Apple iPhone and related items (cont.)

[editor]

i've got about 6 or 7, BBC News, Poweramp, Tunein, Keep, Weather etc... very exciting at first for someone who had just moved over from iOS. i don't really use them any more, other than glancing at the weather occasionally, and thats normally built into the homescreen of most phones isn't it?

The Aix and BBC weather widgets are superb, and the Keep widget is particularly fantastic.

When I turn on my phone I can see upcoming calendar events, the weather, the time, the date and the BBC headlines all on one single screen. I can't imagine going back to any other OS that can't do that.

 

[sim667]

That's fine but if you're going to try and dismiss a feature that really is rather good, it might be an idea to actually try it out first.

Dont be silly, I doubt any tories have tried, JSA, DSA etc being dismissing it...... and they're clearly the people we should be presenting as inspirational people to our yoot.

 

[sim667]

tbf my widget is superb and no-one ever tries it out

 

[editor]

Dont be silly, I doubt any tories have tried, JSA, DSA etc being dismissing it...... and they're clearly the people we should be presenting as inspirational people to our yoot.

Um, OK.

 

[magneze]

tbf my widget is superb and no-one ever tries it out

Is it touch-enabled?

 

[Fez909]

I quite like the 5C and if I was going to buy an iPhone that's what I'd get. Criticizing it based on the case seems a bit silly to me. But the price? Sure.

 

[xenon]

The 5C is basically the 5 in a new case isn't it? The 5 itself being discontinued. Shame they've gotten rid of the 16GB 4s too. Makes sense from Apples PoV of course.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

I read an poll somewhere (can't find it now) saying something (roughly from memory) like....

20-30% of current iPhone owners want to upgrade
30%+ of Blackberry owners want to change to iPhone 5
5-20% of Android owners want to change to iPhone 5

Heh posting stuff like that on here is a red flag/bull move matey.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

The 5C is basically the 5 in a new case isn't it? The 5 itself being discontinued. Shame they've gotten rid of the 16GB 4s too. Makes sense from Apples PoV of course.

I can see the 8gig 4S free on cheaper contracts doing well, I've known a few parents who got the 3GS last year who would love a 4S due to better battery and camera.

 

[elbows]

The 5C is basically the 5 in a new case isn't it?

Yes.

 

[editor]

Yes.

That changes everything.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Yes.

Apparently it's unapologetically plastic.

 

[elbows]

That changes everything.

As far as I know that particular piece of silly hyperbole is 3 years and 3 months old.

 

[Callum91]

I'm still laughing that people honestly thought Apple would release a ''budget'' phone and not continue down their well beaten path of ''premium'' product sales. Must be lots of tech bloggers crying into their frappucinos.

 

[editor]

As far as I know that particular piece of silly hyperbole is 3 years and 3 months old.

Oh, there's lots more new daft stuff to choose from:
"The biggest thing to happen to iPhone since iPhone"
"Loving it is easy. That's why so many people do."

 

[editor]

Apparently it's unapologetically plastic.

Unapologetic plastic is so much better than regular plastic.

I bet the tech labs at Samsung are busy right now trying to create their own brand of plastic which simply refuses to apologise.

 

[Callum91]

To be fair I bet the 5C feels much less plasticky than any Samsung phone does. Of course that's probably reflected in the price, premium price for premium plastic?

 

[RedDragon]

The metal frame would add to the heft too.

 

[editor]

To be fair I bet the 5C feels much less plasticky than any Samsung phone does.

That's because they don't use unapologetic plastic (not that my S4 feels even slightly plasticky). I imagine it's no better than the plastic used in the Lumia design they were so inspired by.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

To be fair I bet the 5C feels much less plasticky than any Samsung phone does. Of course that's probably reflected in the price, premium price for premium plastic?

That wouldn't be hard, Samsung makes some of the cheapest feeling phones I've ever come across.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

The metal frame would add to the heft too.

And probably weight thinking about it...

 

[editor]

The iPhone 5c weighs about the same as the Samsung S4 (4.65 ounces vs 4.59 oz)
The 5s weighs 3.95oz.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

One of the more interesting posts on the new 64bit chip inside the 5S:

As Schiller alluded to on stage, the move to 64-bit isn't unique to iOS. Your desktop computer almost certainly runs a 64-bit OS. Windows enabled 64-bit home computing back in 2005, while Apple's big push came with OS X Snow Leopard in 2009. Although the desktop space is still transitioning to 64-bit — many Windows and OS X apps still operate at 32-bit — iOS should be able to move over in record time thanks to Apple's supreme control over its mobile OS and development tools.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Touch ID looks pretty damn fast:

 

[editor]

Damning piece about the supposed benefits of a 64 bit phone.

While the new A7 chip is indeed faster than the previous A6 chip, having a 64-bit architecture does not offer any actual performance boost. There’s a reason why other companies like Samsung and HTC haven’t launched 64-bit enabled phones yet (Android doesn't support 64-bit so they couldn't but that’s not the only reason).

Having a 64-bit CPU along with more than 4 gigabyte of physical memory on a smartphone is practically pointless and will substantially decrease the battery life. Unless all the iOS apps are recompiled and optimized for 64-bit (something that will take years), there is no benefit of having a 64-bit CPU, other than to showoff.

When you design a microprocessor, you try your best to cut down on power consumption, rather than making it consume more doing things that aren't even essential. ARM designed the 64-bit architecture for servers (read more here and here), since servers use a lot of physical memory and do things that require 64-bit wide registers but Apple’s move to make it available to smartphones is entirely stupid.
https://medium.com/tech-talk/fb96c0d7fd4e

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Another interesting piece on security and the fingerprint sensor:

Why is this so important? -- Apple isn’t the first company to add a fingerprint reader to a phone. I’ve tested laptops with fingerprint readers and seen phones with embedded readers. The real excitement is that the company will make this technology accessible to many millions of consumers.

 

[peterkro]

Damning piece about the supposed benefits of a 64 bit phone.
"There’s a reason why other companies like Samsung and HTC haven’t launched 64-bit enabled phones yet"

Samsung appear to think it's worthwhile:
"The co-CEO implied that upcoming Samsung Galaxy-branded smartphones will be more powerful and faster by confirming that they would have 64-bit processing capability"


http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/tech/2013/09/133_142604.html

 

[editor]

Samsung appear to think it's worthwhile:
"The co-CEO implied that upcoming Samsung Galaxy-branded smartphones will be more powerful and faster by confirming that they would have 64-bit processing capability"


http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/tech/2013/09/133_142604.html

It's the megapixel war all over again.

 

[RedDragon]

Anyone get to hear what went down at the China press presentation?

 

[sim667]

Um, OK.

Obscure humor fail