Why is that scary?
It feels geekish
how the heck did I get access to so many high end phones. I have such a soft spot for the O2X. It is such a beautiful piece of kit... When it works.
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It feels geekish
how the heck did I get access to so many high end phones. I have such a soft spot for the O2X. It is such a beautiful piece of kit... When it works.
It feels geekish
I have such a soft spot for the O2X. It is such a beautiful piece of kit... When it works.
Ah, then I probably shouldn't tell you that I have twice as many phones as that sat on my desk alone...
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Out of interest, what do you like so much about the O2X?
The "green" rating is the opinionated part. For example, the IPS screen I consider to be better than a Super AMOLED. I have also seen reviews for this both ways.
Giving the green to the MHL connector is also questionable. Despite it's status as an "open" standard, HDMI and the dock connector are more widespread. I certainly wouldn't consider this a plus.
They've given the green to Apple for the playback life, but to Samsung for the battery rating. Despite the fact that the iPhone seems to be more optimised for it due to the longer battery life.
A larger screen is not always better. This is personal preference in my opinion.
Also, a 1GHz A5 (Cortex A9 really) could stack up very well against a 1.5GHz Snapdragon. The GHz rating does not make the processor.
How is that Androids fault that developers are being lazy & not developing for a viable platform?
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considering their sales count is in the billions I think you are seriously generalising their target audience.
They may not care about the specifics but they DO care about the quality of the product - just because it's apple doesn't mean they would buy a plank of wood that has "iphone" written on it. I bought this phone thinking I wouldn't ever need to upgrade as it used to be really fast - but with the software upgrades DEMANDING better hardware, I didn't have a choice - do you see where I'm coming from?
Regardless of target audience - the consumer wants a quality product, you hurt the consumer, you are only forcing them else where.
the iphone is not a cheap product that someone would like to spruce up their exercise regime. It's an expensive product and in an area that everyone these days deems the most valuable asset in their everyday life.
People don't go out, spend £600 on something without asking around/research. They buy it because they are attracted to it for their own reasons.
brushing off the hardware of it is liking brushing off the fitness levels of an athlete. By your definition you should still be on the first Iphone out there - I mean why upgrade? nobody cares about the hardware right?
It doesn't matter whose fault it is, Android's severe fragmentation early on scared off many decent app development companies. Blame whoever you like.
Ah, then I probably shouldn't tell you that I have twice as many phones as that sat on my desk alone...
Oops!
Out of interest, what do you like so much about the O2X?
Lol awesome. I feel less of an outcast.
The GS2 is my day to day phone. It has received acclaim and awards etc. The O2X feels almost as fast, costs half as much and has a better screen with less bloatware by default.
If the O2X was as reliable as the GS2 I would swap to it on the grounds of bang for buck alone. Samsung has a better camera+ better reliability so I stay with that.p
I suppose the IPS screen alone adds to the beauty and the less busy software is a little apple-esque whilst allowing me to play all video formats and use flash. This is the perfect compromise for me. Trust LG to screw it uo
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People do go out and spend £600 on something without research.
I spent £500 on my iPhone 4 because i had 30min wait until my next train. So what? Before that 30 minutes I wasn't planning on getting a new phone, I bought it on a wimp.
You are giving the general public FAR too much credit. People are shallow, people follow trends, and people buy things because they want to.
The silicon behind it all, they don't care, long as it works as it should.
I dont think its even a perception - they will earn less just targeting Android. Its probably the biggest issue for Google currently. Being open is great for penetration, but its makes something like development much harder...
Its not dumb luck that MS decided to have a minimum requirement for WP7 class devices or what devices featured previous WM software...
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Of course people want to know it's fast, but the majority are non-technical people, going into detail means nothing to them. Which is why figures like 7x faster will always be used.
What is silly, and seems to be constantly happening here on these forums is people belittling phones and getting hung up on specs.
ie:
"X Phone is rubbish because the processor isn't as good as in Y Phone".
Hardly anybody cares about this, I don't think some here people seem to realise.
At the end of the day, the phones are also designed to run different Operating Systems, so trying to compare an iPhone running iOS to something like a Samsung Galaxy running Android is fruitless.
People want a phone that is fast and works how a smart phone should. They want a good camera and lots of bells and whistles. So in those terms, Apple delivered on that today.
Exactly. I personally have no interest in tinkering with my phone, its a phone that does a whole load of other stuff very well out of the box. I have far more important things to be doing with my time.
The major factor which pulls a majority of new and existing customers is the overall experience of hardware + software + services that you don't find with any other manufacturer. Even more so if you've bought into the entire Apple eco-system - mac + iPhone + iPad + apple tv.
For the record I won't be upgrading from a 4 to a 4s as I'm still in contract until August next year so will hold on to the next revision whenever that may be.
lol are infact the same ARM a9 processor - however ebilcake and a few like him seems as tho they doesn't know shizz. No point trying to educate dim people.
The A5 has more power than ios knows what to do with it.
Main disappointment of the new IPHONE is the same old screen and design ( it just needed a nice little tweek for a bigger screen)
Camera samples at the bottom of this page incase anyone missed them - http://www.apple.com/iphone/built-in-apps/camera.html
Not bad at all.
Not bad at all.
Point well made.
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