iPhone 5: Coming June 2012
Discussion
audi321 said:
Doesn't the dock have a line out? Mine does
Yes, but being line level, it's designed for 3.5mm jack to stereo RCAs or jack input, so the volume control on the iDevice is bypassed.Useful if you have a set of Stax Lamdas with their own amplifier to drive them, otherwise, no go with passive earphones sans volume control.
Iceman82 said:
thinfourth2 said:
Oh bugger
According to the daily wail once they release the iphone 5 my iphone 3G will no longer fit into my dock radio and i will get cancer
I blame immigrants
You forgot, it will also have a massively negative impact on the price of your house.According to the daily wail once they release the iphone 5 my iphone 3G will no longer fit into my dock radio and i will get cancer
I blame immigrants
I'm tired of waiting. Is Apple going to get around to the iPhone 5 this year? OK, I know they are playing their cards close to their chest and we don't know exactly when but I really wish they'd just say 'October' or whenever as they're about to lose me as a customer.
I'm an Apple-phile, but I'm seriously tempted by the Galaxy S3, and I think Apple must be losing a fair chunk of potential business to Samsung at the moment. Steve Jobs once said he was not interested in owning the market, just the top 10-20% of the market where Apple's high-end products are positioned. That is fine, but the market dynamic is changing. Fast. What was once high-end is now pretty run-of-the-mill IMO.
I've had an Android phone before, a HTC Desire 18 months ago, it wasn't as good as my iPhone 3G IMO. Is Android/Ice Cream Sandwich a fair competitor to iOS now?
I'm an Apple-phile, but I'm seriously tempted by the Galaxy S3, and I think Apple must be losing a fair chunk of potential business to Samsung at the moment. Steve Jobs once said he was not interested in owning the market, just the top 10-20% of the market where Apple's high-end products are positioned. That is fine, but the market dynamic is changing. Fast. What was once high-end is now pretty run-of-the-mill IMO.
I've had an Android phone before, a HTC Desire 18 months ago, it wasn't as good as my iPhone 3G IMO. Is Android/Ice Cream Sandwich a fair competitor to iOS now?
Targarama said:
I'm tired of waiting. Is Apple going to get around to the iPhone 5 this year? OK, I know they are playing their cards close to their chest and we don't know exactly when but I really wish they'd just say 'October' or whenever as they're about to lose me as a customer.
I'm an Apple-phile, but I'm seriously tempted by the Galaxy S3, and I think Apple must be losing a fair chunk of potential business to Samsung at the moment. Steve Jobs once said he was not interested in owning the market, just the top 10-20% of the market where Apple's high-end products are positioned. That is fine, but the market dynamic is changing. Fast. What was once high-end is now pretty run-of-the-mill IMO.
I've had an Android phone before, a HTC Desire 18 months ago, it wasn't as good as my iPhone 3G IMO. Is Android/Ice Cream Sandwich a fair competitor to iOS now?
I've had iphones for the last 5 years. My contract finished a couple of weeks ago and I was also feed up waiting for the iphone 5. I'm sure it won't arrive until October and I'm not sure it could offer much more than the current crop of phones other than some useful / interesting software tweaks. I plummed for the S3 last week as I wanted to try Android and a larger screen. I'm impressed, not too cluttered with software as the reviews state or flimsy feeling. I'm not bowled over by the looks and preferred the design of the HTC X One but now it's in use, I'm more than happy with it. I'm an Apple-phile, but I'm seriously tempted by the Galaxy S3, and I think Apple must be losing a fair chunk of potential business to Samsung at the moment. Steve Jobs once said he was not interested in owning the market, just the top 10-20% of the market where Apple's high-end products are positioned. That is fine, but the market dynamic is changing. Fast. What was once high-end is now pretty run-of-the-mill IMO.
I've had an Android phone before, a HTC Desire 18 months ago, it wasn't as good as my iPhone 3G IMO. Is Android/Ice Cream Sandwich a fair competitor to iOS now?
Touch screen works just as well. I haven't missed any apps that I've bought through the app store. The camera is significantly better and faster, worlds apart from the iphone 4. The phone camera quality was quite low down my priority list but hey, I'm going to use it more now.
Rather than leading the way, I reckon Apple have lost a significant share / position in the market to Android - and it pleases me. With my first proper introduction to Apple through the iphone, I was bowled over by the product. Over time I've realised Apple are the new Microsoft, really stingy and tight. For what the iphone costs, it should be all singing and dancing.
Here's an example:
I wanted to connect my iphone 4 to my TV to mirror the screen. That functionality isn't available without jailbreaking the phone. So I got a HDMI cable, jailbroke my phone just to try it.
New S3, I was sat at the dining room table, playing with pictures taken that day on my phone and noticed a new icon at the top. I pressed it and suddenly some musical my wife was watching was replaced with a copy of the pictures on my phone - how frigging cool. Pushing technology out of the box - go Samsung!
Here's another example:
FaceTime b
ks - only to other iphones and I believe on wi-fi only (I think that's only just changed to 3g as well)5 years ago, I managed the same face-time using my Nokia n5 to another phone my wife was using. I made a call today to my parents over 3G, video call, out of the box, no messing or restriction. 1mb per minute is what it averages, so pretty good against my monthly allowance.
Short version - get the S3
muthaducka said:
Short version - get the S3
What he said. Approach it with an open mind.Another example : With pretty much any android phone you can bluetooth files around. iPhone still can't do that.
The S3s big thing is connectivity - plug a games console controller in, connect to your TV via DLNA or just HDMI, plug in memory sticks and the like. Then you have the dropbox account that comes with it, the face recognition/photo sharing stuff.. just goes on and on.
All you are waiting for on an iphone5 is how it looks, not that important really. You've already seen what iOS6 offers, although I wouldn't rule out a 6.1 for the new phone I wouldn't expect it to be wildly different, maybe add an NFC app. I wouldn't be surprised if their big thing will be adding LTE (useless to us here..).
They reckon the S3 has sold 10m units in 2 months - for a device many people panned when it came out thats not too shabby.
The answer to your first question is: use doubletwist or isyncr to get your content out of iTunes
CommanderJameson said:
Roffloffle.
Apple aren't losing business to anyone.
That's not what Apple say Apple aren't losing business to anyone.
Reuters said:
Apple accused Samsung of infringing its patents by making its popular Galaxy phone and computer tablets "work and look" like Apple products, enabling the South Korean company to overtake it as the world's largest maker of smartphones
It said Samsung has been "unjustly enriched" by an undisclosed amount -- presumably $2 billion -- and deprived Apple of $500 million of profit and $25 million of reasonable royalty damages. This results in "a combined total of $2.525 billion" of damages, Apple said.
http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/07/24/us-apple-samsung-damages-idINBRE86N0WE20120724It said Samsung has been "unjustly enriched" by an undisclosed amount -- presumably $2 billion -- and deprived Apple of $500 million of profit and $25 million of reasonable royalty damages. This results in "a combined total of $2.525 billion" of damages, Apple said.
http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/07/24/us-apple-...
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