Apple Announces iPhone 5

[Deleted member 473940]

So its official .

I was just wondering whats the latest samsung phone? Or at least the latest Android Smart phone thats out in the market.

I can upgrade my contract on the 25th of this month.. I might not go with the iPhone 5 if I get better specs and jellybean

 

[BORTZ]

OMG APPLE WTF

This is the prove that they NEED Steve Jobs, they are out of 'ideas'. Look I love that Apple fans enjoy their time but this is just a huge fail.

I might get the new ipod touch tho, wanna play Chaos Rings

 

[Clarky]

Ah I see it has improved by a whole number, I expect this to sell into the millions then.

 

[DiscostewSM]

So should Samsung sue Apple?

*looks at previous thread about Apple suing a grocery store*

I seriously hope so.

 

[bradzx]

Seems that battery life is better now. Hope it last 2 days on my normal usage without recharging

Edit: New headphones: EarPods

fanboy count: 4 (until now)

What the hell is that headphone? It look.....stupid headphone. o.o

 

[Shuji1987]

So its official .

I was just wondering whats the latest samsung phone? Or at least the latest Android Smart phone thats out in the market.

I can upgrade my contract on the 25th of this month.. I might not go with the iPhone 5 if I get better specs and jellybean

Either wait for the HTC One X+ or the Samsung Galaxy Note II, or upgrade to the Samsung Galaxy S3 or HTC One X. You won't find anything better than that atleast untill next year.

Also, I am very disappointed in the iPhone 5. I was following it live but all I could think was, Samsung did this, Google did this, Nokia did this, hell even Microsoft did this.. Also, the hardware upgrade is marginal at best.

Steve Jobs must be crying in his grave me thinks.

 

[raulpica]

Okay. Wait wait all of you "lol more like iPhone 4SS".

WHAT did you expect from a new phone? An ARM CPU with 8 cores? Which isn't even available on the market?

It has EVERYTHING the market currently has to offer when it comes to technology. Everything's up to date.

So what's the matter now, except usual Apple hating?

It's just an incremental upgrade, like the S3 was with the S2, but I didn't see anybody crying "BOOHOO SAMSUNG SUX IT ONLY HAS UPGRADED THE CPU TO A QUADCORE!! ;O;".




Oh wait, maybe you expected it to shoot lasers from the camera.

 

[Nebz]

Pretty underwhelming Media Event but I'll probably end up with it in the end. Although it's obviously inferior to other devices in some spots, I absolutely love iOS and have become very familiar with it over the years.The late 4G LTE, better battery life, and A6 are enough to keep me with 'em especially with my problem of wanting to stay up to date on whatever line of devices I currently own >_<

I was expecting a new or secret iOS 6 feature but I guess I may have been expecting too much. The headphones seem pretty spiffy though

 

[Deleted member 473940]

So its official .

I was just wondering whats the latest samsung phone? Or at least the latest Android Smart phone thats out in the market.

I can upgrade my contract on the 25th of this month.. I might not go with the iPhone 5 if I get better specs and jellybean

Either wait for the HTC One X+ or the Samsung Galaxy Note II, or upgrade to the Samsung Galaxy S3 or HTC One X. You won't find anything better than that atleast untill next year.

Also, I am very disappointed in the iPhone 5. I was following it live but all I could think was, Samsung did this, Google did this, Nokia did this, hell even Microsoft did this.. Also, the hardware upgrade is marginal at best.

Steve Jobs must be crying in his grave me thinks.

So, for being with my network for 4+ years I got friggin amazing offers lol.

They are offering my the Galaxy S 3 with 4000 minutes, unlimited internet and unlimited text for £27 per month, no upfront cost.
Same offer with the 4S for £25 a month.
Same offer for the iPhone 5, but with £29 upfront cost a and £35 per month. Cant pre-order before friday though.

I am freaking out! If I play mind-games with them, I will get even better deals.

Anyway, I was so hyped about iPhone 5 just as disappointed as you..

 

[BORTZ]

Oh wait, maybe you expected it to shoot lasers from the camera.

Thats all it would have taken.

But in all seriousness, looking back, the older whole number jumps of the iphone have been large leaps and innovations. Now it seems like apple is a midrange phone as everyone else catches up...quickly. Theres no innovation here from Apple anymore.

 

[raulpica]

Oh wait, maybe you expected it to shoot lasers from the camera.

Thats all it would have taken.

