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iPhone 4 officially announced....

Discussion in 'Lounge' started by mor911, Jun 7, 2010.

  1. mor911

    mor911 pooping

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    Yummy! Me want... NOW

    http://content.usatoday.com/communi...expected-to-unveil-latest-edition-of-iphone/1
     
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  2. mor911

    mor911 pooping

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    Yesssssss
     
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  3. Roman529

    Roman529 Senior Member

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    That would be sweet sending a movie from your phone to a bigger screen or tv. Also ten hours of video....that could come in handy.
     
  4. mor911

    mor911 pooping

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    yesssssssssssssssssssssss
     
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  5. mor911

    mor911 pooping

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    Win.
     
  6. Desides

    Desides Well-Known Member

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    The unified inbox is one of those "finally" moments for me. Now Google needs to get their act together and make the iPhone's delete function translate to "move to trash" on GMail, rather than "Archive" as currently configured. (Or did they change that already and I missed it? Will have to look that one up.)

    I'm not wild about the phone's new look. It seems less a brainchild of Jobs-Ive and more like a Chinese knockoff. The use of the metal rim as one gigantic antenna is a pretty smart idea, though.

    Looks like I know what my birthday gift will be.
     
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  7. MikeHoncho

    MikeHoncho -=| Censored |=-

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    Can it time-travel?
     
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  8. Lab3003

    Lab3003 Golden era

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  9. High Definition

    High Definition No Smoke / No Drink 2011+

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    Recording amateur porn videos in 720p... oh I can't wait.

    I'm pre-ordering on the 15th and copping on the 24th. No doubt.
     
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  10. Butters

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    HTC Evo will still be a better phone
     
  11. mor911

    mor911 pooping

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    While all of those phones are still trying to compete to be the phone that is finally better than the iPhone, Apple is about to hit another homerun and remain the industry leader for the next.... well, ever.
     
  12. Desides

    Desides Well-Known Member

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    With its 4 hours of battery life on 3G? Yeah, right.

     
  13. mor911

    mor911 pooping

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    Just watched that vid... Holy hell i want this bad. I'm not eligible for the upgrade. Guess i have to spring full price.

    i.dont.care.
     
  14. Desides

    Desides Well-Known Member

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    John Gruber's hands-on impressions:

     
  15. Muck

    Muck Throwback Uniform Crusader Retired Administrator

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    Let's save that stuff for another thread.

    Thanks
     
  16. MikeHoncho

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    The only functions I require from a phone are:

    the Time

    and

    the Occasional phone conversation
     
  17. mor911

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    so you 're getting one right ?!
     
  18. Frumundah Finnatic

    Frumundah Finnatic U Mad Miami?

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    So its an Ipad Nano? Awesome.

    /Sarcasm.
     
  19. High Definition

    High Definition No Smoke / No Drink 2011+

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    White or Black?

    I have the white 3GS and love the color, but that black on metallic with the new design is so sexy... I'm lost now.
     
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  20. eric

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    the ipad doesnt do phone calls
     
  21. Desides

    Desides Well-Known Member

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    As a fellow owner of a white 3GS, I say go with the black one. My plan is to get a black 4 and give my current 3GS to my mother.

    IMO, the phone looks too bulky in white. In black, the top and bottom borders of the phone are hidden, so everything comes together a little more cleanly.

    [​IMG]
     
  22. daphins

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    I love my iPhone. Never thought id say that...but i do. VERY worth the investment. Even though I'm not going to get a 4 (I'm sitting at that nice time period...got my 3GS at launch, and I'll update my model every 2 years henceforth) i still feel like I'm getting a new phone with ios4 :). It will be a huge leap in the already sexy OS. Unified inbox, multiple apps, and folders FTW!

    I am disappointed that they didn't follow through with the rumors to extend MobileMe to all their customers tho...it would make the phone even more fleshed out, and would be a huge plus in the iPhone vs. Droid war that's going on. I'm wondering why AT&T is doing the 6 month upgrade thing?...me thinks the cloud is coming in a year...


    Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
     
  23. TJamesW_Phinfan

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    Ok so I want one. I'm a sucker for shiny doodads with flashy buttons. What are the odds of me getting one near release date without having to beat 72 people that happened to be in front of me in line to death with a rabid wombat on a stick?

    Should I go hunting wombats???
     
  24. #1 fan

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    how do you get 720p at 30 frames per second?
     
  25. Desides

    Desides Well-Known Member

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    The P in 720P doesn't refer to frame rate, it refers to a progressive scan (non-interlaced) image. The 60FPS aspect comes from NTSC display standards, not anything inherent to the term 720P.

    A 1280x720 video at 100FPS is still 720P as long as it's not interlacing those frames.
     
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  26. Desides

    Desides Well-Known Member

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    Okay, I'm running iTunes 9.2b and iOS 4.0 Golden Master Candidate.

    (I'm awesome like that.)

    First impressions: like all Apple OS updates, whether Mac OS or iOS, everything feels snappier. Scrolling from page to page on the "desktop" feels much smoother and quicker than in 3.x. Some official apps have gotten slight tweaks and feature updates, like the new Places feature in Photos. Unlocking from the sleep/wake screen and hitting the home button now causes app icons to "implode" onto the screen, a neat little transition effect that seems almost too smooth to be real. I'm guessing there's some hardware acceleration going on there.

