IPhone 5

[Acemundo]

"Tao Yen... ni jen tian siang na ke.... wo bu ken ni how le.."

 

..Patricia takes over....

haha.....you said Lin Chih LIng hor......don't give me patricia.

[BabyBlade]

Just get a Samsung.

 

iPhone? Maybe wait another few more years for them to start a brand new "Revolutionary" phone rather than just a "Evolution".

[LoverofCar]

From Apple official site.

 

Siri Languages

English (U.S., UK, Canada, Australia), Spanish (U.S., Mexico, Spain), French (France, Canada, Switzerland), German (Germany, Switzerland), Italian (Italy, Switzerland), Japanese, Korean, Mandarin (Mainland China, Taiwan), Cantonese (Hong Kong)

Still no singish?

[LoverofCar]

...maybe she will remind you... she is only a robot.

 

... or she helps you to book a room in gau loong tong...

May be siri will scold "tu-na-seng"...

[Blackyv]

I was just waiting for launching Iphone 5.

 

Yeah.. its really good features it has. :)

 

how to ship a car | car transport service

 

And even panorama is 'new' excited feature to fanboy like u..... ...

[Kopites]

Any idea when 5s launching soon.

[Joseph22]

Any idea when 5s launching soon.

21st sept 2012 can begin order.

 

heard official date is 28 sept 2012

 

i more interested to know when lumnia 920 launching

[Kopites]

i will still sign up for Iphone 5 though.

 

their apps are still better than Andriods. and OS still smoother.

 

However, Lumina 920 likely going to be my main phone.

 

only thing is, should i wait for Lumnia 1000 (if there is one.)

 

Don't worry there will always be iphone 5s, 6, 7...S3, S4, S5.....lumnia 1000, 10001...... the list go on and on.. Just go grasp you lumnia 1000 and in 2013 change to lumnia 1xxxx loh.

 

 

[Joseph22]

And even panorama is 'new' excited feature to fanboy like u..... ...

not sure how true it is. read that their panorama is better than what we have in the market for mobile phone.

[Panerex77]

if i am a ST user now, and recon with IP5.

 

Since they will be isssuing me with the nano-sim, does it mean the current sim i have on my IP4 will no longer be active?

 

But even if the sim card is inactive, can i still leave it inside my IP4 and use it to play games that do not require 3G network?

[Ghgan]

Guess I have wait for the iPhone20 or iSabre

 

[Blackyv]

not sure how true it is. read that their panorama is better than what we have in the market for mobile phone.

 

Found this, could be from ip5......

[Joseph22]

Found this, could be from ip5......

found what?? see nothing

Edited September 13, 2012 by Joseph22

[Elfenstar]

you have to remember that apple has a mature ecosystem ... so if they wanted to do something radical, ie "super duper retina display", *all* the current apps may become incompatible (or may require emulation, smt like running iphone apps on an ipad with the 2X)

 

however, if they slowly introduce newer technologies, it gives everyone supporting their ecosystem time to catch up ... (hardware devs, accessories, software devs etc)

 

its already going to be a pain to port to the new reso ... so thankfully theyve given us enough lead time to fix whatever we need to do so ...

 

Actually its not just screen lah.

 

Think about the camera, they just made it slimmer, but otherwise its the same as its 4S brethren. What did Nokia do? They ran with a larger than average phone sensor size, and threw in optical stabilisation. What did LG do? they ran with a thinner camera too, retained the sensor size, but increased the the capacity of the sensor to 13mp.

 

Then there's rolling out the new maps up with their turn by turn navigation and 3D view, but threw out walking directions and public transport directions/info

 

As for the screen they just went for something thinner, yet Sony is running similar tech and the capability to use the screen with regular gloves, etc.

 

The language aspect of Siri is good, but most of us have realised that it, Google Now, etc are more of a gimmick rather than something outright useful.

 

Facebook integration is great, but its nothing new. Android has had this down to a T since inception.

