*** iPhone 5 - Revealed! ***

EVH said:
Can a mod add a poll to the thread?

Which iPhone are you getting?
  1. White
  2. Black
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Tummy said:
32GB Black for me :)

Will be pre ordering Friday as soon as it's available :) Can't wait! Not blown away by the iPhone 5, but I still want one.
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Same 32gb Black, i cant wait now.

Three told me this morning that I can pre order it tomorrow morning and they will set up my new nano sim there and then. easy enough :) (upgrade not new contract)
 
Depends if I can sell my 64GB white 4S, but I want to pre-order a 64GB black tomorrow :)
 
I'm not sold on ip5. Its nothing special. £178 for an extra 48gb flash ram. At least their being honest about ripping you off.

Well scribbled this one off my list.
 
Leezy said:
Same 32gb Black, i cant wait now.

Three told me this morning that I can pre order it tomorrow morning and they will set up my new nano sim there and then. easy enough :) (upgrade not new contract)
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I thought upgrading during a phone contract automatically locked you back in for XX months.

Assuming your in a phone contract.
 
not sure on whether to jump

have 64gb 4S, and screen definitely feels too small compared to my work S3, but that feels too big to really use one handed.

suspect i'll spring for 64gb black on the basis the change will only be a couple of hundred quid by the time i sell the 4S
 
Just been thinking...

The new connector doesn't support analogue audio out, which the vast majority of existing audio docks make use of, and also many car kits/adapters. It's a neat solution which allows a single connector to power/charge the device and also carry the audio signal.

With the new connector this won't be possible. I presume audio out will be available in a digital format, which will allow existing accessory manufacturers to adapt their products, but with existing equipment you're going to have a problem.

I note that Apple does day there's no "iPod Out" on the adapter they're selling but this is in very small print and I doubt many will notice. How many people are going to buy the adapter, thinking they can use it to connect their new iPhone or iPod Touch to their existing equipment, only to find they get no sound?

Now the only way to get analogue audio out is via the headphone jack and I'm starting to wonder whether this is the real reason Apple moved it to the bottom of the device. Could we see an adapter, either from Apple or third-parties, which connects to both the headphone and Lightning sockets and 'merges' them into an old-style dock connector, thus allowing existing kit to work?
 
Vertigo1 said:
Just been thinking...

The new connector doesn't support analogue audio out, which the vast majority of existing audio docks make use of, and also many car kits/adapters. It's a neat solution which allows a single connector to power/charge the device and also carry the audio signal.

With the new connector this won't be possible. I presume audio out will be available in a digital format, which will allow existing accessory manufacturers to adapt their products, but with existing equipment you're going to have a problem.

I note that Apple does day there's no "iPod Out" on the adapter they're selling but this is in very small print and I doubt many will notice. How many people are going to buy the adapter, thinking they can use it to connect their new iPhone or iPod Touch to their existing equipment, only to find they get no sound?

Now the only way to get analogue audio out is via the headphone jack and I'm starting to wonder whether this is the real reason Apple moved it to the bottom of the device. Could we see an adapter, either from Apple or third-parties, which connects to both the headphone and Lightning sockets and 'merges' them into an old-style dock connector, thus allowing existing kit to work?
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more cash for apple!! a double hit with regards the new connector...

not saying it wasn't needed, just its going to cost everyone a lot of money!
 
Vertigo1 said:
Just been thinking...

The new connector doesn't support analogue audio out, which the vast majority of existing audio docks make use of, and also many car kits/adapters. It's a neat solution which allows a single connector to power/charge the device and also carry the audio signal.

With the new connector this won't be possible. I presume audio out will be available in a digital format, which will allow existing accessory manufacturers to adapt their products, but with existing equipment you're going to have a problem.

I note that Apple does day there's no "iPod Out" on the adapter they're selling but this is in very small print and I doubt many will notice. How many people are going to buy the adapter, thinking they can use it to connect their new iPhone or iPod Touch to their existing equipment, only to find they get no sound?

Now the only way to get analogue audio out is via the headphone jack and I'm starting to wonder whether this is the real reason Apple moved it to the bottom of the device. Could we see an adapter, either from Apple or third-parties, which connects to both the headphone and Lightning sockets and 'merges' them into an old-style dock connector, thus allowing existing kit to work?
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You're kidding me?!!! No analogue audio through the adaptor?! All of a sudden I'm really not sure if I'll be buying an iPhone5 now. There is no way I'm replacing the whole iphone interface in my car just to accommodate a new phone when the old one worked perfectly well!

Sorry Apple but you're making the cost to change to an already very expensive phone even more expensive and it's going to scare people off.
 
Apple_Fictor said:
Not sure if this is confirmation as such.

But Engadget has just stated that the IPhone 5 will not support LTE/4G on O2 or Vodafone.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/13/lte-iphone-5-uk-ee-and-three-in-uk-but-not-o2-and-vodafone-4g/
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I just saw this too, which isn't good for me as i want to stick with Vodafone as they are the best for signal at my work... :/


http://www.knowyourmobile.com/blog/...2_will_not_be_getting_4genabled_iphone_5.html

None of Apple’s confirmed LTE iPhone 5 handsets currently support LTE on the 800MHz and 2.6GHz frequencies, meaning EE and Three will be the only UK networks to carry an LTE-ready iPhone 5.

O2 and Vodafone will bid in Ofcom’s auction of the 800MHz and 2.6GHz frequencies later in the year. The only problem with this, bar the delay of course, is that Apple’s iPhone 5 does not support the 800MHz and 2.6GHz frequencies.

That’s bad news for the UK consumers and potentially something of a disaster for O2 and Vodafone. But it’s not just the UK that will be affected, with large portions of Europe using either one or both of these bands to rollout 4G.

Apple has designed the iPhone 5 with Asia and the US in mind. Europe, it seems, has fallen by the way side. The only remedy to this conundrum is for Apple to release yet another iPhone 5 model that supports the 800Mhz and 2.6GHz standards.

Doing so means increased costs and reduced production margins, something Apple will not like. Vodafone and O2 will of course be getting the iPhone 5, which starts from £529, but it will only be the 3G-version to start with.

Vodafone and O2 are a big deal in the UK, more so, it could be argued, than EE, which is essentially just all of Orange and T-Mobile’s customers and spectrum bundled under one roof.

Did O2 and Vodafone know that Apple’s iPhone 5 would not support the 800MHz and 2.6GHz bands? Could that be why there was so much anger at Ofcom allowing EE to repurpose its old 2G (1800MHz) network, bypass the auction, and rollout 4G potentially an entire quarter in front of O2 and Vodafone?

We’ve reached out to Vodafone for comment and are awaiting a response. We’ll update the story as soon as we know more. At present it's not looking good though – this could be a huge USP for EE and Three.
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How many people are pre-ordering through the carphone warehouse? I'd rather go in-store and just pick one up on the day, but each model seems progressively more difficult to get around launch.
 
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