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iPhone 5

Darat said:
Ah sorry I got the wrong end of the stick - let me wipe my hands and I'll start again. :)

From what you've summarised above what is different for him than if he did have an iPhone? You seem to be saying he does exactly what someone with an iPhone would do when it comes down to apps.
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That's exactly my point. Neither of my colleagues use their Android devices any differently from an iPhone. One wishes he now had an iPhone and the other wishes he could afford 2! Nothing would be different.

The selling point was not Android, but a larger screen than the 4S, and price.
 
Darat said:
Your colleague is choosing to use his freedom to not download an app from the official play store, an iPhone user does not have that freedom, plus to exercise that freedom he's has had to customize his phone by altering his phones default setup as by default you can't install any app not from the party store.
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Are you suggesting that there aren't iPhone owners who never download apps from the App Store? There's no store called the "party store".
 
OCaptain said:
Are you suggesting that there aren't iPhone owners who never download apps from the App Store? There's no store called the "party store".
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Unfortunately predictive text on phones still requires a user to read what they are about to post to see if the predictions are correct: "Party store" should have been "Play store".
 
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merentha said:
But that's already one of the freedom of an Android phone, the freedom to choose any model based on the screen size, specs and price that appeals to the user.
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Screen size is not determined by the OS, so is therefore not an Android 'Feature'.

A potential iPhone user also has a choice of screen sizes and prices.
 
merentha said:
But that's already one of the freedom of an Android phone, the freedom to choose any model based on the screen size, specs and price that appeals to the user.
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Do you mean to say that you can't choose any model iphone based on the screen size, specs and price that appeals to the user ? That's an odd notion.
 
SatansMaleVoiceChoir said:
Screen size is not determined by the OS, so is therefore not an Android 'Feature'.

A potential iPhone user also has a choice of screen sizes and prices.
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Yes, I know the iPhone5 has a "slightly larger" screen. But not large enough for me and most of my friends (who are on Android), so there is no choice at all. ;)
 
merentha said:
Yes, I know the iPhone5 has a "slightly larger" screen. But not large enough for me and most of my friends (who are on Android), so there is no choice at all. ;)
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For Christmas I got a phone with only a 720p screen, and I threw it in my grandmother's face!



(jk about tech in general, not android/ios)
 
merentha said:
Yes, I know the iPhone5 has a "slightly larger" screen. But not large enough for me and most of my friends (who are on Android), so there is no choice at all. ;)
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If you want an iPhone you have a choice between screen sizes and price. If you want a phone with a larger screen, then you pick a Samsung, an HTC, a Nokia or a BlackBerry - OS has nothing to do with the physical screen size; that's down to the device manufacturer.

Like my friend who owns an S2 alluded to - I think we're regressing in terms of mobile phone portability - my iPhone 5 fits nicely into any pocket without restricting my movement; if it were any larger, then putting it in my front jeans pocket and driving would not be comfortable.
 
SatansMaleVoiceChoir said:
Like my friend who owns an S2 alluded to - I think we're regressing in terms of mobile phone portability - my iPhone 5 fits nicely into any pocket without restricting my movement; if it were any larger, then putting it in my front jeans pocket and driving would not be comfortable.
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Oh man, I could go with all sorts of jokes here.. but I'm gonna stick with:

"Perhaps its time your mom bought you some big boy pants?"


In all seriousness, its not a problem. People have got used to the larger size phones, and it hasn't stopped the millions of S2 or S3 owners from driving, sitting, or doing anything else.
 
GraculusTheGreenBird said:
Oh man, I could go with all sorts of jokes here.. but I'm gonna stick with:

"Perhaps its time your mom bought you some big boy pants?"


In all seriousness, its not a problem. People have got used to the larger size phones, and it hasn't stopped the millions of S2 or S3 owners from driving, sitting, or doing anything else.
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Really? It was actually my S3 owning colleague who mentioned that although he liked the size for watching Netflix videos, it was a pain to fit into certain pockets, and annoying while driving. The same colleague who said he wished he'd known the iPhone 5 was going to be bigger because he'd have bought that instead. That got me thinking about how my iPhone 5 fits comfortably in any of my pockets.

As I also said, my other colleague wouldn't get an S3 because the screen is too big. Other than that, I haven't met anyone else with a Samsung phone, so I couldn't comment. Another colleague has a Blackberry and hated it, so he just swapped it for an iPhone 3GS.
 
SatansMaleVoiceChoir said:
If you want an iPhone you have a choice between screen sizes and price. If you want a phone with a larger screen, then you pick a Samsung, an HTC, a Nokia or a BlackBerry - OS has nothing to do with the physical screen size; that's down to the device manufacturer.

Like my friend who owns an S2 alluded to - I think we're regressing in terms of mobile phone portability - my iPhone 5 fits nicely into any pocket without restricting my movement; if it were any larger, then putting it in my front jeans pocket and driving would not be comfortable.
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I don't think so. As you have mentioned phones, especially android phones come in a variety of shapes and sizes, portability is not regressing, infact it is improving, while screen sizes in some phones are large, the weight is still quite low, and whilst large, many people still find them quite comfortable and easy to carry around.

