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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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| RE: Comment by dvhh |
| By arcterex on 2012-09-12 23:51:33 |
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True, but if you adjust the second image for the 16:9 ratio (where the i5 didn't change the screen width, only height) then it doesn't change *that* much. That said if apple *hadn't* changed the screen resolution people would be bitching and complaining just as much :) |
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| RE[3]: Comment by MOS6510 |
| By RavinRay on 2012-09-13 01:25:19 |
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I've looked at both the Lumia and iPhone, and two factors that made me pass both are price, and no dual-SIM models, which are pretty popular here in Asia. Android vendors are gaining in the market, with many units dual-SIM models. As for the display, Lenovo is using a 720×1280 5" screen for its (thus far) China-only K680. That's HD standard. |
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| RE: Comment by dvhh |
| By quackalist on 2012-09-13 01:35:07 |
| Please remember to update when he blogs what a marvellous idea 4" screens are. |
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| RE: Not really big news |
| By darknexus on 2012-09-13 01:38:21 |
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> No wireless charging? Speaking for myself, I can't imagine why I would want wireless charging (which, btw, isn't exactly wireless as that charging dock has to hook up to some electric current via wires after all). I'm on an important business call and my phone battery goes low. At the moment I just plug my charging cord in and keep on moving. If phones have only wireless charging in the future, I'd be pretty screwed in that situation wouldn't I? Just because it's new doesn't mean it's better. |
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| RE[4]: Comment by MOS6510 |
| By MOS6510 on 2012-09-13 02:52:56 |
| http://www.osnews.com/story/2634... |
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| RE[2]: Comment by MOS6510 |
| By Milo_Hoffman on 2012-09-13 03:27:46 |
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Who keeps bring up this wireless charging crap? Wireless(inductive) charging is about 1/3 less efficient use of power, it has huge waste compared to direct charging. Someone did the math and figured if iphones used inductive charging instead of direct cables, it would require more than ONE GIGAWATTS more power use. That would be very irresponsible of a company like Apple that cares about the environment. Not to mention how stupid it would be to have to have to use inductive plates to charge, when you want to use the phone at the same time its charging, or want to have it suction cuped to your winshield for maps, or want to charge it on the USB port on the plane etc.. People are just whiners and dumb about this stuff. |
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| RE: Looks okay, but |
| By Milo_Hoffman on 2012-09-13 03:30:32 |
| SCP/WebDAV/FTP/SMB are all possible with apps in the appstore. |
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| RE[2]: Looks okay, but |
| By gan17 on 2012-09-13 04:05:53 |
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I was talking more along the lines of simple USB transfer (MTP), but I get your point. I thought SCP was only possible with the BSD tools installed, which Apple removed sometime around iOS4 iirc, (can't remember exactly when, but I was using a 3GS back then) unless you jailbreak. Either way, I wouldn't mind recs for SCP and SMB apps, or anything that doesn't requite a Mac/Winbox with iTunes installed, for future reference. Also, how would you sort the media once transferred to the phone, since iOS doesn't allow you to manage files? Edited 2012-09-13 04:07 UTC |
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| RE[2]: Looks okay, but |
| By darknexus on 2012-09-13 04:16:45 |
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> SCP/WebDAV/FTP/SMB are all possible with apps in the appstore. Sure they are, but I would appreciate some enlightenment as to how exactly one would then get this media into the music player or another application, seeing as how app store applications are heavily sandboxed. Let's assume no jailbreaking, make the problem a little harder. So great, I can scp into my ssh client, then what do I do with that file? I can't get it out of the ssh client, so a fat load of good copying it did. |
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| RE[4]: Comment by MOS6510 |
| By MOS6510 on 2012-09-13 04:22:57 |
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What phone OS doesn't "lock" me in? I can't switch from WP <-> BlackBerry OS <-> iOS <-> Android <-> Symbian. I can't even switch BlackBerry or Android devices without risking apps not working anymore. |
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