http://www.iphone5specs.org Mon, 19 Mar 2012 20:31:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.iphone5specs.org/free-apple-products-leaders/#comment-7243 iPhone5Specs (tstephenson) Mon, 19 Mar 2012 20:31:42 +0000 http://www.iphone5specs.org/?page_id=644#comment-7243 And for anyone wondering, no I am NOT competing in the contest, but I had to spread the link around to get the ball rolling, my position in the contest will be forfeited... And for anyone wondering, no I am NOT competing in the contest, but I had to spread the link around to get the ball rolling, my position in the contest will be forfeited…

]]> http://www.iphone5specs.org/free-apple-products-leaders/#comment-7242 iPhone5Specs (tstephenson) Mon, 19 Mar 2012 20:20:55 +0000 http://www.iphone5specs.org/?page_id=644#comment-7242 Come on guys! Feel free to leave us comments and earn points, it's that simple! Interact with us, and we reward you! Come on guys! Feel free to leave us comments and earn points, it’s that simple! Interact with us, and we reward you!

]]> http://www.iphone5specs.org/news/iphone-5-may-be-unveiled-in-june/#comment-6954 Meerul Sun, 04 Mar 2012 20:16:16 +0000 http://www.iphone5specs.org/?p=553#comment-6954 that, I do agree with Karl on several pniots. AT&T and Apple do work together, or at least they should. The idea that MMS won't be ready to go on June 17th is unacceptable. Regardless of who can get it and who can't, that's already the case with all carriers in various coverage areas. On Sprint, if in poor coverage, I can send and receive a text, but any picture mails don't come through until I'm in full coverage. Text and MMS use different parts of the network to send pics. I'm assuming AT&T is no different, as it appears to be a technology thing with all cell phones, carrier independent.Another point of Karl's that I agree with is the underlying fact that any cell phone carrier gives better more consistent attention to new customers over current customers that have been with them for years. Sure, there's a lot of loyal customers that have had the same phone for the last 3-4 years and don't need a new one. These customers make any carrier happy. No complainers and no people to deal with calling every month about their bill. I'm finally there with Sprint, but it took months and months of back and forth to get to this point.The current loyal customer is the no worries part of doing business. Companies bank on the majority of their customers paying their monthly bill and hardly ever calling or increasing their support costs. That doesn't mean you should ignore the customer when it comes time to keep them around.There is no difference between a new AT&T customer signing on with them and signing a two year contract and a current customer staying with AT&T and signing a two year contract. I get the waiting 18 months bit and all that, but it not only infuriates your long term customers but it also keeps them paying the highest prices for new technology when a brand new customer gets the deals. Regardless of how fair AT&T is trying to be here, there's something that is unfair about this. It basically pisses all over the loyal part and adds to the negative rants of not just AT&T, but all cell phone companies.If all cell phone carriers were more focused on customer service instead of trying down each and every one to a two year sit down and shut up agreement (or ponying up $200 to leave and go sign another two year contract), I think they could keep people around without them feeling tied up and bound.So I see both sides here, but agree that there needs to be other options or solutions here.martymankins’s last blog post.. Reply:June 9th, 2009 at 12:35 pm, Good pniots. I realize that telco companies' favorite customers are the ones who just shut the hell up and pay their bill each month without ever having a need to call customer service. Me, I hardly ever call customer service. I'm much more of a do-it-online guy. I require minimum fuss (usually).There's got to be a balance between bringing in new customers (which I don't fault any company trying to do) and RETAINING customers. AT T shoots themselves in the foot by not having their ducks in a row. No presence at WWDC, no customer service preparedness after a HUGE announcement, no NETWORK readiness. FAIL, FAIL, FAIL.I understand the subsidy thing. I DON'T understand how there are people who bought their iPhone 3G on release day last summer, who are eligible for entry-level upgrade prices today, whereas I bought