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Total Members Voted: 27

Voting closed: 05 September 2013, 22:02:47

[OmegaAnglesey]

Yes i tend agree Den, it's what turns my stomach a bit about Apple. Over the top enfasis on the greatness, even for Americans surely?

Although as said before, they know how to promote a product. If Nokia had a fraction of the same approach they wouldn't be in the shite they are in now, in fact Apple wouldn't be as predominant as they are now. I can see Jobs looking at the smartphone market In the early days and rubbing his hands the glee. Eeeeeasy pickings.

The iPhone is not crap at making calls btw, it has a crap phone application, specifically, the number keys disappearing onto another page when the call starts, so toggling back and forth between, say, selecting speaker phone, and selecting number keys when selecting number options on automated systems. Just strikes me as a pita and an unnecessary complication, but probably to do with being a touchscreen device maybe? I haven't given it much thought as to why except that it's irritating IMO.

Oh, and I ove the clumsy ninja too.

Cant wait to have a go with that 
Cant remember if they mentioned if its only a iPhone 5 app or is it for all models i.e 4/4S 

[TheBoy]

For me the iphone is crap at calls

Yup, like most smartphones, but probably worse of the lot. Nothing will beat likes of 6310i

to pricey

Absolutely

plus its not to rugged hence not an option. 

Its the longest I've had a smartphone, most others have not lasted a year. So not sure I can agree with that. Or the comment that its not far more stable than others - although others have come a long way in the last 2 or 3 years.

[feeutfo]

Yes i tend agree Den, it's what turns my stomach a bit about Apple. Over the top enfasis on the greatness, even for Americans surely?

Although as said before, they know how to promote a product. If Nokia had a fraction of the same approach they wouldn't be in the shite they are in now, in fact Apple wouldn't be as predominant as they are now. I can see Jobs looking at the smartphone market In the early days and rubbing his hands the glee. Eeeeeasy pickings.

The iPhone is not crap at making calls btw, it has a crap phone application, specifically, the number keys disappearing onto another page when the call starts, so toggling back and forth between, say, selecting speaker phone, and selecting number keys when selecting number options on automated systems. Just strikes me as a pita and an unnecessary complication, but probably to do with being a touchscreen device maybe? I haven't given it much thought as to why except that it's irritating IMO.

Oh, and I ove the clumsy ninja too.

Cant wait to have a go with that 
Cant remember if they mentioned if its only a iPhone 5 app or is it for all models i.e 4/4S 

not sure the 4s or older will cope.

[tunnie]

3G-S was supposed to cope with iOS5, but it struggles. 4S will be same with iOS6

[plym ian]

3G-S was supposed to cope with iOS5, but it struggles. 4S will be same with iOS6

my 3gs copes well I just haven't filled it up with rubbish apps I never use, the main reason I changed to an iPhone was because id had enough of blackberry as it kept white screening
which put me off. also swmbo had the iphone4 and I was always sneaking ago on it

best phone I've ever owned was a Nokia e65 god if ever ther was a phone that could take some abuse that was it thrown, dropped, washing machine it would always keep working. the only reason I changed was I felt Nokia was lagging behind.

plus iPhone has football manager 2012 on it and at the time android didnt

[TheBoy]

3G-S was supposed to cope with iOS5, but it struggles. 4S will be same with iOS6

Doubt it. Doubt the 4 will struggle.

Apple are currently trying to grab the 3GS users onto a 5

[smithpa7]

For me the iphone is crap at calls

Yup, like most smartphones, but probably worse of the lot. Nothing will beat likes of 6310i

to pricey

Absolutely

plus its not to rugged hence not an option. 

Its the longest I've had a smartphone, most others have not lasted a year. So not sure I can agree with that. Or the comment that its not far more stable than others - although others have come a long way in the last 2 or 3 years.

I was using my 6310i this week in the car kit. Still a great phone

[TheBoy]

For me the iphone is crap at calls

Yup, like most smartphones, but probably worse of the lot. Nothing will beat likes of 6310i

to pricey

Absolutely

plus its not to rugged hence not an option. 

Its the longest I've had a smartphone, most others have not lasted a year. So not sure I can agree with that. Or the comment that its not far more stable than others - although others have come a long way in the last 2 or 3 years.

