New iPhone

  On 10/4/2011 at 7:02 PM, BCM said:

  On 10/4/2011 at 5:26 PM, Iain C said:

Until they put a keyboard on it, I don't want it.

 

lol slide out keyboards are so lame. get with the program man... the on screen keyboard is perfectly ok for anything you could want to do with it.

Nah man, I'm a copywriter and I write/send serious email. I need a superb Blackberry keyboard (and not one of the cheap models).

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  6:58 pm Still, everyone at The Verge will be playing the hell out of this. Who doesn't love a good sword fight?
  
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  6:57 pm "We even have koi swimming in the pond." Finally, realtime koi.
  
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  6:57 pm If you've used to Xbox gaming, this won't be much a surprise. But it does look very good for a mobile phone.
  
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  6:57 pm There's some stuttering in the game, very slight.
  
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  6:57 pm "This may look pre-rendered, but it's not." Well, no it doesn't.
  
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  6:56 pm "We're going to show you visuals that you've never seen on a mobile device."
  
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  6:56 pm "That's why I'm excited to show you Infinity Blade 2."
  
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  6:56 pm "So a year ago we showed Unreal Engine 3. Infinity Blade was a huge hit."
  
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  6:56 pm Mike Capps from Epic is up.
  
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  6:55 pm "To show you what that can be like, here's the president of Epic Games."
  
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  6:55 pm "We see it scream on games."
  
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  6:55 pm "It's dual core graphics, which mean the graphics can be up to 7 times faster than in the previous iPhone."
  
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  6:55 pm "This is an Apple designed chip that's remarkable."
  
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  6:55 pm "It has a new chip inside — the A5."
  
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  6:55 pm "Inside, it's all new."
  
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  6:55 pm Design is the same.
  

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  7:01 pm So, you fixed the antenna?
  
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  7:01 pm "Second — the wireless system. As you know we revolutionized with these steel bands on the outside of the phone. We've done something technically amazing. It can now intelligently switch between the antennas for even better call quality."
  

"iOS 5, Apple take stalking capabilities to the next level"

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  7:04 pm "So what's this new camera like? First it has a new sensor, 8 megapixels."
  
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  7:04 pm "We didn't just want to make this better than other phones, we wanted to make it better than point and shoot cameras."
  
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  7:03 pm "The iPhone has surpassed all cameras on Flickr."
  
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  7:03 pm "Third, the camera system. You've heard and you all know first hand how great the pictures you can take on the iPhone are."
  
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  7:03 pm "So that's the new antenna system."
  
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  7:03 pm "Next, a world phone. You know that the iPhone comes in two flavors, GSM or CDMA. Now the iPhone 4S has both GSM and CDMA."
  
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  7:02 pm "Now where have I heard that before you might be thinking? This is what our competitors call 4G. We're not going to debate it. But when it comes to real world performance, it's just as fast as these phones. We think it's even faster with our updates."
  
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  7:01 pm 14.4Mbps down.
  
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  7:01 pm "It can now download faster too."
  

Looks like Siri is going to be great at parsing everyday spoken English. Should make driving with an iPhone less sui- and homi- cidal.

so no iphone 5 huh

livestream has gone down but to sum up so far:

iPhone 4S

Same design as iPhone 4 but with improved antenna

Dual Core A5 Processor (up to 2x faster)

Dual Core Graphics (up to 7x faster)

8MP Camera with 1080p video recording

4G download/upload speeds over 3G networks - is this what they're saying? Pretty cool if true..

more storage capacity plz.

endgadgets' running fine: http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/04/apples-lets-talk-iphone-keynote-liveblog/?sort=newest&refresh=120

the ars liveblog is back up, but they were throwing updates out over twitter when it was down.

  On 10/4/2011 at 5:59 PM, chenGOD said:

Oh. It's just a little story about the HTC android phones leaking personal data to any app with Internet permissions.

  my phone earlier said:

$ cd /system/app/

$ rm HtcLoggers.apk

 

rm: can't remove 'HtcLoggers.apk': No such file or directory

 

$ rm HTCIQAgent.apk

 

rm: can't remove 'HTCIQAgent.apk': No such file or directory

God bless you Cyanogenmod !

I can't believe we're still maxing out at 64 GB of storage these days. That's pretty ridiculous. This is basically saying (a) you don't need storage! it's in the cloud! whilst (b) telling ATT, etc, hey valued pardner, get ready to slip yer data plan dicks up our customers' butts!

no iphone 5.

and ipod touch still has a shitty camera

  On 10/4/2011 at 8:40 PM, baph said:

I can't believe we're still maxing out at 64 GB of storage these days. That's pretty ridiculous. This is basically saying (a) you don't need storage! it's in the cloud! whilst (b) telling ATT, etc, hey valued pardner, get ready to slip yer data plan dicks up our customers' butts!

Word!

lol, iPhones

They max out on the short end for physical storage because everything is moving to the cloud. I don't even really keep MP3's on my phone any more (Amazon Cloud service and Google Music)

  On 10/4/2011 at 8:47 PM, hautlle said:

lol, iPhones

 

They max out on the short end for physical storage because everything is moving to the cloud. I don't even really keep MP3's on my phone any more (Amazon Cloud service and Google Music)

Yeah, the point is it's in the Cloud and you're going to pay your carrier out the ass to use that data anywhere you're not covered by wifi.

  On 10/4/2011 at 7:28 PM, baph said:

I have a seriously aging iPhone 3G (not 3GS). I like the iPhone ecosystem and don't want to part with some of my purchased apps, so I'm going to be upgrading, anyway.

 

Despite the fact that the 3G was rendered pretty slow by the latest available OS update, I think this is the longest I've ever kept a cell, at least since the mid-late 90s. So that's something.

 

edit: I hate typing in portrait mode, but landscape makes it a pleasant enough experience.

Best Buy bought back my 3G for $67. a 3 year old phone.

  On 10/4/2011 at 8:54 PM, baph said:

  On 10/4/2011 at 8:47 PM, hautlle said:

lol, iPhones

 

They max out on the short end for physical storage because everything is moving to the cloud. I don't even really keep MP3's on my phone any more (Amazon Cloud service and Google Music)

 

Yeah, the point is it's in the Cloud and you're going to pay your carrier out the ass to use that data anywhere you're not covered by wifi.

Sprint = Unlimited data lol No caps, no tiers

  On 10/4/2011 at 9:04 PM, hautlle said:

  On 10/4/2011 at 8:54 PM, baph said:

  On 10/4/2011 at 8:47 PM, hautlle said:

lol, iPhones

 

They max out on the short end for physical storage because everything is moving to the cloud. I don't even really keep MP3's on my phone any more (Amazon Cloud service and Google Music)

 

Yeah, the point is it's in the Cloud and you're going to pay your carrier out the ass to use that data anywhere you're not covered by wifi.

 

 

Sprint = Unlimited data lol No caps, no tiers

How is Sprint's coverage? I used them about 8 years ago and could barely make a call outside of large cities.

I've never had an issue with coverage (except in the emergency room break-room in the basement of the hospital, no signal at all) but there is no local 4G coverage in my town. The closest is in KC but apparently it's slowly spreading towards us. I've had Sprint for going on 4 years now and really like them, plus they have committed to keeping their plans truly unlimited and not going to tiers or anything.

Assuming that every out-of-contract iPhone user isn't planning on switching to Sprint, maybe I'll switch and reap the benefits of an underused network

These announcements are all well and good, but when do we get custom message tones?!