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Apple iPhone 5(?) Announcement

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Norphy

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I ordered an iPhone 5 today. My 3GS is getting long in the tooth and I've dropped it once too often I think, there's a largish crack by the dock connector and dents on the corners. I expect that when iOS 6 appears, it'll render the phone virtually unusable like iOS4 did with the iPhone 3G.

 

The main reasons I'm sticking with the iPhone is because I've bought a few too many apps and accessories just to give that all up and buy a phone with an alternative OS. Yes, I'll have to buy a dock adapter with the 5 but at least most of my stuff should work! If I were buying my first smartphone, I'd look hard at the alternatives but since I'm not the iPhone is more than good enough for me and it does what I want it to do. So, you know, yay!

localzuk

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I ordered an iPhone 5 today. My 3GS is getting long in the tooth and I've dropped it once too often I think, there's a largish crack by the dock connector and dents on the corners. I expect that when iOS 6 appears, it'll render the phone virtually unusable like iOS4 did with the iPhone 3G.

 

You can look forward to it shattering the first time you drop it with the 5 then... ;)

 

The main reasons I'm sticking with the iPhone is because I've bought a few too many apps and accessories just to give that all up and buy a phone with an alternative OS. Yes, I'll have to buy a dock adapter with the 5 but at least most of my stuff should work! If I were buying my first smartphone, I'd look hard at the alternatives but since I'm not the iPhone is more than good enough for me and it does what I want it to do. So, you know, yay!

 

Is it not just throwing good money after bad though?

GrumbleDook

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Is it not just throwing good money after bad though?

 

As I know this is something people like to throw at Apple users I thought I would put my tuppence worth in too.

 

Or as I tend to feel about it, continuing to pay in cash for a system that integrates a phone OS, a desktop/laptop OS and a range of apps and a pretty simple way that allows me to get on with other stuff.

 

It was never bad money in the first place for me ... and whilst I know there are a range of people who might not agree with me or others, I honestly couldn't care less. ;)

Norphy

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You can look forward to it shattering the first time you drop it with the 5 then... ;)

 

The iPhone 5 has an aluminium back rather than glass like the 4/4S. I doubt I'd be much more likely to shatter it than I was with my 3GS. It'll be living in a case anyway.

 

 

 

Is it not just throwing good money after bad though?

 

Why? I like my iPhone 3GS, I like iOS and I like my apps and accessories. I use iTunes Match and iCloud which again, I like even with the caveats I've found with them. It does what I want it to do and when I've found something that I want it to do and it can't, there's usually an app that'll do it instead. It'd only be throwing good money after bad if it didn't work. It does work and it works admirably well.

gshaw

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Damn, even more impressive then!

 

I've seen someone do an android based HU for a car on a galaxy S2. Decent sized screen was more than enough and it had 64gb of storage on the SD card so plenty of room for music. It used the inbuilt mapping thing for GPS which worked rather well. Ipad seems oversize for that purpose IMO.

 

I wouldn't have an iPhone as my main phone if you paid me but I have found a use for one in the car.

 

I bought a 3G on the cheap a few years back and after much jailbreaking and UI tweaking have it running TomTom whilst hooked up to an Alpine iDA-X305S HU... gives me the holy grail of TomTom through all 4 speakers but only cuts in occasionally for directions whilst I have control of MP3s via the iPhone control on the HU. Audio quality is top notch being Alpine and satnav is top notch with TomTom.

 

I can't find any other solution on the market that combines the best of both worlds (normal satnavs aren't much use for me as I like amped speakers these days and I usually can't hear a portable TomTom over the music :p )

glennda

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My boss has a copy of IOS 6 on this 4S at the moment - And now Apple have dropped google maps don't try and use it for navigation or getting around.

 

Note the location of Uckfield changes on these maps

 

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Audio quality is top notch

 

The 3G has terrible audio quality! Try a new phone or a CD and you'll notice the difference.

SYNACK

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The 3G has terrible audio quality! Try a new phone or a CD and you'll notice the difference.

 

Turn it up loud enough and the speakers can't reproduce the difference anyway :)

Arthur

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My boss has a copy of IOS 6 on this 4S at the moment - and now Apple have dropped Google maps don't try and use it for navigation or getting around.

Is Uckfield in the wrong place on TomTom's too? :confused:

glennda

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Not on my tomtom...googlemaps, RAC map, bing map and tomtom all have uckfield in the same place at my house ;)`

 

no....

 

 

edit: woops quoted the wrong person!

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gshaw

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The 3G has terrible audio quality! Try a new phone or a CD and you'll notice the difference.

 

Doesn't matter as I have the equaliser off and it uses the dock connector for direct data link. None of my stuff is originally from CD anyway so not losing out there although granted the top end audio guys do say CD is the only way for perfect quality.

Arthur

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New Apple maps app under fire from users « BBC

 

Among the user complaints regarding Apple's maps sent to the BBC were:

 

  • Some towns appear to be missing, such as Stratford-upon-Avon and Solihull.
  • Others, like Uckfield in East Sussex, are in the wrong location.
  • Satellite images of various locations, particularly in Scotland, are obscured by cloud.
  • A search for Manchester United Football Club directs users to Sale United Football Club, a community team for ages five and above.
  • Users also reported missing local places, such as schools, or strange locations. Another screenshot showed a furniture museum that was apparently located in a river.

synaesthesia

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You literally can't find a single square mile that isn't botched.

Villages in oceans, restuarants in rivers, bridges that cease to exist, cities that are just fields, misspellings "Duncaster" is a cracker for England and lots of just outright missing towns altogether. Globally. It's cock, and Apple users have to put up with it until Google can get theirs reapproved for it.

mthomas08

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London Tube!

 

[ATTACH=CONFIG]15250[/ATTACH]

 

Thats just beyond quality :D

 

To be frank though I really dont know why Apple made their own when Google has spent years making theirs pretty good, I have had far less problems using google maps in the last 18 months. And their live traffic feed helped me avoid problems on the way back from Wales.

Darran

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Thats just beyond quality :D

 

To be frank though I really dont know why Apple made their own when Google has spent years making theirs pretty good, I have had far less problems using google maps in the last 18 months. And their live traffic feed helped me avoid problems on the way back from Wales.

 

Google started to try to charge for it.

 

So many impressions are free then after that the company starts to incurr a charge. If you imaging how many iphone and ipads out there all have google maps your probably talking mega money!

 

On a lighter note my iPhone 5 just arrived! Wahey!

LiamH

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Chances are in 3 years time Apple will sue Google for copying there idea of making a map application :S

 

I was in the whole "i have had 2 iphones, i would loose my apps if i switched" situation a couple of years ago, made the switch to android and don't regret it one bit.

Max_Power

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Its beyond poor! One I like that i've tried after reading it is asking for directions to Manchester United Football Club, and it wanted to take me to Sale United football club for kids aged 7-16.

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