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New iPhones, iWatch to Debut September 9
After months of speculation bordering on the nauseating, we appear to have a somewhat hard date for the release of the new iPhone(s) and Apple's long-awaited iWatch: September 9. ReCode had already discovered that the two different-sized iPhones would be revealed on that date, and now states the iWatch will be unveiled as well at the same media event. The iWatch is expected to have significant integration with Apple’s HealthKit health and fitness platform, as well as with Apple's home device integration platform HomeKit.
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dvd536
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Watch battery life

hopefully it isn't dismal at best like the other watches out.
Nanaki (banned)
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Re: Watch battery life

Im betting one iphone 6 will be about the same size as the iphone 5 and the other just the tiniest bit bigger maybe .2 inch increase. I so hope they pull something that stupid and go out of buis im so sick of their garbage it is not even funny. Locked down over priced obtuse break the screen and watch the mother board fail with it. Tired of their junk plain and simple.

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Re: Watch battery life

Tired of seeing their massive success? Going to have to take a seat and keep stewing in your own venom for a very long time. I don't see them going anywhere anytime soon.
Nanaki (banned)
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Re: Watch battery life

Yeh well people are getting tired of their displays that are smaller than other phones out there. There are a few customers who come through here that have already stated that if the 6 is not at least as big as the s5 they are done with apple.

krenim191
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Re: Watch battery life

Not everyone wants a phone the size of a tablet either.
Nanaki (banned)
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Re: Watch battery life

Actually the s5 is not that huge. It is big yeh but not a giant. Look at what for example samsung tends to do they make their flag ship phone then a few weeks at most after they have a mini version and a more water etc resistant active which is also smaller.

S3 S4 S5 all have mini versions. Im sure their S6 phone will as well.

Now there are allot of phones i will never buy after working on them. Pretty much any phone that does not have a removable battery or is "unibody" Now no iphone falls in to that category.I will not buy a phone that is locked down such as iphones. Yeh carriers lock their phones but on android it is easy to get them unlocked even if it costs money and that is not always the case. To unlock a iphone requires you to jailbreak it and jailbreaking is not reliable. On most android phones and devices (amazon excluded) Rooting androids version of the jail break is as permanent as you want. It is persistent and does not get undone even by ota updates.A jail broken phone even if un-tethered is undone if you update your iphone and at some point you likely WILL have to update it do to a crash that requires you to update as the only way to fix it. The bricking can and does happen with android. But even if it does you can re root if you have to update to get out of the boot loop soft bricking.

Again amazon is the exception to the rule with androids. I will not buy amazon any thing even though i do have and love my kindle fire that is rooted and is using a custom rom in the form of cm11 m9. It is now just kindle hardware with no amazon junk any place on it.

I will not buy any phone that requires me to buy or even download a app to for example delete all photos all contact or all of any thing else. Apple is defo in this category and in fact it is the only phone or tablet that fits this category. To delete all photos on iphone you have to do them 1 at a time or jump through a whole lota hoops and maybe you get lucky and get them all deleted.

There are many other phones i have worked on that i would not own. I could list dozens of them. Samsung is the one phone that i would own pretty much any of their products. I look at ease of repair ability. And samsung always scores fairly high 7 to 8 some times 9 on i fix its site. I products consistently score low.And what costs them points is a big turn off for e. So it is not just the score high or low that is a turn off for me but also what cost them points. I could not care any less about a battery that is soldered with 2 wires to the board. That is a 30 second repair/replacement. But when i have to take out about 30 screws yeh big turn off iphone 4 all variants. 5 series is a nice change of pace but again the mother board connectors is a big huge issue. Getting the screen off the phone is quite easy. Just that the connections are poorly fixed to the board. I love the iphone 5 bottom dock connection the charger port/data cable design is imo top notch it is nice and deep with allot of contact area and redundancy only one side is needed for charging and data transfer.Though it is prone to collecting pocket lint. That is nothing that 2 seconds of time can't take care of.

aaronwt
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said by krenim191:

Not everyone wants a phone the size of a tablet either.

