Apple Media Event - September 12th

spudbynight · 12 Sep 2012 at 20:54

I just can't get excited about this.

They are just falling further behind the likes of Samsung and (I kid you not) Nokia.

In fact, the phone I am most excited about is the Nokia 920

Robbo · 12 Sep 2012 at 20:54

jamoor said:
The iphone 4 was a toy when put next to the blackberries and galaxies, no doubt this will be a toy too.

Why do people keep calling things a 'toy', it doesn't make any sense. :confused:

Also, BlackBerry's... WHAT?!

Richie · 12 Sep 2012 at 20:55

Cleeecooo said:
I'd presume that all netwroks will have iPhone compaible LTE... not doing so would be a major oversight

You mean that the iPhone will support all networks that have or about to have LTE? Or are you asking that the networks should work to Apple's schedule?

Johnnytoxic · 12 Sep 2012 at 20:55

Eatchipz said:
Up £29 maybe?

16gb = £529

?

Thats sickening. I honestly wouldn't swap my One S for one.

Cleeecooo · 12 Sep 2012 at 20:55

Richie said:
You mean that the iPhone will support all networks that have or about to have LTE? Or are you asking that the networks should work to Apple's schedule?

Bit of both I think

foster grant · 12 Sep 2012 at 20:56

Think if i was in the market for a new phone ...i would go out and look around for a nice android phone

Westyfield2 · 12 Sep 2012 at 20:57

http://www.apple.com/iphone/LTE/. LTE on 2100 MHz, 1800 MHz, 850 MHz. IIRC isn't the Ofcom auction next year for 800MHz and 2600MHz? So I'm not sure it will ever work on anything apart from Everything Everywhere...

Journey · 12 Sep 2012 at 20:58

The fact that they are still charging £200 for 48GB of flash memory is what is worst of all. Talk about seeing people coming, should probably hand over your granny too when you buy the 64GB version just for good measure!

muon · 12 Sep 2012 at 21:01

Westyfield2 said:
Someone told me that it does 800MHZ LTE too, as-well as the EveryThing Everywhere's 1800MHz LTE. Is that true? And does that mean when O2 and Vodafone launch their LTE networks late 2013 on 800MHz the iPhone 5 handsets we all buy next will work on it?

GSM model A1429

850/1800/2100

Not 800 or 2600.

Richie · 12 Sep 2012 at 21:01

Journey said:
The fact that they are still charging £200 for 48GB of flash memory is what is worst of all. Talk about seeing people coming, should probably hand over your granny too when you buy the 64GB version just for good measure!

Yeah I don't get that. One of Apple's arguments in the patent case was that Samsung were asking for a licence fee greater than the supply cost of the chips that have the tech. Are they saying that it costs them £200 for 48GB of memory? :confused:

Robbo · 12 Sep 2012 at 21:04

Johnnytoxic said:
Thats sickening. I honestly wouldn't swap my One S for one.

"Sickening?" :confused:

I'd swap a One S for one!

lemonkettaz · 12 Sep 2012 at 21:04

Wonder what sort of contracts its going to come on...

Thinking it's going to be quite pricey

Robbo · 12 Sep 2012 at 21:05

lemonkettaz said:
Wonder what sort of contracts its going to come on...

Thinking it's going to be quite pricey

Likely the same as the 4S when it came out, or very similar. They're always very expensive.

theheyes · 12 Sep 2012 at 21:07

Anybody else notice they reused the "biggest thing to happen to X since X" line from some of their previous marketing? I knew it sounded familiar.

Marky · 12 Sep 2012 at 21:08

Any further discussion regarding the iPhone 5 should be in Robbo's thread here. This thread is for discussion on the media event only

G-MAN2004 · 12 Sep 2012 at 22:14

Johnnytoxic said:
Thats sickening. I honestly wouldn't swap my One S for one.

I found a receipt earlier for the 3GS... £538

I can't believe it was that much for a bloody phone!

jubei · 12 Sep 2012 at 23:16

I am probably being dumb, but am i reading right that the screen isnt hd? as in 720p?

Captain · 12 Sep 2012 at 23:21

jubei said:
I am probably being dumb, but am i reading right that the screen isnt hd? as in 720p?

It has a HD retina display

jubei · 12 Sep 2012 at 23:43

Clov!s said:
It has a HD retina display

thought it was 640? HD is 720 no?

I was hoping this would be pretty cool to change my gs3 to, not had apple since i got the original iphone back in the day. But i look at this and it looks the same, diff shell but os is so damned ugly and boring.

Wish they would do something with it to personalise it a bit, widgets etc like android. WP has live tiles....ios has the same bloody icons its always had.

Leezy · 13 Sep 2012 at 00:54

jamoor said:
The iphone 4 was a toy when put next to the blackberries and galaxies, no doubt this will be a toy too.

Not sure if serious :confused:

but if you are you must be blind, with no sense of touch.

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Apple Media Event - September 12th