mine a month later and have to wait until January.Consistency. It's a good thing. Reply:June 9th, 2009 at 1:11 pm, Consistency is key to good customer service.You mentioned NETWORK rediness. This is my other AT&T beef. The fact that they have so many iPhone users now and are ill prepared at major events to handle the increased traffic. WWDC, CES, Mac World, SXSW all of these events have had major issues keeping everyone alive on the same network. They are going into year 3 as the exclusive US carrier for the iPhone and there are millions of phones out there. Beef up the network.I hope you can work out your upgrade eligibility. If not, we'll see a post from you in January when you get our new 32gb iPhone 3GSmartymankins’s last blog post.. Reply:June 9th, 2009 at 1:33 pm, Yeah, but I don't think it's just AT T that has trouble handling huge temporary logjams in traffic. Big events like WWDC have hell trying to keep up with all the people using wifi, let alone 3G. Still, you're right. Year 3, MILLIONS of iPhones and they're still playing catch-up. Only gonna get worse.I don't expect the latest and greatest network speeds in MY neck of the woods, of course. 3G would be nice to having in Sebring, but I know they've got bigger fish to fry than the rural areas. And the 3G thing is really only crucial to me when I'm traveling and don't have access to WiFi. At home, like I said, it's WiFi all the time. Reply:June 9th, 2009 at 4:38 pm, I think a big part of the problem was the switch from one year to two year contracts. At the time (what, seven years ago or something like that I remember Sprint offered both one and two year contracts for a while with different discounts), it was probably worth it to keep customers longer, but now I wonder if they're losing more in good will than they are gaining. If the contract were just one year I bet that very few people would be bothered by waiting out their contract.Also, I heard that Sprint was switching to pro-rated cancellation fees as the result of a law suit. This makes much more sense and matches the idea that the discount is a subsidy defrayed by monthly service payments, rather than just a carrot-and-stick approach as it usually seems.I just logged into the AT&T site to check my status. I get to informational messages that aren't very well worded as a pair. The first says I'm not eligible for discounted price until next March. The second says I am eligible for an early iPhone upgrade at a reduced discount. Then it only lists the 3G phones even though I got to this whole selection by clicking the 3GS photo link.Anyway, I agree with you, Karl, about the lack of preparedness of AT&T, but I agree with Dave2, et. al., on the pricing. Of course, I paid the cancellation fee to Sprint to switch to the iPhone 3G ten months early, so I'm quite familiar with the scenario.Ren’s last blog post.. Reply:June 9th, 2009 at 9:49 pm, The pro-rated cancellation fee is a good thing for cell companies to add. While it still doesn't say we are doing everything we can to keep your business eliminating the tie you down contract way of doing business, it's a step in the right direction.martymankins’s last blog post.. Reply:June 10th, 2009 at 9:26 am, Agreed. Reply:June 10th, 2009 at 9:26 am, Pro-rated cancellation fees, very nice. Hope AT T starts following suit. Sprint has crappy coverage in Sebring, or else I might have gone for them when I moved here. And yeah, the wording on AT T's upgrade page is confusing. Reply:June 10th, 2009 at 9:33 am, I'm fairly certain that my ETF with AT&T is pro-rated as well and I bought the iPhone in August (in Virginia; may vary from state to state). You may want to inquire further about yours; it may very well be prorated as well.shiny’s last blog post.. Reply:June 10th, 2009 at 9:40 am, Interesting. I've heard stories about people canceling their AT T account just to get the iPhone 3GS at the $199/$299 price, but that's really pushing it over the line for me. First, there's a $150-$175 cancellation fee (perhaps prorated, thanks for pointing that out). When you consider that AT T will allow me to early upgrade for $399/$499, that's only a $50 difference (tops).Second, you lose your phone number. Third, you have to wait 90 days to sign back up with AT T, from what I hear. So what are you supposed to do in the meantime? Have no cell at all?Not worth it, all in all. Also heard that people are buying Tracfones or a pay-as-you-go equivalent, porting their AT T phone # over to the Tracfone, canceling