Apple iPhone and related items (cont.)

[Sunray]

Not on a 4, I reckon it'd be a sluggish at best.

Nope. I have a 4 and I think iOS7 is faster than iOS6.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Nope. I have a 4 and I think iOS7 is faster than iOS6.

Really?? My 4S is running well but noticeably not as slick as on iOS 6.

 

[Sunray]

Yes, I'm very happy with the upgrade indeed.

Perhaps iOS6 had got slow for some reason and this fixed it?

 

[Winot]

Maybe they've restricted release to regular phone outlets in the hope of whipping-up a lacklustre queue at their stores.

Wandered past Regent St Apple store just now and they have a sign up saying they've sold out.

 

[electroplated]

anyone experiencing choppy/slow animations should try turning up the contrast - made everything smoother for me, no idea why, just saw the tip elsewhere

Settings > General > Accessibility > Increase contrast > On

 

[spacemonkey]

anyone experiencing choppy/slow animations should try turning up the contrast - made everything smoother for me, no idea why, just saw the tip elsewhere

Settings > General > Accessibility > Increase contrast > On

Reddit?

 

[Me76]

I've been meaning to do a reset on my iphone4 for a while cos of issues with the sound on videos and music without headphones. I'm not going to be able to do that now without updating iOS am I?

 

[Sunray]

Yes. Its optional.

 

[Bungle73]

Just upgrade, it works fine on my 4. And the Control Centre is handy.

 

[Me76]

Thanks guys. I've been meaning to do this for three months. So it's likely to be a while anyway

 

[electroplated]

Reddit?

busted!

 

[Sunray]

Thanks guys. I've been meaning to do this for three months. So it's likely to be a while anyway

With the iPhone, its actually quite difficult to wipe nowadays. Even having a new phone, as soon as you enter your apple ID, you will have all your contacts and messages restored in an instant.

Plug into iTunes and it will do a restore and its like it was before you fully wiped it.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

anyone experiencing choppy/slow animations should try turning up the contrast - made everything smoother for me, no idea why, just saw the tip elsewhere

Settings > General > Accessibility > Increase contrast > On

Weird that actually slowed my 4S down! Turned it back off straight away...

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Managed to find a spreadsheet of tarrifs and costs over time: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AtiUCEczA3ZWdHJLRGdpb3VMZ1VvNldhRnczZC14bHc&output=html

But it's incomplete, anyone got anything better?

 

[editor]

DPreview have posted up their first comparison photos showing off the 5s camera against others.


http://www.dpreview.com/articles/2170241431/iphone-5s-studio-comparison

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Just shows how little there is in between modern phone cams in studio settings (though the Xperia seems noticeably worse).

The two points that make most difference these days IMO are

(a) dynamic range - phones are mostly pretty awful and anything bright is clipped;
(b) high ISO performance, probably the most useful thing for a phone and an area where they tend to do badly with their tiny sensors.

 

[editor]

If I had to have one phone just for use as a camera, I'd take the Lumia, then the Xperia.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

If I had to have one phone just for use as a camera, I'd take the Lumia, then the Xperia.

The Lumia looks nice but the Xperia comes out horrible in that test!

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Just shows how little there is in between modern phone cams in studio settings (though the Xperia seems noticeably worse).

The two points that make most difference these days IMO are

(a) dynamic range - phones are mostly pretty awful and anything bright is clipped;
(b) high ISO performance, probably the most useful thing for a phone and an area where they tend to do badly with their tiny sensors.

Funny how some we're touting the Xperia has an amazing camera too. Just goes to show really...

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Talking about cameras one thing I must say I really like about iOS 7 is the live filter view when taking a photo. Very handy and some of the filters are actually very nice (really like Tonal for the vintage 1960s black n white look)!

 

[editor]

The Lumia looks nice but the Xperia comes out horrible in that test!

I wouldn't judge its capabilities on that one limited test. It's got one of the very best cameras on any mobile.
http://thenextweb.com/gadgets/2013/...est-camera-phone-but-not-the-best-smartphone/

 

[editor]

Germany's Chaos Computer Club have managed to hack the fingerprint sensor, but I don't think the average user should be worried!

The author comes out strongly against fingerprint security though:

"This demonstrates – again – that fingerprint biometrics is unsuitable as access control method and should be avoided," said the Chaos Club's blogpost author, "Starbug". "In reality, Apple's sensor has just a higher resolution compared to the sensors so far. So we only needed to ramp up the resolution of our fake. As we have said now for more than years, fingerprints should not be used to secure anything. You leave them everywhere, and it is far too easy to make fake fingers out of lifted prints."

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/sep/22/apple-iphone-fingerprint-scanner-hacked

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Curious that Apple announces 9 million units sold in just three days but doesn't give a breakdown.

The news about iOS 7 take up is incredible though. Never has there been such rapid and widespread updating of an OS...apparently produced a 116% rise in internet traffic too.

 

[Lazy Llama]

Apple don't ever break down their iPhones sales, as far as know.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Apple don't ever break down their iPhones sales, as far as know.

They did in the past, they'd talk about how many of the latest iPhone has sold not how many had sold overall. It wouldn't surprise me if iPhone 5S has sold significantly less than expected...

 

[RedDragon]

Plus you were allowed to pre-order the 5c. Wasn't there a US guy who queued for days for a gold 5s only to be told they didn't have any in stock.

 

[Lazy Llama]

Well I doubt they sold that many 4s' over the weekend so the vast majority would be 'the new iPhone'.
Guesses I've seen put the 5s at over 3 times the demand for 5c, which would put sales of the 5s at about 6m in the first few days. But it's all guesses so ultimately pointless.

Apple have told the stock market that earnings are expected to be at the upper end of their previous forecast range, so they won't be losing any sleep about lost "market share" or guesses of lower demand.

 

[sim667]

Apple don't ever break down their iPhones sales, as far as know.

They've been unable to do maths since jobbs died

 

[editor]

Oh dear!

It seems that a spoof advert promoting new waterproofing features in iOS 7 has resulted in some gullible iPhone owners testing their devices, and coming to a sticky end.

The advert looks to have originated form the 4Chan bulletin board, along with a Apple-style advert that promotes the new waterproofing feature, reading "Update to iOS 7 and become waterproof."

"In an emergency, a smart-switch will shut off the phone's power supply and corresponding components to prevent and damage to your iPhone's delicate circuitry," the fake advert reads.

It seems that some fell for the prank that was widely promoted across social networks, with some users reportedly testing the feature…

http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/123...ng-spoof-fools-users-destroyed-iphones-result

 

[sim667]

Thats brilliant.

The levels of debate over the smallest things in ios 7 on the macrumors forum is actually nauseating too.