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The_Abyss said:
What I'd really like Apple to to is to bring back some genuine 'wow' to their design and interface. That's a very tall order, but anything else is simply incremental upgrading. I've had my iPhone 4 since release day, and although I've loved using it over the past couple of years it is now looking pretty long in the tooth. The UI is no longer as smooth as it used to be, as it struggles with some apps that were clearly designed with a nod to the more powerful 4S. I didn't see the point in upgrading to the latter as I didn't see it as enough to make me jump.

So, what would I like to see?

- noticeable slimmer. I like slimmer - it feels and looks good. We're probably only a couple of mm away from what's awesome and what's too slim to use, but we still need to get there.

- a better, bigger screen. A couple of colleagues at work have the S3, and although it is too big for me personally, the screen is simply beautiful.

- NFC. Like many here I'm sure, I'm an Oyster user. I'd welcome being able to use the phone for this and many more payment options.

- A battery that gives reasonable use proportionate to the phone's capabilities. That is to say, don't make it capable of playing cool games and useful GPS apps if the phone dies by mid afternoon. Not everyone who goes out for a 5 hour bike ride with a GPS app wants to charge their phone immediately afterwards.

- on the above note, make the back cover a solar panel. Hardly anyone will put it face down and leave it idle, and it wouldn't charge that much but it would be cool. Apple's marketing team would have a field day with such a dramatic yet marginally effective idea.

- have some stock. Half the world's media hasn't yet seen through the reported 3 day queues in Oxford street, along with O2 in my home town selling out because they only had 5 phones in the first place, but I'm pretty sure I have. If you're confident in it, stock it.

- stop treating people like idiots. The whole 'you're holding it wrong' for the iPhone 4 was shoddy beyond belief.

- finally, Apple's new UQ is cool. Way cool. I'd like it to be able to fly.
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Slimmer and great battery life don't really mix. I don't think phones need to be slimmer if it comes at that sort of cost. Battery technology is fairly poor at the moment, in comparison to everything else.

Solar panel - never going to happen. :p
 
Tauren said:
The hardware still wouldn't probably be good enough to run it smoothly ;) iOS is fine :p
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tbh, my totally stock Nexus S (single core 1ghz, released Dec 2010) runs Jelly Bean silky smooth :)

Slumberbox said:
Solar panel!! Lmao, that would look fugly and attract dust/finger prints.
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Robbo said:
Slimmer and great battery life don't really mix. I don't think phones need to be slimmer if it comes at that sort of cost. Battery technology is fairly poor at the moment, in comparison to everything else.

Solar panel - never going to happen. :p
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http://www.extremetech.com/computing/114609-smartphone-screens-with-built-in-solar-cells

An ingenious researcher at the London Centre for Nanotechnology has managed to squeeze a bunch of photovoltaic (solar power) cells into a very interesting location: Behind your smartphone’s display.
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and it is something Apple have looked at;

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Appl...d-039-a-Portable-039-s-LCD-Screen-86495.shtml

The idea of a rear solar panel is lolworthy, but not behind the screen.

As for battery life, it's such a massive factor for many smartphone users that I'm sure Apple are not ignoring it. Graphene batteries are ready to be commercialised. Maybe not quite yet, but we should be seeing much improved batteries in the near future.
 
I don't see why a solar panel as a backup would be so unbelievable. In the late 80s/early 90s, cheap tiny solar-powered calculators were everywhere. I had one around this time that was the equivalent size to 4-5 bank cards sandwiched together. From a marketing point of a view, the idea that a phone with a flat battery comes back to life after an hour of sitting in the light is pretty good. It could be a life saver, literally. I doubt you would be able to power a phone on the fly this way and to try and charge it completely would probably take many many hours but I'd still take this over not being able to charge at all, should I be stranded.
 
