... that's your reality. Everyone I know is aware of the safety feature especially when coming over from another laptop that broke after tripping the power cable.
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... that's your reality. Everyone I know is aware of the safety feature especially when coming over from another laptop that broke after tripping the power cable.
Phoenix
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Not quite. Apple has a patent that covers a way to resolve this particular issue:
http://www.nfcworld.com/2011/07/11/38507/apple-gets-patent-for-adding-nfc-to-metal-displays/
Very interesting. Putting the chip directly behind the Apple logo makes obvious sense as well.
I still think its one more year away, due to software and building out their payment platform. I'd love to be wrong, of course.
Headphone jack on the Vita is idiotic. It makes the profile wider and makes it impossible to use as a portable music player. Headphone jack on the bottom for a phone really is no different from the first nano or first iPod touch.
YES, new Classic please...Solid State for bonus points.
Phoenix
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The retina iPad has no near peers from a competitive perspective so that's not quite the same thing. From a competitive perspective, the iPhone now has near peers so a slow technology or innovation path is more damaging.
Where? I've got a perfect condition jailbroken 64GB 4S and I thought the best I could do was like $400.
ebay. Factory unlocked devices are much more expensive. Apple sells the base 4s for 650 unlocked + taxes.
Regardless of whether the ease of plugging/unplugging is the first thing you notice, that's not what the feature is for. It's a side effect of the safety feature.
Moreover the physics of the thing wouldn't work. The point is that the connection has to be strong enough to stay in (most of the time!) but weak enough that the force to remove it is less than the force required to move your laptop. But a phone is tiny and weighs virtually nothing; the magnets would have to be so weak that they would barely stay attached to the phone.
They could make the dock magnetic anyway, but if anything that would likely increase the chance of your dropping and damaging the phone, because the current connection is strong enough to hold the phone's weight even with a short drop, but a 'MagSafe' connector might not be unless it's particularly strong: and that removes the 'easier to unplug' part of the equation.
You did good. Most people don't know that any GSM iphone can be factory unlocked as long as the phone owner's account was closed and paid for. I got my 4S few months ago for $400 on Craigslist, asked the owner for the IMEI, and did the unlock myself through AT&T support before paying for it.
I am actually really happy about this, I always hated how if you are using your iPhone with it plugged in that you have a cord coming from each end.
It makes sense. When the phone's in your pocket, it'll be easier to lift out and you won't have to turn it upside down to switch songs.
I never said they weren't aware of it, just that the connivence factor is more immediately obvious to a user than the safety feature.
You're talking about the physics as if it would be intended as a safety feature for the phone. That's not what i'm disputing. I get that it wouldn't work in that respect, but that was never my point.
And as you say, the current connector is the same in that regard; pull the wire and your phone will be yanked. That wouldn't be greatly different with a magnet (never said it would be easier to unplug). What would be easier, and what I was referring to with 'ease of use', is actually plugging it in (magnetically). There's no reason why a magnetic port "wouldn't work" unless you're seeing it solely as a safety feature, which it doesn't need to be.
[EDIT] It's also worth mentioning that Apple is exploring/has explored MagSafe as a way for data transfer (i.e. dock port) in iDevices, as some of their patents have shown. I doubt we'll see it come to fruition any time soon, though.
iAmMaximus
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Does Apple usually take pre-orders on the day of their announcements? I forget how they handled it with the iPhone 4, iPad, etc.
OneEightZero
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Yeah they usually open their pre-orders at 3AM Eastern and chaos ensues.
I never understood why it has been on the top all this time.
That was why the Nano was the best iPod after the click wheel. People who don't understand this must have never used it.
Haven't the speakers traditionally been on the bottom, even with the old iPod Touch's? Those had bottom jacks, but the speaker sound quality was horrible. The only bad thing I can think of with the the headphone jack being on the bottom, is for left handed people who hold their iPhone's with the lower left corner/edge pushing into the center of their palm. The jack would bend against their palm.
And of course new docks will need to have the headphone jack adapter so it can still be used while docked. Other than that (which is pretty nitpicky imo) there's nothing particularly WRONG with it being on the bottom.
No room left because of the 30-pin dock connector and speakers?
