What difference? Are you the 1 person that keeps saying that? I'm sitting heree looking at at ios7 with a combination of new ios7 icons, old icons from 3rd party apps, and the home button. It's all the same radius.
Nobody cares anyway.
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What difference? Are you the 1 person that keeps saying that? I'm sitting heree looking at at ios7 with a combination of new ios7 icons, old icons from 3rd party apps, and the home button. It's all the same radius.
Nobody cares anyway.
You should try not coming off as being rude, especially when you're wrong. There IS a difference and just because you don't see it doesn't mean it isn't there.
A LED notification ring around the home button/fingerprint scanner that's customizable with multiple colors would be a nice addition. If it's true, it looks like Apple was 'almost' able to surprise us with a new feature. Unless, there's still a 4.5-4.7" screen waiting to be revealed on Tuesday. I doubt it, but after this late reveal of a LED ring, who knows what's next?
Seems plausible to me: The square on current iOS devices is there to indicate that that area is a button. If it had to be removed on account of the alleged fingerprint scanner, then a silver outline would now serve to indicate to users that the button is there.
Hard to tell in the picture, but I'd be surprised if they chose something so noticeable since it interrupts the appearance of the front of the phone (or at least on the black models)
Hard to tell in the picture, but I'd be surprised if they chose something so noticeable since it interrupts the appearance of the front of the phone (or at least on the black models)
What's in the box? WHAT'S IN THE BOX!! 
But seriously, who cares? It's just a bloody box. You'll take the phone out, and either throw it away or store it in a cabinet or something.
However, I still don't get this wallpaper-matching-phone's color thing. A huge majority of people leave the default wallpaper, so instead of giving them something bland and doesn't show the parallax feature, give them something beautiful like the space wallpaper.
It'd be seriously cool if the ring around the home button glows.
Edit: Could it be these matching wallpapers are actually live or "dynamic" wallpapers? That would be nice.
But seriously, who cares? It's just a bloody box. You'll take the phone out, and either throw it away or store it in a cabinet or something.
However, I still don't get this wallpaper-matching-phone's color thing. A huge majority of people leave the default wallpaper, so instead of giving them something bland and doesn't show the parallax feature, give them something beautiful like the space wallpaper.
It'd be seriously cool if the ring around the home button glows.
Edit: Could it be these matching wallpapers are actually live or "dynamic" wallpapers? That would be nice.
Why did you put that word in quotes? Did I say it? Were we even arguing on that? As far as I know, whether they're innovative or not, they still make it different to the iPhone 5.
And you also said "we'll see on that" only for battery life. Aren't we also yet to see how the fingerprint sensor will be used? Or how good the camera will be? Or how much power will be added? Or how the power will be used? If you think it's irrelevant, ask an iPhone 4 user how they're doing with iOS 7. Why are you making such judgements?
Unless they also turned it into a LED notification light, which would make it very noticeable and rightly so.
Nice! Your mock up would be even better if you included the red notification bubbles near the icons the lit LED corresponds to...
What makes you think this is iOS 5, iOS 5 isn't even supported on the 4" screen.
Fingerprint scanners are never circular. So if this is the new phone, its highly doubtful it has one.
Samsung Galaxy Note 3, you'll be my next phone and I"ll know for sure on the 10th. The 4 inch screen is not doing it for me what so ever and I"m right now at the Apple Store typing this. Maybe they'll take some kind of heads up.
By the way if your wondering what i'm doing in the Apple store, my macbook pro hard drive decided to fail on me last night while doing work.
By the way if your wondering what i'm doing in the Apple store, my macbook pro hard drive decided to fail on me last night while doing work.
Still not seeing the major difference.
Hardware upgrades are pretty incremental, regardless of the manufacturer. Whether it's an iPhone, a Nexus, Galaxy, etc. the yearly upgrades usually include: better screen, faster processor, better graphics, more memory, faster wireless technology, better or equivalent battery life (maintaining battery life while adding hardware performance), new colors, new case materials, new sensors (accelerometer, temperature, barometer, gyroscope), and better cameras. Increasing screen sizes is just one thing that Apple doesn't do regularly compared to Android and Windows Phone manufacturers, and even now companies like HTC and Samsung are introducing "mini" versions of their larger phones to cater to the crowd who don't want 5"+ phones.
Most upgrades now are realted to software features that take advantage of the hardware improvements. If you read any of the reviews for the Samsung Galaxy S IV, most of them express how "meh" the hardware upgrades are- it's an improvement over last year's model, but nothing earth shattering. Plus, most of the sofware features (wave to answer, movies stop playing when you don't look at the phone) have been said to be gimmicky and less than ideal for everyday use. The Moto X reviews are positive because the entire package is much more well thought out and useful compared to the garbage that Motorola had been introducing previously.
Everyone is in the same boat at this point. The race is on to make enough of an upgrade each year to keep people interested or to bring in the majority of the world that doesn't have a smart phone.
Oh, and the whole "it's not 720P" thing is probably one of the dumbest complaints about any mobile device I've ever heard. 720P resolution on a 4 or 5 inch screen means absolutely nothing. It barely means anything on TVs under 30 inches. Unless you hold your phone right up to your face, your eyes will never even resolve 720 lines of pixels. It's like having 1080P or now 4K on a TV less than 37 inches. Unless you sit 4 feet from your TV, it doesn't matter. At this point, anything beyond 300ppi or so will make for a good screen. Things like contrast, color reproduction and accuracy, reflectivity, power consumption, etc are what make a screen better. Apple's screens may not be getting bigger every year, but they have gotten better in quality and still routinely beat or tie the best AMOLED Android or Windows Phone screens in industry expert tests. Time for you to find something else to whine about.
Reason why
apple insider link:
http://appleinsider.com/articles/13...erprint-scanning-home-button-with-silver-ring
apple insider link:
http://appleinsider.com/articles/13...erprint-scanning-home-button-with-silver-ring