mame said:
I don't see why a solar panel as a backup would be so unbelievable. In the late 80s/early 90s, cheap tiny solar-powered calculators were everywhere. I had one around this time that was the equivalent size to 4-5 bank cards sandwiched together. From a marketing point of a view, the idea that a phone with a flat battery comes back to life after an hour of sitting in the light is pretty good. It could be a life saver, literally. I doubt you would be able to power a phone on the fly this way and to try and charge it completely would probably take many many hours but I'd still take this over not being able to charge at all, should I be stranded.
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Yeah but the power that a calculator needs is ridiculously small in comparison to the power needs of an iPhone :p
 
mame said:
From a marketing point of a view, the idea that a phone with a flat battery comes back to life after an hour of sitting in the light is pretty good.
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Leaving a phone in the sun to 'charge' could open up a massive can of worms. It could get very hot, very quickly and damage the battery cell and/or soc etc

Any solar panel needs to be a fully passive system, like behind the screen and trickling to the battery whenever it can.
 
Marky said:
Yeah but the power that a calculator needs is ridiculously small in comparison to the power needs of an iPhone :p
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Yes but it powers the calulator outright. It's non-stop. I'm on about a backup charging option, not powering the phone on the fly.

GeX said:
Leaving a phone in the sun to 'charge' could open up a massive can of worms. It could get very hot, very quickly and damage the battery cell and/or soc etc

Any solar panel needs to be a fully passive system, like behind the screen and trickling to the battery whenever it can.
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It doesn't have to be in the sun. It works on indoor lights as well. So your phone dies, you leave it on the coffee table and an hour later it turns back on. I mean something like that. If you were at someones house without a charger then that would be useful.
 
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I'm not liking this to be honest, mainly because how much is being 'revealed' before the launch, it's taking away the hype.

(says the man who will be giggling like a school girl during the keynote)
 
If the design is just like the one being leaked - there will be nothing to hype as it's just soo boring and old hat.

Really hoping for a fresh new design.
 
Upcoming iOS 6 is scalable to taller, 640 x 1136 iPhone display, shows possible next-generation device user-interface

With the next-generation iPhone’s announcement and release approaching for next month, one of the most present rumors is a larger, nearly-four inch display. A larger iPhone display has always been at the top of many iPhone user wish-lists, and it appears that the next iPhone will fulfill that.

Back in mid-May, we reported that the next-generation iPhone would feature a taller display that comes in at 3.999 inches with a diagonal resolution of 640 x 1136. At this resolution, Apple would be keeping the horizontal length of the iPhone display, and only increasing the height.

This taller display information was soon affirmed when we posted the first photos of purported next-generation iPhone parts. These parts demonstrated this taller screen with the same horizontal length. We soon heard from sources that a few of the next-generation iPhones in testing within Apple feature a display that matches the parts.

These next-generation iPhones with taller displays feature a home screen that scales to five rows of icons, according to sources. The current 3.5-inch iPhone displays feature four rows of icons. The user-interfaces of Apple’s included applications were also said to be tweaked to take advantage of the taller screen area.

Today, we have found more proof that Apple is at least testing next-generation iPhone displays that are taller. In fact, iOS 6 is completely scaleable to a taller display.
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http://9to5mac.com/2012/08/07/upcom...ssible-next-generation-device-user-interface/
 
A battery that lasts more than a day would be nice

Johnz0r said:
Physically yes, technically not a chance. Firstly the iPad 3 has a quad core gpu and all that jazz and obviously the retina display. A huge difference.
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Technically nothing, my iPad 2 is just as fast as the iPad 3 thanks to cydia tweaks and retina display makes no difference.

So good the human eye can't actually see it lol, great marketing
 
Thirded, I wouldn't upgrade to retina just because of the screen though. But you can see the pixels on ipad2, ipad3 is much clearer.
 
Although I much prefer Android to Apple, I would love Apple to come out and reveal some new battery tech for the iPhone 5. A 3-4day battery life on phones would be awesome.

The only thing that would make me consider an iPhone again is the camera, which I think is class leading?

IOS just seems a bit tired to me (purely personal) and I cant stand iTunes.

Apple does have a history of innovation in this sector so I would welcome they can innovate in the Iphone 5.
 
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