The great combined Smrtphone OS thread

[TnT]

Originally Posted by Baal

My usage currently is something like 10% calls/texts and everything else screen related, games, reading, browsing. Stuff that really needs a larger screen. I could get a Nexus 7 and have two devices to carry everywhere or I could get the Note 2 and be done with it.

Look, take your logic, and rational 'needs based' criteria and GTFO, this thread is for lolling and cock waving only.

With that out of the way, my call/text ratio is much higher than yours, so gigantor screen is not high on my criteria, I think that 4.3" is around about the biggest screen size I'd look to, (hence my lack of Galaxy III ownership), I'm really quite happy with the form factor of my Desire as a good size for a phone, and the plastic bodies that seem to be flavour of the moment in smartphones, just don't feel good.

[Dusty]

Originally Posted by Ab

Exactly. Which is why Schiller didn't talk about gigahertz or calculations per second or processor architectures or any of that other shit that, in your imaginary world, he talked lots about. He said "this thing is fucking awesome, how awesome? It'll do these things twice as fast as our previous top of the line phone". He talked about how that speed will be experienced by people.

I'm pretty sure I never said "he". I'm pretty sure I never referenced any presentation either.

What I said, was lately Apple have been concentrating more on POWER and PERFORMANCE than INNOVATION and PUSHING THE ENVELOPE when it comes to their products. Something they used to be rather good at.
Stagnation is a word that comes to mind. A sense of laziness in the design process because either they're A: Too afraid to do something radical, or B: Just can't be bothered.
Like the PC world - their products are beginning to lack any kind of personality.

[p01s0n]

Originally Posted by Dusty

I'm pretty sure I never said "he". I'm pretty sure I never referenced any presentation either.

What I said, was lately Apple have been concentrating more on POWER and PERFORMANCE than INNOVATION and PUSHING THE ENVELOPE when it comes to their products. Something they used to be rather good at.
Stagnation is a word that comes to mind. A sense of laziness in the design process because either they're A: Too afraid to do something radical, or B: Just can't be bothered.
Like the PC world - their products are beginning to lack any kind of personality.

lol you're a fucking moron. have you seen the innovation and envelope pushing the rest of the mobile industry is doing?

[Dusty]

Originally Posted by p01s0n

lol you're a fucking moron. have you seen the innovation and envelope pushing the rest of the mobile industry is doing?

Your reputation for being a hot-headed brat precedes you.

And you've just said "Heck, if everyone else is being boring, Apple can be just as boring too!".

Congratulations. You just sided with me.

[p01s0n]

im lolling here.
irl.
workmates wanna know what all the chuckles are about.
showed them your posts.
we all in hysterics.

[Ab]

You're just seeing Apple's "fast follower" business model.

[Dusty]

Originally Posted by p01s0n

im lolling here.
irl.
workmates wanna know what all the chuckles are about.
showed them your posts.
we all in hysterics.

Nick...can I call you Nick?
You should stop lolligagging about and get back to work. Those dicks won't suck themselves y'know.

[p01s0n]

lol this guy

[Spink]

name droppah

[catharsis]

Originally Posted by Cyberbob

Discuss?

You can't just tap on ridin_dirty.mp3 and select it as your ringtone?
Piece of SHIT!

[Baal]

Originally Posted by catharsis

You can't just tap on ridin_dirty.mp3 and select it as your ringtone?
Piece of SHIT!

You're just too much of a peasant or not enough of a young woman to understand that you should buy your ringtones from iTunes.

That or you hate freedom.

[p01s0n]

lol the butthurt.
i-device launchdays, the best days.

[catharsis]

Well I am poor. And while I'm not one, I do... understand... young women.
But I fucking LOVE freedom.

Wait, I've had iPhones for years .. you can BUY ringtones?

[Ab]

I just assumed everyone uploaded their own ringtones onto their iPhones.

Hell, I'm still on the default tone, what do I know.

[Spink]

I also own and iphone and don't know how to change my ringtone off the default, please send aid.

[p01s0n]

i use my silent switch only once, just after opening the box, just before pushing the power button.

[aR Que]

Originally Posted by Baal

You're just too much of a peasant or not enough of a young woman to understand that you should buy your ringtones from iTunes.

That or you hate freedom.

I've tucked my dick between my legs and threw my wallet out the window.

