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$29 and £25 for the 30 pin to lightning adapter if you want to use your old peripherals. Way to rip people off Apple!

Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against them changing the connector, happens all the time. The con here is that they are charging so much for a bit of plastic that is probably made for a couple of $ by some poor git in China. You would have to be a real idiot to pay that sort of price for it.

Still circumventing the EU ruling on using micro USB too by offering the adapter at a price. They really do use every trick in the book to get the most money out of people for the cheapest parts. If they were changing anyway nothing stopped them from using it as the norm.

 

Will this mean that you can charge a new iPad (4th gen, damn apple calling 3rd gen new iPad) using a laptop? ATM my phone can charge just fine using it by my iPad says not charging.

 

So what's new with this new iPhone?

 

LET ME GOOGLE THAT FOR YOU, YOU KNOW WHAT, FORGET IT.

http://www.pcvsconsoles.com/neoforum/index.php/topic,93.msg31294.html#msg31294

 

It looks the same...

 

Yeah but it will be faster and more powerful.

 

I'd be careful responding to chi. He does these subtle trolling missions which I'm not sure if he's actually trolling or not, and takes the conversations into a full circle. Usually once I get back to the beginning of the circle is when I realize he's trolling. And if he's not trolling, he might actually have very short term memory.

In this case, I figured he's trolling since he's knowledgeable in Android so he has a good grasp on hardware specs, so anyone looking at the specs for the new iphone realizes it's quite powerful. Aesthetic-wise. there's only so money ways you can make a rectangle shape device. Color-wise, iphones are always normally white and black.

If you want different colors, the ipod touch is different colors now.

I think what Apple does with the ipod nano is super-interesting. That thing changes shapes all the time.

 

Well, keeping the same design for the last three phones seems pretty lazy, there must have been something they could have done to go with the fancy new 16:9 display. And how will people know you've got the new iphone without you going "I got a Iphone 5!" Things would have been different if Steve Jobs was still alive.

And the iphone 5 is pretty powerful, but it's not a leader in the field. Apple are still playing catchup.

 

Aesthetics of a phone is really hard to debate. People say the Nokia Lumia looks beautiful. I really have no preference on it, but I think it looks like a toy. People also say the HTC One X looks beautiful and I just see another phone design. If you throw it into a pile and take off the HTC branding on it, I wouldn't be able to pick it out of the pile. Maybe Apple wanted to keep it's signature design? Who knows? But it is thinner. It just goes down to people's preference.

What would you say is the most powerful device in the market right now? The only device in the android world right now that is up there is the international samsung galaxy S III. And the gpu in that is just reaching iphone 4s numbers.

The Apple A6 is more powerful than that. Anand did a quick look and it looks like this is a custom soc made by Apple and not a cortex A9 or A15 core. Kind of like what Qualcomm did with the snapdragon s4. We'll soon see the benchmarks on it and see how powerful it actually is.

IMO though, since phones have to stay in the extremely portable realm which keeps display size an issue, having an amazing gpu in it isn't much of a benefit. It'll really show its capability in the ipad mini/next gen ipad.

I'll be most interested in the battery performance overall and LTE usage. Apple usually shines in battery performance.

 

The A6 is made by Samsung and the iPhone 5 was benchmarked at 1608 points which blows the old iPhone out of the easter but the SIII is still benchmarked higher.

Before that benchmark, iPhone users were all, "it's not the power that's important, it's the user experience." and now they're "ooh power!"

 

Yes, it's made by Samsung, but it's nowhere near the same design as the exynos in the Galaxy S III which is a cortex A9 soc. Apple designed their own soc. All of these benchmarks prior to the phone's release pretty much mean nothing currently as we all know how early benchmarks go.

Apple's devices have always been on bleeding edge soc's. The only time it was kind neck to neck was when the original Galaxy S came out and it was faced against the Apple A4 in the iphone 4. The iphone only got behind in the generation since the Galaxy S II came out the next summer and Apple moved their iphone 4s release into the fall.

 

My mum has ordered her iPhone 5. So when that arrives I'll be having her 4s, which is a nice upgrade from my 3GS. I should be able to play Infinity Blade 2 on my phone which will be a welcome change. My current phone cant run it without frame rate issues.

 

No one has ever seen the back of an iPhone in the wild. You know this. I know this. Even armadeadn knows this.