You couldn't pay me to use a five inch tablet. I will use my phone when out because that is all I have with me. But I would never use my phone at home. I will use my tablets which are seven inches and larger.

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Yea, i love the old screen size. Dreading the 6, though i may have to get one, as the 4S i have is getting old (close to obsolete) and applecare runs out jan1.

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"Tired of their junk plain and simple."

Simple solution there. Don't buy their "junk" if you don't like it.
Nanaki (banned)
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Re: Watch battery life

Actually i don't buy apple. I work on cell phones for a living. I can fix any of them that can be fixxed. Apple i phone 5 series (all of them) have a common failure that when dropped and the screen breaks it also damages the connectors on the mother board that the lcd etc fasten to. I have had them come completely off a couple times. Other times you get a partial display or partial touch.

SteveLV702
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Re: Watch battery life

interesting cause me and my wife both have dropped our phones several times and never broke the screen let alone damaged any connectors the worst that has happened is one of the corners got a small ding... I have had every iPhone thats been out except the iPhone 3GS and dropped every one of them atleast a few hundred times my 2 year old daughter gets ahold of it and throws it across the room. Yet my work S5 first time dropped it it broke.. Then my work development phone a Nokia Lumia icon also broke but not as bad as the S5...
Nanaki (banned)
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Re: Watch battery life

So your trying to tell me that they do not break? Ill call bs on that one. I have seen the things fall off peoples laps getting out of the car and break all to hell. plain old 3 to 5s and all in between does not matter. Of all the iphones the toughest one is the 3 the next is the 4c then 5 and 5s the 5c has a flush mounted screen the 5 and 5s almost flush same for the 3. But the 4 series is raised and exposed with only a cheap flimsy plastic bezel to protect it.

No phone on the market other than the casio rubberized survives face drops very well. Some can take corner and edge some what better. But you drop that phone face down from shoulder height and see how well it holds up. In fact here enjoy the vid Poor 5s busted on edge drop samsung no broken screen 5s busted lcd s5 only glass on front facing hmm. BTW youtube is filled with these vids all give sim results.

»www.youtube.com/watch?v= ··· 6Q1aQcHc


BTW cost of glass repair s1 to 4 and likely 5 (to new not had one yet) around 60 to 65 varies depending on glass cost. Glass only is possible. iphone 4 series to 5s glass only is not possible in practice. As a i want to try and save money and understand i may end up paying for both glass and lcd assembly well ill try it even with a extreme chance of failure. I do samsung galaxy line glass only consistently and nearly daily.

Edited for mass typos. Key board fouling up on laptop
raythompsontn
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Re: Watch battery life

said by Nanaki:

iphone 4 series to 5s glass only is not possible in practice

Considering that Apple does not sell parts all you are replacing iPhone parts with are second hand parts from broken phones or from stolen phones. Personally I would rather get a new parts from Apple and pay the out of warranty cost. Better yet is Applecare+ which lowers the replacement price considerable.
Nanaki (banned)
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Re: Watch battery life

LOL they don't sell parts huh? Interesting. Because i know for a fact they do. There are no used parts going on phones i fix. In the samsung and most all other androids you have a choice oem or after market for glass charger ports and speakers With apple you have oem displays and all other parts bottom dock speakers etc and after market in glass if your really in the mood to try a glass only or bottom docks speakers etc.

Apple does not sell parts directly to the end user. They sell to whole sellers who sell to repair techs or the end user. I can get a account to buy direct from them but the minimum order is for to many units. The min order would keep us in parts for a good 6 months and the cost savings just is not worth it. 35 bucks from a retail seller or 33 for min quantity from apple per unit.

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Hear! Hear!
I agree with you whole heartedly.... too many people use this forum to air their pet peeves/prejudices. If you don't like it, simply don't buy it -- as a consumer you have that choice.

