholding features so people upgrade.
But I'm not complaining, I'm very glad and thankful to Apple that 3GS got iOS 6 with most of the features.
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ipad 1 pre-order owner skipping to ipad 4
as an i pad 1 owner i have been wanting to jump on the ipad 3. but with the middle lag of ios6 and the screen Heat issues which is a throw back to more primitive tec i will wait for a more balance os/hardware release. where the new hardware has been fully optimized. I wish not to be forced into a buy due to desirous urges and staged releases of "NEW"
as an i pad 1 owner i have been wanting to jump on the ipad 3. but with the middle lag of ios6 and the screen Heat issues which is a throw back to more primitive tec i will wait for a more balance os/hardware release. where the new hardware has been fully optimized. I wish not to be forced into a buy due to desirous urges and staged releases of "NEW"
The iPhone 4 not supporting Siri was stupid enough, but no turn by turn also? Come on Apple, this is ********!
Yes they were being greedy,because I have siri on my iPhone 4 running perfectly.
I bought my iPhone 4 August of last year, and it doesn't support turn-by-turn navigation!?
Also, no more updates for iPad 1!? Mine is just over a year old!
I am really considering buying a Galaxy Nexus, a pure Google Phone with on-time updates.
4S, iPad 2, and New iPad are all dual-core, I would guess this is the difference.
I still say if the iPhone isn't a massive improvement it's time for a Galaxy S III.
As a former Android user, I have to tell you that the grass is not greener on that side of the fence.
If you think it's bad with iOS in terms of which phones receive updates, you're in for a rude awakening around Christmas time when the Galaxy S3 is no longer anywhere near the top of the "latest and greatest" pile of Android handsets. Sure, you can always root your Android phone and install mods and themes, but if jail breaking is a pain in the butt to you, rooting won't be much more pleasant.
Anyone who buys an Android handset that's new today will be extremely lucky if the carriers push an OTA update of the next iteration of the Android OS within six months of the next OS's release. I experienced this myself and that's why I came back to the iPhone after leaving briefly to switch to Android.
I don't expect Apple to support my iPhone 4 forever, but I do expect some upgradable features especially when the difference in the iPhone 4 and 4s is so little.
What Apple has basically told it's iPhone 4 owners is, "It's time to upgrade" as the iPhone 4 appears to be reaching it's end of life if you want the latest iOS software features. I find this to be so silly on Apple's part. Imagine if they did this with the iMac range so quickly?
I was hoping that GPS Navigation would be included on the iPhone 4 saving me from buying a separate GPS unit for the car. That dream now appears dead unless I buy a new iPhone, or of course pay for the TomTom App
What Apple has basically told it's iPhone 4 owners is, "It's time to upgrade" as the iPhone 4 appears to be reaching it's end of life if you want the latest iOS software features. I find this to be so silly on Apple's part. Imagine if they did this with the iMac range so quickly?
I was hoping that GPS Navigation would be included on the iPhone 4 saving me from buying a separate GPS unit for the car. That dream now appears dead unless I buy a new iPhone, or of course pay for the TomTom App
If you buy Google Experience phones, such as the Nexus S and the Galaxy Nexus, they are supported perfectly nicely.
I get turn-by-turn, better speech recognition than Siri, virtually all of the "new" features in iOS4..., all on a 4.7" screen and right now.
Oh, I get Flash, too.
I love Apple, but not allowing turn-by-turn on 3GS or 4 is terribly cynical, knowing full well that the suckers will upgrade the hardware, just to get these features. Apple is just as bad as Samsung.
I really don't like how quickly Apple are stopping support for some of their devices. This time last year the iPhone 4 and iPad 2 were their flagship iOS devices but a year later they are already losing features?
It also doesn't make sense how they can drop iPad 1 support completely when the 3GS is getting the upgdate.
I know how it's a business decision blah blah blah, but it still sucks how you now get left out in the cold if you don't upgrade on a yearly basis.
It also doesn't make sense how they can drop iPad 1 support completely when the 3GS is getting the upgdate.
I know how it's a business decision blah blah blah, but it still sucks how you now get left out in the cold if you don't upgrade on a yearly basis.
So when Steve announced during the unveiling of FaceTime at the iPhone 4 launch it would be available "soon" over 3G, he forgot to mention "but not on this device"!!
Ridiculous. What possible technical reason can there be for excluding it? Sounds just like when the original iPhone, by far the most powerful phone at the time, was not powerful enough to send a humble MMS message...
Ridiculous. What possible technical reason can there be for excluding it? Sounds just like when the original iPhone, by far the most powerful phone at the time, was not powerful enough to send a humble MMS message...
Whaaaa!
Why won't my device run all the new software totally for free?!
Wah!
I don't see what the issue is. If you don't have the latest equipment, the latest software won't run well, because it takes advantage of hardware advances.
Why do people expect their devices to always run the newest stuff?
Why won't my device run all the new software totally for free?!
Wah!
I don't see what the issue is. If you don't have the latest equipment, the latest software won't run well, because it takes advantage of hardware advances.
Why do people expect their devices to always run the newest stuff?