iPhone 5

[XXXBod]

To be honest, I just traded in my Moto Atrix for a new 4S. I looked at the IP 5 and even the guy at a Bell booth told me, nothing has really changed! Just a longer screen with extra apps and better resolution. Not woth the extra $100 for the 5. So far I like my iPhone 4S! The text is way better then the Atrix and the talk and tex is better too. I was very impressed today. I added a song list to the phone to down load and I talked into to it and said "Avril Lavigne" and the fucken thing understood me perfectly! And even spelled her name right! I was like WOW! The old ATRIX wouldn't have a fucken clue what I was trying to say when I talked into it! That phone was tearable!! For talk and Text!!

I find thou the camera was better on the ATRIX then the 4S... The 4S seems to take kind of blurry pictures and the color isn't as good... My biggest beef with the 4S is the ring tones sounds fucking GAY! And I STILL DONT KNOW HOW TO ADD A CUSTOM RING TONE TO THIS THING! I down loaded the Ring Tone Maker and made a ring tone but how do I get the ringtone from my Laptop to the phone???

Even the help rep guys at the Apple Store dont seem to know how to do it! A few of them asked me if I have a Mac computer... NO I dont have a Mac! I have a Toshiba.

Xxx

 

[badbadboy]

To be honest, I just traded in my Moto Atrix for a new 4S. I looked at the IP 5 and even the guy at a Bell booth told me, nothing has really changed! Just a longer screen with extra apps and better resolution. Not woth the extra $100 for the 5. So far I like my iPhone 4S! The text is way better then the Atrix and the talk and tex is better too. I was very impressed today. I added a song list to the phone to down load and I talked into to it and said "Avril Lavigne" and the fucken thing understood me perfectly! And even spelled her name right! I was like WOW! The old ATRIX wouldn't have a fucken clue what I was trying to say when I talked into it! That phone was tearable!! For talk and Text!!

I find thou the camera was better on the ATRIX then the 4S... The 4S seems to take kind of blurry pictures and the color isn't as good... My biggest beef with the 4S is the ring tones sounds fucking GAY! And I STILL DONT KNOW HOW TO ADD A CUSTOM RING TONE TO THIS THING! I down loaded the Ring Tone Maker and made a ring tone but how do I get the ringtone from my Laptop to the phone???

Even the help rep guys at the Apple Store dont seem to know how to do it! A few of them asked me if I have a Mac computer... NO I dont have a Mac! I have a Toshiba.

Xxx

I have the Atrix. The standard Text is crap and I bought the Handcent from the Playstore which is awesome. Has all the iPhone has and more. Talk and text, spell check and has a "Private" section if you want to keep some things private I am pretty sure it was about $5 to download to the phone. I have an iPhone 5 on order based upon my new 3 yr contract. I am on the fence if I will keep it or sell it. I am considering the Atrix HD which is their LTE version. I could sell the iPhone, pay for the new Atrix and still have $$$ in my pocket.

For the iPhone 4S you will want to buy the Camera+ App. Its developed here in Vancouver and is an award winning plus top selling app from Apple. IIRC its like $1.99. Way better than the regular iPhone camera app. It has lots of great editing on the screen capability too.

Using an iPhone and a Mac is just so easy. I can't believe how easy it is and remember all the crap I went through with an XP desktop getting different devices to talk to it. So many conflicts etc.

 

[XXXBod]

Hmm Thanks Bad Bad Boy I'll have to try some of those Apps

 

[PlayfulAlex]

For the iPhone 4S you will want to buy the Camera+ App. Its developed here in Vancouver and is an award winning plus top selling app from Apple. IIRC its like $1.99. Way better than the regular iPhone camera app. It has lots of great editing on the screen capability too...

It's just 99 cents.

 

[Tugela]

That just isn't true. To people who actually review phones and are familiar with both iOS and Android, there is a clear winner:

http://www.slate.com/articles/techn...istence_of_the_greatest_phone_ever_made_.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-19/iphone-gets-bigger-thinner-faster-rich-jaroslovsky.html
http://www.cnet.com/iphone-5/
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/t...5-scores-well-with-a-quibble-review.html?_r=0
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/edwardbaig/story/2012-09-18/iphone-5-review/57803932/1
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444450004578004370248427736.html
http://www.pocket-lint.com/review/5989/apple-iphone-5-phone-review

As for innovation, just because the design hasn't significantly changed doesn't mean Apple hasn't innovated. The nano-SIM standard was designed by Apple. The new connector, while it may be an inconvenience at first will be far more useful than the old one and micro-USB down the road (I'll leave you to research that, as it's complex to explain). Not directly related to the phone, but 3 years of R&D went into the new earbuds, and they are pretty damn good for stock earbuds. The list goes on - not huge things but innovations nonetheless that make everything just that much better. What innovations has Samsung come up with?



Your entire post makes no sense. You're basically saying it's easier to pack more power into a smaller device than a larger device. Really?! I'd love to have a razor thin laptop that can compete with a desktop replacement. Must be a simple task, right? Absurd.

By the way, Samsung doesn't make the iPhone. They manufacture a chip. Foxconn assembles it. This is no different than anybody else, really. You need to learn the difference between engineering/design and manufacturing.