Just remember, there may be others who do like it and will buy it -- just respect their choice as you expect them to respect yours!

Majestik
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It's not good to get emotional over something you can't control. I've heard the same type of remarks about tv shows on here.

Unless someone is forcing you to buy products you don't like I don't see the reason.
Did you miss out on buying the stock?
Nanaki (banned)
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Re: Watch battery life

See previous posting i don't have a choice in the matter i work on phones comps etc. It hits my bench i have to fix it. Not my own boss. Even my boss is getting sick of the things.

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Re: Watch battery life

I missed it.
That's a good reason I guess.
mj3431
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That sounds like job security to me. But then again some people will complain about anything.

ptrowski
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Re: Watch battery life

This is the same guy who said that all the Xbox Ones were overheating and melting and he is an authority since he fixes everything. Take it with a grain of salt.
Nanaki (banned)
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Re: Watch battery life

And yet they are still coming in to the shop on a weekly basis 1 to 2 per week with over heating problems hmm go figure. The other shop owner who has a greater focus on vid games is getting up to 3 or 4 x box ones weekly now most all with over heating others include things such as disk read errors (bad lazers). He has been changing out the fans on them and that is helping allot. And oh btw more reports on forums etcc. But hey i don't know any thing after all i only have a measly 20 years experience as a electronic repair tech.

ptrowski
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Re: Watch battery life

20 years repair experience on a product out for under a year means what?
Nanaki (banned)
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Re: Watch battery life

It means i can get a very good idea of how something will behave after seeing the same issue a few times. Changing out the fan and or just reversing the flow helps a ton. We have been replacing the fan and changing out the heat sink paste to a better quality. And that ends the over heating. Yeh it is a fair bit louder but there is no longer a over heating problem. I keep up on tech it is my job. I take stuff apart and examine it to see what is causing a problem. I do not care if the tech is 1 day out the diagnostic method is still the same today as it was 20 years ago. Today we just have better tools like ir temp guns instead of a probe though probes still have a better accuracy. But when you aim a ir gun at the top of a xbox 1 and it is showing close to 180f surface temp something just is not right. It should show at most 120 130f on the casing. 110f is about the temp of say a laptop just above the video and cpu on the keyboard etc. A desktop exhaust fan area is around 115 to 130 and the xbox when you get right down to it is a compact desktop computer. It is just purpose built for gaming and little else.
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Not so much a complaint as telling it how i see it. Apple is over priced and no where near as good over all especially when you look at feature and price. You get way more phone for your buck with pretty much any other phone on the market. Much more ability to customize and change things around etc. Apple is locked down nonsense. The only other company locking stuff down almost as much is amazon.
mj3431
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Re: Watch battery life

said by Nanaki:

Apple is over priced and no where near as good over all especially when you look at feature and price. You get way more phone for your buck with pretty much any other phone on the market. Much more ability to customize and change things around etc. Apple is locked down nonsense. The only other company locking stuff down almost as much is amazon.

This is where you and I have vastly differing opinions. I support administrative users in a business environment. We provide them with iphones and ipads. Why do you think that is? Because the usage training for all of the devices is the same, so they cost less to support from an administrative standpoint. Of the 3 different android phones I've had they all had a different interface. Talk about a support nightmare. So from where I stand the ability to have a unified user experience is a great thing and yes, it is easier to streamline (lock down) the iphone/ipad since the OS behaves the same. I'd say the iphone has been pretty effective in putting nails in the Blackberry coffin because of this standardization.

The other thing that is important to me is call quality and reception. I have an iphone 5 and a Galaxy S4 and I've been carrying them both since release. The iphone always has better reception (usually 3-5db), and better battery life, no exceptions. After reading reviews on the S5 I've already decided I'll pass due to overwhelming responses that reception is worse on the S5 than the S4. At the end of the day I don't care how many gadgets my phone has if I can't make a call and I can't check my e-mail.

