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| Apple announces iPhone 5 |
| By Thom Holwerda on 2012-09-12 19:13:13 |
| As expected, Apple announced its new iPhone tonight, dubbed the iPhone 5. The rumours and leaks nailed it, with the most prominent feature being the move from 3.5" to 4" (1136x640). Due to the way iOS handles resolutions, applications need to be adapted for this new display, and if they are not, they will be letterboxed (black bars). It has a faster processor, better camera, LTE, and several other improvements, while the. As always, Apple does it right: shipping 21 September in the US, UK, Canada, France, Germany, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore - the rest of the world will follow later. |
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| I'm out |
| By dukes on 2012-09-12 21:29:55 |
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I'm a long time Apple customer. Still am, but I took a chance on the Lumia 900 while still having my iPhone 4 out of contract. Wow what a phone. I don't care what the negative comments on blogs say, I am one of the majority of Lumia owners who are satisfied with it (just look at the Amazon reviews). I traded in my iPhone 4 to Amazon ahead of this announcement for 300 big ones. What a deal! I'll be forking over the cash for a 920 ASAP. I didn't think I'd like Windows Phone but I do. The built-in integration along with exclusive Nokia attention really does make you forget about how many apps are on Apple's platform. There is lots of built-in functionality that just works so seamlessly good without worrying about single apps. I was waiting with baited breath to see what the iPhone 5 would show, but deep down I knew they couldn't touch what Nokia displayed last week. Easy decision now. |
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| RE: what happened to the ban |
| By lord_rob on 2012-09-12 21:55:47 |
| The trial is still in progress, Samsung has not won anything as of yet. |
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| RE[2]: Comment by MOS6510 |
| By WereCatf on 2012-09-12 22:28:31 |
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> The 920 is really killing it here. Too bad Nokia fails at actually shipping it. I love the looks of the Lumias, they're very pretty and unique. But I don't want WP8 and after having used my Galaxy Note for half a year now I don't want a smaller screen, either. Lumia-lookalike with a 5.3" screen, a proper stylus and Android as the OS and I would be totally sold, though. |
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| useless |
| By Mellin on 2012-09-12 23:03:48 |
| useless where i live no 4G due to different standard than USA |
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| I like the reduced weight.... |
| By Alexandre on 2012-09-12 23:08:01 |
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.... but this is iphone catching up: - screen aspect ratio - screen size - lte - goodbye heavy breakable glass - screen resolution - smaller connector ... I'm afraid battery will be nothing to rave about, and it's an important part (adding an important chunk to the cost) of every mobile device. Anyway lumia 920 weight will be more relevant now, because a new iphone is always the coolest thing around :p |
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| RE[3]: Comment by MOS6510 |
| By kragil on 2012-09-12 23:17:52 |
| Happy locked-in users. Cute. |
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| RE[2]: Comment by MOS6510 |
| By No it isnt on 2012-09-12 23:21:27 |
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What's NFC good for? My phone supports it, but I've never used it. Yeah, I know I can buy more stuff for it, but buying more stuff just for the sake of it ... why would I. As for the iPhone, it hasn't delivered anything interesting since the 4's retina screen. |
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| RE[2]: Letterboxed. |
| By No it isnt on 2012-09-12 23:30:27 |
| So iOS handles random resolutions just fine, it just has no way of letting apps handle random resolutions, which is to say iOS does not handle random resolutions well at all. |
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| RE: Letterboxed. |
| By arcterex on 2012-09-12 23:43:38 |
| In general the same rules apply (I assume) to iOS as do to MacOS (or linux, or windows). If it's hardcoded to a certain output resolution (I'd guess mostly games or crappily written apps) then it'll letterbox, if it's not (ie: most sane developers) then it stretches properly with the auto-layout or whatever magic the framework provides. |
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| RE[3]: Letterboxed. |
| By arcterex on 2012-09-12 23:47:52 |
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> > It's a way for Apple to ensure that old apps still work! How others can be stupid enough to use a resolution independent layout manager instead of... letterboxing? My guess would be games or badly written apps. This is a developer issue not an iOS issue. iOS is just dealing with badly written apps in a graceful way. Also compounded by Apple's secrecy, if they had pre-announced the new iPhone having a 4" screen the devs would be able to have everything updated already (well, most, I assume that again, crappy apps that no one cares about wouldn't be updated anyway). |
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