Anybody here think the iPhone 5 will not be able to match the GS3

[jcp007]

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Screen size and no next gen, gee whiz, shazzam features will definitely not help.

 

[Wildo6882]

I watched a video on some presumed iPhone 5 replacement parts. I will say that they looked ridiculous. It's the same width as the 4/4S, but taller. I have to see the full unit in action. But I'm definitely not impressed by it so far.

It will still sell ridiculously well. Without people even seeing it. And I'm most definitely going to check it out (I'm one of those odd guys who likes Apple and Android). But I agree with others that say the screen resolution might be an issue. It needs to be at least 720p.

 

[taylorz_412]

I watched a video on some presumed iPhone 5 replacement parts. I will say that they looked ridiculous. It's the same width as the 4/4S, but taller. I have to see the full unit in action. But I'm definitely not impressed by it so far.

It will still sell ridiculously well. Without people even seeing it. And I'm most definitely going to check it out (I'm one of those odd guys who likes Apple and Android). But I agree with others that say the screen resolution might be an issue. It needs to be at least 720p.

I too like both ...I don't know what I'd do without my iPad 3 ...but gave the 4s up for the s3

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[jonathanm1978]

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I've been trying, but nobody wants to follow the example I've been trying to set here.

It needs to get back on topic.

Anyone else think the screen size and resolution will be the major FAIL on the new iPhone and that will be the main reason why anyone with a high-end Android device will not even consider it?

I'm with you, friend...

If you look at the sizes of the devices that are on the market RIGHT now, TODAY...you have an average of 4.5" screen sizes, with 4.8" and even a 5.3" in a cell phone being the largest there is available...but look at how many of those 4.8" screens have been sold (so what if they are a sAmoLED, people bought the **** out of them anyway)...

Apple, to me, is a company with that attitude that used to come to mind with companies like {Sony in the TV market}, meaning, "we don't have to manufacture something people want, we can put our name on it and make it just a 'so-so' device, and we are going to make a killing, by overpricing and saturating the market with advertising"....and Sony quickly saw their TV wing/division was starting to suffer GREATLY. I remember when Sony and Samsung inked a deal back in like 2010, 2011 or so..and Sony started picking up again in the TV market and getting "with the times" again..bringing what the customer wanted back into their lineup of TV offerings...I see apple doing this same thing...
They've seen TOO much of people buying their product no matter what they do/don't do to it that makes it innovative...throughout all of their products being brought to market, every September since 2007, people have lined up and waited for days, camping outside the stores...trampling people and fighting over a phone...and each year Apple only SLIGHTLY improved what they introduced last year (nothing that really made you stand back and go "WOW" from a tech standpoint...and people STILL did the same thing each year...
I think this will start to become a thing of the past, as more people decide "hey, I'm going to learn this Android thing because I heard you can do {this function} and {this function} with it...and with so much of the market being flooded with new Android devices, and only 1 iphone device per year being brought out, it's only a matter of time before you see (among ALL carriers, combined) 50+ android devices, and under 5 Apple devices to choose from. With that kind of selection, people aren't the only ones who are going to be wanting to get Android..carriers are going to see the money they've spent buying rights and offering these phones, and start pushing one over the other.

(How many of you have gone into a <Carrier name> store and had the sales rep say "what do you mostly use your phone for? Do you do (this type of function), or (this type of function)..then swinging people towards an Android device based on what they use a phone to do??

Not so much are the days where people have their music stored on a hard medium in their home...most people are moving towards a cloud-based service, like my music comes from Rhapsody....I can use Rhapsody, download my playlists, and listen to all my songs even if I don't have network access, or my mobile data is slow as molasses..

Video and such? I got Hulu+ and PlayOn..plus free ones like Crackle and FilmOn...
All of which work GREAT on my SGS3.