Does Apple make the best product? No, absolutely not. Have they mastered the simplicity of the operating system? Yes, and in my experience they back that with a solid processor, decent quality radios and above average battery life, even if it isn't user replaceable. And that's why they sell a crap ton of them.

And remember that you may in fact be repairing many more iphones than android devices, but don't forget part of that is because they hold the largest market share of 41% with the closest competitor of Samsung at 26% according to Forbes. So even if you repair them 2 to 1 that doesn't make them worse from a percentage perspective.
Nanaki (banned)
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Re: Watch battery life

Um iPhone batt life is not as high as galaxy. It has in some cases a higher capacity battery but not more battery life. On stand by I phones are dead with in a day. Androids can last for days on stand by. Talk time is much the same.
If I run out of time when working on a iPhone I have to charge it up the next day. This is less than qw hours later. I have had a incorrect part come in for androids and waited 3 days for the right one and left the phone on. 3 days later charge was still around 20%. When you do 20 or more phones a week you start to see what a phone does in the real world. Not in a test invironment where most of the phone is turned off and no CPU use age is going on.

As for support in a business invironment OK I'll give you that. As a iPhone is a iPhone is a iPhone. How ever it is not hard to swap launchers on android or simply buy all the same phone if issuing them. Other thing you could do from day one. Use the same Google account on all phones. Find the needed apps on the play store click install and let the phone do the rest. Or get a phone that can be rooted and have a custom ROM installed with little more than a single click. Now not only do all the phones have identical ROMs apps etc installed but if using the right ROM they are always updated to the newest android the day it comes out.
mj3431
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Re: Watch battery life

It is funny that you mention actual battery life. Since I OWN AND USE both phones I can guarantee you the iPhone 5 has a better real world battery life than the Galaxy S4. Perhaps if you set power management to an aggressive setting on the S4 you might see multiple idle days but certainly not while actually using the device. And when setting aggressive power management your phone will cease from doing regular tasks like checking e-mail, installing updates etc.

Why would a business environment want to mess with multiple ROMS, rooting phones and be tied down to a single play store account? That's insane and shows you don't understand corporate IT. With the Apple devices and a MDM solution you simply install the certificate on the device and off you go. Push apps, updates, track devices, wipe devices etc all from a single console. No custom ROMs or rooting needed and it can all be done OTA.

And you failed to address my major point, that the radios in the Galaxy phone line (as well as other android devices) have inferior radios compared to current Apple products. As I sit here at my desk with both phones on the table my S4 shows -96 and my iphone 5 at -91. That's a significant difference and means when I'm in the lower level of several of our buildings I'm not able to make/receive calls on my Galaxy. I regularly "miss" calls only to receive voicemail while the phone is just sitting here on the table. I routinely get accused of screening calls because the phone simply doesn't ring, yet don't have that issue with other phones. I'd be happy to post side by side screen shots of the two in field test mode if you want me to prove it, since I OWN and USE them both every day. You can talk about working on them on a bench all day long but I'm speaking from nearly 2 years of daily use.

Now I'm far from being an Apple fan boy and concede that android phones do in fact have more features and are better for those who like tinkering with their phone. The fact is Apple makes a more refined product with features that just plain work, with radios that just plain work, and an OS that is uniform across platforms. And that is why they dominate the market with over 40% share. You can argue this all day long but the numbers don't lie.
Nanaki (banned)
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Re: Watch battery life

Again not true. I often have both phones in shop daily. IPhone 4 to 5 series sitting idle on benchbdead in a day to day and half. Galaxy sw to sr still with decent charge. And trust me most customers do not even know about things like wgresive power saving modes. If any thing they install so much crap that want to run all the time it is more like agresive drain the battery mode. I have forgotten to hook up my ROM nodded kindle fire to charge for a couple day. And still had 30% charge. IPad mnini which is closest in size to this one last a day at best. I hate working on those suckers. Horrible design no thought to repairing them. Busted glass means 90 bucks min for part as the home button and connector for the digitizer add a ton to the cost.

