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iPhone 5 has been unveiled...

#142
SoComSurfing said:
This is the single most sensable post in TBOT.

I preordered the 5 today only because my 3G is now 4 years old and starting to show its age. I use a 4 for work. I don't care that it's not a 4S or 5. It does what I need it too do. Shortly after the new year, work will recall all the Blackberries and iPhones to switch us all to Droids and tablets that will run Microsoft Silverlight. I couldn't care less that I will have a Droid phone rather than an iPhone. It's still a phone and just a tool for communication.
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I feel ya. I only have a Droid phone because my service provider did not yet offer an iPhone when I was ready to upgrade. They do now, and my contract is up in a few months. I'll weigh the current iPhone 5 against the current Android phones and go with 1) what will serve my needs relative to 2) cost. While I own 0 Apple products, I dont consider myself a hater.
 
#143
It looks really nice on paper. Nice and fast. Turn By Turn directions, Facebook from Notfication Center, A6 chip better front facing camera, etc, etc.

I don't think I'm gonna buy it anytime soon. I know my son wants one and his plan is up in November and he'll probably end up getting one with his Birthday $$.

Unfortunately, my plan is up Aug 2013. I love my iPhone 4. I am in no rush to upgrade it. It does everything I need and more. It's Jailborken, I have a fully working Siri server on it, a really cool theme and tweaks that make it awesome.

I have no plans to do to iOS 6 either. I upgraded my son's and wife's iPhone 4's to iOS6 and really, it's not much different that iOS5.1.1. There are a few cool differences but not worth losing my jailbreak for.
 
#145
Definitely said:
The only qualm I have with the design (and I just talked about it in another thread) is that it's too thin. They keep trying to make them thinner and thinner but it gets to a point where it's just too thin and too fragile. Everyone is scared to hold it without a big case so it sorta defeats the purpose of making it so thin. The 3GS had the best design in terms of ergonomics and durability.
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I agree. I LOVE the 3GS. I was switching back and forth between my 8GB 4 and 32GB 3GS until my old charger fried my 3GS. :( My sister still has her 3GS and LOVES it. She may get a 5 but she didn't get a 4 or 4S because it was not as rounded and the 3GS.
 
#150
MatticusMania said:
Ive been resistant to use iTunes up to this point, but that doesnt mean I cant learn to like it, if there is a benefit to doing so.
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I got an iPod Touch 1st generation many years ago, and until then I was strictly a Windows guy using a basic file folder system - iTunes drove me nuts trying to get accustomed to it!

While I'm pretty used to it by now, I must say I wish that I never did have to get used to it...
 
#151
onosson said:
I got an iPod Touch 1st generation many years ago, and until then I was strictly a Windows guy using a basic file folder system - iTunes drove me nuts trying to get accustomed to it!

While I'm pretty used to it by now, I must say I wish that I never did have to get used to it...
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Yeah, I dont have much experience with iTunes as I have a PC and all my music in one simple folder. My media player sorts it all out just fine for me. The little experience I do have with iTunes has been shaky, its the whole auto-sync stuff that seems to bug me. But, as someone posted earlier, there might be a way to shut those features off? I dont know. If I saw enough benefit in an iPhone over a comparative Droid device I might be able to get use to iTunes.
 
#155
No thank you on iTunes. It doesn't seem like a terrible app, just not for me. It was on my home PC for a little while, then I got rid of it. I got tired of it always trying to install Safari and some other goofy apps like Bonjour and Genius and such.

-Mike
 
#158
MJ5150 said:
No thank you on iTunes. It doesn't seem like a terrible app, just not for me. It was on my home PC for a little while, then I got rid of it. I got tired of it always trying to install Safari and some other goofy apps like Bonjour and Genius and such.

-Mike
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Rhapsody. $9.99/month, same catalog as iTunes, listen to entire catalog with no limitations, entire songs and compilations (not 30-second teasers), no extra charge. You never have to download if you don't want, but when you do, same pricing as iTunes. I listen to Rhapsody on my iPad constantly. GREAT app, no hitchhikers, never fails.
 
#160
Eric Perry said:
I disagree. iTunes *is* complicated when you compare it to utilizing a device that has the ability to act like a simple USB drive and simply dragging and dropping files or folders to or from the device to a computer or vice versa is beyond simple.
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I've used my windows version iPod as a mass storage device and it works just fine, just not as a media player proper...but you knew that already (is that your complaint?) otherwise, iTunes can drag and drop to and from as easily as anything else, just not so much with songs purchased from iTunes, because of the DRM. That's the lone issue for drag and drop with me.
 

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