iPhone 4S Thread

And don't forget the stages of actually owning an Apple product.

 

Haha! I'd seen that comic numerous time before but it totally slipped my mind as a reply to this thread.

On a side note, an acquaintance of mine posted an unrelated comic from The Oatmeal to FB, to which one of her friends responded w/how much he hated The Oatmeal along with this: http://unfunnythings.tumblr.com/post/1312737586/theoatmeal (NSFW due to language). Ha! I like The Oatmeal but also found the errr... critique funny too.

 

iphone fanboys and enthusiasts are lucky that the iphone hardware only gets refreshed once a year. Step over to Android and those stages get shorten from 1 year to 1 month. LG Thrill, the best 3D phone was released in September, and Galaxy S II, the best current Android phone Just got released a few days ago. Nexus Prime with the newest version of Android is coming soon. For those with fat fingers or wanting a tablet in your pocket, Galaxy Note is coming Q1 2012. Bench tests have already shown it's faster than Galaxy S II. Can't wait.

 

Wow. I've always known that Android hardware evolution is faster and heard that joke that one almost doesn't want to buy an Android phone because a better one will be out in 3 months.

With the 4S, obviously that 1 year cycle has gone a bit longer, this time. It'll be interesting to see when iPhone 5 comes out and whether the 4 will become the "free" w/contract phone.

 

If you could design and build the next iPhone what would you include?

 

AT&T is nasty. My mother got their long-distance plan based on their promises about rates. They in fact charged her quite a bit more than they had promised. (She made a lot of long-distance calls for her business.) So she called to cancel the service, and they refused to accept her cancellation. They kept trying to talk her into giving it more time. After a long phone call of repeating that she wanted to cancel, and them saying Please try this or that, she told them Cancel it! and hung up. They kept charging her. I don't remember what she finally had to do, but it was a major pain in the nice person.

I would NEVER subscribe to AT&T! The AT&T monopoly was why I never even considered an iPhone until Verizon finally got it. And then I realized that with a dumb phone and an iPod I didn't need an iPhone.

 

Thanks to iPhone 4S Reviews: "Best iPhone Yet", Great Camera, Siri is "Straight Out of Science Fiction" - Mac Rumors, the Macworld review has a video w/pretty long Siri demo. I tried some of it on the Siri app that I have on my iPhone 4 (got it >1 year ago) and some if works and some doesn't. I was surprised that Yoda-speak worked as that never occurred to me.

There's some pretty funny stuff you can try saying which he didn't cover like:
"Where can I get drunk?" or
"I'm drunk" - which books you a taxi

Unfortunately, from the verbiage in the Siri app (now pulled from the App Store), it looks the app will stop working on October 15th.

The microphone button on the keyboard is nothing new to Android users. They've had it since Android 2.x.

Side note: I wonder if Sprint iPhone 4S to be SIM Unlocked, Verizon After 60 Days - Mac Rumors will make AT&T change their minds to about giving unlock codes to their iPhone users or will they be still up to their stupid/evil ways.

 

old news. the vol up button has been remapped to shutter release since the announcement of iOS5 back in June

 

iOS5 betas have been available since June with this function. To me that's available since June. Doesn't matter if it's beta or final. I was running WM6.5.3 without stylus for almost a year before its official release and it wasn't even released for my device. Yet, all the hardware functions and all the new WM6.5.3 functions work on my device. Unlike the iOS5, the Siri only works on the 4S and not the 4 even though both will run iOS5.
Also this goes to show how locked down the iPhone is. If it was any other platform such as Android or Windows Mobile, or even Symbian the buttons would've been remapped by its users since day one. The HTC Tilt and the Tilt2 are push to talk phones from AT&T. Since AT&T's PTT is dead, the PTT button can be remapped to pretty much whatever its user wants. Also for Apple to use the vol up as shutter release seems kinda halfassed and ghetto. It's so not Apple's philosophy. Buttons are your friends, Apple, put them to good use. I hate how all the new phones are doing away with Call and End buttons. IT'S A FREAKING PHONE, make it work like a phone. If the user don't want the Call and End function make it so it can be remapped to someone else like Windows Mobile. If the Call button is on the right on your device and you're used to the Call button on the left from your previous phone remap them switched.

 

^^

1. You != everybody else
2. iOS5 is not WM
3. On conventional phones you pick up the receiver, and put it down. One switch

Get off your high horse already. And for all I care, keep on using WM.

 

iOS betas are not made available to the general public by Apple, only to those who are registered, authorized iOS developers. Getting them thru unofficial channels while not a registered developer is likely in violation of Apple's EULA. Using the betas is also living on the bleeding edge as it can be be sometimes difficult or impossible to downgrade iOS versions...

As for WM, unfortunately, switching out the firmware rev that it shipped with to unauthorized ones not provided by your OEM or carrier is also most likely a violation of the WM EULA. Will MS come after you or others that do it? Probably not...

 

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He wants hardware buttons for call and end whereas it seems the smartphone industry has been moving away from them. They've mostly (completely?) disappeared on Android phones whereas early ones had them.

Supposedly, Steve Jobs doesn't like buttons, so it's not surprising that there aren't many on iPhones. But, some/most (?) of that minimalism likely comes from Jony Ives.

 

Read the freaking OP, it states discuss "its strengths and weaknesses" You think a thread like this won't have people flaming the iphone? Are we suppose to post nothing but praises? Open your eyes and see what others are doing with their platform. If a dinosaur OS like WM can doing something as simple as remapping keys, why hasn't Apple implement it until now? And why is it that only Apple can remap the keys with a major OS update and not the user? Are we suppose to take whatever Apple feed us? So a feature is worthless unless Apple implement it into the iPOS? So free WiFi tethering without jailbreaking is junk and worthless unless it's on the stock iPhone? Are we suppose to use that shitty keyboard that Apple give us? Are LTE, NFC, 3D, and microsdxc insignificant because it's not on the iPhone? Your 64GB iPhone 4S will cost you $400. My 72GB Thrill will only cost $250. Why don't you get off your high horse and see what others are doing. Google is taking the best of every platform and adding them into their Android OS. That's why Android is dominating almost half of all the new smartphones purchases in the world while iOS is only at around a quarter. Android is growing faster than iOS because people realize that if they want a platform with no restrictions, Android is the way to go.
iCloud is nice but because it's remote storage, iOS5 will incur more data usage than any other platform that don't use cloud storage and clog up the high speed data network. Also not everyone has unlimited data plan.
iPhone is pretty useless unless it's jailbroken. Android's extremely customizable straight out of the box without rooting. Root it and CWMR it and you can install pretty much any ROM cooked for that device. WM may be dead but at least it's extremely hackable straight off the shelf without hardSPL or superCID. Imagine an extremely light jailbroken iOS with the features, programs and settings you want without any of the junk you don't. Ohh wait, you can't. Apple won't let you cook your own iOS.
Don't take it personal. I'm still cranky about no iphone 5. That's why the rant.

BTW, to the OP, if you want a real lens on your iphone look no further than

Now you can use your $10,000 Canon 600 F4L