    Mail's unified inbox is actually optional. It's just a new inbox on a redesigned Mail home screen: you can still access individual inboxes if you want, and you can also directly access the old Mail view using the Accounts section. Seems like a compromise solution rather than a full-on redesign.

    Folders are a Jobsend. I don't use the majority of apps Apple includes with iOS, like Stocks and Weather, so in lieu of being able to delete them outright, I've stored them on the very last page. Now I can just dump them in a folder and forget they exist. Hurrah!

    There's no multitasking yet simply because apps haven't updated to take advantage. I'm sure as the official release closes in, we'll see a slew of updates. Everyone seems to want to play Pandora Radio in the background. Me, I'll probably use iRadioNOW for WQAM streaming.

    Overall, pretty nice update. iTunes 9.2 has some minor bugs that need to be hammered out, but I don't see anything wrong with iOS 4.0. Can't wait to buy an iPhone 4 and really take advantage of this.
     
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  27. mor911

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    just a friendly reminder that....



    i hate you.
     
  28. Desides

    Desides Well-Known Member

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    I'm shocked that you of all people wouldn't know where to get this stuff. :lol:
     
  29. Lab3003

    Lab3003 Golden era

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    I don't know how HTC plans on topping this. The Android OS doesn't bring anything new to the table. Its marketability is based upon "well iPhone doesn't have flash, we'll give you flash...and multitasking, too. And more mega-pixels on your camera, etc." I feel with this device, what exactly is HTC and Google going to market their phones as? Their hardware advantage is gone. I don't want a task manager on my iPhone and really, If I want to listen to music now, I compromise and actually play mp3's instead of using last.fm. I can even listen to 790am in the background on their AMAZING iPhone app that recommend to everyone.

    My best friend just finished telling how his Moto Droid does too many things simultaneously and it slows down his phone + kills the battery life on his device. I don't want to manage that on a phone. I absolutely want that power on my PC, but the cell phone market isn't the PC market by any stretch. I want responsiveness, intuitiveness, and the "I just want to work" experience on my phone because when I'm using it, its not for extended periods of time. I'm going to check my email, look up twitter, check tapatalk (thanks Muck!), look up ESPN app for scores if there's a game, and then the phone is going to go back into my pocket and off I go, all within 5-10 minutes. If I'm at work, I want to look up my drug info on Epocrates for prescribing info, I'm going to use med apps to reference my patient log, if I need to use Diagnosasaurus in a pinch, but all those experience are literally at most 8-10 minutes and then the device is going back into my pocket. If I'm at the gym, I use my Bluetooth headphones and play podcasts but I'm not looking at my phone. I just want it to work and right now, that's the experience on the iPhone, not on the Android based upon multiple users telling me just that. It hasn't reached a level of development yet where it integrates into your life as well as the iPhone, which just weaves into everything you do seamlessly.

    Now apple found out how to multi-task without killing the experience of doing everything else on your phone. Then, they decided to push a programming language that is going to be (IMO) better than what's possible with flash, which I hardly use anyway.

    With this release, I think Android is going to have to make a leap to Android 3.0 or figure out how to keep iPhone long-term on AT&T. That's the ONLY reason Android has any market share. I firmly believe that if it were possible for the iPhone to work across multiple carrier networks, at the current $199-$299 price point, the Android market would get squashed. I'd be reserved for people who just hate Apple and don't want their products, because in fact there's not alot outside of the Google apps that's worth using on the Android. Now the hardware gap is gone, so what you got HTC?
     
  30. Lab3003

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    For the record, I look at the email app on the iPhone, and I'm like /shrugs w/disappointed face. For a lot of things, I'm gonna use the Safari-version of Gmail because I'm big into Gmail's features.
     
  31. Desides

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    They'll attack Apple as a walled garden and a closed environment while Android lets you do anything because it's open and free of Steve Jobs' tyrannical app approval process.

    Yeah, I'm laughing too.
     
  32. GridIronKing34

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    I think you're confusing refresh rate and frame rate.

    The standard NTSC frame rate is 29.997, not 60. The standard PAL frame rate (so like in Europe and what not) is 25.

    You're right about the progressive comment though.
     
  33. Desides

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    Note the time I wrote that post. Mitigating circumstances! :shifty:
     
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  34. Lab3003

    Lab3003 Golden era

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    For sure. I'm not going to buy a phone because its open source. I couldn't care less about that on a phone. My computer is definitely a different story, but phones aren't computers. The experience is different. The needs are different.
     
  35. mor911

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    i actually did see it but wasnt ballsy enough to give it a go. My phone is one of the few things i'm afraid to hack to pieces. I'll wait for iPhone4
     
  36. Desides

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    It's a Golden Master Candidate. It's stable enough that they're thinking of releasing it as-is. Really, there's little risk. I think it's already jailbroken, too.
     
  37. Desides

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    Update: I'd like to add that Mobile Safari is now faster than Ben Roethlisberger in a nightclub bathroom.
     
  38. mor911

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    ok, i'm gonna do it
     
  39. Desides

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    Remember, you need iTunes 9.2 also.
     
  40. mor911

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    do i have to get that from evil world as well? or is that the latest release from apple?
     

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