Duane Cunningham
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Heisenberg uses the world's shittiest old flip phones, though. Oh wait, yeah... Nokia.
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Heisenberg uses the world's shittiest old flip phones, though. Oh wait, yeah... Nokia.
Vire
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Battery/Camera are so incredibly marginal that it's not worth upgrading.
OS 7 is available for free on my iPhone 5...Also, Gold is better? What?
Processor and Fingerprint scanner are really the only two big upgrades.
bucsfan0210
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Give me the reasons that 5S is worth the extra 100 dollars from the 5C
Please
Please
yes i am enjoying it.
i'm adding that i have .flac support and 80gbs for half the price
-Better battery... than what?
-Better camera... than what?
-Better OS...agree.
-Better security (fingerprint scanner)... dont care
-Better colors... lul
-Better LTE... we dont know yet
-Better processor... same ram
Most people are on a 2 year upgrade cycle. For those coming from a 4S, it is a HUGE upgrade.
paradise_circus
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I praise your self-deceiving ears.
Duane Cunningham
Member
No kidding... that sounds pretty nice! I wish Apple would throw that feature in.
it's made of metalGive me the reasons that 5S is worth the extra 100 dollars from the 5C
Please
it looks better
but if you are going for white it's pretty close
You also have a phone with a worse OS and worse construction.
I can play this game too.
It looks the same on the outside, so it must be the same inside.
not gonna get into audiophile territory here because ogg might be better,
but i'll say .flac is widely available, whereas ogg is that file extension that makes you scratch your head and google it, like oh yeah..ogg now i remember
SD card support and experience in Android is horrible, dunno why you'd want it, aside from Apple ripping people off with their absurd pricing for flash size upgrade. The HTC one default is 32gb for the base model and 64gb is only $50 more I believe, that's how it should be done. No dealing with SD card 0 and SD card 1/external mess.
lastflowers
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I imagine they have to. Why bother putting it in the OS if it doesn't have Dev API access.
dynamitejim
Member
Looks really nice. That camera burst is crazy. My 5 with iOS 7 should hold me over until the 6 comes out though.
buying into the idea that specs make the device, here, on a video games forum where they know about a company called nintendo.
Pretty cool
same complaints every year. but always a pretty big upgrade for people on 2 year contracts
pretty funny people still believe in the mp myth though
tsunami643
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Give me the reasons that 5S is worth the extra 100 dollars from the 5C
Please
More future-proof is my main draw. I don't plan on upgrading each year and if I get a 5S I want it to last 3-5 years. Given how Apple invariably releases some bullshit new feature on the next iOS that they claim won't run on older gen phones, I'm betting the 5C will be largely obsolete in 2-3 years.
I think the point is they're future-proofing their phones and especially their iPads which I assume will hit the 4GB limit pretty quickly. It'll be faster, but how fast will depend on how optimized the software on it is.
It's not mind-blowing, but it's kind of cool. Apple has always been at the forefront of stuff like this so I expect we're going to see phones go 64 bit in two years or so.
I might get a 5S if I can't find a good no-contract deal. I'm due for an upgrade in November but don't want to keep shelling out $80 a month.
Also Apple deserves kudos for making a gold phone that doesn't look completely ostentatious. Toss up between silver and gold for my favorite, will have to see them in person to decide.
That might be the worst part. The camera will be better in basically every way. But since it doesn't say 10 or 12 mpx people think it's shit.
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The Everyman
well for games, more ram is always nice.
i agree. and i still prefer it. 80gbs, $599, .flac, that's it for me.
s4, worse construction
s4, worse os
there now im not a total troll, plus love my ipad 3.
those bullet point retorts...
better than 5? great!
how about better than the comp?
It appears that your karma is bigger than mine.
What are you basing this on?
Yeah, it's just a well-timed move for the future. Especially timing it with the release of iOS where devs are already going to be updating apps, 64-bit support will probably be widespread pretty quickly. By the time 64-bit-requiring memory sizes are industry standard everything will already be ready for 64-bit.
It's not like, huge or anything, but it's a pretty smart move.
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Why do you need those things?
I bet that even with real audio equipment and nice headphones in a blind listening test you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between FLAC and a properly encoded V0 mp3. Let alone on a phone.
If you're storing all of your media (entire photo and music collection, etc) on your phone, you're doing it wrong.
dorkimoe
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did they post the off contract price yet? (not being a smart ass, i havent looked)
I would think it would be 299 off contract..has to be
Diablohead
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5C price? it's about $50 cheaper then the old 5 is/was, you would think they would aim for a bigger price cut with that plastic shell looking like a fisher price toy.
oh absolutely nothing, was just playing to his baseless claims about the 5s. Android is a fine OS, but it isn't for me.
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Deleted member 12837
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The inside is a slightly better iPhone 5. It's the standard price cut they always do for the previous model phone. Why are people surprised by this?
so two people have now accused me of not knowing the difference between flac and lossy formats, when listening through car speakers (bet you didnt think of that) or BT audio equiptment, or yes...good quality headphones
also my apple employee friend telling me about "biometrics" and "ram is an outdated spec"
his exact words, i mean...
will say im curious about these "flac apps" i'm now suddenly hearing about, i was aware of the macintosh plugin back in the day that converted flac to a useable format in iTunes/iPhone, but that's it
Its still the size it should be
ALAC is a lossless format. You can use that.
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Deleted member 12837
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Well sure I could be wrong and you have golden ears. But plenty of studies and blind tests have been performed (ex: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/06/concluding-the-great-mp3-bitrate-experiment.html ) that show that most people can't tell the difference between those formats. Odds are that you fall into that majority.
are you asking if they went back to 3.5” sadly, no.
@codhand. just search app store for flac and there’s apps that play them for iOS. it’s not a plugin for the music player. it’d be an alternate music player.
some apps also have better EQ implementations than the subpar EQ for the default iOS music app
pls. I bet you don't even know what a RAM emergency is, or how to locate the button for the internet.
im aware of that link without clicking it and it is flawed in many ways, which is a diff thread, where i already explained why
bud i don wanna! :_(