(speaking of SGS3, my wife had her choice today...we stood at the Sprint store for 2.5 hours...I told her to pick whatever and I'd buy it for her. She had said a while back that she was leaning towards getting an iPhone because her optimus was giving SO many problems, even with rooted+custom ROM'd...it just didn't work right. I asked her why Apple, she said because "IT'LL JUST WORK!!"...
But she saw my SGS3 when I got it 3 weeks ago..played with it..saw how well the apps worked compared to the sorry-a$$ Optimus S that is nearly 3 years old...and she changed her mind quickly. She's had an iPod for 5 years now...so she knows how the iTunes stuff works, and actually the iPod has really given us grief...
We gave the thing to my daughter, and my dog chewed up the iPod cord for it...so we use the iHome alarm to charge it with...but the stupid ipod keeps doing something that makes it say "Please connect to iTunes" and it won't let me do anything AT ALL until I borrow the USB cord from my sister-in-law and connect the iPod to my laptop, and let it connect with iTunes. That's a BIG problem when my daughter messes it up on Monday, and I can't see my sister-in-law until Friday or Saturday to borrow the stupid cord..
I never had that problem with rooting + ROM'ing my androids. The ROM is stored right there...start in custom Recovery...pick the rom/or wipe the phone...install the ROM..and BOOM!! back in action again.

And quite honestly, I could show my 11 year-old daughter how to install a custom ROM, it's NOT THAT HARD. Most people who are first-timers to Android are QUICK to say "wow it was so easy!!"

 

[greasemuntney]

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I have been a iPhone user for 4+ years and have had 3g,3gs,and i4 also 1st gen iPad and 3rd gen iPad and loved them all. I will say Apple has the system down to "Just Work" with out any hitches. I came to a SGS3 for the screen and to try out the Android system. So far I am happy. Both OS have their great point and bad points. But like said earlier both have a certain market and people. I have been into tech stuff for quite some time and love TWEAKING my devices. I for one am both a Android and Apple person and neither are better than the other, both have a place. I will say that if Windows had run better I would have never swapped to Mac OSX but after I did WOW. But thats another story.

 

[SebasCvdB]

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the iPhone 5 will probably match or outdo some of GS3's hardware but why bother being worried about it? GS3 is an amazing phone and the iPhone 5 will be another amazing phone. To each their own.. P

 

[funkylogik]

Actually, not quite. Television can be traced back to the discovery of the photoconductivity of the element selenium by Willoughby Smith in 1873, the invention of a scanning disk by Paul Gottlieb Nipkow (German) in 1884 and John Logie Baird's (American) innovation of broadcasting televised moving images in 1926.

The Scotsman you're talking about was John Logie Baird. He gave the first public demonstration of televised silhouette images, at Selfridge's Department Store in London. He didn't actually invent anything.

Germans and Americans have pretty much invented everything.

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ok then. the telephone and the steam engine (we didnt invent the bagpipe though)

 

[funkylogik]

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....oh yeah golf and football (soccer)

 

[funkylogik]

Re: Anybody here think the iPhone 5 will not be able to match the

sorry was just bringin a bit of fun into it. back on topic.
what do people think of the rumoured Galaxy S3 Mini set to "rival" the iphone5?

 

[crackberrytraitor]

ok then. the telephone and the steam engine (we didnt invent the bagpipe though)

Sorry, no. Alexander Bell (American) invented the telephone. Tomas Edison (American) and Johann Philipp Ries (German) claim to have been responsible for some of the early mechanics of the telephone, however.

And the first steam engine was invented in the first century AD by the Greek mathematician Hero of Alexandria. More advanced engines were built by the Chinese in the 15th century.

Sorry funky.

However, according to my scots friend here, y'all did invent mud and Haggis.

Sorry if this is a little off topic Kevin.

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[XChrisX]

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One that really sticks out to me is the [power-sucking] laser table top keyboard. These folks haven't yet produced a decent softkeyboard and now this wacky feature??

Please tell me you were being facetious. I hope you realize that the laser table top keyboard you speak of was a poorly imagined concept thought up by someone with clever enough video editing skills to upload the fake concept video to Youtube. No offense, but it's hysterical that someone thought that video was a legit Apple leak.

Either way, the new iPhone will outsell every Android phone out there. Buy what makes you happy, and don't exhaust yourself worrying about someone else's choice in smartphone.

 

[funkylogik]

Sorry, no. Alexander Bell (American) invented the telephone. Tomas Edison (American) and Johann Philipp Ries (German) claim to have been responsible for some of the early mechanics of the telephone, however.