their AT T accounts, then porting BACK to AT T when they can sign back up. Wow. Reply:June 10th, 2009 at 2:30 pm, The TracFones are pretty cheap. I bought one for my daughter for $10 and bought 90 days of service for $20. Sure, it isn't very many minutes, but she doesn't use it much. Using it to hold onto your number for 90 days? Seems like too much trouble.I will say that this does point to a hole in AT&T's pricing. If it ever makes more sense to cancel and re-join, then they are pricing something wrong. Keep in mind, though, that it may be the cancellation fee that is what they are pricing wrong. that, I do agree with Karl on several pniots. AT&T and Apple do work together, or at least they should. The idea that MMS won’t be ready to go on June 17th is unacceptable. Regardless of who can get it and who can’t, that’s already the case with all carriers in various coverage areas. On Sprint, if in poor coverage, I can send and receive a text, but any picture mails don’t come through until I’m in full coverage. Text and MMS use different parts of the network to send pics. I’m assuming AT&T is no different, as it appears to be a technology thing with all cell phones, carrier independent.Another point of Karl’s that I agree with is the underlying fact that any cell phone carrier gives better more consistent attention to new customers over current customers that have been with them for years. Sure, there’s a lot of loyal customers that have had the same phone for the last 3-4 years and don’t need a new one. These customers make any carrier happy. No complainers and no people to deal with calling every month about their bill. I’m finally there with Sprint, but it took months and months of back and forth to get to this point.The current loyal customer is the no worries part of doing business. Companies bank on the majority of their customers paying their monthly bill and hardly ever calling or increasing their support costs. That doesn’t mean you should ignore the customer when it comes time to keep them around.There is no difference between a new AT&T customer signing on with them and signing a two year contract and a current customer staying with AT&T and signing a two year contract. I get the waiting 18 months bit and all that, but it not only infuriates your long term customers but it also keeps them paying the highest prices for new technology when a brand new customer gets the deals. Regardless of how fair AT&T is trying to be here, there’s something that is unfair about this. It basically pisses all over the loyal part and adds to the negative rants of not just AT&T, but all cell phone companies.If all cell phone carriers were more focused on customer service instead of trying down each and every one to a two year sit down and shut up agreement (or ponying up $200 to leave and go sign another two year contract), I think they could keep people around without them feeling tied up and bound.So I see both sides here, but agree that there needs to be other options or solutions here.martymankins’s last blog post.. Reply:June 9th, 2009 at 12:35 pm, Good pniots. I realize that telco companies’ favorite customers are the ones who just shut the hell up and pay their bill each month without ever having a need to call customer service. Me, I hardly ever call customer service. I’m much more of a do-it-online guy. I require minimum fuss (usually).There’s got to be a balance between bringing in new customers (which I don’t fault any company trying to do) and RETAINING customers. AT T shoots themselves in the foot by not having their ducks in a row. No presence at WWDC, no customer service preparedness after a HUGE announcement, no NETWORK readiness. FAIL, FAIL, FAIL.I understand the subsidy thing. I DON’T understand how there are people who bought their iPhone 3G on release day last summer, who are eligible for entry-level upgrade prices today, whereas I bought mine a month later and have to wait until January.Consistency. It’s a good thing. Reply:June 9th, 2009 at 1:11 pm, Consistency is key to good customer service.You mentioned NETWORK rediness. This is my other AT&T beef. The fact that they have so many iPhone users now and are ill prepared at major events to handle the increased traffic. WWDC, CES, Mac World, SXSW all of these events have had major issues keeping everyone alive on the same network. They are going into year 3 as the exclusive US carrier for the iPhone and there are millions of phones out there. Beef up the network.I hope you can work out your upgrade eligibility. If not, we’ll see a post from you in January when you get our new 32gb iPhone 3GSmartymankins’s last blog post.. Reply:June 9th, 2009 at 1:33 pm, Yeah, but I don’t think it’s just AT T that has trouble handling huge temporary logjams in traffic. Big events like WWDC have hell trying to keep up with all the people using wifi, let alone 3G. Still, you’re right. Year 3, MILLIONS of iPhones and they’re still playing catch-up. Only gonna get worse.I don’t expect the latest and greatest network speeds in MY neck of the woods, of course. 