But in all seriousness, looking back, the older whole number jumps of the iphone have been large leaps and innovations. Now it seems like apple is a midrange phone as everyone else catches up...quickly. Theres no innovation here from Apple anymore.

It's because the market is SO saturated with competition that there isn't anything to innovate anymore.

The only innovation they could do right now would be switching to x86 with Medfield (which doesn't make any freaking sense from a pure performance sense) and slap MacOS X on it.

It's a smartphone after all. Look at the competitors, they all sport two cameras, a touchscreen, huh... a MICROPHONE and a speaker, and so on.

You can't just add stuff like a Sonar on your iPhone just to say "LOOK! I GOT SOMETHING ELSE U GUYS DON'T HAEV LOLOLOL".

 

[Deleted member 194275]

Seems that battery life is better now. Hope it last 2 days on my normal usage without recharging

Edit: New headphones: EarPods

fanboy count: 4 (until now)

What the hell is that headphone? It look.....stupid headphone. o.o

Agreed! I like the old walkman style for headphones

 

[ComeTurismO]

Probably they are making this to make the parodies shut up.

 

[Shuji1987]

They are offering my the Galaxy S 3 with 4000 minutes, unlimited internet and unlimited text for £27 per month, no upfront cost.
Same offer with the 4S for £25 a month.
Same offer for the iPhone 5, but with £29 upfront cost a and £35 per month. Cant pre-order before friday though.

That's really nice though. Obviously I can't make any suggestions as to which device you should take, but I'm sure whichever you pick at least you get it for a bargain. I had the same with my Galaxy S3. My contract ended a week before it launched, so for all these years I got the device free of charge, a day before the launch and no contract costs for the first 4 months. After it would cost me €25 which is still good considering it came with €50 if not more p/m contracts.

 

[Lube_Skyballer]

Wow, surprised to see so few people being positive about the iPhone 5 here on Temp. You folks are being very sceptical.

The competition always tries to just "tick the boxes" of a checklist. They look at a spec list of a phone of the current market leader and just make a phone that has better specs. It's just doesn't work that way, in my honest opinion
On paper the competition is better than iPhone most of the times. But they forget the user experience. The joy of an OS and features that just work. An phone that is so well designed, it still looks wonderful 2 years after it's purchase. (And yeah, it has seen a lot of use!)

I think there won't be a Temper (except Raulpica) that'll agree with me. But I just want to say the iPhone is horribly underestimated in here. Everybody just jumps on the "LOLWTF APPLE IS STUPID" bandwagon.

 

[BORTZ]

I wasnt really expecting much anyways. There hasnt been a large hush hush this time, it like oh its time to unveil another one. So whatever.

Also remember on a mostly nintendo gaming handheld fourm, most of use are already geared to hate Apple anyways.

 

[Hyro-Sama]

I'm not exactly hyped for this announcement but [member='raulpica'] is right in that the amount of Apple hate on GBATemp is highly superficial.

 

[gamefan5]

Same here. Never expected much. And I wasn't surprised by the features one bit. So yeah, the Iphone 5 doesn't interest me one bit
I actually find the Ipod touch to be a lot more interesting. LOL

 

[triassic911]

Can't wait for the Samsung lawsuit.

Nice to see they are at least providing a way to use your old stuff with an adapter.

 

[finkmac]

Just what I expected… Except for the 3 microphone thing, Didn't see that coming… And the New Nano (dammit, should have waited to send in my 1G Nano for the recall thing), and the Loop.

Those new EarPods look great, wonder if they sound as good as my 1G iPod Shuffle earbuds… those were great… pity they broke.

Speaking of which, the headphones port is on the bottom, why didn't they do this before…

Going by the screen, this was the largest upgrade ever, Insides, not so much.



But is it enough to make me upgrade from my 1st Generation iPod Touch?

*Looks down at iPod*

Not yet… I think I'll wait until next year, and purchase the iPhone 5 as my first smartphone… Or maybe I'll get a Touch…


Hey… They haven't killed off the 1st Gen Classic yet…

But in all seriousness, looking back, the older whole number jumps of the iphone have been large leaps and innovations. Now it seems like apple is a midrange phone as everyone else catches up...quickly. Theres no innovation here from Apple anymore.

Not really…

iPhone 2G to 3G : Well, 3G data and a new shape

iPhone 3G to 3GS: Processing, Camera

iPhone 3GS to 4: Processing(kinda), Camera(kinda), Shape

iPhone 4 to 4S: Processing, Camera

iPhone 4S to 5: Screen, Shape, Processing(kinda)