man-bear-pig said:
What's 'faping'? |
basically getting all exited throwing your hands around in the air.
| green_sky said:
Ahh people are funny. |
Haha, that was pretty funny. I just wonder how many people they didn't show who could tell it wasn't the new one.
Myself I'd definitely be able to tell that it was a 4S. It looks exactly like my 4 (that I've used for +2 years) except with much better internals.
Anyway, just pre-ordered a 32gb white iPhone 5 from my local carrier (Softbank) at one of their shops near my place. After waiting for a bit behind the other people it only took a few minutes to get everything changed since I was basically upgrading from my old iPhone 4. The only bad thing is that the price of my unlimited packet plan is increasing in price from 1,000 yen from the unlimited 3G to unlimited 4G LTE.
Hopefully, I get it next week!
starcraft: "I and every PS3 fanboy alive are waiting for Versus more than FFXIII.
Me since the games were revealed, the fanboys since E3." 
Skeeuk: "playstation 3 is the ultimate in gaming acceleration"
smbu2000 said:
Haha, that was pretty funny. I just wonder how many people they didn't show who could tell it wasn't the new one. Myself I'd definitely be able to tell that it was a 4S. It looks exactly like my 4 (that I've used for +2 years) except with much better internals. Anyway, just pre-ordered a 32gb white iPhone 5 from my local carrier (Softbank) at one of their shops near my place. After waiting for a bit behind the other people it only took a few minutes to get everything changed since I was basically upgrading from my old iPhone 4. The only bad thing is that the price of my unlimited packet plan is increasing in price from 1,000 yen from the unlimited 3G to unlimited 4G LTE. Hopefully, I get it next week! |
Good observation and understanding of how these things work. The video is quite funny and it is meant to be. They wouldn't show the people who called their bluff. People take a good joke and turn it into a negative stereotype about the targetted group. Like this thread about the video. http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=147609&page=1 . Everyone just assumes 100% people fell for it and disregard that video was edited from hours of content to 2 minutes.
By the way enjoy your new phone. Hopefully i can get a good deal on it too from my service provider.
| green_sky said: Good observation and understanding of how these things work. The video is quite funny and it is meant to be. They wouldn't show the people who called their bluff. People take a good joke and turn it into a negative stereotype about the targetted group. Like this thread about the video. http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=147609&page=1 . Everyone just assumes 100% people fell for it and disregard that video was edited from hours of content to 2 minutes. |
Yeah, I saw that thread as well, which is why I chose to post in this one instead. Although, me personally if I was shown a "new" Android based phone then I probably wouldn't be able to tell the difference and whether it was new or not as I don't use Android. I could spot the Samsung GS3 as my brother has one, but anything else nope.
Japan is pretty nice for the iPhone. You can get the base 16GB iPhone 5 for free with a new 2 year contract, or 2 year renewal. The 32GB model is an extra 10,000 yen (~$120USD) and the 64GB model an extra 20,000 yen (~$240 USD). I've had my iphone 4 for over 2 years now, so I can get the upgrade pricing! (The pricing was the same for the 4S and the 4 before that excluding the 64gb option.)
starcraft: "I and every PS3 fanboy alive are waiting for Versus more than FFXIII.
Me since the games were revealed, the fanboys since E3."
Skeeuk: "playstation 3 is the ultimate in gaming acceleration"
Just changed the title back to 'iPhone 5'.
......
58 million iPhone 5's to be sold in 2012 - Bloomberg
Holy guacamole...I'm amazed they can even manufacture that many! :o
My prediction threads:
Wii U will sell under 40m units (made on 14th September 2012)
PS Vita will sell under 20m units (made on 30th September 2012)
Wii U will sell under 7m in 2013 - I was right
Just pre-ordered a 16gb black one! :)
Does anyone have any idea when it'll arrive? I pre-ordered it from a mobile network, not apple
My prediction threads:
Wii U will sell under 40m units (made on 14th September 2012)
PS Vita will sell under 20m units (made on 30th September 2012)
Wii U will sell under 7m in 2013 - I was right
| man-bear-pig said: Just pre-ordered a 16gb black one! :) Does anyone have any idea when it'll arrive? I pre-ordered it from a mobile network, not apple |
Nice, I really like the look of the black one as well, especially the back. I've been looking at my black iphone 4 for 2 years now though, so I went with White. (which also looks good!)