Wait, FUCK. i've done this wrong.

[aR Que]

Ha, i've got it.

YOUR A FAGGOT!

[cyc]

Originally Posted by TnT

With that out of the way, my call/text ratio is much higher than yours, so gigantor screen is not high on my criteria, I think that 4.3" is around about the biggest screen size I'd look to, (hence my lack of Galaxy III ownership), I'm really quite happy with the form factor of my Desire as a good size for a phone, and the plastic bodies that seem to be flavour of the moment in smartphones, just don't feel good.

This captures my thoughts mostly.

I have zero interest in the Galaxy S3 for precisely the above reasons. If I am going to pay that much for a phone, I have no desire to handle on a daily basis (and I have had extensive plays with the device since 3 of my friends own it) something that simply feels so cheap and flimsy to me. That's if I can ever get past its ridiculously large footprint and what that entails for a guy who likes to carry his phone in his pants pockets.

Two of my greatest desires in a new Ip was for it to be lighter and thinner, so the new iteration is off to a good start for me. Is it revolutionary and would I want to carry its babies? Nope. But then again no one other than retards like Poison think like that. What continues to appeal to me about the Ip5 and the ecosystem at large is that they make my life easier AND I know that -- with as close to absolute certainty as one can get -- this will continue.

Having widgets and being able to hax0r the phone to the nth degree might be very nice if I had the time to bother with such things. But I really haven't got the time to trawl through XDA or whatever the fuck other forums to compare aand contrast 7 different custom roms to see which one has the least battery drain and what not. All this just because I'd like to have the latest bug fixes and enhancements and by dint of the pronouncement of some wannabe-God at some handset manufacturer or mobile carrier, I can't have the latest stock software for my phone. This point is also assuming that it is as tightly tested and as likely to work perfectly "out of the box" as a new iOS upgrade in the first place (unlikely).

I can count with 2 fingers the number of times I've run into some kind of major annoyance/bug whilst using the iP/iOS ecosystem for over two years. I don't particularly love Apple as a company but having an iP has made my life immeasurable easier and the software ecosystem is such that having an iP gives me the best chance of expanding my phone to the absolute maximum capability for my kind of usage patterns.

[Saladin]

The iPhone 5 home button looks remarkably similar to the 4S. I thought there was going to be something magical there this time around, where's the innovation apple?

[Savage]

Originally Posted by cyc

That's if I can ever get past its ridiculously large footprint and what that entails for a guy who likes to carry his phone in his pants pockets.

This isn't really that big a deal, unless you're into the tight jeans thing (and even then, you'd have to be cutting off your blood supply for the jeans to be tight enough that an SGS3 would cause a problem). While using mine, it never caused me any problems at all going into or coming out of a pocket.

In the end, I went back to my iPhone because the battery lasted significantly longer, the applications were more polished, and it suited my personal needs for a mobile device better than the SGS3 did. To resolve the customisation bug I got from the SGS3 (which was awesome in that regard), I jb'd my iPhone and have got it just how I like it now.

GF inherited the SGS3 and is in love with it, win/win.

PS: http://www.kogan.com/au/blog/kogan-f...sell-iphone-5/

[p01s0n]

that new camera fucking owns, panorama mode, fucking owns.

[xor]

Originally Posted by Savage

This isn't really that big a deal, unless you're into the tight jeans thing (and even then, you'd have to be cutting off your blood supply for the jeans to be tight enough that an SGS3 would cause a problem). While using mine, it never caused me any problems at all going into or coming out of a pocket.

^^Doesn't squat

[Savage]

Haha, not for some time now
/lazy

[p01s0n]

Originally Posted by xor

^^Doesn't squat

do you even lift?

[cyc]

Originally Posted by Savage

This isn't really that big a deal, unless you're into the tight jeans thing (and even then, you'd have to be cutting off your blood supply for the jeans to be tight enough that an SGS3 would cause a problem). While using mine, it never caused me any problems at all going into or coming out of a pocket.

Maybe I am just a bit finicky but I really found having the S3 in my pockets unpleasant. On the battery front, I saw a table comparing the hardware/claimed specs of the iP5 with the SGS3 and one other phone on Macrumors. The BS artists at Samsung really, really have some nerve since the graphics showed that they were claiming something like 3 times the bloody stand-by time of the iP5 in terms of battery life. Like that really has a chance of being true IRL.

