iPhone '4' thread

poppy10_2

MercilessKiller wrote: »

1: WAY more than marketing guff matey... you see 2 devices side by side and you'd see the difference. Perfect clarity on a handheld device hasn't been accomplished before
2: Much
3: My iPad was given a spec of 10 hours of video playback. I watched it on a plane 12 hours straight with 10% of battery left... Apple have got the battery spot on now and you'll see when it comes out
4: No one wanted to use it because 1) it cost, 2) it was bad quality, 3) 3G networks sucked... This will be completely different for different purposes.

A lot of your arguments seem to be because you haven't seen or don't believe them.. battery life, screen, processor etc.. Just wait till it comes out

1. How do you know? Have you seen it up close? Many people see AMOLED as better quality than IPS TFT

2. Unlikely. The iPhone is likely to use an underclocked version of the iPad's A4, which is barely faster than the Snapdragon.

3. If you use it as an music iPod only, yes the battery lasts a long time.

4. The video calling is a complete fail, even you have to admit that. First of all you have to be sure the person you are calling also has an iPhone, then you have to check whether they have the latest iPhone 4 rather than a 3GS, and then you have to check whether they are at home in range of a WiFi connection. In which case you could just fire up your computer and get better quality videoconferencing with a decent webcam.

gjchester

MercilessKiller wrote: »

If you tell them you're going to buy one they send you a micro sim ready for it..! Weird

Will be impressive if they can do it, I'm, on Vodafone and looking to port...

gjchester

poppy10 wrote: »

4. The video calling is a complete fail, even you have to admit that. First of all you have to be sure the person you are calling also has an iPhone, then you have to check whether they have the latest iPhone 4 rather than a 3GS, and then you have to check whether they are at home in range of a WiFi connection. In which case you could just fire up your computer and get better quality videoconferencing with a decent webcam.

The point is you don't.

If all the conditions are satisfied you get the option, if no you never see it. You don't check anything the phone does it itself.

MercilessKiller

Hey Poppy
1) Blown up on a huge projector (thus less quality) its very obvious the quality diff with previous models and previous displays.. I can't wait to see it in person but its better than OLED... Have you not seen an OLED display? They're amazing!
2) Look at the stats above
3) Even video lasts a long long time.. general battery life of the device is great which was the point
4) Yeh I was disappointed at the restrictions, but 3rd party apps will utilise the camera better, and its the beginning of a new protocol which will be improved and optimised and change the way users communicate as always

poppy10_2

MercilessKiller wrote: »

Hey Poppy
2) Look at the stats above

As I said, that's for the iPad's 1GHz A4 processor, which just about beats a 1GHz Snapdragon. The iPhone 4 uses an underclocked version, i.e. deliberately slowed down to save battery life (800Mhz compared to 1GHz). Thus it is likely to be slower than the current Snapdragon, and certainly slower than the new 1.3GHz Snapdragon to be launched this quarter.

MercilessKiller

Don't forget software also affects speed... The browser will be optimised for it's own processor thus it won't be worse performance than a snapdragon device in any way shape or form... Though we definitely have to wait for those stats I guess

Minxy_Bella

Well, the O2 online shop has crashed! I guess everyone's trying to sign up for their iPhone 4 micro sim or trying to buy a 3GS to upgrade to iOS4!

Oscar_The_Grouch

poppy10 wrote: »

4. The video calling is a complete fail, even you have to admit that. First of all you have to be sure the person you are calling also has an iPhone, then you have to check whether they have the latest iPhone 4 rather than a 3GS, and then you have to check whether they are at home in range of a WiFi connection. In which case you could just fire up your computer and get better quality videoconferencing with a decent webcam.

MercilessKiller wrote: »

4) Yeh I was disappointed at the restrictions, but 3rd party apps will utilise the camera better, and its the beginning of a new protocol which will be improved and optimised and change the way users communicate as always

Calm down. I expect that as Apple are making it "open", we'll see some backward and multiplatform compliant apps coming out fairly soon from the likes of Skype.

loofer

nirelandguy wrote: »

I wonder what way this will work on Orange, will there be any upgrade route to current iPhone owners in contract, I suspect the only network that will help out will be O2, the rest will do damn all

What makes you think that about O2? have you seen their website.
O2
"Fair Deal - All existing O2 customers get the same deal as new customers"
A bit miffed myself to be honest, my O2 contract due to run out end of Oct this year.

MercilessKiller

Skype will jump on it like me with the new iphone