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LeeM

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31st Jul 12 at 16:46

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Originally posted by A2H GO
I'd hazard a guess that more people want a bigger screen than would be happy to pay £500 for another phone of the same size.

I for one am ready for a bigger screen. Your right though, unless that unibody is aluminium its going to be quite weighty and bulky. That said, the current iPhone is 9.3mm and this is reported as being 7.6mm, which is mega thin, almost as thin as just the bezel on the 4, think the S3 is 8.6mm.

i dont want or need a bigger screen, ive an ipad for that.

Dom

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31st Jul 12 at 16:52

quote:
Originally posted by LeeM

quote:
Originally posted by A2H GO
I'd hazard a guess that more people want a bigger screen than would be happy to pay £500 for another phone of the same size.

I for one am ready for a bigger screen. Your right though, unless that unibody is aluminium its going to be quite weighty and bulky. That said, the current iPhone is 9.3mm and this is reported as being 7.6mm, which is mega thin, almost as thin as just the bezel on the 4, think the S3 is 8.6mm.

i dont want or need a bigger screen, ive an ipad for that.

Apple think you do and i suspect you'll purchase one

One of my gripes with iPhones is iOS UI; it's getting a bit long in the tooth and dated, it could do with a facelift/UI rehash. No doubt someone will say "why change it, it works" but if that was the case then we'd still be using steam

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31st Jul 12 at 16:54

I think we'll see more changes when stuff comes out that Jobs had no hand in.

Can't see anyone else getting away with just flat out saying no to everything.

LeeM

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31st Jul 12 at 16:55

yep, ill still have one. thats my only annoyance about apple the lack of options

LeeM

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31st Jul 12 at 16:56

quote:
Originally posted by John
I think we'll see more changes when stuff comes out that Jobs had no hand in.

Can't see anyone else getting away with just flat out saying no to everything.

jobs was against people modifying his products, but but i think the new retina macbook has been made impossible/harder to upgrade internally yourself

Nath

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31st Jul 12 at 17:04

quote:
Originally posted by Dom

quote:
Originally posted by LeeM

quote:
Originally posted by A2H GO
I'd hazard a guess that more people want a bigger screen than would be happy to pay £500 for another phone of the same size.

I for one am ready for a bigger screen. Your right though, unless that unibody is aluminium its going to be quite weighty and bulky. That said, the current iPhone is 9.3mm and this is reported as being 7.6mm, which is mega thin, almost as thin as just the bezel on the 4, think the S3 is 8.6mm.

i dont want or need a bigger screen, ive an ipad for that.

Apple think you do and i suspect you'll purchase one

One of my gripes with iPhones is iOS UI; it's getting a bit long in the tooth and dated, it could do with a facelift/UI rehash. No doubt someone will say "why change it, it works" but if that was the case then we'd still be using steam

Exactly why I didn't bother going from a 3GS to 4 or 4S. I like my phone's to be like a new 'toy'. And going from one UI to t'other was just boring.

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31st Jul 12 at 17:44

quote:
Originally posted by Nath

quote:
Originally posted by Dom
One of my gripes with iPhones is iOS UI; it's getting a bit long in the tooth and dated, it could do with a facelift/UI rehash. No doubt someone will say "why change it, it works" but if that was the case then we'd still be using steam

Exactly why I didn't bother going from a 3GS to 4 or 4S. I like my phone's to be like a new 'toy'. And going from one UI to t'other was just boring.

I don't doubt they are already working on a UI overhaul but they need to get their arse in gear.

One annoyance when using a friends 3GS the other day was the lack of quickly enabling/disabling peripherals like WiFi/Bluetooth/GPS; have to piss about going through settings

They need to nab Androids notification bar 'switches'.....

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31st Jul 12 at 19:30

Nath - the 4/4S is a massive upgrade from the 3GS.

They don't completely overhaul the iOS so that it remains compatible with older models, how many 4 year old Android phones run Jelly Bean?

Agreed it needs a refresh but I can't see what they can possibly to to make it better other than adding widgets.

I find it mad Apple already had the 4/4S design drawn up and locked away even before the original iPhone was released.

John

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31st Jul 12 at 20:58

If you design enough stuff you can probably cover every base, it'll always look like something.

