iphone

godsshoeshine wrote:
ive been holding out for the iphone5, but im thinking of switching if the new iphone does not have mobile hotspot capabilities. any thoughts on the htc inspire

Generally, that's a carrier issue, not a phone manufacturer issue.  It's entirely possible that Apple puts the ability in the phone and at&t chooses not to offer the service.

That being said, I would not buy a new phone in the next 6 weeks.  There is too much new stuff on the horizon.  An at&t customer (or any customer for that matter) should take a long, hard look at any dual-core phone on the LTE (4G) network because of the two year contract and shelf life of phones these days (about 18 months).  We know one of those is the Samsung Galaxy S II.  We don't know about the new iPhone yet.

The HTC Inspire is not a dual-core phone and the next Android OS will be be built to fully utilize the dual core.   I would not buy a single core phone today, but I wouldn't fret if I bought one, say 3 months ago.  A single core phone will be alright, but not great with Ice Cream Sandwich, but by the time the next Android OS (Jello?) comes out next year, you'll wish you had a dual core phone.

wml7 wrote:
Best Buy expects iPhone5 for sprint in first week of October
http://www.macrumors.com/2011/09/04/best-buy-expects-sprint-iphone-5-in-1st-week-of-october/
;D

Apparently you can get an iPad2 soon too:

Sprint Gets it's own iPad2

the folks in cupertino don't like to be criticized by the apps they sell:

Apple bans app that shows ugly side of electronics
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/09/14/tech/mobile/apple-bans-app/index.html

sweetcell wrote:
the folks in cupertino don't like to be criticized by the apps they sell:

Apple bans app that shows ugly side of electronics
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/09/14/tech/mobile/apple-bans-app/index.html

"The game is still available for $1 in the Android Market."

Not sure for how much longer though…

godsshoeshine wrote:
ive been holding out for the iphone5, but im thinking of switching if the new iphone does not have mobile hotspot capabilities. any thoughts on the htc inspire

Why wouldn't it? The current iPhone 4 has mobile hotspot.

wml7 wrote:
Best Buy expects iPhone5 for sprint in first week of October
http://www.macrumors.com/2011/09/04/best-buy-expects-sprint-iphone-5-in-1st-week-of-october/
;D

In case you missed it, Sprint is revising it's policies ahead of iPhone Day:

14 day trial period instead of 30 days (I'm fine with this for two reasons - (1) if you can't figure out if a phone is right for you in 14 days, then maybe you shouldn't have a smart phone, and (2) In CA it's statutorily set for 30 days and Sprint can't get out of it…ah CA, we've never had a thought we didn't codify)

But more importantly…..

The end of the Premier Program.  For those not on Sprint, they used to reward long term customers (10 years+ or have high bills) with an upgrade every year for one line, and those with Silver (just paid smartphone bills, basically) got upgrades for ALL lines every 22 months.

This has been terminated.  Basically, it works like this:  Sprint subsidies for HTC, Motorola and Samsung phones were between $150-$200.  The subsidy for the iPhone is about $400-$450. 

Thus the end of one year upgrades, and I fear this is just the beginning of changes thanks to the iPhone joining the service.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that the iPhone 5 will certainly not be WiMAX and probably not LTE, but will support HSPA+ and EvDO Rev B.

The reason that I say that is there is a hot rumor that Sprint will announce the switch to LTE from WiMAX on Oct 7, but also that they will move away from EvDO Rev A and onto the EvDO Rev B.  Rev B will give them approximately 9Mbps down and 2Mbps up over their 3G network, and give them a leg up on the 3G competition while trying to balance out the iPhone competition.

There's no reason to go to Rev B if the iPhone were to be LTE or WiMAX.

Of course if the iPhone is LTE then Sprint is wasting it's time beefing up it's 3G network since it will be left in the dust as existing carriers at&t and Verizon have LTE networks in place.

sweetcell wrote:
Police assisted Apple in search of man's home
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/mobile/09/02/iphone.5.prototype/index.html

we can't seem to separate church and state - no wonder business and police don't have a problem intermingling…

This unique melding of hippies and fascism reminds me how much there is to dislike about Apple.  What other company would think they have the right to search someone's house, and actually get the police to go along with it?

Just thought I'd move this up here.

Thus far, the iPhone 4S. 

A5 dual-core processor (same as iPad), 8 mega-pixel camera with 1080p video, Siri voice activated search/phone tasks and "wireless mirroring" or as I like to call it "Not-LTE" 

Holy crap that's it.  Sprint is finished with this timing.  They have to sell 30 million iPhones and they're starting with the iPhone 4S?  Today marks the end of Sprint….

will the A5 processor be on the ipod touch too?

Vas wrote:
will the A5 processor be on the ipod touch too?

No.  Same hardware, more storage and a new color.

vansmack wrote:

Vas wrote:
so when is iphone 5 coming out? October?

You mean the iPhone 4S?

Sept announcement, Oct Release.

vansmack wrote:
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that the iPhone 5 will certainly not be WiMAX and probably not LTE, but will support HSPA+ and EvDO Rev B.

Got these right.

iPhone 5 will be released just as soon as they have iPhone 6 R&D'd

So, my upgrade through AT&T is due. I have a Blackberry but I keep hearing about RID going under soon [possibly] so instead of a new Blackberry I guess I'm gonna grab this iPhone. Is it 199 even for upgrades?

DeathFromAbove1979 wrote:
So, my upgrade through AT&T is due. I have a Blackberry but I keep hearing about RID going under soon [possibly] so instead of a new Blackberry I guess I'm gonna grab this iPhone. Is it 199 even for upgrades?

Yes, it's $199 for any eligible 2 year contract extension.

But seriously, hold the iPhone4S up to the Samsung Galaxy SII before you make your purchase.

sweetcell wrote:
Police assisted Apple in search of man's home
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/mobile/09/02/iphone.5.prototype/index.html

"Haha, is this what they lost at the bar? No wonder they couldn't find it."

vansmack wrote:

DeathFromAbove1979 wrote:
So, my upgrade through AT&T is due. I have a Blackberry but I keep hearing about RID going under soon [possibly] so instead of a new Blackberry I guess I'm gonna grab this iPhone. Is it 199 even for upgrades?

Yes, it's $199 for any eligible 2 year contract extension.

But seriously, hold the iPhone4S up to the Samsung Galaxy SII before you make your purchase.

I honestly don't really care, as long as it can call and text everything on top of that is just a bonus. If it wasn't for the Twitter app on my Blackberry I wouldn't use it for much outside of texting and calling people. I'm not a huge smart phone buff, if I can watch Netflix really quick on my phone that'd be cool. Plus my current Blackberry is poopy. I just want a new phone.

what about porn?  which phone has big balls bouncing towards my face in three d for my phone?