lrh
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Just start an android fanboy thread where you can get excited over the many manufacturers products that use that operating system. No need to come in here and trash apple products. I for one find it very tiring.
Was said with tongue firmly in cheek
Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone already get trashed plenty on Apple threads... Their users just don't take it soooo personally.
Thank god my Apple-owning friends don't take their products too seriously and happy to acknowledge their flaws and Apple's often farcical marketing spin.
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Where's the iPad Mini thread so I can trash that?
Waiting to see how Apple spin a 7-8" tablet as their invention despite trashing the form factor for 2 years.
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No wonder it doesn't work in iOS, they want to flog you suckers an app
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ips-communities/id521920635?mt=8
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Back then manuals would have been paper-only so someone would have to have found one and scanned it in. Even most 90s manuals have been scanned in as there were no PDF versions.
Would check out some Australian forums as the Bluebird was also made/sold down there.
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That engine was also fitted to loads of other cars around the world, like the S12 Silvia:
http://club-s12.org/retro4/index.php?topic=17058.0
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Haha, benchmarks are meaningless except when the iPhone comes top
2nd placed here is a £200 phone with a 4 year old single-core Intel Atom running a 2 year old version of Android
The 5 screen still cracks if it lands face down:
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Ooops, Apple ripped off the trademarked Swiss railway clock design... Who slavishly copies stuff again?
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No need to backup and restore if you're been using iOS 5 with iCloud
Or if you've been using Android since 2008
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Trouble is, despite having £100+ billion in the bank Apple has done maps on the cheap buying up ancient data that's 10+ years old. Great if you want to find out where Our Price or Woolworths used to be on your high street
Apple will either have to invest a ton very quickly (even then it could take years to get anywhere near Google) or back down and bring back Google Maps.
I think if the new dock/adaptor causes loads of problems and the 5 has any suspected hardware flaws, it's Twitter's servers that will be having the meltdown
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I can't take that seriously if they can't even spell Tokyo
Tokio is an alternative spelling for Tokyo (æ±äº¬), the capital of Japan, used primarily in non-English speaking countries.
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It wouldn't be an Apple launch without the now traditional PR disaster
Irish Minister for Justice Alan Shatter issued a statement saying he was concerned that a 35-acre garden and farm called Airfield in his district had been mislabeled with an airport icon
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You might be lucky and get offered a speed awareness course which means no points but the fee Oscar nearer £100 than the usual £60 and you have to sit through a 4 hour session
£85 and 3 hours in Hampshire. At least it wasn't the dull lecture I was expecting.
Interestingly most of the people on it were middle-aged or older and had never been nicked before or had an accident.
At the end of the day road policing is a very blunt instrument, especially now it's mostly speed and camera-based. Only a tiny fraction of genuinely (and delibrately) bad drivers are punished.
A copper working a camera could just as easily be out in the road, flagging people down to have a quiet word. Instead they let you commit the offence anyway and hope points/cash will make you a safer driver.
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Not saying you but other people in here are like I hate apple fan boys, fan boys suck yet are massive driod boys
That's why I posted mostly postive reviews of it
Questioning if it's really all that great and worthy of £500-700 isn't being a massive hater or fanboy for something else. I've used a Blackberry in the past as much as Android, have a WebOS tablet, and I'm interested to see what Microsoft/Blackberry/Mozilla/Intel bring to the party in the next year.
If Apple made a device that did exactly what I need I'd suck it up and lay my money down but they're a million miles from that and getting further away by the day.
If someone was pimping a mod to the Z that cost £500-700 would questioning its effectiveness and value cause such offence?
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i recently went past a fixed camera that was hidden by overgrown trees, i have contacted the police, they have yet to give me the legal standing on this
Waste of time.
I was done for 35 on a deserted country road. I sent multiple emails/pictures to the Hampshire plod, "Safe Roads Partnership" and local council pointing out road signage was missing or covered, their camera van was parked on a blind bend, traffic calming measures on the road were damaged, and where they clearly hadn't followed the DfT guidelines.
Eventually the "Safe Roads Partnership" admitted they're no longer a "Partnership" as so technically don't have to follow any guidelines and can put a camera where they want. In the end all I got was for them to admit their website was misleading and got them to update it.
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Nano SIMs? Jeez that's another attempt to restrict what SIMs people put in their phones now that Micro SIMs are widely available. Ever notice how iPhone SIMs are £5 a month more than the equivalent non-iPhone deal?
There's been inertia until now based on the supposed "eco-system" advantage but trading on past glories only works so long, as RIM and Nokia have found out. Mercedes and VW have been trading off past glories for about 20 years!
