New iPhone on the way...what does this mean?
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It isn't "concrete" until you hear it from Apple. As I said in my earlier post Apple have loads of patents and they don't all become products (or part there of)
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Do what I did and port your number (if you aren't on contract!) otherwise you will have no choice but to Unlock/Jailbreak.
I used to be on T-Mobile but got fed up of waiting for new firmware Jailbreaks so ported to O2.
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Free O2 upgrade?
I understood that 2G owners were offered the 3G at the subsidised price if they renewed their 18 month contract, which I would happily do with the next gen.... but I was under the impression that O2 only offered this deal because customers paid full-price for 2G phone and it wasn't subsidised by the contract.
I don't see how it can be beneficial to O2 if I pay £159 for the Phone and only have it a few months before I am offered a new one... seeing as it costs £399 PAYG. I am not obsessed with having the latest a greatest, but it just seems that a lot of people are telling new buyers to wait until June etc.
I think next time I go into town, I will pop into the O2 store and see what the deal is with upgrades.
I'm more shocked that people think this is news. Did people just assume that the current 3G iPhone would be the last iPhone ever made?
Companies upgrade/obsolete their product line all the time. Apple in particular is no stranger to obsoleting products overnight and replacing them with ostensibly the same thing with more bells & whistles.
When you buy a car and then in 2 years time (or less if you happen to buy close to the end of the product lifecycle) the company replaces it with a facelifted version with extra toys like iPod dock, heated windscreen, etc are you entitled to get this stuff retrofitted for no other reason than "you bought one of their products once". Of course not. How is this any different?
Companies upgrade/obsolete their product line all the time. Apple in particular is no stranger to obsoleting products overnight and replacing them with ostensibly the same thing with more bells & whistles.
When you buy a car and then in 2 years time (or less if you happen to buy close to the end of the product lifecycle) the company replaces it with a facelifted version with extra toys like iPod dock, heated windscreen, etc are you entitled to get this stuff retrofitted for no other reason than "you bought one of their products once". Of course not. How is this any different?
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I don't think anyone is really suprised to be honest. What really irks me is the fact they bring out a new phone every 12 months, but you can only get an 18 month contract.
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I really hope they dont release a new one and skimp heavily on the old one for updates...
Give us copy and paste FFS, you're a bunch of skimping lazy, *****. We don't just "think we know what we want" we acually KNOW.
COPY AND PASTE APPLE, GET IT DONE. *combusts*
On a side note I wonder if they'll give the next phone some features so it isn't heavily lacking in many many areas.
Give us copy and paste FFS, you're a bunch of skimping lazy, *****. We don't just "think we know what we want" we acually KNOW.
COPY AND PASTE APPLE, GET IT DONE. *combusts*
On a side note I wonder if they'll give the next phone some features so it isn't heavily lacking in many many areas.
IMO, you bought the iPhone/iPhone 3G knowing full well what it can/can't do. Any software update that adds new features you should take happily as a free gift from Apple. If Apple's history serves them... as soon as the new iPhone is out all the previous one will get is at most security updates/bug fixes.
I have learnt to never, ever by a 1st Gen Apple product (by that I mean say with the Unibody MacBooks, if I were wanting one, i'd wait now until they upgrade the processor of whatever). All people who bought the iPhone 2G got royally ripped off by Apple. They released a 2G smartphone into the UK, at FULL PRICE. That just shows you how arrogant Apple are and how people will blindly follow them.
I don't have an iPhone and probably never will unless, as you say, Apple actually give people what they want - rather than wrapping a sub-standard phone (by functionality) into a super-standard interface. By that I mean "standard" smartphone functions:
MMS
Bluetooth that isn't laughably crippled
Minimum 5MP camera with flash
User filespace to store documents and such
Unlocked by default (or at least an option to buy one unlocked) - I don't want to faff around with jailbraking it.
Allow apps to run in the background
Allow emailing of full-sized images
640x480 @ 30FPS video recording
I've never used MMS on any of my previous phones but that was mainly because either the UI was crap (Sony Ericsson or Symbian) so it was finicky in use or the screen was crap (my old nokia 6600 for example.
On the iPhone MMS is just begging to be used tbh. Email is flipping useless for those on low end phones that have poor email functionality, then again if that is the case they will also have a tiny weeny screen too I guess.
GIV MMS!
On the iPhone MMS is just begging to be used tbh. Email is flipping useless for those on low end phones that have poor email functionality, then again if that is the case they will also have a tiny weeny screen too I guess.
GIV MMS!
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Copy and Paste if it comes (and remember Apple does what Apple does regardless of what you may want) will come to all versions of the iPhone (and Touch) as it will be a firmware upgrade. Same with MMS but I doubt you'll ever see that.
Anyway, you purchased an iPhone knowing the limitations.
I have no need for either copy and paste or MMS myself, the only two features I miss can easily be fixed by me buying an iPhone 3G!
Is no one lease thinking that this hardware upgrade will be something to do with GPS?
As it stands I couldnt see turn by turn being implemented as the GPS signal always seems a bit weak, its very laggy and not brilliant.
My prediction is upgraded GPS for turn by turn sat nav.
As it stands I couldnt see turn by turn being implemented as the GPS signal always seems a bit weak, its very laggy and not brilliant.
My prediction is upgraded GPS for turn by turn sat nav.
But can you get MMS without jailbreaking? Don't think you can really count jailbreak apps (nor AppStore apps frankly) as part of the standard functionality - otherwise you might as well judge every car according to however many mods you can buy for it.
Stick a zagg invisible shield on it, problem solved
The point is the phone shouldnt need protecting from every day use....
Non of my Nokias or HTC's have never needed a case or pladtic film, there just fine without. Where as the iphone is not. Its just simply a bad choice of plastic for the back end of.