the new iPhone

I am by no means a apple fan boy or an iPhone humper. I do use and own an iphone 4 though. It' a phone and it plays a game and it allows me to check my emails and facebook without cranking up my 1200 watt computer.

Other than that, I really don't give a shit about it. Hell the only reason I have it to begin with is I have a LG Dare and my contract was up. I should have been able to get a Droid X for $149 with a new contract but they refused and said $200. So I told them fuck off and bought an iPhone 4 for $150 and a contract with AT&T. Service has been 99% great for me so far.

The only thing I miss about older phones is I could leave them in my car in the summer and come back a few hours later and still use the phone. The iphone apparently doesn't play well in the heat.

I also agree with a lot of the others that say that apple is just rehashing the old and selling it again. They know how to make money and are doing it well. It's unfortunate that their legal battles are only going to get worse. While they have won a small victory in the US, this may not fly so well over seas where their shit is actually made.
 
I didn't want a wider phone, I need it to fit in my pocket while I "work" NOT sit at a desk and have it sit on a charger on a desk
 
easy2cy said:
Only thing keeping me from getting an iPhone is iTunes. No thanks.
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X2. That was my main reason for not getting one. As an avid music lover and listener, iTunes is the worst thing to happen to music since Bose "lifestyle" systems. The CD ripping process doesnt copy bit-for-bit like Exact Audio Copy or the like, plus youre locked into Apples proprietary formats. On top of that, the file format conversion process isnt very good either. Converting from wav to AAC or mp3 introduces lots of artifacts in the audio stream...solely the fault of Apples proprietary music encoder. A good encoder, like LAME or Vorbis Tools introduces no auditory anomalies to the audio stream.
 
And they've got my wallet by the nuts. :lol:

I like itunes because I can download just one song as opposed to buying an entire album. But the sound quality and the difficulty of changing formats blows.
 
You can do that on Android as well. The difference is the size of the market. There's quite a few big name artist that don't have music published on the play market. For instance Linkin Park.
 
Im old school, still buying CDs every now and then. The mainstream stores like iTunes, Google Play, and Amazon need to start offering lossless formats. mp3 is so...1999. Back then we needed it, because you couldnt fit too many uncompressed songs on a 8GB hard drive. Now its 2012, and we have phones that start out with atleast twice that capacity...why not start using FLAC or ALAC? mp3s should cost 25 cents each, since its not the actual CD quality song. You wouldnt pay full price for half a steak would you?
 
For what it's worth, I ended up ditching my iPhone yesterday in favor of an Android phone as an experiment. I have 30 days to decide if I want to keep the phone or switch to the iPhone 5. I opted not to get the Galaxy S3 because of how much bigger it was and there wasn't much advantage to it over say, the Atrix HD except it has 2 gigs of ram vs 1 gig. I got the Atrix HD for $99 and if it fails miserably, I'm only out $99 or I can pay another $100 to get an iPhone 5.

That said, as a long time Apple fan boy, I'm pretty disappointed with the iPhone 5 in terms of lack of features. It's bigger, which I suppose is nice, LTE is nice too, but beyond that, it departs from their usual introduction of something *new*. Every major iPhone release before has introduced at least something big, and personally, I don't think LTE is all that big.

I really hope this trend doesn't happen in their laptops, because I still buy their laptops for the hardware. The air can't be beat right now.
 
Tin said:
Im old school, still buying CDs every now and then. The mainstream stores like iTunes, Google Play, and Amazon need to start offering lossless formats. mp3 is so...1999. Back then we needed it, because you couldnt fit too many uncompressed songs on a 8GB hard drive. Now its 2012, and we have phones that start out with atleast twice that capacity...why not start using FLAC or ALAC? mp3s should cost 25 cents each, since its not the actual CD quality song. You wouldnt pay full price for half a steak would you?
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I have a good solid 100+ gigs of FLAC... :)
 
Tin said:
The only way to fly :)
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Yeah, but my roomies and people that visit look at me funny because I have an old school Marantz monoblock set up that I swap wires for the fronts too when I want to listen to music and I don't swap the powered sub over, just straight simple 2 channel. Movie time, fronts get swapped back over to the receiver. For some reason, the Marantz mono block stuff just does a better job. :)
 
little2v said:
Yeah, but my roomies and people that visit look at me funny because I have an old school Marantz monoblock set up that I swap wires for the fronts too when I want to listen to music and I don't swap the powered sub over, just straight simple 2 channel. Movie time, fronts get swapped back over to the receiver. For some reason, the Marantz mono block stuff just does a better job. :)
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Separates will almost always sound better than integrated components. Those Marantz monos are pretty beefy, I almost picked some up a couple of years ago but the guy decided to keep them :(
 
stalked_R/T said:
If Apple doesn't come out with a 6 that makes people go "WOW" they just might be headed back to obscurity.
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So yeah, about that. :haha:

Apple on Monday said iPhone 5 preorders topped 2 million in 24 hours -- more than double the amount of preorders it had for the iPhone 4S.The company also said that because demand exceeds initial supply, some pre-orders will be delivered in October although most will be delivered this Friday.

Also on Monday AT&T, said it set a sales record for the iPhone 5, with customers ordering more of them than any previous iPhone model on the first day of preorders and over the weekend.

People are already lining up at the Fifth Avenue Apple Store in Manhattan.

Apple's Natalie Kerris says the company is "blown away" by consumer response to the new phone.

And when iPhone 5 goes on sale in stores later this week, analysts predict lines as long as the record queues seen for the iPhone's debut in 2007.


http://www.usatoday.com/tech/person...rders-topped-2-million-in-24-hours/57789680/1
 
I skipped the 4S. Still have a 4. I ordered the 5 (64 gb) yesterday.
I ordered primarily for speed. I use my iPhone for hours every day. A big speed bump (over the 4) would be great.
 
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