Apple's iPhone 5 is "fastest smartphone in the land"

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  • Reply 41 of 186


    Originally Posted by GadgetCanada View Post

    I heard the next GSIV will have a 5" screen. The screen will be increased for the user experience. Not so they can house a monster battery, a replaceable graphics card and cooling fans so it can run for at least 5 minutes. Just you wait iSheep, the GSIV will destroy iPhone 5.


     


    I LOVE this new commercial. Classic Apple. Makes me believe some of what they were is still there.


     


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  • Reply 42 of 186
    herbapouherbapou Posts: 2,228member

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    Originally Posted by runbuh View Post




    Yep.  Please - work out all the kinks for the rest of us.  Apple has done a great job getting you signed up as perennial beta testers.  Get iOS 6 fixed and I'll buy from the 3rd major production cycle once the scratching gets figured out.  It's going to be a great phone.



     


    The damage is on a few phones out of millions... there are no such thing like a perfect batch of millions of phones, no matter who builds them.


    You can still use maps.google.com on the phone as a web app.


     


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    Originally Posted by GadgetCanada View Post


    Apple dual-core kicks sand in the face of an Android quad-core. Yep, us iSheep are just hypnotized by marketing.


    I heard the next GSIV will have a 5" screen. The screen will be increased for the user experience. Not so they can house a monster battery, a replaceable graphics card and cooling fans so it can run for at least 5 minutes. Just you wait iSheep, the GSIV will destroy iPhone 5.



     


    The S3 in the PCmag test is dual core, they used the US version.

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  • Reply 43 of 186

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    Originally Posted by mac-user View Post


    the Touch has A5 proc., different from the iPhone5



    Sorry, I meant the current iPod Touch should probably match the previous iPhone. The current iPod Touch is version 5, compared to iPhone version 6, anyway, isn't it?

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  • Reply 44 of 186

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    Originally Posted by Tallest Skil View Post


     


    I LOVE this new commercial. Classic Apple. Makes me believe some of what they were is still there.


     


     



     


    Nice ad indeed.

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  • Reply 45 of 186
    elrothelroth Posts: 1,201member


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    Originally Posted by Slurpy View Post


    Of course it is, and I always assumed it would be. Which is why the kneejerk, myopic troll reactions of LOL UNDERSPECCED ONLY 1 GB RAM DUAL CORE were so fucking stupid. This is always the case though- the trolls get disproven about absolutely EVERYTHING they say, every single attack gets exposed to be bullshit, yet they repeat the same shit the next year. And not just Apple haters mind you, but also from supposedly Apple fans. Even the leaked case, which was universally decided to be 'ugly as hell, not Apple-like, trash' etc online, and now once the phone is in people's hand its being described as possibly the nicest/most beautiful device ever made. The contrast is always mindblowing, yet every time its the same thing. 


     




    Nice language - is it really necessary?

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  • Reply 46 of 186
    hill60hill60 Posts: 6,992member

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    Originally Posted by runbuh View Post


     


    I upgraded my wife's 4 to iOS 6 and left mine at 5.1.1.  I went outside to get decent GPS signals, brought up the maps app on both, and had both phones plot directions to the local mall.  iOS 6/Apple maps routed the course via roads that no longer exist, iOS 5.1.1 routed me via roads that exist.  I didn't find that acceptable.  Dick.



     


    Dear Dick,


     


    it must be a terrible thing to have the memory span of a goldfish, most people know where their local shops are without needing to use a GPS.


     


    Get well soon.

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  • Reply 47 of 186
    It's good to see Apple using as an ad campaign what I've been arguing for for years when people say they want a wider iPhone.

    hill60 wrote: »
    This one:-

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    $300 for a screen replacement, Samsung have got to be kidding themselves.

    That is interesting but it's not what I'd call scientific. The devices didn't fall exactly the same or hit the same exact surface. You really need to do exact tests in force and position (which usually means keeping the device stationary) to get an accurate feel for specific weaknesses.

    You would also need to do a large number of the sort of tests in the video in order to get a baseline of the likelihood of various damage from real world settings and usage patterns. I'm sure both companies do them but I trust Apple more on this, especially because for $50 I can get a new iPhone like that with AppleCare+.
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  • Reply 48 of 186
    I thought the Galaxy S3 in the USA was just a dual core chip? Which phone did they use for the tests? Besides that, quadcore performance advantage is only going to show up in certain applications. Other than this -I hear ya!

    "Now what do these tests prove that slaps fandroids silly? That a DUAL-core iPhone chip can run rings around a QUAD-core android-phone chip."
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  • Reply 49 of 186

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    This one:-


     


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    $300 for a screen replacement, Samsung have got to be kidding themselves.