3G would be nice to having in Sebring, but I know they’ve got bigger fish to fry than the rural areas. And the 3G thing is really only crucial to me when I’m traveling and don’t have access to WiFi. At home, like I said, it’s WiFi all the time. Reply:June 9th, 2009 at 4:38 pm, I think a big part of the problem was the switch from one year to two year contracts. At the time (what, seven years ago or something like that I remember Sprint offered both one and two year contracts for a while with different discounts), it was probably worth it to keep customers longer, but now I wonder if they’re losing more in good will than they are gaining. If the contract were just one year I bet that very few people would be bothered by waiting out their contract.Also, I heard that Sprint was switching to pro-rated cancellation fees as the result of a law suit. This makes much more sense and matches the idea that the discount is a subsidy defrayed by monthly service payments, rather than just a carrot-and-stick approach as it usually seems.I just logged into the AT&T site to check my status. I get to informational messages that aren’t very well worded as a pair. The first says I’m not eligible for discounted price until next March. The second says I am eligible for an early iPhone upgrade at a reduced discount. Then it only lists the 3G phones even though I got to this whole selection by clicking the 3GS photo link.Anyway, I agree with you, Karl, about the lack of preparedness of AT&T, but I agree with Dave2, et. al., on the pricing. Of course, I paid the cancellation fee to Sprint to switch to the iPhone 3G ten months early, so I’m quite familiar with the scenario.Ren’s last blog post.. Reply:June 9th, 2009 at 9:49 pm, The pro-rated cancellation fee is a good thing for cell companies to add. While it still doesn’t say we are doing everything we can to keep your business eliminating the tie you down contract way of doing business, it’s a step in the right direction.martymankins’s last blog post.. Reply:June 10th, 2009 at 9:26 am, Agreed. Reply:June 10th, 2009 at 9:26 am, Pro-rated cancellation fees, very nice. Hope AT T starts following suit. Sprint has crappy coverage in Sebring, or else I might have gone for them when I moved here. And yeah, the wording on AT T’s upgrade page is confusing. Reply:June 10th, 2009 at 9:33 am, I’m fairly certain that my ETF with AT&T is pro-rated as well and I bought the iPhone in August (in Virginia; may vary from state to state). You may want to inquire further about yours; it may very well be prorated as well.shiny’s last blog post.. Reply:June 10th, 2009 at 9:40 am, Interesting. I’ve heard stories about people canceling their AT T account just to get the iPhone 3GS at the $199/$299 price, but that’s really pushing it over the line for me. First, there’s a $150-$175 cancellation fee (perhaps prorated, thanks for pointing that out). When you consider that AT T will allow me to early upgrade for $399/$499, that’s only a $50 difference (tops).Second, you lose your phone number. Third, you have to wait 90 days to sign back up with AT T, from what I hear. So what are you supposed to do in the meantime? Have no cell at all?Not worth it, all in all. Also heard that people are buying Tracfones or a pay-as-you-go equivalent, porting their AT T phone # over to the Tracfone, canceling their AT T accounts, then porting BACK to AT T when they can sign back up. Wow. Reply:June 10th, 2009 at 2:30 pm, The TracFones are pretty cheap. I bought one for my daughter for $10 and bought 90 days of service for $20. Sure, it isn’t very many minutes, but she doesn’t use it much. Using it to hold onto your number for 90 days? Seems like too much trouble.I will say that this does point to a hole in AT&T’s pricing. If it ever makes more sense to cancel and re-join, then they are pricing something wrong. Keep in mind, though, that it may be the cancellation fee that is what they are pricing wrong.

