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iPhone 5

Everytime I see this thread at the top of The Lounge I think the same thing is starting to apply to people of this site :
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Carry on...:D
 
EarlyMon said:
Apple beta or peanut beta? I like peanut beta with grape jelly. Youngsters always say they're jelly of my phone but I think they're hungry for peanut beta.
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I used to love Apple beta but it was rushed to production one year and had a botulism problem. I think too much light got in through a crack in the jar but can't be sure. I really soured on it when they said it could only be served with strawberry jam. I don't like strawberry jam and there is no way to add a raspberry jam getjar. The only bread app I found was whole wheat, I prefer white...rye they not allow 7 grain either? Not all fruits are berry grain friendly these days yet folks gobble them up. Youngsters are always hungry and will pretty much eat anything, no way around that. They usually like what their friends like, they aren't so pickle.
 
I dont get why it says the CPU is bad and old and provided by Samsung on the iPhone specs? The i5 CPU is extremely comparable to the quad core exynos andthe iPhone 5 GPU beats the S3 easily? Look i understand this is a Android site but people are always spewing out incorrect and nonsense just to make things on there end seem better.

Anyways what is the browsing time for the S3? I have been curious to know this but I cant find out anywhere. I would think its around the same as the i5 if not a little less.
 
robhs said:
I think most people don't think about the real benefit of having the iPhone around. It creates competition for Google and Android. That competition forces both sides to provide the very best to win customers. That means better products for the consumers (us). We all are winners regardless of what we like.
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True this... but right now apple is crossing the lines by trying to exterminate Samsung and their galaxy successes including the gs3
 
Clementine_3 said:
I used to love Apple beta but it was rushed to production one year and had a botulism problem. I think too much light got in through a crack in the jar but can't be sure. I really soured on it when they said it could only be served with strawberry jam. I don't like strawberry jam and there is no way to add a raspberry jam getjar. The only bread app I found was whole wheat, I prefer white...rye they not allow 7 grain either? Not all fruits are berry grain friendly these days yet folks gobble them up. Youngsters are always hungry and will pretty much eat anything, no way around that. They usually like what their friends like, they aren't so pickle.
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I like most anything made by a tomato.
 
Jeyd02 said:
True this... but right now apple is crossing the lines by trying to exterminate Samsung and their galaxy successes including the gs3
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Samsung will easily survive this.
I am very interested in seeing the outcome of the Apple vs. Android conflict.
I think that in a year from now, Android will be much farther advanced, and Apple will be behind.
 
sergey said:
Would people here switch? Nope. I bet most people here would rather have a G1 over a iPhone 5, and it's not because of the hardware. It's all about the software for people here when looking at the different platforms.
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I think this is a key thing in all this Discussion.

Back in 2007, i used to have a Blackberry, i always like High End Tech Devices and up until then, the Blackberry was the stuff to go for, BUT i was always mad because really, you could do a lot of things, but still, you could do only certain things and many others were not allowed.

When the iPhone came out, i was still locked under a contract, but my Father went ahead and got it right away.

It didn't take me much to realize that between the Blackberry and the iPhone, although they are totally different, they have a very similar Philosophy:

"YOU bought the Phone, BUT we still decide what you can and can't do with it"

By the time my Contract was over, the G1 came out, yet i didn't get it because i saw my Ex Girlfriend G1 and i realized that Android still needed to be developed, BUT i really liked the freedom you had to do what you wanted to do... it didn't take too long for Google to develop and release many other versions of Android so fairly soon i finally i got the HTC Nexus One, WITH NO CONTRACTS, and i loved it (i got tired of the feeling of being in someones trap, so i made a vote and decided to never get into a Contract anymore)

Then i got a Samsung i9000 Galaxy S, again with NO CONTRACTS, and i love it, now i am thinking about getting the Galaxy Nexus or waiting for the next one, off course directly from Google with NO CONTRACTS, so i keep using my AT&t Unlimited Data Plan ;-) the day they will rip it off from me, i will switch to T-Mobile.

I download stuff from Everywhere, i install app from different App Stores... i feel like i have a choice.

With Apple i don't feel this Freedom, i feel like i am locked in a Matrix where i am forced to like what they give me (unless you Jailbreak, but why would you buy a Phone with a Jail when you can buy one that is not in Jail to begin with?)

SO... to answer your question: NO, even if the iPhone had better specs than the Galaxy S3 i would get it, BUT if Apple Decided ti start selling Open Devices, allowing me to install apps from everywhere, Apple Store and other sources, even a random web site, and personalize the inferface to make it more suitable for my taste and the way i like to use my device... i would definitely think about it.

Until that happens... there is no way that i will leave Android
 
CrazySte said:
I think this is a key thing in all this Discussion.

Back in 2007, i used to have a Blackberry, i always like High End Tech Devices and up until then, the Blackberry was the stuff to go for, BUT i was always mad because really, you could do a lot of things, but still, you could do only certain things and many others were not allowed.

When the iPhone came out, i was still locked under a contract, but my Father went ahead and got it right away.

It didn't take me much to realize that between the Blackberry and the iPhone, although they are totally different, they have a very similar Philosophy:

"YOU bought the Phone, BUT we still decide what you can and can't do with it"

BUT if Apple Decided ti start selling Open Devices, allowing me to install apps from everywhere, Apple Store and other sources, even a random web site, and personalize the inferface to make it more suitable for my taste and the way i like to use my device... i would definitely think about it.

Until that happens... there is no way that i will leave Android
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But if that was to happen, then they would essentially give in to androids philosophy. Lol and god forbid they do anything remotely similar to what android is doing!
Oh wait..... (pull down notifications, ability to change wall paper, text to speech, cameras with native functions like panorama, multitasking, native maps with turn by turn GPS, universal search) .....egads!!!!!

I wouldn't be surprised if their next big thing was to include widgets with real multi tasking abilities.
 
I actually lined up for the iPhone 5 (for myself and my mom) at the local AT&T store as I needed to get the plan changed at the same time. Interesting thing, one of the guys in line told me he tried an Android phone and he couldn't figure it out. He said he knows a lot of smart people like Android but it's just not easy enough for him to use. :)

Seriously, though, aside from one Apple/Mac fanatic classmate back in high school, this is the first time I've been exposed to Apple die-hards. Too bad I left the Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 7 at home. Would've been interesting to see the reaction of folks there had I whipped out an Android device. :p
 
hardware isn't the most important piece. Its the OS features, how the phone works, what you can do with the phone that's important.

Apple gives its users a great experience with the IOS, as long as you want to do things the way Apple envisioned it.

Android is a more open OS, you can fairly easily root, flash 3rd party roms, download apps from 3rd party stores, do with the phone what you want.

its not so much which one is better, its what is someone looking for in a phone.
 
meackerman said:
its not so much which one is better, its what is someone looking for in a phone.
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I wish everyone on both sides would recognize this.^

I'm on my 5th Android (1st Droid, incredible, Thunderbolt, Rezound, GS3) Yet I recommended the iPhone to both my sisters. They have little desire to download market apps and like the user friendly, no configuration iPhone. I made the mistake of recommending an android phone one and that person thinks it's a pain and can't follow simple, setting adjustments
 
EarlyMon said:
Early's benchmarks -

Number of HTC One X threads required in the SGS3 forum? Zero.

Number of automobile threads required in the SGS2 forum? Zero.

Number of iP5 threads required in the SGS3 forum? Zero.

Threads cheerfully merged here to the Lounge. :) :)
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they not be required... but are the restricted from?

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