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Sounds like broken phones are good for business.
Nanaki (banned)
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Re: Watch battery life

sure it is good for business. But it is also iritating when you do a repair that on any other phone on the market is a sure fire fix and on the apple it fails because of mother board damage.

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Re: Watch battery life

If it makes you that upset you might want to look for employment in a different field.

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said by dvd536:

hopefully it isn't dismal at best like the other watches out.

It seems to depend on the brand. I was given a Pebble Steel for my birthday and I get about 5 days between charges. As it is a black-and-white screen it does not have the power consumption of the color displays.

Still it will be interesting to see the benchmark that Apple establishes. The smart watch market kind of reminds me of the PC market prior to IBM's entrance. That computer pretty much set the baseline for what we have now.
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Watches

I don't get the point of spending money on a smart watch. A smartphone can already do everything a watch can, on a much bigger screen, with far more features, processing power, etc. And like most modern electronics, these smart watches will have to be replaced every 2-5 years. Sounds like a massive waste of money.

The only watch I will ever wear is a real mechanical watch that will last my lifetime.
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Re: Watches

Smartwatches will be a convenience bordering on luxury accessory, for those who want access to info without pulling out phone from pocket/purse - and will be good for fitness. I plan to get one, probably the Moto360 or the new LG round watch announced. And I haven't worn a watch since a kid.

Will be surprising if Apple does a flat square watch as the latest 'leaks' imply. Would think they would do round or curved screen. The square ones out now look a little dorky.

The $300 pricepoint is doable for first couple gens but would expect under $100 by 3rd Gen and will be more commonplace, especially Android based. $50 smartwatches wouldn't be surprising in under 5 years.

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I don't think the technology is ready for what I would want it to do. Other than that I don't see the purpose of it.
But companies are good at selling things most don't really need but think they do.

IPPlanMan
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Not even the slightest leak for the iWatch...

Pretty incredible that there hasn't been a single leak.
Probably because it hasn't been sent for large scale production.

With the original iPhone, it was announced on January 9, 2007 but not launched/released until June 29, 2007.
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Re: Not even the slightest leak for the iWatch...

No credible leak yet, but this one is being shown often lately...
»www.extremetech.com/wp-c ··· x360.jpg

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Re: Not even the slightest leak for the iWatch...

I'll bet Touch ID is incorporated in some way to unlock it...

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Waste the money

I've been wearing digital watch for about 10 years. its battery is still running. If Iwatch battery lasts for at least 2 years without charging, then I buy it.
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Re: Waste the money

I'd be OK with a few days battery life in exchange to see who is calling and other info w/out having to pull phone out of pocket. But I'd want wireless charging (moto360) and futures ones may have supplemental self-charging.

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Re: Waste the money

Its called customized ring tones. I know if my boss or my SO or my mom is calling me without even looking at my watch, or phone.
mlcarson
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iWatch

Why is it so hard to make a standard watch with a security token system built-in? Both of these device types can go years without a battery change but nobody has put out a device which can do both with the same wearable interface.

Make this device and allow it to contain multiple tokens and I'll buy it.

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RE: New iPhones, iWatch to Debut September 9

I just don't see how people are still excited about smartphones. I was really excited about them 5 or 10 years ago when they were just starting to make an appearance, but now it's just speed bump after speed bump. I'm still using my Galaxy S3 even though my contract has been up for a while. I just haven't seen anything compelling enough to make me need to upgrade. I have a feeling the thing that will make me upgrade will be cyanogenmod dropping support for the GS3 rather than the release of the Galaxy S 6 or 7.

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Another trademark battle brewing

With Swatch this time and their trademarked brand iSwatch. They already told Apple the names are too close. But Apple feels they can railroad anyone else much like they tried to ignore the original iPhone trademark holder.
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Now for the iOS 8 jailbreak speculation!

