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Apple Event for iPhone 5 announcement on October 4th

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Re: Apple Event for iPhone 5 announcement on October 4th

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Post by rsynnott »

ceejayoz wrote: post #28
ansy wrote: post #21

By most accounts the iPhone 5 will not have LTE. That's going to sting with Verizon customers in the United States. While it will probably support HSPA+ on AT&T which is already decently fast, Verizon CDMA is direly slow. It will be a hard sell to get Verizon customers to pass up LTE for the next two years when there are already a few really good Android phones with LTE and most major cities have LTE coverage right n…

Plenty of iPhone 1 customers gave up 3G. The phone landscape has certainly changed, but I don't see it as that hard a sell.

Very similar problem at the time, actually; UMTS chipsets had terrible battery life, to the point where Nokia actually made some of its Symbian devices in otherwise identical GPRS and UMTS versions.

Re: Apple Event for iPhone 5 announcement on October 4th

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54mf wrote: post #16

This is total speculation, and probably easily explainable by any number of things, but: I bought the iPhone 4 the day it came out, subsidized price. I just called *639# to check my upgrade status, and the message says I'm not eligible for a full upgrade now, but "may qualify on 11/25/2011". That isn't any sort of upgrade anniversary for me - at least, I don't think it is - so that's an interesting date.

I doubt it's that significant, as this stuff varies dramatically by telco around the world. 12 months is standard here, for instance, and I believe it's often _3 years_ in Canada.

Re: Apple Event for iPhone 5 announcement on October 4th

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Post by mhd »

mhd wrote: post #15

I'm still hoping for a new Performa… (like they say, hoping for a miracle, but preparing for a Hackintosh)

Why the downvotes? Am I the only one missing a somewhat expandable desktop Mac without an integrated display, but below the requirements / costs of an Mac Pro?

Re: Apple Event for iPhone 5 announcement on October 4th

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Post by redthrowaway »

ceejayoz wrote: post #46
SonicSoul wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

hopefully they'll do away with glass face that shutters from 1 foot drops on the sidewalk.

I hope they don't, because that glass face has been far better to use than any other smartphone I've encountered.

I wonder what the cost increase would be of making it from pyrex or polycarbonate. It definitely wouldn't be a very Apple thing to do, but it would be nice.

Re: Apple Event for iPhone 5 announcement on October 4th

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Post by ben1040 »

rsynnott wrote: post #70
ben1040 wrote: post #40

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I have a Verizon Thunderbolt, and the battery life absolutely sucks compared to the iPhone 4. AnandTech did a great comparison [1]. The other 3 phones on their LTE lineup are all huge too, with equally bad battery life (maybe with the exception of the new Droid Bionic, which some reviews say has OK battery life but still nowhere near the iPhone 4). The other dimension besides battery life is size, and all their LTE p…

Wow, hadn't realised it was THAT bad. That's unusable, surely?

It's pretty awful in the stock configuration, at least unless you disable LTE (in which case why did you buy an LTE phone?) or root it and use SetCPU.

Honestly, it's BS that you need to either root the device or disable its flagship feature to get acceptable battery life out of it. It's annoying enough that depending on what the new iPhone looks like, I'm tempted to bite the bullet and pay full price for it since I'm not eligible for an upgrade.

Re: Apple Event for iPhone 5 announcement on October 4th

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Post by ceejayoz »

redthrowaway wrote: post #75
ceejayoz wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hope they don't, because that glass face has been far better to use than any other smartphone I've encountered.

I wonder what the cost increase would be of making it from pyrex or polycarbonate. It definitely wouldn't be a very Apple thing to do, but it would be nice.

My glasses are scratch-resistant polycarb and they're scratched all to hell. The aluminosilicate glass on the iPhone 4 is supposed to be stronger and more shatter resistant than Pyrex.
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