And the first steam engine was invented in the first century AD by the Greek mathematician Hero of Alexandria. More advanced engines were built by the Chinese in the 15th century.

Sorry funky.

However, according to my scots friend here, y'all did invent mud and Haggis.

Sorry if this is a little off topic Kevin.

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lol i really hope we did invent haggis il have to research the rest

 

[gollum18]

with such a locked down system... i don't see how an iPhone can ever compete with an S3. At least not for me, I thoroughly enjoy being in full control of my devices, I remember my first computer, i was 9 at the time and i spent countless hours/days/months tweaking Autoexec.bat and Config.sys! Those were the days. People want everything to be done so easily now without thinking, which means true hardcore customisation is the first thing to go in an apple system.
Just off the top of my head, a few things I have done with my S3 so far which I've not witnessed on an iPhone:

Complete backup of phone (including firmware/modem/kernel etc) to internal or external SD
External SD card!
Google Now>offline voice to text,
Tweaking current flow for charging times over USB/AC
Sideloading apps away from an app store, (without needing root/jailbreak)
Much easier to connect to and more importantly stream SMB shares on my home network (they can be forwarded to any application, I watched my friend try this on his iPad and he required two apps from the app store, including one just to play the file because the native player won't read from an SMB share without downloading the file first)
Offline google maps
Complete customization of nigh on every visual aspect of the phone
Use phone as a server
etc etc...

Maybe you can do this stuff on an iPhone, but the point is the majority of users do not. Different strokes and all that. I want to be balls deep in my technology, especially after paying a lot of money, and apple hates that. No doubting they make a great, powerful phone. But its their way or the highway, at least that's how it appears to me. Android is the total opposite. Go forth and with everything!

oh I think you forgot the ability to easily replace the battery should it go.

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[jonathanm1978]

Please tell me you were being facetious. I hope you realize that the laser table top keyboard you speak of was a poorly imagined concept thought up by someone with clever enough video editing skills to upload the fake concept video to Youtube. No offense, but it's hysterical that someone thought that video was a legit Apple leak.

Either way, the new iPhone will outsell every Android phone out there. Buy what makes you happy, and don't exhaust yourself worrying about someone else's choice in smartphone.

Are you being serious about the iPhone outselling every android? You might want to look at the numbers, hell just look at the Samsung vs Apple numbers only(gs3). That doesn't even take in the entry level android phones.

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[ike1973]

Re: Anybody here think the iPhone 5 will not be able to match the

Sorry, no. Alexander Bell (American) invented the telephone. Tomas Edison (American) and Johann Philipp Ries (German) claim to have been responsible for some of the early mechanics of the telephone, however.

And the first steam engine was invented in the first century AD by the Greek mathematician Hero of Alexandria. More advanced engines were built by the Chinese in the 15th century.

Sorry funky.

However, according to my scots friend here, y'all did invent mud and Haggis.

Sorry if this is a little off topic Kevin.

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I do believe Alexander Graham Bell was a Scott living in Canada at the time he invented the telephone.

 

[crackberrytraitor]

I do believe Alexander Graham Bell was a Scott living in Canada at the time he invented the telephone.

Merciful Zeus, I do believe you're right. Let me never again doubt the ingenuity and inventive adroitness of Scottish folk. My only defense is that it was the Scot smoking a bowl next to me who told me Bell was a Merican'.

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[ike1973]

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Merciful Zeus, I do believe you're right. Let me never again doubt the ingenuity and inventive adroitness of Scottish folk. My only defense is that it was the Scot smoking a bowl next to me who told me Bell was a Merican'.

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The only reason I know this is because my Scottish mother in law corrected me when I said the telephone was invented by a Canadian.

 

[crackberrytraitor]

The only reason I know this is because my Scottish mother in law corrected me when I said the telephone was invented by a Canadian.

Grandmother always knows.

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[funkylogik]

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lol im on the bowl or alcohol everytime i post on here so everythin i say on here should be taken with a pinch of salt lol

 

[ice2008]

In the courtroom based on patents that should have never been granted in the first place or based on a comparison of the actual technology?
The answer varies depending on which one you choose.

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