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Iphone 4S not what people wants

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Pliablemoose said:
All I know is that I'm more than a little burned out by the "flavor of the month" release schedule of android phones...
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Thought I was the only one.

Anyone else see the "rumors" already of a Samsung Galaxy S3 AND Motorola holding a press event on the 18th for something new? It's getting ridiculous.
 
Pliablemoose said:
All I know is that I'm more than a little burned out by the "flavor of the month" release schedule of android phones...
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Not me, I love all the options.

I am 101% sure the 4S and basically any future iPhone is going to be a huge seller. Just because something is popular doesn't mean it's any good for me. OP should have titled thread "iPhone 4S not what I want".
 
By the time any, if any decent 3rd party accessories come out for an Android phone, it's already EOL...

My 6 month old Thunderbolt looks like crap, and creaks like an old taxi, the year old iPhones I'm setting up on Straight Talk look and feel great
 
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vi edit said:
iOS 4.3 has a personal hotspot function built into it and to date, only two US carriers (Sprint's not online yet) support the phone and both have it locked down.

In Canada and Austrailia I've read that it works fine on their carriers.
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/dig...n-iphone-personal-hotspot-20110310-1bpjd.html

Again, I wouldn't blame Apple. Blame the carriers.
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Personal Hotspot isn't disabled on any iPhone running iOS 4.0; however, if you attempt to enable it, it will simply say you do not have the feature and you must go through AT&T to activate it (or something like that). Chances are the UK carriers simply leave it enabled by default.
 
Pliablemoose said:
By the time any, if any decent 3rd party accessories come out for an Android phone, it's already EOL...

My 6 month old Thunderbolt looks like crap, and creaks like an old taxi, the year old iPhones I'm setting up on Straight Talk look and feel great
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EOL as in... still working just fine? The release of newer hardware doesn't change your current hardware's performance. More phones = more competition = better prices overall. This is the one area where Android and Apple are completely different, and probably the biggest reason why I prefer Android.

The only accessories I can think of that are usually phone dependent are GPS car mounts and cases, neither of which I personally use. My 2 year old original Droid is still rocking just fine, sorry to hear about your creaky Thunderbolt.
 
Looks like iOS 5 will be providing a nice bump in browser performance for older devices as well:
http://www.appleinsider.com/article..._5_dramatically_boost_browsermark_scores.html

I always take those benchmarks with a huge grain of salt, but that's a dramatic difference with the iPhone 4 BrowserMark score jumping from 31,375 to 51,302. iPhone 4S got a 89,567 (someone in the comments reported their iPad 2 getting a 103,957 on iOS 5, so that score seems credible). Compare that to the other phones maxing out in the low 50s.
 
goog40 said:
Looks like iOS 5 will be providing a nice bump in browser performance for older devices as well:
http://www.appleinsider.com/article..._5_dramatically_boost_browsermark_scores.html

I always take those benchmarks with a huge grain of salt, but that's a dramatic difference with the iPhone 4 BrowserMark score jumping from 31,375 to 51,302. iPhone 4S got a 89,567 (someone in the comments reported their iPad 2 getting a 103,957 on iOS 5, so that score seems credible). Compare that to the other phones maxing out in the low 50s.
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Does that mean it's going to load pages almost twice as fast?
 
goog40 said:
Looks like iOS 5 will be providing a nice bump in browser performance for older devices as well:
http://www.appleinsider.com/article..._5_dramatically_boost_browsermark_scores.html

I always take those benchmarks with a huge grain of salt, but that's a dramatic difference with the iPhone 4 BrowserMark score jumping from 31,375 to 51,302. iPhone 4S got a 89,567 (someone in the comments reported their iPad 2 getting a 103,957 on iOS 5, so that score seems credible). Compare that to the other phones maxing out in the low 50s.
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Looks like Anand and Brian just posted some results of their own that are in line with these.

I'm most impressed with the bump the 3GS sees. I think they will definitely feel more of a benefit from the increased performance.
 
Pliablemoose said:
By the time any, if any decent 3rd party accessories come out for an Android phone, it's already EOL...

My 6 month old Thunderbolt looks like crap, and creaks like an old taxi, the year old iPhones I'm setting up on Straight Talk look and feel great
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Buy a non HTC phone then. My year old Captivate still looks and feels brand new.
 
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Imported said:
"The new iPhone 4S takes just 1.1 seconds to the first photo. And just half a second for the next shot."

My GS2 gets around the same.. How the hell did they calculate this?
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But quality wise, your GS2 isnt quite there. And if we go into low-light performance, your GS2 gets completely trumped.
 
ChAoTiCpInOy said:
Which means samsung didn't even realize how much of a boost the ip4s would be over the ip4.
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The SGS2 has been on the market for quite a while now so it's hardly surprising the iPhone 4s managed to beat it.

Naturally no one will care about performance when Kal El phones and tablets are blowing away the 4s six months from now.
 
ChAoTiCpInOy said:
Which means samsung didn't even realize how much of a boost the ip4s would be over the ip4.
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I would expect a dual-core GPU to perform better than a single core. I might even go as far as to say, it should've performed much, much better than a single core.
 
Puddle Jumper said:
The SGS2 has been on the market for quite a while now so it's hardly surprising the iPhone 4s managed to beat it.

Naturally no one will care about performance when Kal El phones and tablets are blowing away the 4s six months from now.
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iPhone 4S didnt just beat it, it smoked it. It nearly doubled it in almost all major categories. Amazing. Simply amazing. This is why specs dont matter in the cell phone race. Screen size and such still matter, but nobody gives a fuck whether the processor runs at 1.2 GHZ or 800 GHZ. The iPhone 4s further cements the fact that it doesn't matter.
 
BTW, how's everyone's iPhone 4S preorders? Mine is in Louisville now.

Is UPS really holding off til Friday? I remember my iPad went from HK => Anchorage (morning), got to Louisville by night, got back to Oakland, CA by the next morning, was trucked down to Sunnyvale and was out delivery. I'm hoping I can get mine early. Even though I won't be home on Thursday, at least I'll have the slip to pickup on Friday morning from UPS instead of waiting til 7pm. I waited til 7:30pm on Friday for my Touchpad to land.
 
cheezy321 said:
iPhone 4S didnt just beat it, it smoked it. It nearly doubled it in almost all major categories. Amazing. Simply amazing. This is why specs dont matter in the cell phone race. Screen size and such still matter, but nobody gives a fuck whether the processor runs at 1.2 GHZ or 800 GHZ. The iPhone 4s further cements the fact that it doesn't matter.
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It smoked a 6 month old phone. It should be faster, its newer and an inch smaller on the screen.
 
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