]]> http://www.iphone5specs.org/news/the-ethical-iphone-5/#comment-6953 Adriano Sun, 04 Mar 2012 17:59:53 +0000 http://www.iphone5specs.org/?p=566#comment-6953 We don't believe this is irlectdy related to Zune HD. As noted in the article, there are other devices from HTC that boost on-device resolution and would add pressure on Apple to answer their offerings. Apple has historically avoided irlectdy mentioning HTC (I believe Apple has only acknowledged HTC's existence once ever ).Apple has been moving towards this path for years now, it is after all a logical extension of both company's platforms (Zune and iPod). Especially with the failure of Apple TV to gain traction, and with the addition of HD-capable GPUs from PowerVR.Finally, it is the primary reason for justifying 802.11n hardware on a mobile device. 802.11g can load web pages fine, 802.11n is what you need to reliably buffer and stream 45 mbps HD video over the network.It is interesting to compare Apple and Microsoft irlectdy however. Microsoft is sneaking HD streaming into the home via Xbox 360. Most don't buy a 360 for that purpose initially. Apple appears to be learning from that, with the iPhone's main purpose not being an HD streaming device. Then, consumers can later add-on the ability for an almost token price (Apple could slash prices dramatically on their AV Cables and AV Dock if they wanted to upsell this platform). We don’t believe this is irlectdy related to Zune HD. As noted in the article, there are other devices from HTC that boost on-device resolution and would add pressure on Apple to answer their offerings. Apple has historically avoided irlectdy mentioning HTC (I believe Apple has only acknowledged HTC’s existence once ever ).Apple has been moving towards this path for years now, it is after all a logical extension of both company’s platforms (Zune and iPod). Especially with the failure of Apple TV to gain traction, and with the addition of HD-capable GPUs from PowerVR.Finally, it is the primary reason for justifying 802.11n hardware on a mobile device. 802.11g can load web pages fine, 802.11n is what you need to reliably buffer and stream 45 mbps HD video over the network.It is interesting to compare Apple and Microsoft irlectdy however. Microsoft is sneaking HD streaming into the home via Xbox 360. Most don’t buy a 360 for that purpose initially. Apple appears to be learning from that, with the iPhone’s main purpose not being an HD streaming device. Then, consumers can later add-on the ability for an almost token price (Apple could slash prices dramatically on their AV Cables and AV Dock if they wanted to upsell this platform).

]]> http://www.iphone5specs.org/news/mac-os-x-mountain-lion-developer-preview/#comment-6950 Cyril Sun, 04 Mar 2012 07:12:27 +0000 http://www.iphone5specs.org/?p=570#comment-6950 Although I have no use for some of the frills (i.e. erulsclfen for everything, LaunchMissionDashJunk, etc.), they're easily ignored. And it's not difficult to become accustomed to the altered scroll direction & tiny sometimes-there scroll bars. Those are annoyances, sure, but not game-stoppers.Unfortunately, my MacBookPro has become a nearly unusable dog under OSX Lion. Predictably and persistently halting, hesitant, and unresponsive. I've gone through far more attempted fixes than any operating system deserves. The last time I wasted that much time and effort on a kludge of an OS was nearly ten years ago on fiddly Linux distros. During that time, I've converted more than a few people from Linux or Windows to OSX because it had *nix under the hood and just worked at the GUI. It was a real machine you could use for all purposes.It no longer is. As of now, it's a nearly unusable dog for just about everything work or entertainment. There's no point in holding on to Snow Leopard it'll get obsoleted soon enough. The trend for Apple is clearly towards more required and intrusive integration with iCloud, iTunes, App store, etc. Linux usability has improved hugely in the last 10 years. I'm reluctantly and somewhat to my own surprise coming to the conclusion that I will be moving to linux in the next upgrade cycle (which, thanks to Lion, will be sooner rather than later.) I suppose I'll dump the iPhone in favor of an Android phone, since maintaining an iPhone w/o a mac would be a dead-end PITA. Although I have no use for some of the frills (i.e. erulsclfen for everything, LaunchMissionDashJunk, etc.), they’re easily ignored. And it’s not difficult to become accustomed to the altered scroll direction & tiny sometimes-there scroll bars. Those are annoyances, sure, but not game-stoppers.Unfortunately, my MacBookPro has become a nearly unusable dog under OSX Lion. Predictably and persistently halting, hesitant, and unresponsive. I’ve gone through far more attempted fixes than any operating system deserves. The last time I wasted that much time and effort on a kludge of an OS was nearly ten years ago on fiddly Linux distros. During that time, I’ve converted more than a few people from Linux or Windows to OSX because it had *nix under the hood and just worked at the GUI. It was a real machine you could use for all purposes.It no longer is. As of now, it’s a nearly unusable dog for just about everything work or entertainment. There’s no point in holding on to Snow Leopard it’ll get obsoleted soon enough. The trend for Apple is clearly towards more required and intrusive integration with iCloud, iTunes, App store, etc. Linux usability has improved hugely in the last 10 years. I’m reluctantly and somewhat to my own surprise coming to the conclusion that I will be moving to linux in the next upgrade cycle (which, thanks to Lion, will be sooner rather than later.) I suppose I’ll dump the iPhone in favor of an Android phone, since maintaining an iPhone w/o a mac would be a dead-end PITA.