LeeM

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31st Jul 12 at 21:19

i went 3gs to 4, purely for the screen. hated the design at the time and will still probably jump at the chance of a 4 stuffed into a 3gs shell

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31st Jul 12 at 22:44

quote:
Originally posted by A2H GO[/i

They don't completely overhaul the iOS so that it remains compatible with older models, how many 1 year old Android phones have fully supported Jelly Bean?

fixed that for you Probably less than there are models of iOS devices

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1st Aug 12 at 07:27

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Nath - the 4/4S is a massive upgrade from the 3GS.

They don't completely overhaul the iOS so that it remains compatible with older models, how many 4 year old Android phones run Jelly Bean?

Agreed it needs a refresh but I can't see what they can possibly to to make it better other than adding widgets.

I find it mad Apple already had the 4/4S design drawn up and locked away even before the original iPhone was released.

Not enough to be happy to stick with it for 18/24 months. My Sister has the S and her fella the 4. I played with both phones plenty.

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1st Aug 12 at 07:51

Could do with adding a few features, don't think it needs overhauling though!

Could just stick Bluetooth (a must for me) wifi etc in the notification pull down. or instead of the search to the left, have a bar across the top with the icons etc.

Love the OS, 80% of the reason I have an iPhone.

A2H GO

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1st Aug 12 at 11:20

quote:
Originally posted by LeeM
i went 3gs to 4, purely for the screen. hated the design at the time and will still probably jump at the chance of a 4 stuffed into a 3gs shell

The 4/4S design is leaps and bounds ahead of the 3G/S.

John

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1st Aug 12 at 11:30

3G/S still feels like a toy.

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1st Aug 12 at 12:14

Changing the back from aluminium to plastic with the 3G...

LeeM

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1st Aug 12 at 12:26

Personal preference really isn't it. I'm slowly starting to really like the 4 design though, after owning it for a year

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1st Aug 12 at 13:04

Apple recently bought a company that develops finger print reader technology. Wonder if that will make it to the iPhone or will it be more iPad/mac book?

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1st Aug 12 at 13:43

Probably neither and will just use it to take Samsung to court.

A2H GO

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1st Aug 12 at 14:38

AuthenTec, Apple only bought them because Samsung signed a massive contract with them only a few weeks before. I thought they were more around NFC, which made me think the iPhone 5 won't come with it since its already in production.

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2nd Aug 12 at 08:23

quote:
Originally posted by A2H GO
They don't completely overhaul the iOS so that it remains compatible with older models....

Don't see how UI is linked with hardware compatibility

They could quite easily change the whole UI and still make it compatible with the hardware.

quote:
Originally posted by A2H GO
how many 4 year old Android phones run Jelly Bean?

Officially only a handful; unofficially a fair old amount. But then it's an unfair comparison considering you have thousands of different Android handsets vs Apple's 5(/6).

quote:
Originally posted by A2H GO
Agreed it needs a refresh but I can't see what they can possibly to to make it better other than adding widgets.

As mentioned, they need to nick Androids notifications 'switches'; crawling through settings to switch bluetooth/GPS/WiFi on and off is a stupid idea.

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2nd Aug 12 at 21:18

Well worth a read of you want to know why the iPhone 5 is two tone along with why the design is a bigger upgrade from the 4/4S than it looks on first glance:

http://itsmorereal.tumblr.com/

[Edited on 02-08-2012 by A2H GO]

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3rd Aug 12 at 07:29

iso6 is looking rather impressive

And this may make me sound so so stupid! But these latest mock ups have the headphone socket at the bottom, and that would be seriously put me off !

Dom

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3rd Aug 12 at 08:03

quote:
Originally posted by A2H GO
Well worth a read of you want to know why the iPhone 5 is two tone along with why the design is a bigger upgrade from the 4/4S than it looks on first glance:

http://itsmorereal.tumblr.com/

Good read that; shame about the use of plastic though. Would have thought there would be a way of utilising the whole unibody as an antenna though.

On another note, the of his blog is a little biased though

A2H GO

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3rd Aug 12 at 08:11

Agreed, it looks like they're just going to be sections glued in after.

They could potentially have used the unused antenna bands on the left and right for wifi/gps. ALternatibvely they could have machined out the apple logo and use a black plastic/glass apple instead similar to the iPad. Although I guess there is no room for the wifi/gps components in the centre of the phone.