I was using my 6310i this week in the car kit. Still a great phone

Best phone ever made...  ...if you don't drop them

[Marks DTM Calib]

plus its not to rugged hence not an option. 

Its the longest I've had a smartphone, most others have not lasted a year. So not sure I can agree with that. Or the comment that its not far more stable than others - although others have come a long way in the last 2 or 3 years.

Trouble is there not rugged, if you see the hell my phone goes through, the drops bashes cracks etc it, the one I had at work (3GS) had a cracked screen within 4 weeks just by catching it on the desk

[tunnie]

The screens can crack quite easily, more so on iPhones because the screen is glass. Most others are plastic, mines developed a screen colour issue. I think a re-format would fix it, but its a good excuse to try and get a 5! 

[TheBoy]

plus its not to rugged hence not an option. 

Its the longest I've had a smartphone, most others have not lasted a year. So not sure I can agree with that. Or the comment that its not far more stable than others - although others have come a long way in the last 2 or 3 years.

Trouble is there not rugged, if you see the hell my phone goes through, the drops bashes cracks etc it, the one I had at work (3GS) had a cracked screen within 4 weeks just by catching it on the desk

Certainly not my experience of my 3GS, nearly 3yrs old. Granted, its got a chunk gouged out of the screen (but not cracked), and a cracked case, but if you'd seen the abuse it had suffered - dropped, thrown, sat on, watered, baked, squashed and generally misused 



No idea what to replace it with, or even which Smartphones will be around in a year. Despite the lacklustre iPhone 5 announcement, I think Apple is safe for the next generation. Obviously, RIM and Nokia's legacy systems are dead, and HP/Palm don't have hardware to go with the relaunched webOS. Windows or Android though? Or both? Many supposed 'experts' are saying Android looks the most dicey. Windows has certain advantages with WinRT, but its hard to see them getting a good foothold in the marketplace currently...

...though does it matter nowadays, as long as the phone is stable (most are after a few revisions of the OS, although crApple still rule here), and can access arsebook and twotter, do users give a monkeys? Traditional communications methods - email (Android's biggest downfall for me) or even calls/texts aren't important (look at the outcry over GiffGaffs announcement to reduce their 250m/Unlimited_text/Unlimited_data to 250m/Unlimited_text/750Mb has caused, with most users saying drop the call/text allowance to sod all, but keep the unlimited data).

The make (ignoring crApple brainwashed fans) is unimportant. Features are. Nokia are pinning their hopes on a decent camera system, and will shore up Windows (and Nokia's RF is usually pretty good). crApple have nothing special now, beyond 'design' and an OS "that just works as you would expect it to", and, at last, a decent phone system. Google, in reality, have nothing on the face of it, but does allow manufacturers to put their own stamp on it, although outside Samsung, nobody has really succeeded. Android also has the lowest ranking in surveys for people upgrading...  ...and the market for 'new' Smartphone users is now quite small, everything is Smartphone upgrades now on.

Maybe there is room for iOS, Android and Windows  , that will be a burden on developers. HTML5 isn't really ready yet, so that kind of shortcut isn't an option.

[OmegaAnglesey]

Ordered mine today 16GB in Black/Slate £530 delivered 

Although the 32GB is not much more t £599   
Might send it back for the 32GB after trying this 16GB First to see if its worth keeping over my current 4S.

[SMD]

Ordered mine today 16GB in Black/Slate £530 delivered 

Although the 32GB is not much more t £599   
Might send it back for the 32GB after trying this 16GB First to see if its worth keeping over my current 4S.

Gis a tenner mister? 

[05omegav6]

can't understand why people want to pay double the price for something that is inferior so say a htc one x or a galaxy s3

Depends what you want Android is too buggy and unreliable for what I want, whereas the Apple just works

Trouble is it doesn't work particularly well with owt else... Had to cancel my lovefilm account because it was updated to work more smoothly on the gaypad2 at the expense of android

Also when you get your Iphone will you then have to replace all the apps for compatability reasons? And if so, at what cost?

[OmegaAnglesey]

Well its been disaster after disaster today regarding my current iPhone and the pre-order.. Lost all my 200+ apps on phone trying to get them back though the cloud but is taking ages and has re-arranged everything really not having a good day when it comes to apple related things today 

Apparently backing up your phone doesn't back up your apps but would need syncing which i didnt do.