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Code Monkey
I thought that quote came from Mr Burns of the Simpsons.
MikeSmith2011
Hmm.. a larger screen size .. which is what the Galaxy from Samsung has had for ...
IPhone 5 draws praise, iPod gets camera
Rick Merritt
9/12/2012 1:59 PM EDT
Tech specs, factoids
Tech specs for iPhone5:
Factoids from CEO Tim Cook, shared without attribution during the iPhone 5 launch:
Related stories:
China Mobile takes SIM card route to e-wallets
Image gallery: Inside iPhone 4S
Photo gallery: Inside the Apple iPad 2
How the Apple iPhone 4 drives high, low tech
Tech specs for iPhone5:
- A6 processor
- LTE
- Display: 4-inch, 1,136 x 640 resolution, 16:9 aspect ratio
- Camera: 8 Mpixel, 3264 x 2448 resolution, f2.4 aperture
- Size: 7.6 mm thick (18 percent thinner), 112 grams (20 percent) lighter than 4S
Factoids from CEO Tim Cook, shared without attribution during the iPhone 5 launch:
- Apple has sold 84 million iPads through June
- Apple is selling nearly 6 million iPads a month
- The iPad has 62 percent of worldwide tablet market
- IPads account for more than 90 percent of Web traffic from tablets
- Of 700,000 current iOS apps, 250,000 work on iPads
- Apple sold more than 400 million iOS devices through June 2012
- Apple has sold 350 million iPods to date
Related stories:
China Mobile takes SIM card route to e-wallets
Image gallery: Inside iPhone 4S
Photo gallery: Inside the Apple iPad 2
How the Apple iPhone 4 drives high, low tech
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Stanley_
9/12/2012 3:05 PM EDT
Now meet the revolutionary apple innovation.. fifth row of static icon... apple has a roadmap to add another in next version, so stay tuned..
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eewiz
9/13/2012 12:37 AM EDT
Quote from Jobs: "“What have you done that’s so great? Do you create anything, or just criticize others work and belittle their motivations?”"
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Stanley_
9/13/2012 3:08 AM EDT
you=apple, others=rest
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Code Monkey
9/13/2012 6:58 PM EDT
I thought that quote came from Mr Burns of the Simpsons.
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rick.merritt
9/12/2012 3:15 PM EDT
Setting the size of the display for the applications community is a BIG deal. Here Samsung et. al. vs. Apple will create issues.
The camera on the iPod Touch could also shake up the DSC point-and-shoot market...maybe.
But LTE and Lightning, that's just playing catch up.
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ip2design
9/12/2012 3:39 PM EDT
No NFC nor fingerprint sensor from Authentec. disappointing :-(
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dylan.mcgrath
9/12/2012 4:36 PM EDT
I heard an interesting take on NFC in the iPhone as I was milling about the three-ring circus outside the Apple event. Google has taken the NFC initiative, so now it's actually in Apple's best interest not to adopt it in iPhone. Apple's best bet, according to this theory, is to use competing technology for cashless payment, etc.
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rick.merritt
9/12/2012 6:22 PM EDT
Re NFC: I am told there are still a fragmented set of ways to do NFC payments so there is market building to be done, and that's not something Apple does.
Also, what does NFC give consumers they don't have with the swipe of a credit they are carrying anyway?
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junko.yoshida
9/12/2012 9:19 PM EDT
Re NFC, I think you are right. A lot of infrastructure building is required before the NFC phone becomes useful. Of course, if it is a place like Japan, where NTT Docomo can create a closed NFC environment, your NFC phone works everywhere, and it is actually pretty cool.
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ip2design
9/13/2012 3:04 AM EDT
Please, forget that "US-centric" mindset from time to time. NFC is a framework that brings services for transport, payment, loyalty, etc...
For your information, all of the new POS from Ingenico and VeriFone are now NFC compliant and ready for Paywave and Paypass payment applications. Regarding swipe of credit card, just have a look at the level of fraud. It's huge.
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James7740
9/12/2012 6:55 PM EDT
IPhone 5 will sell well. Software is just so well integrated with hardware
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GREAT-Terry
9/12/2012 9:11 PM EDT
What else can we expect on the iPhone5? NFC is not what I want but battery life is. BTW, I like the headphone design. Is the iPhone5 using the new chip scale SIM or the same as iPhone4?
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junko.yoshida
9/12/2012 9:21 PM EDT
For those of us looking for practical NFC implementations, there is a way to do it -- China style. China Mobile is using SIM card to embed NFC technology, so that consumers need to just replace their SIM cards instead of phones.
Read the story I just posted here:
http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4396106/NFC-enabled-mobile-phones---China-style
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sdfs
9/12/2012 10:39 PM EDT
RF-SIM wont work with the iphone as there is no microsim design. Also CMCC SH has stopped the RF-SIM service, according to 10086
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chipchap42
9/13/2012 11:40 AM EDT
Rick, the biggest news on the chip side was that the A6 would be based on a dual-core A15, not a quad-core A9. This is significant as it's the first consumer implementation of the A15, and they seem to have cracked the battery life issue.
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MikeSmith2011
9/13/2012 4:27 PM EDT
That is interesing indeed. I did not see the mention of A15 anywhere - is that reliable? If that is true then it opens a wider market for Apple to deploy the A6. E.g A15 gets around the 4GB limit in memory. This means the A6 could appear in smartbooks (macbook air??) sometime soon.
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MikeSmith2011
9/13/2012 4:29 PM EDT
Hmm.. a larger screen size .. which is what the Galaxy from Samsung has had for some time. Could Samsung now sue Apple for copying its design???
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