 

The faster CPU is good, but there isn't much news on it. Great if its using the A15 architecture, but nothing more than catch up if its a quad core A9. Even then, thanks to how the iPhone works, you'll probably not notice it unless you're doing photo editing, or hardcore gaming (I'm not talking about you fruit ninja )

 

Much more could have been done, or if done said, e.g. further optimisation of the code so browsing is faster, or improving Exchange sync so that all the funny caveats on contact sync, calender sync etc get resolved, etc

 

Maybe this writeup on the BBC can explain the disappointment best. http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19557497

[Joseph22]

Not sure if these photo are taken from real Iphone5 or another DSLR

 

http://www.gsmarena.com/apple_releases_cam...5-news-4796.php

[Sdf5725]

Maybe this writeup on the BBC can explain the disappointment best. http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19557497

 

no matter how objective other essays say about the iphone 5, the die hard fans of Apple will still buy and praise their newest the "most powerful" smartphone in the world. for me, it is funny to see Apple has to follow what Samsung is doing, bigger screen for phone, smaller size of pad, thinner, lighter, etc. up to certain extent, i still wondering if one day Apple said the panoramic photo taking is in fact "created" by Apple and claim it is their IP, in US, there will still have ppl follow and blindly accept it.

[Elfenstar]

Not sure if these photo are taken from real Iphone5 or another DSLR

 

http://www.gsmarena.com/apple_releases_cam...5-news-4796.php

 

Although it can be faked. I randomly picked one to get the exif data.

 

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ShutterSpeedValue - 1/1642 seconds

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BrightnessValue - 9.31

MeteringMode - Multi-segment

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FlashPixVersion - 0100

ColorSpace - sRGB

ExifImageWidth - 3264

ExifImageHeight - 2448

SensingMethod - One-chip color area sensor

ExposureMode - Auto

White Balance - Auto

FocalLengthIn35mmFilm - 33 mm

SceneCaptureType - Standard

 

Thumbnail: -

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JpegIFByteCount - 11395

 

Here's the lumia one the guys at The Verge took. Beats even the night mode on the S3 (which was 2nd best), even though the shutter speed was double at 1 second. Look at the lack of blur in contrast to the S3. Obviously their optical image stabilisation works really well. You can see the images here http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/7/3299784/n...a-hi-res-photos

 

LUMIA

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Make - QCOM-AA

Model - QCAM-AA

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YCbCrPositioning - Centered

ExifOffset - 180

ExposureTime - 1 seconds

FNumber - 0.00

ExifVersion -

DateTimeOriginal - 2012:09:06 20:47:30

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ComponentsConfiguration - YCbCr

MeteringMode - Unknown

Flash - Fired

FlashPixVersion - 0100

ColorSpace - sRGB

ExifImageWidth - 3552

ExifImageHeight - 2000

InteroperabilityOffset - 5570

 

GPS information: -

 

Maker Note (Vendor): -

 

GALAXY S3

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ImageWidth - 3264

ImageLength - 2448

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Orientation - Top left

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DateTime - 2012:09:06 21:44:23

YCbCrPositioning - Centered

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ExposureTime - 1/2 seconds

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ExposureProgram - Aperture priority

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DateTimeOriginal - 2012:09:06 21:44:23

DateTimeDigitized - 2012:09:06 21:44:23

ComponentsConfiguration - YCbCr

ShutterSpeedValue - 1/2 seconds

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MeteringMode - Center weighted average

Flash - Not fired

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UserComment - 8

Edited September 13, 2012 by Elfenstar

[Elfenstar]

no matter how objective other essays say about the iphone 5, the die hard fans of Apple will still buy and praise their newest the "most powerful" smartphone in the world. for me, it is funny to see Apple has to follow what Samsung is doing, bigger screen for phone, smaller size of pad, thinner, lighter, etc. up to certain extent, i still wondering if one day Apple said the panoramic photo taking is in fact "created" by Apple and claim it is their IP, in US, there will still have ppl follow and blindly accept it.

 

Don't get me wrong. I don't think its a bad phone. Not suitable for me, but not bad It's just underwhelming. After all the talk of innovation, and revolutionary and their "do not copy us" mantra, all they could come up with was this