I guess it depends on the carrier and when you ordered it. You're in the UK? I'm not sure about any carriers there. In the U.S. Apple's ship date increased after the first hour or so that pre-orders opened and the carriers lasted awhile longer before they slipped as well.
I guess the same thing happened to the UK Apple store as well. Nothing mentioned about the carriers though.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/09/14/iphone-5-pre-orders-sell-_n_1883688.html
starcraft: "I and every PS3 fanboy alive are waiting for Versus more than FFXIII.
Me since the games were revealed, the fanboys since E3."
Skeeuk: "playstation 3 is the ultimate in gaming acceleration"
smbu2000 said:
Nice, I really like the look of the black one as well, especially the back. I've been looking at my black iphone 4 for 2 years now though, so I went with White. (which also looks good!) I guess it depends on the carrier and when you ordered it. You're in the UK? I'm not sure about any carriers there. In the U.S. Apple's ship date increased after the first hour or so that pre-orders opened and the carriers lasted awhile longer before they slipped as well. I guess the same thing happened to the UK Apple store as well. Nothing mentioned about the carriers though. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/09/14/iphone-5-pre-orders-sell-_n_1883688.html |
Nevermind, I got an email from Three (the mobile network I bought it from) saying that it would arrive on the 21st. I hope they're right!
And yeah, the white ones look awesome too. iPhone 5 is definately the most aesthetically pleasing smartphone at the moment
My prediction threads:
Wii U will sell under 40m units (made on 14th September 2012)
PS Vita will sell under 20m units (made on 30th September 2012)
Wii U will sell under 7m in 2013 - I was right
So apparently the A6 isn't using A9's or A15's after all, but is a custom Apple Core instead.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6292/iphone-5-a6-not-a15-custom-core
Prior to the announcement we speculated the iPhone 5's SoC would simply be a higher clocked version of the 32nm A5r2 used in the iPad 2,4. After all, Apple seems to like saving major architecture shifts for the iPad.
However, just prior to the announcement I received some information pointing to a move away from the ARM Cortex A9 used in the A5. Given Apple's reliance on fully licensed ARM cores in the past, the expected performance gains and unpublishable information that started all of this I concluded Apple's A6 SoC likely featured two ARM Cortex A15 cores.
It turns out I was wrong. But pleasantly surprised.
The A6 is the first Apple SoC to use its own ARMv7 based processor design. The CPU core(s) aren't based on a vanilla A9 or A15 design from ARM IP, but instead are something of Apple's own creation.
...
For a while now I'd heard that Apple was working on its own ARM based CPU core, but last I heard Apple was having issues making it work. I assumed that it was too early for Apple's own design to be ready. It turns out that it's not. Based on a lot of digging over the past couple of days, and conversations with the right people, I've confirmed that Apple's A6 SoC is based on Apple's own ARM based CPU core and not the Cortex A15.
...
I should probably give Apple's CPU team more credit in the future.
The bad news is I have no details on the design of Apple's custom core. Despite Apple's willingness to spend on die area, I believe an A15/Krait class CPU core is a likely target. Slightly wider front end, more execution resources, more flexible OoO execution engine, deeper buffers, bigger windows, etc... Support for VFPv4 guarantees a bigger core size than the Cortex A9, it only makes sense that Apple would push the envelope everywhere else as well. I'm particularly interested in frequency targets and whether there's any clever dynamic clock work happening. Someone needs to run Geekbench on an iPhone 5 pronto.
I also have no indication how many cores there are. I am assuming two but Apple was careful not to report core count (as it has in the past). We'll get more details as we get our hands on devices in a week. I'm really interested to see what happens once Chipworks and UBM go to town on the A6.
starcraft: "I and every PS3 fanboy alive are waiting for Versus more than FFXIII.
Me since the games were revealed, the fanboys since E3."
Skeeuk: "playstation 3 is the ultimate in gaming acceleration"
^^Interesting...
UK PEOPLE:
Three are offering 16gb iPhones for £79 one-off cost and £34 per month on a 24 month contract.
£34 per month includes...
-->UNLIMITED DATA!!! (holy shit)
-->5,000 texts
-->500 any network minutes
What an awesome deal!!
My prediction threads:
Wii U will sell under 40m units (made on 14th September 2012)
PS Vita will sell under 20m units (made on 30th September 2012)
Wii U will sell under 7m in 2013 - I was right
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