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My sources in Chinese factories, who've proved to be right many times in the past, tell me that the next iPhone will look like a lobster. I'd post the photographic evidence but my Blender guy isn't quite finished yet.
 
Bungle73 said:
If it were a button how would you be able to instantly tell if it was on or off? A toggle switch accomplishes that.
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An icon on the phone screen, like every other phone since about 1992. As it is, you need to look at the side of the phone to see if you can see the bit of orange.

It always struck me as an afterthought, to be honest.
 
You don't need to look at it, you can feel it - and you can immediately set the phone to silent or loud with it as soon as you have your finger on it, too, just by moving it up or down. I think it's a great design personally; silent or not is the function I find myself using easily the most often in situations where I want no other interaction with the phone, since it mostly affects alerts. I always hated scrabbling around and unlocking phones just to set them to silent; I'd turn them off instead, it was faster.
 
souljacker said:
An icon on the phone screen, like every other phone since about 1992. As it is, you need to look at the side of the phone to see if you can see the bit of orange.

It always struck me as an afterthought, to be honest.
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I've had mine over two years and having read your comment I had a closer look for the orange bit as I'd never noticed it!

FridgeMagnet said:
You don't need to look at it, you can feel it - and you can immediately set the phone to silent or loud with it as soon as you have your finger on it, too, just by moving it up or down. I think it's a great design personally; silent or not is the function I find myself using easily the most often in situations where I want no other interaction with the phone, since it mostly affects alerts. I always hated scrabbling around and unlocking phones just to set them to silent; I'd turn them off instead, it was faster.
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Exactly!
 
Kid_Eternity said:
Would it be that hard to click it and see?
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Isn't it better to be able see (or feel) instantly? You have no sound, you click the button, still no sound, volume too low (assuming there was nothing wrong with the phone). With the switch you know straight away whether it was the problem.
souljacker said:
An icon on the phone screen, like every other phone since about 1992. As it is, you need to look at the side of the phone to see if you can see the bit of orange.
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So, an icon on the screen that you have to wake up the phone to see is better than an instantly available switch is it?

It always struck me as an afterthought, to be honest.
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It's an excellent piece of design imo. I doubt, given how much they put into design, anything on an Apple product is an after-thought.
 
FridgeMagnet said:
You don't need to look at it, you can feel it - and you can immediately set the phone to silent or loud with it as soon as you have your finger on it, too, just by moving it up or down.
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They nicked that directly from Palm and it's a great design feature. The biggest ommission with the iPhone (and my own S2) is the lack of a LED to tell you if you've missed a call/text etc.
 
Bungle73 said:
Isn't it better to be able see (or feel) instantly? You have no sound, you click the button, still no sound, volume too low (assuming there was nothing wrong with the phone). With the switch you know straight away whether it was the problem.

So, an icon on the screen that you have to wake up the phone to see is better than an instantly available switch is it?


It's an excellent piece of design imo. I doubt, given how much they put into design, anything on an Apple product is an after-thought.
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Don't get me wrong I don't expect this anytime soon. Perhaps a button on could have a dim pulse light (similar to the sleep light on MBP)? Or an on screen speaker with a strike through icon on the top bar next to the screen lock icon?
 
On an unrelated note, Apple are about to pull the very good Evi app from its store. Why? Pornographic? Racist? Illegal?

No. It's because it's too similar to Siri.

FACEPALM.
 
sumimasen said:
On an unrelated note, Apple are about to pull the very good Evi app from its store. Why? Pornographic? Racist? Illegal?

No. It's because it's too similar to Siri.

FACEPALM.
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Apparently Apple aren't pulling it now. Have to say I think the general policy though is stupid; I'd love nothing more than a bunch of Siri wannabes to be on the app store to provide some much needed competition in the voice activated assistant space...
 
Well if they aren't pulling it then what is the general policy, how can you say its stupid if they aren't doing it?

In terms of their motivation, I expect they are especially sensitive about this right now as its quite plausible they will bring Siri to the iPad 3 and will want to market that feature as a reason to get the latest shiny thing.
 
elbows said:
Well if they aren't pulling it then what is the general policy, how can you say its stupid if they aren't doing it?

In terms of their motivation, I expect they are especially sensitive about this right now as its quite plausible they will bring Siri to the iPad 3 and will want to market that feature as a reason to get the latest shiny thing.
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That's why I said general policy rather than in this instance. They don't allow a proper full blown browser which I think is crap, I'd love to be able to sync my Chrome bookmarks and have them available on my iPhone...
 
Look how tiny the earpiece speaker is!

iPhone-3GS-3G-earpiece-speaker-removed-620x414.jpg


http://www.imore.com/2012/02/28/weekly-mod-replace-earpiece-speaker-iphone-3g-3gs/
 
Ive just upgraded from a Blackberry curve to an iphone4 on o2 contract.However when I was setting it up for icloud/email etc so I can get apps I entered wrong email address. Ive tried get rid of that one but now I think Ive got password wrong. Its sending me emails I cant read as Ive forgotten/enter wrong password. Im in a mess, what I want to do is erase the email/icloud address..start afresh with old email address and set up new password.
 
I'm not entirely sure I understand the problem and I'm a bit pissed but if your referring to the Apple ID you need to download apps just go to your system preferences and put in your email address and then click forgotten password,they'll send you another.If however I'm talking shit and it's something else altogether just ignore me.Be aware once you get an Apple ID it's a bit tricky to get another although if you've not download anything it should;'t be a problem.:confused:
 
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