Apple Announces new iPhone 5

[navychop]

I wouldn't be surprised if this model was micro USB instead of their standard connevtor.

I'd be dumbfounded.

Slow start to the show.

 

[meStevo]

They're moving to a new smaller proprietary connector, and not providing specs ahead of the release so that they can be the exclusive provider of docks for a time before other accessory makers catch up (and/or generate revenue from licensing the right)

 

[Neutron]

It is indeed called the iPhone 5.

 

[John Kotches]

iPhone5: Now with lower resolution than top tier Android phones... Somehow I doubt they'll trumpet that in ads

Edit:
Nice engineering on the LTE side to minimize parts.

 

[meStevo]

A6 is the real news

 

[Neutron]

Dang it! I want the A6 in our iPad 3!

 

[meStevo]

A6 + LTE = ?? for battery life is what I'm wondering

 

[Neutron]

From Gizmodo: "Claiming 8 hours 3G talk, 225 hours standby, 10 hours wi-fi browsing, 8 hours LTE browsing."

 

[John Kotches]

I know my wife will be getting one (I'm sticking with Android), and is ticked that all of her cases won't fit anymore. Not really different than Android btw, just a comment about my wife's perspective.

 

[Ronnie-]

A6 + LTE = ?? for battery life is what I'm wondering

Said to exceed 4s.

 

[meStevo]

From Gizmodo: "Claiming 8 hours 3G talk, 225 hours standby, 10 hours wi-fi browsing, 8 hours LTE browsing."

Yeah, those types of numbers don't hold up very well when you are switching between those functions. Will be interesting to see what that turns out to be once folks have them in their hands.

 

[John Kotches]

Nice updates to the already good camera too.

 

[John Kotches]

Said to exceed 4s.

1 minute of LTE browsing beats the 4s

 

[Neutron]

New connector is called Lightning. Complements the Thunderbolt connecter the Mac uses now. Apple will have an adapter for existing accessories.

 

[JamesJ]

I am not seeing anything to get excited over to be honest. Lets see something new.

 

[HDRoberts]

Guess it is time to finally upgrade my 3g. My big question is what happens to my unlimited data. Granted, from what I understand, they now throttle us at a certain point, but I'd rather throttling than overage charges. LTE will let us eat up a lot more data.

 

[John Kotches]

The naming implies it's a Thunderbolt interface, don't know if that's true or not. Doesn't matter, as the transfer speeds are going to be limited by the underlying hardware.

That's not a knock, right now, Thunderbolt is ahead of most computers and peripherals in the ability to transfer data so we'll have a few years to "grow" into the available bandwidth.

 

[Peter Parker]

I know my wife will be getting one (I'm sticking with Android), and is ticked that all of her cases won't fit anymore. Not really different than Android btw, just a comment about my wife's perspective.

They have alwya modified the size and/or the position of cameras/speakers etc enough to make cases unreusable after an update.

 

[Neutron]

It would have been cool if Apple had made the new connector a Thunderbolt connector since it's already out there.

 

[John Kotches]

They have alwya modified the size and/or the position of cameras/speakers etc enough to make cases unreusable after an update.

I'm just telling you what my wife is unhappy about -- but the 4/4S had no changes. I don't recall the earlier phones to be honest.