iPhone 5x

[Armand]

 

My thoughts:

 

·         Finger print reader looks interesting. Interested to see how it works in the real world. Is this just a Siri that nice for a while by in practice you never use or just switch off.

·         Want to see what comes out of the M7 low  power sensor thing. Step towards wearable tech trend. Anything they design for a watch can be partially demonstrated to people that have not bought into the idea of a watch or anything wearable.

·         We have truly hit the wall when they are making out 64bit is a big deal, they focusing on GPU\CPU speeds as a big deal anymore and colours

·         Apple are losing it a bit when they can release phone covers which are so awful looking.

 

It’s also interesting the spin around 2 phones being released yesterday but really it was just one.

Since the iPhone 4 they have always offered three phones:

1. This year’s, with the latest technology.
2. Last years’s,
3. The two-year-old model,.

It’s just that instead of putting the year-old iPhone 5 in slot #2, they’ve created the 5C to debut in that slot. The 5C is, effectively, a plastic iPhone 5. Charge the same price you would have had to sell the iPhone 5 at but more margin for them since it has a cheaper manufacturing cost. Will be interesting to see if it works for them.

[Sharkwald]

I reckon the 5c will sell absolute gangbusters. Without seriously compelling evidence, Apple will sell 2 to our house, and we might well have gone for 5ss.

[Armand]

On Wednesday, 11 September 2013 11:02:17 UTC+1, Sharkwald wrote:

I reckon the 5c will sell absolute gangbusters.

You may well be right. It's the sort of slight of hand they needed to pull. While it is just last years model. The new casing might be enough to make it look new. And new is new.

[Jono]

Keeping the 5 without changes would have been a mistake in the UK - the LTE radio in the 5 only supports EE and Three's network channels, while the 5c will support Vodafone and (presumably) O2. (Aside from the external appearance, I think the LTE radio is the only substantive change from the 5 to the 5c.)

I'm thinking of getting a 5s. Because I can.

[Sharkwald]

I'm thinking of getting a 5s. Because I can.

I think that means you have to get a gold one :-P.

Sorry, champagne... 

[Jono]

On Wednesday, 11 September 2013 16:22:18 UTC+1, Sharkwald wrote:

I think that means you have to get a gold one :-P.

Sorry, champagne... 

If you try to add one to your basket, it goes down as Gold. 

[Viigand]

Sounds like a plot by the NSA to get their hands on everyones fingerprints to me....

[Armand]

And until recent times that would have been Tin hat thinking....

[Sharkwald]

Yeah, they were pretty adamant in the keynote that the fingerprints are always stored locally on the device, and never sent anywhere.

Regardless of that, the timing is appalling.

[Armand]

On Thursday, 12 September 2013 10:11:46 UTC+1, Sharkwald wrote:

Yeah, they were pretty adamant in the keynote that the fingerprints are always stored locally on the device, and never sent anywhere.

 

Yes because if there is one thing we know,  Multi billion dollar corporations never change their rules or end user agreements. ;-)

[Sharkwald]

Well quite!

[Jono]

On Thursday, 12 September 2013 09:47:04 UTC+1, Viigand wrote:

Sounds like a plot by the NSA to get their hands on everyones fingerprints to me....

If the NSA want peoples fingerprints (though, why would they - they are about signals intelligence; the FBI on the other hand...), there are easier ways of doing it than getting mobile phone manufacturers to put sensors into high-end smartphones. My fingerprints were taken when I entered the US in January. And in any case, the sort of fingerprint sensor that is put in a phone doesn't store an image of your fingerprint anyway, they read data points. 

[Armand]

On Thursday, 12 September 2013 11:25:08 UTC+1, Jono wrote:

My fingerprints were taken when I entered the US in January.

Your entering their jurasiction, their rules.

 

And in any case, the sort of fingerprint sensor that is put in a phone doesn't store an image of your fingerprint anyway, they read data points. 

I'm guessing that how all fingerprints break down anyway.It's all aboyut matching data points.

 

Anyway its niave to think at some point this data wont be given out or simply taken. It will...attitudes to fingerprinting will change, people will come to accept it through convinence and much like how much info is given to Facebook...fingerprint info will be no differnt. just a quesiton of are you bothered enough to turn it off over the convinence it might give.