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Apple Unveils The iPhone 5S

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Re: Apple Unveils The iPhone 5S

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Post by NamTaf »

randomdata wrote: post #573
r00fus wrote: post #487

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Ever done a road trip? Amazing how many places out there on major interstates have like no data coverage. On-device storage is important for cases like these.

I was in the US a few months ago and did experience what you are talking about on the interstates, so I get where you are coming from. It was actually kind of a strange experience to be out of service so often. But here in Canada, where I spent almost all my time, the only place I've ever had any significant coverage issues is when I was in the far north, and I've only been there once. It's essentially a non-issue fo…

Come play around in Australia for a bit :(

(Hence my 64GB device with the majority of space used by music)

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melling wrote: post #359
cheald wrote: post #288

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This is the exact sort of attitude that has permitted us to get to the point where we even have to have a conversation about the government being engaged in massively intrusive spying programs. "I don't want to hear your whining about it" is a means of condoning these actions through silence. You are a part of the problem. If you can comprehend what is going on here, you should be loud and obnoxious about it. Get peo…

Sorry, you aren't going to change anyone's political opinions by yelling louder. There are plenty of people who are comfortable with the NSA, as well as plenty of people are not. We really can't discuss the finer points here because no matter how polite I am, I will simply get voted down for not agreeing with the HN politics. By the way, recently I heard a few tech heavy-weights come out in favor of the NSA (e.g. Lar…

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Re: Apple Unveils The iPhone 5S

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Post by NamTaf »

Tichy wrote: post #495

Can't believe they didn't make bigger screens. iPhones seem so tiny these days. Also, just 33 votes on HN atm - made me realize that probasbly people are already using HN votes as input for their stock trading aslgorithms :-)

I can't believe anyone wants a bigger screen. It's a phone, not a computer. I use it to quickly check email/web pages on the go, not write an essay. A bigger screen just means it ties up more room in my pocket.

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Post by wisty »

wmf wrote: post #138
wisty wrote: post #126

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Can you plug your iPhone into a couple of 30" monitors, and use it as a workstation?

It's not clear that this is thermally possible.

The iPad 3 pushes 2,048 by 1,536 pixels. A single monitor 30" requires 2560 x 1600 (or maybe less, if it's crap). So ... I can see an iPhone being able to drive a single 30" monitor some time soon.

People will be using their phones as desktops (if not serious workstations) sometime soon. And once they use them as desktops, phones won't be fast enough until they have performance comparable to workstations (which, as you point out, won't happen).

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Post by spangled »

brymaster wrote: post #590
mburns wrote: post #588

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> because of your earlier comment "of a few powerpoint slides." > It's all there out in the open thanks to the documents that have been leaked. You dismiss his point that unsubstantiated documents is largely the source of all this speculation and then you remake a bunch of unsubstantiated claims, saying they are all proved by the aforementioned documents.

Nope sorry, nothing from the documents is 'unsubstantiated.' Even Obama and the NSA itself has backed this up. They'd been trying to extradite Snowden ffs, get your head out of the sand.

I think the point is that not everything people say is supported by the available documents, not that the documents aren't real. Moreover, not everything reported by the press is backed up by a document that we can go and read. Even your quote sites "someone familiar with the request", not a document leaked by Snowden.

That is to say: there are some things that we know and are verified (e.g. that there is a program, called PRISM, etc.) but other things where there's a lot of speculation, but less or no verification (e.g. that the iPhone is backdoored.)

Some of us like to distinguish between these things. Some of us don't. It doesn't help to call people names over it, though.

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Post by shire »

rimantas wrote: post #553
PeterisP wrote: post #503

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Ok, there can be valid uses. But they haven't happened in my 9 years together with my SO. Probably depends on the habits - I don't call/SMS that much anyway; I know her ATM card code, as we needed that some times, but I've got no idea about her phone/other passwords.

For me it is most about healthy habits: never ever give your password to anyone.

Anyone? How come?

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Post by chrischen »

tedunangst wrote: post #448
chrischen wrote: post #408

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Yea but they explicitly say it has a fingerprint sensor.

Which seems like the more likely covert NSA spy device? The iPhone fingerprint sensor that Apple prominently mentioned in a product launch or the hidden ATM fingerprint sensor that your bank says isn't there?

It's probably where you least expect it, and you seem to be suggesting it's less expected in the iPhone ;).

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Post by shire »

themstheones wrote: post #178
meerita wrote: post #129

I visualize this: husband is sleeping deeply, wife picks up the phone and taps the home button while he's sleeping and unlocks the phone. Release the kraken.

If he doesn't have anything to hide from his wife then he has nothing to worry about.

I agree trust and honesty is part of a healthy relationship.
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