Phoenix
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Because when people hold the device it makes more sense for it to flow from the top. It makes more sense on the bottom when it is docked.
plasticpassion
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I'm unhappy with my iPhone 4 considering it's showing its age (slow, camera not so great, etc), but the 5 looks so underwhelming. I'm almost tempted to wait until a 5S or whatever the following version is. Apple overall has lost their wonder for me, but I still don't want an android. Oh well.
The_Inquisitor
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What exactly is underwhelming about it so far?
when you have the phone in your pocket the cable comes out of the top.
IMO, that's the reason. I think they would have done it that way from the begginning, just like the ipod Touch, but there hasn't been room to do it until now.
HollovVpo1nt
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It makes more sense for your phone to be "upside down" in your pocket. When you take it out it is right side up.
The two things that make you unhappy about your iPhone 4 almost assuredly being addressed renders nothing more than a grade of underwhelming?
i don't know if this rumored mockup was posted (don't visit iphone threads often)
The iPhone 5 Cases Showing Up At AT&T Indicate A Taller Phone
AT&T stores are already receiving various iPhone 5 accessories, according to Boy Genius Report's sources at the phone company.
Accessories can provide a crucial clue about the new iPhone's size. As we get closer to the official announcement next week, more news is trickling out about Apple's next-generation iPhone.
According to BGR's mockup, the iPhone 5 is longerenough for a fifth row of app icons on the home screen.
Take this rumor with a grain of salt but last year before the iPhone 4S launch BGR discovered similar cases for that phone and they were correct.
Here is another photo of the iPhone 5 with a screen protector:
And a photo of the back of the device:
http://www.businessinsider.com/att-iphone-5-cases-2012-9
The iPhone 5 Cases Showing Up At AT&T Indicate A Taller Phone
AT&T stores are already receiving various iPhone 5 accessories, according to Boy Genius Report's sources at the phone company.
Accessories can provide a crucial clue about the new iPhone's size. As we get closer to the official announcement next week, more news is trickling out about Apple's next-generation iPhone.
According to BGR's mockup, the iPhone 5 is longerenough for a fifth row of app icons on the home screen.
Take this rumor with a grain of salt but last year before the iPhone 4S launch BGR discovered similar cases for that phone and they were correct.
Here is another photo of the iPhone 5 with a screen protector:
And a photo of the back of the device:
http://www.businessinsider.com/att-iphone-5-cases-2012-9
Also, like the iPad, even if they called it the new iPhone the box would just say "iPhone"
Edit: beaten by hours.
I love how the music player is still named 'iPod' from iOS 4 in those mockups.
Also, cases mean jack shit. Lest we forget what happened pre-4S reveal.
Have there been any strong rumours of what they're going to do with the extra screen space? I always hoped they'd use it as a widget area. If they black bar all existing apps just to add an extra row of icons to home screen, I would seriously consider waiting for the next Nexus, not something I thought I'd be saying this time last year. Not excited by iOS6. It would be very difficult to tear myself away from the Apple ecosystem though, maybe I will get one regardless, I'm desperate to ditch my 3GS.
uh oh, now you've done it.
Oops, sorry didn't mean to light a fire or anything, I don't come to these threads often.
It can ostensibly serve as a piece of dedicated keyboard/widget real estate. I always thought the keyboard utility was key for the extra space, though I haven't really looked at the spacing
I don't want to because I hate the alternatives but if I ever did I would lose on a shitload of money spent on apps and games.
Apparent working iPhone 5 leaked, video of boot screen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaVzt-_zajE&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaVzt-_zajE&feature=player_embedded
I say its real.
Sounds like it is taken in a factory environment (with that, i do not mean foxcon, just any of the plentiful factories, involved in the iPhone production, including 3rd party accessories etc. Damn loud background noise. I am sure the stickers has a reason too. Anyone faking, would never that awkward stickers over the back. If they wanted to hide smth, just dont show the back then?!
Probably real.
Sounds like it is taken in a factory environment (with that, i do not mean foxcon, just any of the plentiful factories, involved in the iPhone production, including 3rd party accessories etc. Damn loud background noise. I am sure the stickers has a reason too. Anyone faking, would never that awkward stickers over the back. If they wanted to hide smth, just dont show the back then?!
Probably real.
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