[Jodi]

I like the new iPhone due to all that manufacturing porn. People have become accustomed to fucking magic for nothing when they buy an apple product, but you try to build your own iPhone. The layers of manufacturing tech is pretty interesting.

Second, I like it that they revamped the iWatch^H^H^HNano to something nice to hold again. Oh and the iPod Touch. Now they have fixed the camera there is no need for me to have a point 'n' click.

Yea, I use $15/month on my cell as I have no friends and have a dumb phone. So I don't see myself getting an iPhone any time soon. However I do use my iPod touch an awful lot, so I'll probably be upgrading that next year or so (when 2nd hand ones show on trademe).

[p01s0n]

Originally Posted by Jodi

I like the new iPhone due to all that manufacturing porn. People have become accustomed to fucking magic for nothing when they buy an apple product, but you try to build your own iPhone. The layers of manufacturing tech is pretty interesting.

this is basically why im lolling at all the retards having a whinge about no innovation. It's thinner, lighter, gets better battery life and is twice as fast as the previous generation (which mind you, was already light years ahead of the competition).

Innovation doesn't always mean shitty widgets and being able to pay with your phone at the comic book store.

[Spink]

yeah but how many clocks does it have per page?

[p01s0n]

um iphones are measured in microphones, not clocks

[TnT]

I think Apple have, however, made a misstep with the dock adapter. I'd have thought including one with the phone, would've been a fairly good 'customer focused' gesture on their part. It'd placate a lot of the impending grumpiness that will be abound.

That said, they probably know, as with any change, people will moan and complain, then suck it up and deal with it <sunglasses.gif>

[p01s0n]

im pretty sure apple will take the approach of "if you don't like it, don't buy it....yeah, that's what we thought"

[Ab]

Originally Posted by TnT

I think Apple have, however, made a misstep with the dock adapter. I'd have thought including one with the phone, would've been a fairly good 'customer focused' gesture on their part. It'd placate a lot of the impending grumpiness that will be abound.

That said, they probably know, as with any change, people will moan and complain, then suck it up and deal with it <sunglasses.gif>

I don't think there'll be ANY grumpiness. I would have been very surprised had Apple included an accessory that in most cases would be totally unnecessary.

[Savage]

Originally Posted by Savage

PS: http://www.kogan.com/au/blog/kogan-f...sell-iphone-5/

TL;DR
AU$699 for unlocked 16GB iP5

AU$799 for unlocked 32GB iP5

AU$899 for unlocked 64GB iP5

[ala*]

the traditional ipod/iphone connector has pissed me off for ages. glad to see a change for the better, though i will now have about 3 spare cords :/

will get as soon as work is able to give me one

[Dusty]

Originally Posted by p01s0n

this is basically why im lolling at all the retards having a whinge about no innovation. It's thinner, lighter, gets better battery life and is twice as fast as the previous generation (which mind you, was already light years ahead of the competition).
.

That's not innovation - that's EXPECTED.

Also, do you use the word 'lol' ironically or because you're actually 16 year old girl using iMessage?

[p01s0n]

Originally Posted by Dusty

That's not innovation - that's EXPECTED.

Also, do you use the word 'lol' ironically or because you're actually 16 year old girl using iMessage?

which would you prefer? you're the one that's namedropping my shit all over the show so you tell me.

[Spink]

Dusty is the brush, p01s0n is the turtle.

[TnT]

Originally Posted by Ab

I don't think there'll be ANY grumpiness. I would have been very surprised had Apple included an accessory that in most cases would be totally unnecessary.

I'm hearing A LOT of butthurt from people who have accessories. So there is already grumpiness about the change, mostly from people who have NFI why it was done.

For me it just means if I have an IP5, it won't use the same cable as my 'new Ipad', which is a minor inconvenience, but nothing I'm not already used to with having a non Apple phone and an ipad.

edit: Ok maybe not include it with the phone, but some kind of bundle deal with a new phone. Meh I don't really care to much, just enough to write out an ill thought out post.

[Dusty]

Originally Posted by p01s0n

which would you prefer? you're the one that's namedropping my shit all over the show so you tell me.

No idea - but it probably involves late puberty, spats of 'Nobody understands me!' and daddy issues.

Either way it's your own beef to work through.

Kia kaha!