Dropping the best mapping service for their own inferior one (just to stick two fingers up at Google) hardly fits with the image of having the best apps and user experience now does it? I sense Apple has already peaked in the mobile arena so enjoy it while it lasts
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Well the embargo on reviews is off. All US reviews are predictably gushing... Spiteful Apple doesn't allow people into launch events or give them review hardware if they're too critical.
UK reviews are more balanced:
http://www.t3.com/reviews/iphone-5-review
So, what to make of this latest upgrade. There’s no denying that the iPhone 5 is a lovely thing, and the best iPhone to date. It could well be Apple’s best-selling unit ever.
But a lot has changed in a year, and the current crop of Android superphones – and the incoming Windows Phone 8 handsets – have closed the gap. For nearly every “new†feature announced at the Keynote, there was a Samsung, Android, Windows, Nokia, Sony or HTC fan saying “my phone already does that.â€
Apple’s competitors never been closer in terms of quality, function and aesthetics and from your feedback on our social networks we know how many of you are jumping ship to phones with a bigger screen and more features.
Given that iPhone 4S users can upgrade to iOS 6 and do just about everything the iPhone 5 can do, and that Android users can get similarly impressive handsets for less dosh, we reckon the smart money won’t all be going on a new iPhone this year, even if the mass market can’t get enough of it. It’s good, very good. But it’s no longer the best around.
http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/iphone-5-1096004/review
Is it going to sell like hot-cakes? Of course. Will it send shockwaves shuddering through the tech world and turn competitors back to their drawing boards? No.
But, in truth, Apple will be well aware that it doesn't need to reinvent the wheel to succeed and, in this case, it has yet again provided a fine phone that will keep it battling at the top of the charts for another year.
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1. iCloud went down for a poxy 10 hours and Apple have apologised and said that the outage was unnaceptable, NOT the service.
What about the downtime in May, June, July... Just the latest. Still got friends with multiple iClouds that never worked.
2. So a manufacturer deliberately withholds stock to make it seem more desirable. Companies have been doing that for years
Yeah but Apple fanboys lap it up and post their press releases on forums as fact
I'd never make sweeping fanboy statements that one phone/OS is better than another. Only calling people out on some ridiculous pro-Apple propaganda.
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But Apple stuff "just works". All my iPhone-using friends rave about how good iTunes and iCloud are... NOT!
Apple admits iCloud 'unacceptable'
Apple 'hasn't really run out of iPhone 5s AT ALL'
Siri, will Apple's App Store lock out blind people on iOS 6?
Co-founder and brains behind Apple, Steve Wozniak:
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The more people line up to hand over ridiculous amounts for these lacklustre updates, the more Apple will try to get away with it. You can bet the 5S will be an even smaller step forward.
Apple was resting on it's laurels in the 90s and trying to sue everyone for copying them... Look what happened there
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Shame Apple's market share has been flat for years and now even falling according to some analysts. No matter how much they hype up their sales, they're not growing as fast as the rest of the industry.
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£2k cheaper than it should be, must be a damaged/repaired even if not recorded and on HPI. Avoid.
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does it do 4g then ?
Yes and No. This "unlocked 4G phone" will only do 4G on Orange/T-Mob in a few cities, in a few months time.
When Vodafone/O2/3 launch their 4G networks next summer, you'll have to upgrade again, by which time the iPhone 6 will be near.
Octet, if you're going to promote this phone so heavily you could at least point out the pitfalls/costs/limitations before ecouraging people to drop £530+ on it.
POLL - Which iPhone you're getting (if you got a new one)
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Still a ton of Apple reality-distortion field spin going on around here I see.
The 5c was going to "crush Android at the low end"... A year later it's effectively dropped.
The Galaxy S3 of 2.5 years ago has almost exactly the same size, shape, weight, screen, RAM, battery as the iPhone 6.
iPad sales are falling. Not just market share, actual numbers of units.
Outside of English speaking countries and Japan, iOS has bugger all market share.
Interest in iPhone launches (measured by Google searches and market share) peaked in 2011/2012.
Apple is going revolutionise payments? Hmmm, less than 1 in 6 people in the UK/US own iPhones and market share is drifting down. Are retailers going to spend a fortune upgrading all their tills just for Apple's proprietary system (from which they naturally take a cut)?
Apple can't even design cables that last more than 3 weeks...
If people want to buy their stuff that's fine, it's just they still insist on telling everyone about it ad nauseam as if the majority of the population give a monkey's.