Since you like anecdotes here's mine.
My wife and my sister both have S3 phones. My wife finds it no more difficult to carry than her s1 (keeps it in her handbag) and my sister prefers the S3 over her old iPhone 4 and her husband's 4s. I have 2 other friends that use S3s and are happy with them. The others use a mix of Nokia's and iPhones. I currently use a htc hd2 for work and a stock EVO 3d for personal use. Both are great phones and are fun to use. The 3d videos and photos seem to work well.
 
OnlyTellsTruths said:
<SNIP>
Samsung is the new king of smartphones; currently and for the foreseeable future.
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The "king of smartphones" did not do as well last as the non-king (apple) last quarter.

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/02/06/apple-samsung-profit-share/

  • Apple took home 72% of the profits with only 21.7% of unit sales (up from 15.4% in Q3).
  • Samsung's 29% of the profits came from 28.9% of unit sales (down from 32.3% in Q3).
  • 43 cents of every dollar spent in the world on a cellphone in Q4 ended up in Apple's coffers.
  • Samsung got 36 cents. Nokia got 7 cents. All the rest got less than 5.
  • For 2013, Walkley predicts that Apple and Samsung will split 103% of the profits, 69/34.
 
WildCat said:
Apple stock continues to slide, down over 28% from its September high, amid reports of weakening iPhone 5 sales.

Meanwhile a car crashes into an Apple store in Chicago. No word yet on whether the driver was just folllowing the directions on his iPhone 5 navigatiopn app.
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probably going to bounce from here now as the world's worst fund manager sold out at a loss a day or two ago, and his timing is usually pretty good.

Reggie Middleton was calling this the whole of last year. http://boombustblog.com/blog/item/6...ned-money-as-a-punchline-thats-just-not-funny a long Google short Apple pair trade made big money.

you'd have to think their (Apple's) own internal hedge fund was shorting it's own stock, wouldn't you? probably long Google too lol
 
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Hungry81 said:
I don't think so. As you have mentioned phones, especially android phones come in a variety of shapes and sizes, portability is not regressing, infact it is improving, while screen sizes in some phones are large, the weight is still quite low, and whilst large, many people still find them quite comfortable and easy to carry around.
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And many people don't... wheeeeeeeee... round and round we go.

That said though, I wasn't talking about 'weight', but size. An S3 would not be a comfortable fit in my jeans pocket.

Hungry81 said:
Since you like anecdotes here's mine.
My wife and my sister both have S3 phones. My wife finds it no more difficult to carry than her s1 (keeps it in her handbag) and my sister prefers the S3 over her old iPhone 4 and her husband's 4s. I have 2 other friends that use S3s and are happy with them. The others use a mix of Nokia's and iPhones. I currently use a htc hd2 for work and a stock EVO 3d for personal use. Both are great phones and are fun to use. The 3d videos and photos seem to work well.
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Here's another one of mine. S3 owning colleague watched me make and amend an appointment using Siri, and was amazed - thought it was really impressive. It wasn't until later I thought, doesn't the S3 have a similar capability? I was pretty sure that Android rushed out something similar in the wake of Siri appearing on the 4S.
 
Darat said:
It was already in Samsung smartphones before Siri was even released as an app never mind Apple buying it and incorporating it into the OS.
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Yes, but iPhones had 'voice control' from the 3G model (or was it 3GS?) in 2009 onwards as well. Siri is a 'personal assistant', with much more functionality than the old 'voice control', and Android pushed something out more akin to Siri in the wake of the 4S release, IIRC.
 
Darat said:
It was already in Samsung smartphones before Siri was even released as an app never mind Apple buying it and incorporating it into the OS.
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http://www.cnet.com/8301-17918_1-57458122-85/apples-siri-trounces-samsungs-s-voice-hands-on/
S Voice, which launched this summer on the Samsung Galaxy S3, is Samsung's answer to Siri. That also makes S Voice the predominant voice app for the iPhone 5's brawniest Android contender.
S Voice has been getting a bad rap ever since the its debut. CNET Asia and CNET UK both slammed the Siri-wannabe before the Galaxy S3 arrived in the U.S., and Siri easily won here in San Francisco as well.

What was the name of what samsung had before S Voice ?
 
TheL8Elvis said:
http://www.cnet.com/8301-17918_1-57458122-85/apples-siri-trounces-samsungs-s-voice-hands-on/
S Voice, which launched this summer on the Samsung Galaxy S3, is Samsung's answer to Siri. That also makes S Voice the predominant voice app for the iPhone 5's brawniest Android contender.
S Voice has been getting a bad rap ever since the its debut. CNET Asia and CNET UK both slammed the Siri-wannabe before the Galaxy S3 arrived in the U.S., and Siri easily won here in San Francisco as well.

What was the name of what samsung had before S Voice ?
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Who was even taking about S-Voice? :confused:
 
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