]]> http://www.iphone5specs.org/news/ciccarese-design-unveils-new-iphone5-mock-up/#comment-6949 Jelly Sun, 04 Mar 2012 04:46:44 +0000 http://www.iphone5specs.org/?p=586#comment-6949 Iv'e been using the PixelSkin HD case for almost a month now .just took it off to check the back of my phone and VOILA.THERES NO SCRATCH OR CRACK.This prlboem is one that any gadget would have. If you have anything hard between the [hard] case and the phone, you have a much higher increase in the pressure at that point. If that particle is one that is physically stronger than glass, it will keep ebbing away at it. Plastic just cracks, glass is something that propagates the crack. Not everything is Apples fault, you have to make sure you take care of your phone. Sliding on a case doesn't make in invincible. One must make sure the case itself is clean i mean DUH if you have particulate matter it WILL scratch something. and finally, just because its chemically strengthened glass designed to resist something at the point of impact. If you keep something pressed on it..it WILL get scratched, anything will. Iv’e been using the PixelSkin HD case for almost a month now .just took it off to check the back of my phone and VOILA.THERES NO SCRATCH OR CRACK.This prlboem is one that any gadget would have. If you have anything hard between the [hard] case and the phone, you have a much higher increase in the pressure at that point. If that particle is one that is physically stronger than glass, it will keep ebbing away at it. Plastic just cracks, glass is something that propagates the crack. Not everything is Apples fault, you have to make sure you take care of your phone. Sliding on a case doesn’t make in invincible. One must make sure the case itself is clean i mean DUH if you have particulate matter it WILL scratch something. and finally, just because its chemically strengthened glass designed to resist something at the point of impact. If you keep something pressed on it..it WILL get scratched, anything will.

]]> http://www.iphone5specs.org/news/quadcoreiphone5/#comment-6782 Quad-Core on the iPhone 5? | iphone features Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:24:43 +0000 http://www.iphone5specs.org/?p=574#comment-6782 [...] iPhone 5 Specs and News This entry was posted in iphone 5 and tagged iphone 4, iphone 5, iphone applications, learn how [...] [...] iPhone 5 Specs and News This entry was posted in iphone 5 and tagged iphone 4, iphone 5, iphone applications, learn how [...]

]]> http://www.iphone5specs.org/news/the-iphone-5-is-here/#comment-1745 ZAX Tue, 04 Oct 2011 16:20:43 +0000 http://www.iphone5specs.org/?p=549#comment-1745 FIRST!!! FIRST!!!

]]> http://www.iphone5specs.org/news/good-news-for-iphone-5-hopefulls-about-att-pricing/#comment-1554 mickeymantle Tue, 27 Sep 2011 22:56:23 +0000 http://www.iphone5specs.org/?p=485#comment-1554 hey just jailbreak ur AT&T phones, get your tether and be happy :) i know i am hey just jailbreak ur AT&T phones, get your tether and be happy i know i am

]]> http://www.iphone5specs.org/news/sprint-offering-cheaper-unlimited-plan-with-the-new-iphone-5/#comment-1553 katherine Tue, 27 Sep 2011 22:42:39 +0000 http://www.iphone5specs.org/?p=513#comment-1553 do you know if the iphone 5 will have face time??? do you know if the iphone 5 will have face time???

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