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Sharp Slated to Begin iPhone 5S Display Production in June
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Really? You don't know?
Samsung did it first and Apple was second.
Get it now, genious?
Lol I wondered what people would say when iPhone got lte. Now I know: "oh yeah?? We had it first!"
If June comes and goes without a larger display many an iPhone will be relegated to glorified iPod status. So unfortunate and unnecessary.
I love how everyone acts like a new iPhone is just the hardware.
With the new iPhone will come the new iOS and that's usually the more exciting part of the two anyway. At some point, smartphone hardware will become about as good as it can get, and updates will become incremental bumps in speed and power just like computers.
Yeah when are they gonna let me insert my face in a square block on the picture of the landscape I just took??
Well even Galaxy S4 is just an S3 redesign so--yawn even there--
ps.
Guys do you hear me?Because i write but i have no answers...
which maybe its just normal..or even boring you..
in this case i apologize.
ps.
Guys do you hear me?Because i write but i have no answers...
which maybe its just normal..or even boring you..
in this case i apologize.
If 5S sales flop Apple may be forced to accelerate their plans for the iPhone 6, releasing it 3-6 months earlier than scheduled. I'm just worried about the possibility of my 5S being replaced by the iPhone 6 six months after I get it (at launch). Maybe I'll get a $100 iTunes gift card or something if that happens?
It's like people who like bigger screens think they hold the only opinion.
Fact: the iPhone will sell just fine and continue to be just as popular even if they don't release an iPhone with a larger display this year.
However, they could grab some market share if they played in that space, same as if they played in the "lower-end" space - both of which I think they'll do, but not this year.
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Really only mattered if you were in a big urban area that got LTE rolled out early.
There are still plenty of people around the world who don't have LTE and LTE/A won't really be viable for another 5ish years more likely than not. I wouldn't say Apple was late to the game - especially since before they "got around" to implementing it, LTE had (and still does unnecessarily) the reputation of being a battery drainer.
Could it be that Apple has a plan and would rather release tech when its more efficient and viable as to not negatively affect user experience just to say they were "first"?
No, of course not - Apple is simply trying to screw its customers by holding back features and releasing tech after others do it.
*this isn't necessarily directed at you - but its a pretty prevalent thought process I figured I'd debunk.*
I don't understand why they can't use visual recognition?
The iPhone (and just about every Apple device) has a built in camera, why not have some software that can see who is logging in and take a photo, if it doesn't recognize the person then ask for further ID like a password?
That would be nice, I have 16Gb 3Gs and an upgrade to 32Gb would be good, 64Gb would be better.
Given the cost of storage chips it should be 32/64/128 for the 5s!
And yet they will come up with more ideas than you've presented.
I'm happy with the hardware. I'd love to see some iOS enhancements.
Kind of like what Windows 98SE was to Windows 98. Re releasing with bug fixes how it should have been done in the first place.
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I think they could absolute grab some Marked share in both areas. Even selling their products here in Mexico for the same prices as in the US would help get them some here also.
Myself, I am looking forward to seeing how (or if) the finger sensor is implemented. I really dislike using a passcode for a login and don't want to go to something longer. So biometrics is something that would interest me. But I think that IOS 7 will be the biggest announcement.
Toltepeceno
You really had to go back to June of 1998, 15 years? A bit of a reach isn't it?
iPhone 4 “antennagate” settlement checks arriving in the mail
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/04/iphone-4-antennagate-settlement-checks-arriving-in-the-mail/
You're holding it wrong...
Not for someone my age, to a youngster maybe.
The 98-98se update involved me, antennagate did not. THATS why I used that example.
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Really only mattered if you were in a big urban area that got LTE rolled out early.
There are still plenty of people around the world who don't have LTE and LTE/A won't really be viable for another 5ish years more likely than not. I wouldn't say Apple was late to the game - especially since before they "got around" to implementing it, LTE had (and still does unnecessarily) the reputation of being a battery drainer.
Could it be that Apple has a plan and would rather release tech when its more efficient and viable as to not negatively affect user experience just to say they were "first"?
No, of course not - Apple is simply trying to screw its customers by holding back features and releasing tech after others do it.
*this isn't necessarily directed at you - but its a pretty prevalent thought process I figured I'd debunk.*
Or quite frankly - Apple didn't roll it out because it wasn't on their current product roadmap - which like any company that deals with consumable electronics - have pipelines with features they plan on adding and when so that there are reasons to upgrade.
Actually - from everything I've seen - they have various styles (shapes and setting) to use the dual picture taking mode. And actually - there are a great number of viable uses.
Sarcasm noted though.
I find it extremely hard to believe that a company like Apple didn't have LTE on it's product roadmap well in advance. Especially since they own (along with others) some LTE patents.
I think they were simply waiting for the right time and tech. Give. apples overall emphasis and attention to efficiency, why is it so hard to believe they simply wanted to wait for a more efficient chip (which ended up being the Qualcomm one they used) rather than sacrifice battery life and user experience just to be "first".
Especially when it would only have benefited a small portion of users and LTE wasn't widely available even in the US at the time.
I think you missed the thrust of my comment. Apple might have specifically held back LTE for a later version on purpose so that the changes to iPhone were incremental specifically.
Having worked for one of the major manufacturers in the past - an example I can give first hand is that back in the day - the tech and infrastructure was in place for full MMS. But phones slowly progressed through text messaging to EMS (enhanced messages) to MMS. It was a way to for both carrier and phone manufacturer to continue to roll out new phones with better specs to drive adoption and increase ARPU.
Perhaps....I don't for one second believe that was the driving cause however....but whatever. Our biases will cause us each to look at it differently.
I really just think it's ridiculous people feel Apple intentionally holds back tech just because they want to incrementally update. That could be part of it, but I also tend to think they likely have a good reason as well.
In the case of LTE - it's pretty easy to see. LTE was not widespread and Apple felt installing a technology in it's infancy and all the problems that come (poor battery life and the subsequent poor user experience) wasnt worth it.
I can understand why anyone faults them for this.
If you want "bleeding edge" tech that works half the time or causes some battery drain or lag, youve got Samsung for that.
I don't disagree with you. I think it's not just one or the other. I think there are several reasons.
I don't necc agree with your last statement/dig on Samsung. All phones have issues. Some get more attention than others based on people's use cases. Samsung - for whatever reason - never went through an Antennagate for example. And I don't want to turn this into a debate about that. But my point is - no phone is perfect. No OS is perfect. Machines in general are not infallible.