    That was an absolutely terrible test, in my opinion. Can you really imagine anyone "dropping" their phone like that? A person wouldn't just sudden move their hand away from their pocket or ear and let the phone go. He dropped them face down almost every time, when I imagine most people drop it onto a corner. When he took the SIII out of his pocket, it looked like he practically flung it. Now what would have been hilarious would be if when he was showing it the last time at the end and the SIII got stuck in his pocket, it really did slip out of his hand.


     


    He also seems surprised the iPhone screen is made of such durable stuff when they go out and tell people exactly what it's made of in the first place.


     


    And how is it not a big deal when your phone goes flying in two different directions, even if the back case is just cheap plastic? This guy is weird.

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  • Reply 50 of 186
    Superior performance is effectively irrelevant since the performance scores are similar.

    The critical point is that (apparently) a 1.0 GHz dual-core processor rivals 1.4 GHz quad-core processors (presumably) sharing the same 32nm high-k + metal gate LP process. Furthermore, Apple has much higher power efficiency at virtually the same performance considering 5.45 watt-hours at 3.8 volts for the iPhone 5 versus 7.98 watt-hours at 3.8 volts for the Samsung Galaxy S III yet the batter life performance on the Samsung Galaxy S III is apparently horrid.
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  • Reply 51 of 186
    Slightly off topic, but does anyone know what the deal is concerning data plans with AT&T for iPhone 5? I have been grandfathered in for unlimited 3G and I was never given the option to choose an LTE plan. I think I saw somewhere that I was grandfathered in to unlimited LTE, but I can't find that again and that doesn't sound right.
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  • Reply 52 of 186

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    Originally Posted by wcbaritone10 View Post



    Slightly off topic, but does anyone know what the deal is concerning data plans with AT&T for iPhone 5? I have been grandfathered in for unlimited 3G and I was never given the option to choose an LTE plan. I think I saw somewhere that I was grandfathered in to unlimited LTE, but I can't find that again and that doesn't sound right.


     


    I think I read that to keep your unlimited plan you had to pay the non subsidized price for the iphone 5? I am in the same boat as you and would love to hear a definitive answer.

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  • Reply 53 of 186
    jeffdmjeffdm Posts: 12,953member
    herbapou wrote: »
    You can still use maps.google.com on the phone as a web app.

    Its OK as a fallback, but it is not nearly as smooth as a native app.

    The S3 in the PCmag test is dual core, they used the US version.

    Which raises the question, why did Samsung gimp the US version?
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  • Reply 54 of 186

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    Originally Posted by hill60 View Post


     


    Dear Dick,


     


    it must be a terrible thing to have the memory span of a goldfish, most people know where their local shops are without needing to use a GPS.


     


    Get well soon.



    What a ridiculous reply....seriously!

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  • Reply 55 of 186

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    Originally Posted by runbuh View Post




    What fear?  I just don't like paying top dollar for a phone that doesn't work as well as it should -- and I don't like getting lost.



    You should really hop into an Apple store and try one out, just for a few minutes. You'll be picking up your jaw off the floor and your wallet out of your pocket, screaming like a girl: "Shut up and take my money!"

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  • Reply 56 of 186

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    Originally Posted by Tallest Skil View Post


    "Benchmarks don't matter to you Appletards, right?"


     


    —The Anti-Apple Brigade, upon reading this



     


    In all honestly to me they really don't. Random benchmarks and specs matter less to me than how it actually performs when I use it. ANd that's probably true for the average user since they rarely to never know what those benchmarks mean anyway

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  • Reply 57 of 186

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    Originally Posted by SolipsismX View Post





    Based on your comments you've been lost for a long time.




    But to your solopsistic mind, I do not exist, so how can I be lost?  Or am I merely an elaborate deception?  Either way, you are correct.  And yet, you are incorrect at the same time.  This is not a dolphin.

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  • Reply 58 of 186

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    Originally Posted by Apple ][ View Post


     


    But 4 is greater than 2! 



     


    by way of a reply I give you


     


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  • Reply 59 of 186

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    Originally Posted by tooltalk View Post


     


    Well, that's too bad..  seems like the average iphone users can't tell the difference anyway..


     



     


    Those weren't average users. Those skits are a set up. Rather like those Windows Phone videos with the idiot iphone users. Those weren't really random folks off the street either

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  • Reply 60 of 186


    This is meaningless. They'll be faster phones on the market in 2-3 months, but there won't be better ones.

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