I can see that this thread is going to blow up due to my presence, so I won't post any more. I was just asking a simple question, and based on the responses I have my answer. There is clearly a lot of ignorance about Apple and its products, and a lot of people won't take the time to educate themselves.

The same people are probably saying that Win8 is the best thing since sliced cheese to, so I wouldn't take those reviews too seriously. Most of people who wrote those are likely Apple fanboys anyway, so it wouldnt matter what Apple came out with, it would just be better as far as they are concerned.

The nano-SIM standard wasn't invented by Apple, their proposal was the one that was accepted by the ETSI but it wasn't the only one that was submitted.

I didn't say that it is easier to put more power into smaller devices A larger screen means a larger power requirement, so a larger battery. It is not bigger to fit the working parts, it is bigger because it has a bigger screen, lol. The actual working bits inside various phones are roughly about the same size. Apple has not cornered the market on minaturization. Most of the components that go into an iPhone are actually someone elses. The main camera for example is Sony's, the second camera comes from another company, I forget their name. Some of the components come from Samsung. Not sure where the screen comes from, probably Samsung or LG. The processor is a custom modified ARM chip. It is assembled by Foxconn.

FYI, Samsung has a 4 inch version of the S3 ready for release as well, which is the same screen size as their original Galaxy phones.

Most of what Apple does that is truly their own is on the software side, and the external design aspect (which hasn't changed in a while, so not clear how the iP5 is "innovative" in that respect).

The dock was changed because Apple likes to be in control of what you can put into their equipment (be it hardware or software), so it has to be proprietary. There is no other reason why they couldn't have used a standard interface like everyone else. One of the reasons I got my old Vibrant rather than an iP3 or iP4 was exactly that: I could use a micro-USB interface with a fitted cover slide door, or get the phone with a giant gaping hole at the bottom.

Whenever I'm on the bus with nothing to do, one of the things I do to kill time is look at the phones people use. I have never seen a shattered Android or Blackberry, but shattered iPhones are surprisingly common. Must be another one of their "innovations".

 

[PlayfulAlex]

I don't know anything about shattered i-Phones, but this just in...

Android apps can leak personal data, research say:

October 22, 2012 - 18:09 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - Millions of people are using Android apps that can be tricked into revealing personal data, research indicates. According to BBC News, scientists tested 13,500 Android apps and found almost 8% failed to protect bank account and social media logins.

These apps failed to implement standard scrambling systems, allowing "man-in-the-middle" attacks to reveal data that passes back and forth when devices communicate with websites. Google has yet to comment on the research and its findings.

Researchers from the security group at the University of Leibniz in Hanover and the computer science department at the Philipps University of Marburg tested the most popular apps in Google's Play store. By creating a fake wi-fi hotspot and using a specially created attack tool to spy on the data the apps sent via that route, the researchers were able to: capture login details for online bank accounts, email services, social media sites and corporate networks; disable security programs or fool them into labeling secure apps as infected; inject computer code into the data stream that made apps carry out specific commands

An attacker could even re-direct a request to transfer funds, while making it look to the app user like the transaction was proceeding unchanged. Some of the apps tested had been downloaded millions of times, the researchers said. And a follow-up survey of 754 people suggests users could struggle to spot when they were at risk.

"About half of the participants could not judge the security state of a browser session correctly," the researchers wrote.

"Most importantly, research is needed to study which counter-measures offer the right combination of usability for developers and users, security benefits and economic incentives to be deployed on a large scale."

http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/128751/

 

[Robert Upndown]

I don't know anything about shattered i-Phones, but this just in...

Android apps can leak personal data, research say:

October 22, 2012 - 18:09 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - Millions of people are using Android apps that can be tricked into revealing personal data, research indicates. According to BBC News, scientists tested 13,500 Android apps and found almost 8% failed to protect bank account and social media logins.

These apps failed to implement standard scrambling systems, allowing "man-in-the-middle" attacks to reveal data that passes back and forth when devices communicate with websites. Google has yet to comment on the research and its findings.

Researchers from the security group at the University of Leibniz in Hanover and the computer science department at the Philipps University of Marburg tested the most popular apps in Google's Play store. By creating a fake wi-fi hotspot and using a specially created attack tool to spy on the data the apps sent via that route, the researchers were able to: capture login details for online bank accounts, email services, social media sites and corporate networks; disable security programs or fool them into labeling secure apps as infected; inject computer code into the data stream that made apps carry out specific commands

An attacker could even re-direct a request to transfer funds, while making it look to the app user like the transaction was proceeding unchanged. Some of the apps tested had been downloaded millions of times, the researchers said. And a follow-up survey of 754 people suggests users could struggle to spot when they were at risk.

"About half of the participants could not judge the security state of a browser session correctly," the researchers wrote.

"Most importantly, research is needed to study which counter-measures offer the right combination of usability for developers and users, security benefits and economic incentives to be deployed on a large scale."

http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/128751/

From earier this year
iPhone apps put users' personal data at risk
iPhone security glitch means personal data could be accessed by strangers
This a ongoing issue with both companies APPS and has been for awhile. Just another way your identity is at risk in today's world.