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mofyah

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So is everyone excited/disappointed/indifferent about this phone? I personally think it's good-looking but hardware wise it really only matches some of the high-end devices already made by other manufacturers. It will be interesting to see how it fairs against Android devices in the next few months.
 
Indifferent. Apple products are always going to be way to expensive in SA. So I am officially indifferent.

My Nokia 5800 FTW. WOZA
 
The Gyroscope seems a bit gimicky. And i don't see how such a high res display is going to help much, but i will leave my judgements till i actually get to hold one and use it.
 
Monkey101 said:
The Gyroscope seems a bit gimicky. And i don't see how such a high res display is going to help much, but i will leave my judgements till i actually get to hold one and use it.
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Well compared to the 3GS it's a massive improvement, but my Desire runs 800x480 and I honestly can't say that an increase in its resolution would be noticeable. Maybe on 4/4.3" phones it might make a difference.

All in all, it doesnt look like a bad phone - pentaband HSDPA is nice and iOS4 will probably keep to the high standard set previously, but the days when it took the better part of year for anyone to release anything close to the latest iPhone are now well over. The hardware is really only on-par with what is currently available. In a couple of months it will just be a strong runner alongside a bunch of other great phones, rather than the dominator it used to be.
 
But in those coming months it will still have the Apple store. Which i think will take the Android / Bada / Ovi stores a long time to catch up to, not just on the amount of apps but mostly the quality of them. In a way, Apple's heavy restrictions on the App store is a good thing as it keeps a fair bit of the junk out.
 
mofyah said:
So is everyone excited/disappointed/indifferent about this phone? I personally think it's good-looking but hardware wise it really only matches some of the high-end devices already made by other manufacturers. It will be interesting to see how it fairs against Android devices in the next few months.
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How can you possibly say it only matches up to other phones in terms of hardware? Apple developed their own form of steel for the casing that is 4 times stronger than regular steel. Helicopter grade glass on both sides. 1/4 thinner than it was before. And then the main feature of the phone. A display that does 326px per inch. Far, far, far higher than any other phone.
 
JStrike said:
How can you possibly say it only matches up to other phones in terms of hardware? Apple developed their own form of steel for the casing that is 4 times stronger than regular steel. Helicopter grade glass on both sides. 1/4 thinner than it was before. And then the main feature of the phone. A display that does 326px per inch. Far, far, far higher than any other phone.
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This just proves Apple has brilliant marketing skills.
 
Monkey101 said:
But in those coming months it will still have the Apple store. Which i think will take the Android / Bada / Ovi stores a long time to catch up to, not just on the amount of apps but mostly the quality of them. In a way, Apple's heavy restrictions on the App store is a good thing as it keeps a fair bit of the junk out.
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And any competition to their own apps.
 
Monkey101 said:
This just proves Apple has brilliant marketing skills.
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Lol, yeah. I stand under correction that the glass the iPhone uses is exactly the same gorilla glas that the Moto Milestone came out with months ago. The A8 processor that the iPhone 4 uses has exactly the same internals as what is in the Samsung Wave. Front and rear cameras are both lower resolution than what is available on other phones, although they are backlit to improve low-light picture taking. And I wouldn't say 326px per inch is "far far higher" than the 252 my phone has, especially since ol Steve himself said that the human eye can't pick up more than around 300px per inch. I will admit is was a clever design choice to just double the resolution of the 3GS, since it makes migrating apps much easier. I haven't read a single review that didnt think "Retina Display" is a retarded name though :P

As I said before - good phone? Yes. Leaps and bounds ahead of the competition the way the 3GS was? Not by a long shot.
 
You know what broke me, when Jobs did the "one more thing" and revealed video calling like it was the second coming of the messiah.. LOL.. I mean really, I've been doing it on Nokias for a while now, and fring does it over wifi too. It's over-rated, the tear jerker ad they showed are probably the few scenarios that it actually makes sense, but really, it wasnt all that grand.

I still maintain;

Sort out bluetooth transfers of contacts /files/mp3s to other phones (not just iphones)
Sort out usb file transfers.
Sort out custom sms and ringtones (without paying for them on itunes)
Get a notifications bar.
and
STOP locking iphones!!

Oh and a free mobile me would be cool too..
 
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