iPhone 5 on Verizon Won't Support Simultaneous Voice/Data > To keep size down?

reply to skeechan

Re: To keep size down?

Its quite apparent you made an incorrect assumption. I have used an S3 and while nice looking, it is a novelty, would never use it for my daily work

A novelty? Says the iSheep...

So angry you.

reply to skeechan

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I would long before I'd step down to using a shitty plastic hemorrhoid handset whose main feature is random reboots and force closing apps.

OOooooo but it's bigger. Yay, bigger fail.

reply to Cheese
I'd be angry too if I were stuck using an Android handset every day. I'd be kicking my dog, beating the gf...I sympathize with your frustration although I have never known it, being that I'm an iPhone owner.

reply to skeechan
And as I said earlier, it's quite apparent you haven't used any handset released recently... I have NONE of those issues and neither does anyone I know using Android

Keep spewing your shit iTool...

reply to Anon

Re: To keep size down?

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reply to Humanoso
Better camera optics and processing, faster graphics, better battery life, better connectivity options (like full car integration with my R350 and 535i, not just crappy BT audio)....

After looking at the S3 in store and messing with my friends' for several hours I went through the list of the things I use my iPhone for and the S3 wouldn't fit the bill for a lot of them just as my Galaxy S WiFi 5.0 doesn't. Even Google Play's music manager poses problems in that it ignores high bitrate files rather than re-encode 256 or 320 and go ahead and upload. So with my Samsung Galaxy S WiFi I find my playlists half empty and the S3 would be the same mess. There is more to an handset than hardware, software is just as important or more so and Android just isn't well thought out. I have 3 Android devices, it's not like I don't use them...I use them all the time but I wouldn't pick them over iOS, no way.

I've never used a WP7 handset so I don't know how they are but I do not that there are no OEM connectivity options for my cars for WP.

Google Play MUSIC MANAGER...the app that uploads songs to the cloud. It doesn't support lossless files like FLAC or ALAC and my library is largely ALAC. So when I go to actually play my playlists, they're 1/2 empty because music manager doesn't attempt re-encode files say to 256K or 320K MP3 that it can't natively upload. I have to create completely separate libraries and manually re-encode my lossless stuff to MP3 if I want to play it off the Google Play cloud service. Given I have 13K tracks, keeping everything on the device is not practical. Given I have 13K tracks, manually duplicating and then maintaining 2 separate libraries satisfy the sorry support provided by Android isn't practical. The music manager should offer to convert to MP3, lossless files it can't upload rather than simply ignore them.

As for the others, you're absolutely right. Yes, the 1/2" thick Nokia has better optics and the RAZR an amazing battery. I had direct competitor handsets in my head like the S3. There are certainly specialty Android handsets that pick one thing and do it spectacularly while doing everything else like crap.

As far as processing, the iPhone 5 runs a dual core A15 in it (supposedly the first handset to sport it), Samsung isn't rolling out their A15 based handsets until Q4. The few benchmarks we have seen for A15 (like the Ti OMAP5 video) show it eats the A9 for breakfast, even with 2 fewer cores. Not merely beats it...owns it.

Faster graphics, I saw console quality graphics, something not even my 12 core GPU TF700T can do and certainly no A9 based handset can do. Real Racing 3 makes Shadow Gun, Riptide and Dead Space, 3 great looking Android games look like total ass. Nothing definitive but it certainly looks like Apple stepped up to the PVR 6 when moving to the A15.

The iPhone 5 WILL undoubtedly rule the handset processing roost until at least the 4Q when other A15 handsets start appearing from manufacturers who don't care about battery life and will overclock the snot out of them. But 'tis the way with technology. Wait 6 months and something faster comes out. 6 more months something still faster. 6 more months...faster yet.

Are you sure that Google Play music manager can't upload FLAC files and transcode them to 320kbps mp3 files?

»support.google.com/googleplay/bi···tx=topic

Why not just drag and drop lossless .flac tracks right from your computer to your phone and use an app that can play these files without having to compress the format? SD cards are cheap, and you could keep tons of great quality music with you.

If you're just going to use 320kbps bit rates, you may as well sign up for MOG or Spotify (or both, cheap at $10/month each) and stream using LTE or WiFi while only keeping a small library of songs on the device that these services don't have licenses to provide?