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Green iPhone anyone?
Engadget live blog[^]
My take:
I love new gadget announcements. Love em. But this one (like the last) has left me a little bit underwhelmed.
I absolutely love the idea of a fingerprint sensor. An absolute necessity not just for phones but for signing into anything in my opinion.
64bit? Faster graphics? Yeah, great, but on a day to day level it won't dramatically affect me (especially since I don't play games on phones).
The motion processor seems to be a lead in into the iWatch rumours. Fitness accessories are a huge market and Apple is perfectly positioned to hit the market hard. I really do wish they had been able to announce an iWatch to shown Samsung what a real smartwatch is like (the Gears watch was such a fizzer)
The colours: No black which isn't surprising at all. MY black iphone has lost most of the pain off the beveled edge so it's natural for them to make this problem less obvious. However I feel like an old man when I see those 5C colours. Ugh. Ah well.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
modified 10-Sep-13 14:35pm.
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I'll watch it when it kicks off.
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Let me guess... another iPhone in a slightly different form factor.
*yawn*
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They were burbling about this on the news this morning - not that it's exactly news, but there you go - and the speculation is for a "entry level" iPhony 5C, in a plastic case and without Siri.
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WTF, I missed iPhone 1-4 did they replace my old flip phone? Next you'll be telling me there's something newer for the house than this[^].
Don't know what to think about all this new technology stuff.
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Stick with this one[^] - you don't want any of this modern rubbish! 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Or this lovely low maintenance model.[^] 
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Couldn't get a permit to run the string along the highway. 
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You guys are soooo behind the times! We are wireless!!!
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That's ideal if you want to call a parrot in South America.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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I just upgraded from a similar model?
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No - not a new form factor. A new colour!
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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anything for the slathering hordes of fanboi morons.
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You get my vote because you used the correct spelling of colour.
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"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Amen.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Not this year. Next year when they will refresh the design.
This year it will be performance improvement. They have already announced Macs and iOS updates, so nothing new. Unless they came up with some smartwatch.
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modified 10-Sep-13 16:22pm.
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Collin Jasnoch wrote: Am I missing the point of it being 64 bit?
Maybe.
Collin Jasnoch wrote: Since there is only 2GB of RAM it seems pointless that they have a 64 bit architecture.
You probably believe that the increase from 32 bit addressing to 48/64 bit addressing allows the device to utilize more RAM. You would be correct. However another side effect is that it also allows for more general purpose registers.
I believe the iPhone 5 is using the 'Apple A6'/ARMv7-A which had 15 general purpose registers. While this new iPhone 5S is using the new 64 bit 'Apple A7'/ARMv8-A which has 31 general-purpose 64-bit registers. More registers essentially means that you can do more work. I would estimate an increase in performance of 15-25% (depending on the compiler optimizations) on this basis alone. However the ARMv8 also contains a new architecture so the end result may be as high as 25-30% increase in performance.
Collin Jasnoch wrote: They will just by the next gadget regardless.
Apple is slow losing market ground to the competition. I am currently using the Nokia Lumia 720 which has the 'Qualcomm Snapdragon'/ARMv7.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Chris Maunder wrote: ove the idea of a fingerprint sensor
So the NSA can get your prints too!
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Chris Maunder wrote: Green iPhone anyone?
Remove the i and I'll have it... oh wait, I already have a bright green phone (to match Booger Mobile)!!
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Chris Maunder wrote: I really do wish they had been able to announce an iWatch to shown Samsung what a real smartwatch is like
What, you want to spend several hours a week with your wrist attached by cable to your computer, to get your watch to do basic things through itunes that the Samsung watch can do while you're walking around, doing other stuff?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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eh? I don't follow your reasoning.
1. 1 day battery life? You have got to be kidding me.
2. iTunes syncs wirelessly.
Don't get me wrong: I hate iTunes with a burning passion. But releasing an oversixed, laggy watch with appalling battery life isn't the way you dominate a newly emerging aggressive market.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: 1. 1 day battery life? You have got to be kidding me.
I don't want something like that on my wrist (unless you can attach a mouse and keyboard, because operating it with one finger would be a bloody nightmare), so I don't really care how long it needs -- but batteries are batteries; there's no iBattery with a mystically longer life.
Chris Maunder wrote: 2. iTunes syncs wirelessly.
Accent on the syncs (which, incidentally, would kill even your mythical iBattery in no time flat). If you want to do anything else, boot your computer, and get the cable out.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I don't understand:
Mark_Wallace wrote: I don't want something like that on my wrist (unless you can attach a mouse and keyboard, because operating it with one finger would be a bloody nightmare), so I don't really care how long it needs
in relation to your initial comment:
Quote: to get your watch to do basic things through itunes that the Samsung watch can do while you're walking around, doing other stuff?
It sounds like you just don't care about smartwatches. That's totally fine. However, I personally do care about smartwatches. I have a Pebble and use it constantly. I'm very, very much looking forward to the next generation of smartwatches and have no illusions that they will be device that is useless without a tether or mouse. They are far beyond that.
Mark_Wallace wrote: If you want to do anything else, boot your computer, and get the cable out.
You mean like read text messages without needing to fish out my phone? Or contol my music? Or get a readout of my heartrate, speed and cadence while cycling? Have you actually used a smartwatch?
Stop thinking of a watch as a phone. I don't want a watch that's a phone. I want a watch that augments my phone, and my tablet, and my PC, and my data, wherever that data may be stored or sourced.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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