iPhone 5: pros and cons

Just a question, is the whole 4G debacle sorted out now? LTE = 4G and no ASA lawsuits?

Also, with the current state of mobile broadband, what would LTE *really* bring to consumers? (And I am referring to handsets here, not USB modems) Mobile data plans are pityfull and some parts of the country still does not even have decent 3G coverage meaning your phone eats through the battery. So will the LTE hype mean you will only burn through that 75Mb a month faster?
 
Bebobwolf said:
4in screen. My HTC hd2 had that size 3 years ago. Have the Samsung note, can't go back to that small size.
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Can you comfortably fit it in a shirt pocket? Then it's not really portable; may as well carry an iPad and get a real screen.
 
Why do so many people relate a bigger screen with innovation? Not so long ago it was cool to have the smallest phone, now everyone wants the biggest. There has to be a sweet spot between convenience and portability. I think that size is probably between 3,5" and 4,3". I thought the S2 was too big, and the S3 is even bigger. If I'm going out I need to fit my phone in my jeans pocket and be comfortable. What the hell do you do with a Samsung Note?
 
BruceA said:
Why do so many people relate a bigger screen with innovation? Not so long ago it was cool to have the smallest phone, now everyone wants the biggest. There has to be a sweet spot between convenience and portability. I think that size is probably between 3,5" and 4,3". I thought the S2 was too big, and the S3 is even bigger. If I'm going out I need to fit my phone in my jeans pocket and be comfortable. What the hell do you do with a Samsung Note?
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I totally agree. I don't like the huge screens and honestly don't need it.
Personally, once the novelty of having a new smartphone wears off I just use it for calls, sms, IM, facebook, twitter and a bit of browsing to look something up when I'm out and about.
Which pretty much every phone can do these days...
 
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BruceA said:
Why do so many people relate a bigger screen with innovation? Not so long ago it was cool to have the smallest phone, now everyone wants the biggest. There has to be a sweet spot between convenience and portability. I think that size is probably between 3,5" and 4,3". I thought the S2 was too big, and the S3 is even bigger. If I'm going out I need to fit my phone in my jeans pocket and be comfortable. What the hell do you do with a Samsung Note?
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I totally agree. I don't like the huge screens and honestly don't need it.
Personally, once the novelty of having a new smartphone wears off I just use it for calls, sms, IM, facebook, twitter and a bit of browsing to look something up when I'm out and about.
Which pretty much every phone can do these days...
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Exactly! I value things like battery life and compatability with my other devices far more than gimmicky features that you use once, say "wow", and then never use again!
 
BruceA said:
Exactly! I value things like battery life and compatability with my other devices far more than gimmicky features that you use once, say "wow", and then never use again!
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+1 - once you settle down with your phone, weight, battery life, portability becomes the important things - and for those of us with smaller hands, ability to use phone one handed
 
I actually find the sgs 3 screen to be quite impressive. There is definitely a trade off and it is down to preference and need. Once just can't any more equate large screens with increasing quality because that has been thoroughly saturated. It will come down to screen quality much more.
 
What Apple Didn't Tell You About The iPhone 5's Screen

One of the biggest new hardware features in the iPhone 5 that everyone seems to be glossing over is the new technology Apple worked into the display.


No, I'm not talking about the larger screen. I mean the new touch sensors that are integrated into the glass. In earlier iPhones (and other touchscreen smartphones), the display and touch sensors are two separate parts that are laminated together. With the iPhone 5, there's only one panel with both pieces integrated, resulting in a thinner screen.

I'm told by a source with firsthand knowledge of Apple's iPhone development that the company has been working on this screen technology for several years.

And it sounds like it paid off. John Gruber has the best description of the iPhone 5's screen I've read so far:

The integration of the touch sensors into the display itself provides a noticeable reduction in thickness. I wrote when I first saw the iPhone 4 in 2010 — Apple’s first retina display and the first time the company laminated the display to the glass surface, eliminating the thin layer of air between those components — that it looked like pixels on glass rather than pixels under glass. Now, after seeing the new iPhone 5 display, my iPhone 4S display seems as thick as a Coke bottle.

It gets better.

My source tells me it'll actually be cheaper to replace the new iPhone 5 display than it was to replace older iPhone displays. Now, if disaster strikes and your iPhone 5 screen cracks, Apple only has to replace one part instead of two.

It's easier and cheaper for Apple to produce the new thinner displays than take the separate touch sensors and displays to laminate them together. That's because the lamination process often screwed up, leaving bubbles and bumps in some displays. Those had to be thrown away, adding to the overall cost. With the new displays with integrated touch sensors, that's not a problem.
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http://www.businessinsider.com/iphone-5-screen-2012-9

This is the 1st mention of this I have just read... hmmm... why no details in the big reveal or did Apple mention this ??
 
Even on the 4 the digitizer and screen were one unit.
On the 3GS they were separate. If you broke the digitizer you just replaced that. Cost me R750 last time. On the 4 you're looking at at least double that since you replace the screen.
 
sand_man said:
It was mentioned in the keynote address.
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Okay, thanks... I did not follow the keynote address, got snippets from the coverage and did not encounter the new single panel sensor glass thing.
 
ads said:
Oh, come on. Spend a couple of hours in front of a Mac, and you will realise that you have been conned for most of your life by MS. I have never come across anyone who thinks it would be a good idea to downgrade back to Windows after they get a Mac... It just works properly. If you really want to be all at sea, try to do almost anything on Windows after you've used a Mac for a while...

If you want to get technical, it's a real operating system (underneath it's BSD Unix, with everything you'd expect from a standard Unix, and by far the best kernel, based originally on NeXT, with 20 years development added, without losing the essence - unlike MS, which has rewritten everything from scratch at least three times in the same period).

A lot like iOS, the UI in OSX has been built for humans, unlike much of the other stuff out there...
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Well said !!!!!

And about the phones....well my contract ends in November, and I will go from my iPhone 4 to an iPhone 5. That is where Apple is clever - they make the integration between all their hardware so seamless, that it is a no brainer to stay with them for all devices. Love the way my iPad/iPhone/iMac/MacBookPro/MacMini all share information with one another.
 
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