Just iPad unfortunately.
What's happening with iPhone 5?
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Just iPad unfortunately.
Soldato
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If they increase the screen size to 4" then they will need more pixels as otherwise the metrosexual crowd that are usually stereotypes to buy apple products can't say (in an extremely camp voice) "it has a retina screen" (not that they hav any idea what that actually means).
I know the galaxy and iPhone are completely different phones, but I'm saying that teh can keep the phone volume te same by increasing the height/width and decreasing the depth.
If they increase the screen size to 4" then they will need more pixels as otherwise the metrosexual crowd that are usually stereotypes to buy apple products can't say (in an extremely camp voice) "it has a retina screen" (not that they hav any idea what that actually means).
I know the galaxy and iPhone are completely different phones, but I'm saying that teh can keep the phone volume te same by increasing the height/width and decreasing the depth.
Soldato
Genuine lol.
If iOS was "secure" at all, it wouldn't be jailbreak-able, it would be exploitable by a pdf file. iOS isn't secure at all.
By jailbreaking iOS, hackers are platently pointing out flaws in the OS, so that Apple can fix them in the next OS, making it harder and harder to hack.
iOS 5.1 was hacked within hours of release, does that really sound secure to you?
Having said that, I wouldn't say jailbreaking makes the device any less secure, I've jailbroken every device I've ever owned, iPhone's and an iPad, and never run into any issues, security related or not. I just like being able to personalise my devices with custom icons, themes etc
And some of the tweaks you can download like Live Clock, Infinifolders and SBSettings, unlock the devices ture potential. Even the 5.0 Notification Center was developed by a dev, it was available on Cydia way before Apple bought his idea and implimented it officially.
Regarding the speed of the device, FakeClockUp fixes that issue
It's secure enough that I can go on any site and not get a virus. Same with OSX. More than I can say for window 7/Windows Mobile.
That's rubbish. No OS is completely secure, but iOS isn't bad as far as security goes. With each release it generally takes teams of hackers several months to find enough exploits to put together a jailbreak. And there's still no viable iOS malware which affects unjailbroken phones.
A jailbroken device is certainly less secure than a non-jailbroken device with bang up-to-date iOS, especially if it is a few revisions behind the latest version of iOS. You'll be vulnerable to exploits patched by future versions of iOS and maybe the same vulnerability that you took advantage of to jailbreak the device in the first place. Rogue apps obtained from Cydia certainly aren't sandboxed like those from the App Store.
Heard of Flashback?
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18390135
Soldato
That was via a Java vulnerability and at best got 1% of the user base. The only bit of the story that has any merit is Apple's lack of speed at patching the Java vulnerability. The more sensationalist press (and anti-virus companies) jumped on it to run a "look OS X isn't secure" stories.
Going back on topic you won't see the iPhone 5 (or the new iPhone more likely) until late this year, say around September. I believe you will see a redesign but I'm not sure the screen will be larger. Those of you expecting a UI/UX overhaul for ios 6 may be disappointed. Sure it will be different from ios 5 in looks but remember Apple are very conservative. They sure as hell aren't going to radically change the user interface.
I'd say that there is almost no chance of a change in screen size. Because if they increase res they would have to double it to keep with their usual method of changing it so that apps work. And if they don't change the res then they lose the "retina" screen.
Apple generally do a minimum of a year release cycle. They won't usually go under that year by much. They already have this perception that they release things too early, despite them being the one company that usually waits an entire year, unlike competitors who release many products within a year.
They want to fight that perception, they don't want people to feel like they'll regret buying one of their products in case another one is coming soon. That is part of the reason they prefer to just say nothing about an upcoming release till they are only a week maybe two from releasing.
They want to fight that perception, they don't want people to feel like they'll regret buying one of their products in case another one is coming soon. That is part of the reason they prefer to just say nothing about an upcoming release till they are only a week maybe two from releasing.
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Battery: Will increase as per technology will allow. My iP4 lasts two days at least, but I'm a mild user. No other smartphones manage any better and tend to do worse (SII I'm comparing mine to).
Screen: Won't get any higher res. You can't see the pixels without sticking your nose up against it so what IS the point? It might get a tad bigger physically (edge to edge screen).
Timeframe: Late 3rd/Early 4th Quarter
Other: Maybe you can arrange icons as you like (i.e. desktop icons on OS X).
Personally looking forward to getting myself a 4S when the 5 arrives. Saves me about £50 a pop upgrading a year later.
Screen: Won't get any higher res. You can't see the pixels without sticking your nose up against it so what IS the point? It might get a tad bigger physically (edge to edge screen).
Timeframe: Late 3rd/Early 4th Quarter
Other: Maybe you can arrange icons as you like (i.e. desktop icons on OS X).
Personally looking forward to getting myself a 4S when the 5 arrives. Saves me about £50 a pop upgrading a year later.
I was pointing out that it's possible for OSX users to get infected by browsing to a website.
Soldato
With regards to the screen, can't they make it larger but keep the same aspect ratio and a retina screen? I'm sure I'm missing something here though.
If they make it larger but keep the same resolution then the pixel density will drop and they've said that it needs to be at least 300DPI to qualify as a retina display. That limits them to around 3.7-3.8 inches.
If they want to increase the size beyond that but keep the DPI up then they need to increase the resolution. The problem here is that they can only really double up the resolution, like they did with the iPhone4 and iPad3, as only then can they neatly pixel-double legacy applications. Increasing the resolution by a non-integral factor introduces all manner of problems with existing applications which aren't expecting a non-standard resolution.
Soldato
Thanks for te explanation 
What I meant is can they add, for example, 10% more pixels and add something in Ios to upscale all apps?
What I meant is can they add, for example, 10% more pixels and add something in Ios to upscale all apps?
If you upscaled everything then the old pixels wouldn't map neatly onto the new pixels, so it'd look dreadful. E.g. if you had a line which was 5 pixels wide and you made everything 10% bigger, it would have to be 5.5 pixels wide. Obviously that's not really possible, so you'd end up with really ugly aliasing, which would defeat the point of having a high-res screen!
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Was possible*. Hopefully Apple will not be so slow with Java updates. After all it's no good the core OS being secure if third party plugins can negate that.
* If you ran Software Update or don't have Java (by default OS X doesn't) then you're safe.
Interesting read on form factors and resolutions: http://www.mondaynote.com/2012/04/08/apple-the-end-is-nigh/