Not a fanboy, but like iOS over pure Android. How millions could use TouchWiz is beyond me. Hoping the iPhone 6L is the real deal and coming out on the 9th. Now all we need to wait for is the iOS 8 untethered jailbreak.
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Any love for the iPod Touch?

I bought an iPod Touch 5G a few years ago and I really like the polish of Apple iOS especially compared to the garbage that Android was up until about earlier this year. But I'm thinking of jumping ship for several reasons

- Bigger Screen: My brother got an off contract S3 to use as a media device and I am jely over that big screen Apple needs to step up their game and just admit that people want larger screens on their phones and media devices
- Ease of moving music on/off: This one isn't that big of a deal but it is a nitpick...I have CopyTransManager, so at least I can drag and drop music onto the device, but what that doesn't let me do is get music off of the device. It'd be nice if Apple would just open up the Music folder just like the Pictures folder is. When you plug in your device, you can get to your pictures right there, no need for any special software.
- Removable Storage: Well at least with my 64 GB iPod I haven't filled it up yet, but I still like Removable Storage though...
- Removable Battery: Almost all Android devices have this. Apple needs to get with the game
- Resale value: Yep, Apple products do maintain their resale value way better than Android, I have a 64 GB iPod Touch and I estimate I could get about $200 for it, that should be enough to cover the cost of the phone I'm looking at getting (Sharp Aquos Crystal) as well as an SD Card

If they unveil a new iPod Touch and if the screen is big enough (and the price is right), I might stay on, but the way it's looking now, that Sharp Aquos Crystal for $149 is looking pretty sweet But on the other hand...back into the so-called "Android Ghetto" ? They've improved it a TON lately, but still, life in the iOS Gated Community has been pretty smooth these past few years. We'll see what Apple unveils...

Thinkdiff
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Re: Any love for the iPod Touch?

The iPod touch will likely get the larger screens sometime early 2015. They won't cannibalize their supply of large screens until iPhone demand stabilizes, but it will happen.

As for your other requests: never gonna happen (moving music, SD card, or battery), so Android is your only option if those are important.
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Re: Any love for the iPod Touch?

Yeah good point, I never thought of the fact that releasing a new iPod Touch alongside their new iPhone might lessen iPhone sales.

Looks like I'll probably be moving to Android then. Oh well, it's been a fun run with iOS, and I'm not sorry I bought the device in the least.

empire5
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Apple

iPhone was great until Android matured and choice, options and freedom to think became an option.

I cant imagine owning an iPhone today. It would be many multiple steps backwards.

Non replaceable battery, non-expandeable memory, a amall 4" screen, iTunes, proprietary cables, an OS ruled with an iron fist....not to mention an OS that essentially hasnt changed much since 2008.

The iPhone just looks very elementary to me these days.
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Re: Apple

said by empire5:

an OS ruled with an iron fist....not to mention an OS that essentially hasnt changed much since 2008.

As opposed to Android which requires some sort of security software to keep the system from being compromised. On a device that is used to access my financial information and other personal stuff I would opt for security over flexibility.
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Re: Apple

I use both the s5 and 5s on a daily basis (company issues 5s and personal s5). I will say that I end up using the apple much more. The typing is much better, the phone NEVER freezes or goofs up either. If I am watching videos or playing games I rather the s5 due to the larger screen though.

overall, they are both really good. The Apple in my opinion is more reliable and better for every day users. The android platform I like better for customization and gadgets.

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Lines...

I can't wait to watch youtube videos of people lining up to drop $600+ on a phone that will be upgraded in 1 year and 6 months...it's quite funny, just like people lining up to buy shoes.

In the meantime i will keep using my 4 year old Samsung on prepaid.

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Stand alone iWatch?

Or will it require an iPhone? I want a standalone watch like Casio Data Bank 150 watch.