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Moren on 17 September 2012

The childish attitude of some people here is laughable.

2 Million sold in 24 Hours... it takes a genius to make something that big.



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wick on 17 September 2012
enrageorange said:
wick said:
prayformojo said:
But the one that trumps it all? IOS. It's the reason I use an iphone. Apple's operating software is second to none. It's a million times safer, more stable and THAT, is the reason to use the phone.


I had an iPhone. It crashed more than my GS2.

THAT, is the reason NOT to use iPhone.

Well that and many more reasons....

Personally my itouch has never crashed on me once, while I don't go a day without my droid phone crashing from trying to open google maps or trying to use the camera. Infact it's gotten to the point where my droid is basically just for calls, texts, and tethering  for my itouch to do any "smartphone" functions I need to do.

Also the vast majority of my friends and siblings own android phones. Every single one of them complains about crashing. So I'm not the only one who experiences these issues. Though I guess all that is is anecdotal evidence, but I'm pretty positive android phones are more known for their crashing than iphones.

I'm assuming this is due to IOS being a closed system as apposed to android where users are more prone to messing with settings or installing a poorly optomised or malicious app. Regardless I'm probably going to try windows 8 phones once I can upgrade. I appreciate everything usually "just working" with the iphone but my itouch is good enough for that experience, and my droid 3 has turned me off completely from android.

I have to be honest and say I've heard more complaints from Android users regarding crashes but I'm not sure if that's a carrier problem or specific apps or settings.

Pretty much everyone I know has switched from IOS to Android whithin the past 6-12 months and no-one has complained about crashing so I'm not sure if something might be region related too (I'm in Australia).

Also everyone I know who owns an Android phone has a higher end model so maybe that has something to do with it.



 

 

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Rafux on 17 September 2012

Samsung has become the new Sony and thank god Apple is finally getting some competition just check the new Kindle Fire HD.



fordy on 18 September 2012
the2real4mafol said:

Yeah that had the guts to do it! I think this was in 2000/01 christmas season when a load of PS2's went missing in the middle east. Sega hoped to capitalize on it but it didn't work


Oh my god! Saddam really WAS utilising PS2s for launching nuclear missiles! :P



dharh on 18 September 2012

The iPhone 5 is boring. If you disagree you are boring as well.



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the2real4mafol on 18 September 2012
fordy said:
the2real4mafol said:

Yeah that had the guts to do it! I think this was in 2000/01 christmas season when a load of PS2's went missing in the middle east. Sega hoped to capitalize on it but it didn't work


Oh my god! Saddam really WAS utilising PS2s for launching nuclear missiles! :P

they could not produce the gpu for the ps2 in one of the factories for some reason and it hit supplies, as well

  http://uk.ign.com/articles/2000/10/27/sony-explains-ps2-shortages 



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DarkThanatos on 18 September 2012

The way I see it is this.

As a company, I dislike Apple. Each year they realise a slightly different iPhone with another £100 put on top. The changes they make are often pretty small or unnecessary. They then charge you for a new charger, new this, etc.

Samsung is a more customer-friendly company. Any of you who have heard of the Samsung Canada Dinosaur Custom Galaxy S3 - http://technabob.com/blog/2012/08/29/samsung-gives-fan-free-galaxy-siii/ - will understand. Samsung specs are generally better with the Galaxy SIII and I think it looks better.

When it comes to App Store vs Android Market, the App Store is generally more user friendly- but that is variable.

As it stands I prefer Samsung to Apple.
HOWEVER, then we get to the operating system. IoS is the clincher. It is by far superior to anything else I have come across.

So it looks like I'll be buying an Iphone...
oh but wait- THEY'RE CHARGING THAT FOR IT!!



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man-bear-pig on 18 September 2012
DarkThanatos said:
The way I see it is this.

As a company, I dislike Apple. Each year they realise a slightly different iPhone with another £100 put on top. The changes they make are often pretty small or unnecessary. They then charge you for a new charger, new this, etc.

Samsung is a more customer-friendly company. Any of you who have heard of the Samsung Canada Dinosaur Custom Galaxy S3 - http://technabob.com/blog/2012/08/29/samsung-gives-fan-free-galaxy-siii/ - will understand. Samsung specs are generally better with the Galaxy SIII and I think it looks better.

When it comes to App Store vs Android Market, the App Store is generally more user friendly- but that is variable.

As it stands I prefer Samsung to Apple.
HOWEVER, then we get to the operating system. IoS is the clincher. It is by far superior to anything else I have come across.

So it looks like I'll be buying an Iphone...
oh but wait- THEY'RE CHARGING THAT FOR IT!!


1.) They don't put £100 on top...iPhone 5's are launching at the same price as the 4S did...

2.) They don't charge you for a new charger, that comes with the phone

3.) You can get them for VERY cheap on a 18/24 month contract..



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DarkThanatos on 18 September 2012
man-bear-pig said:
DarkThanatos said:
The way I see it is this.

As a company, I dislike Apple. Each year they realise a slightly different iPhone with another £100 put on top. The changes they make are often pretty small or unnecessary. They then charge you for a new charger, new this, etc.

Samsung is a more customer-friendly company. Any of you who have heard of the Samsung Canada Dinosaur Custom Galaxy S3 - http://technabob.com/blog/2012/08/29/samsung-gives-fan-free-galaxy-siii/ - will understand. Samsung specs are generally better with the Galaxy SIII and I think it looks better.

When it comes to App Store vs Android Market, the App Store is generally more user friendly- but that is variable.

As it stands I prefer Samsung to Apple.
HOWEVER, then we get to the operating system. IoS is the clincher. It is by far superior to anything else I have come across.

So it looks like I'll be buying an Iphone...
oh but wait- THEY'RE CHARGING THAT FOR IT!!


1.) They don't put £100 on top...iPhone 5's are launching at the same price as the 4S did...

2.) They don't charge you for a new charger, that comes with the phone

3.) You can get them for VERY cheap on a 18/24 month contract..

1) Current price is £80 on top of the current Iphone 4s price according to Amazon. My point was not for launch price, but for the new phone comparitive to whats out there, with limited improvement. 

2) Oh sorry, I meant docking station and all other accessories for the previous models. 

3) Which requires you to buy an 18/24 month contract- which will be after the iphone 6 comes out- and the contracts themselves are usually obscenely high. For your average Joe anyway, thats a substantial amount of money to pay for a phone bill i can get for a tenner off giff gaff.



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ebw on 19 September 2012
Scoobes said:
First benchmarks of the CPU (A6) are in. Twice as fast as the A5 in the iPhone 4.

Interestingly though, ever so slightly SLOWER than the CPU in the Galaxy S3 (not by much, but still surprising).

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/iPhone-5-Benchmarks-ARMv7-performance-Apple-A6-Chip,17634.html

Not quite what I was expecting.

One possible explanation is that the A6 uses a newer instruction set (ARMv7s), so apps will automatically be faster after a recompile.  Javascript benchmarks just came out today and the new iPhone smokes the competition in this area:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6309/iphone-5a6-sunspider-performance

 

Of course this Safari has surely been recompiled already.  But it's also worth noting that broadly speaking, if a dual-core and quad-core have the same benchmarks, the dual-core will be faster in real applications due to non-parallelized code.