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if they wanted to deter people from buying the 4s they would simply discontinue it.
Just switched from my primitive 3G to the iPhone 5 earlier this week.
Didn't give a doodoo about the 5C and their fruity colors.
if they wanted to deter people from buying the 4s they would simply discontinue it.
Dunno how long Cook can keep this thing going, tbh... When Steve was around you could at least expect a "there's one more thing" type of thing where they would show something fairly innovative. Also, the leak-fest that the last two release cycles have been is crazy bad for a company that wants to 'shock'. It's one other thing that didn't happen as often when Steve was around (still remember Jobs suing some rumor sites that leaked info).
None of the recent new cell products are all that interesting or innovative imo, might have just hit a plateau for now across the board
I've had the 4 for a long time. Still meets my needs. I don't need a ing tangerine colored phone.
Samsung promises 64 bit chips in s5:
http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/1236...-the-iphone-5s
Some kind of Moore's law for phones has been reached. Dunno what it would take to breach it.
It'll likely be some new flex screen tech that lets the physical design of the phone evolve beyond the candybar form.
In fairness, I think mobile hardware innovation in general has plateaued across the board.
The next innovation will come with battery efficiency, where manufacturers will be able to get good battery life without having to rely on massive 3000 mAh+ batteries, imo.
thought it the 5c was meant to be dirt cheap, fkn more expensive then fkn s4
I sure hope so
I'm definitely gonna keep my phones longer tbh. Minimum 2 years for my S4 (unless something happens to it):
iPhone (1 year)
iPhone 3GS (2 years, 3 months)
Samsung galaxy S2 (1 year, 4 months)
HTC One X+ (4 months lol)
Samsung Galaxy S4 (at least 2 years)
I've had the Nokia 920 for a year now. I really enjoy the windows phone platform. Its right in between apple and android. It allows more customization than apple, but its not an open abyss like android. The only thing that lacks is the apps, which the essentials are there, but alot of the cool fringe stuff is missing.
that's pretty good tbh, minus the lolHTC. after having my flip phone for like 5 years, I got the Samsung Blackjack 2, which was actually pretty decent. I dropped that er so many times and it didn't crack, though the screen fell off lol. Then the 3GS I had for about 1 year, 10 months, then handed it off to a friend to act as an ipod. I've had the 4S for 2 years and it's been great.
leemajors is right, as is anakha. it's gotten to where new phones are always "the fastest thing ever", with apple dropping something that's been around a while and acting like it's brand new, while Samsung just keeps making the screen bigger. until a company introduces a battery that lasts like for a solid week of real use, or projects a virtual keyboard, or a phone that is flexible, or some sort of real "holy " type , a new phone will always be a bit of a letdown.
u think all Samsung has been doing is making screen bigger? lol
lol
Yeah, and the HTC was only because I was signing a new contract, flipped that real quick. I'll justify my next purchase on a practical innovation like battery, not on a 16 core ing CPU.
This TBH
When I get the Galaxy S4, I'll keep it for at least 2 years
It's good enough not to need to jump to the latest "omg billion-core CPU"
I dont think most users need such powerful phones ... ok so you got a 16 core smartphone....tell me what you're gonna do with it other than making calls, playing Angry Birds and some browsing .... power the ing Tesseract ?
True that. I don't want a stupid hand waving thing, a pink phone with a blue case, or a video that pauses when you blink or supercomputer in my phone that opens my email .0005 seconds faster than a compe ors. I was kinda missing my old flip phone because the battery lasted so long because it hardly had to work, and that phone was made in like '03. Meh.
Edit: can't forget to mention useless siri.
Last edited by jeebus; 09-12-2013 at 09:26 PM.
What? Why? That makes no sense. 64 bit in cell phones is pointless and probably will be for another 2-3 years minimum. It's cool but completely ineffective at the moment. Can you even list one advantage it will have right now over 32, especially on phones with less than 4 gigs of RAM?roping a new generation of teens in US that spend money in the app store where people actually buy is not bad.
A 64 bit HTC One or an s4 would have CH throbbing imho, i think he is being a bit dishonest there
No dishonesty at all. A fingerprint reader and useless architecture are Apple's aces in the holes these days. I'm actually worried for them as a company if they continue this level of "innovation". Samsung is so far ahead of everyone else that's it's actually concerning.
I was, of course, kidding. It was hilarious that Samsung quickly announced 64 bit later that same day. Nobody is way ahead and most things are reactionary these days anyway. No one can have their little launch parties without taking stupid jabs at each other.
That's the part I'm confused about. I don't know much about the specs and of the iphones or samsung's phones. I try to find comparisons online that aren't stupidly biased and when I do find a decent side by side comparison, I'm not seeing much of a difference. How is Samsung "so far ahead" of all the other phones that it's "concerning"?
Well, I don't expect other cell manufacturers to radically innovate, tbh... that's the kind of stuff you expected from Apple... Besides the iPhone 1 which was radically different from anything out there, the upgrade from iPhone 3GS to 4 was pretty big, innovation-wise. The retina display, the slick design with the glass front and back. They were expensive gambles that the rest of the industry followed once they saw there was a market for that.
Sony used to be a company that used to take such gambles, but they've been slipping too.
The ARMv8 64 bit design has been out for a while, this is just the first publicly available implementation. It's much more that just "64 bit address bus" and addressing over 4GB of memory.
All 32 GP registers are 64 bit, twice the amount of FP registers. There's a bunch of licensees of the tech, I'm sure the next batch of phones will switch to it.
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