iPhone 5 press conference thread?

[ABOSWORTH]

Originally Posted by THE REED™

Really abo.....

How does it link up? Do you add it manually? I know with itunes, you have to make sure the album art is attached, sometimes it doesn't bring in artwork if it's not in the database, in which case I always do an image search and manually put the artwork on the album because I'm a freak like that. Do you just drag the mp3 to the device and it automatically links the artwork?

Also, does it have smart playlists? I use those on my ipod and love them. I have an old 80 GB classic that I use in my car. I don't generally like using my phone for my music player so I have them separate.

[Continue1UP]

Originally Posted by THE REED™

Drag and drop is a hassle.

I mean honestly wtf.

Good luck with your music collection. It must be easy when you don't have that much music to organise.


;-)

[Russian Crushin]

Originally Posted by ABOSWORTH

How does it link up? Do you add it manually? I know with itunes, you have to make sure the album art is attached, sometimes it doesn't bring in artwork if it's not in the database, in which case I always do an image search and manually put the artwork on the album because I'm a freak like that. Do you just drag the mp3 to the device and it automatically links the artwork?

Also, does it have smart playlists? I use those on my ipod and love them. I have an old 80 GB classic that I use in my car. I don't generally like using my phone for my music player so I have them separate.

Im the same with the artwork

[THE REED™]

Originally Posted by iBreakbeat

Good luck with your music collection. It must be easy when you don't have that much music to organise.


;-)

I have 55gbs of music.. no orob organzing or adding anything

[Earl Hickey]

Breakbeat, seriously.

I have NEVER seen such ridiculously biased arguments.

Either you are unstable (I don't think so) or, you have got sucked into an argument you know you can't win and are just spouting off with random nonsense rather than admit defeat (more likely)

If you like Iphone, then fine just say you prefer the build quality and the itunes store, those are the ACTUAL advantages.

But don't say you are GLAD you don't have features like SD card and facility for hdmi out, because if they had been announced for the 5, you'd be singing their praises

[Shadow boxer 3]

http://www.manolith.com/2012/09/12/t...g-iphone-ever/


The iPhone 5 Is The Most Disappointing iPhone Ever
Posted on September 12, 2012 by David Woods





The iPhone 5 is the best iPhone ever, sure. It’s also the most disappointing.

Perhaps the days of being stunned by what a phone can do are over. Now that seemingly everyone on the planet owns a smartphone and can connect to the sum of all information from locations as remote as the top of a mountain, maybe nothing will ever seem magical again. If true, it’s a sad day.

Apple unveiled its new iPhone this afternoon. It’s called the iPhone 5. We won’t go down the path of discussing the name. Yes, it’s the sixth iPhone and no, it isn’t dumb that it’s called the iPhone 5. For the first time since the late Steve Jobs started getting on stage to introduce the world to Apple’s new products, the event was a disappointment. It felt hollow and unsatisfying. It felt like something was missing.

What was missing wasn’t Steve Jobs. What was missing was a compelling new product.

The phone we saw today was the same phone that leaked weeks ago and it’s likely that fact played a big role in why today’s event was such a dud. It’s a beautiful design, for sure, but there’s nothing surprising or interesting about it. It’s the iPhone 4, but a bit taller.

Apple CEO Tim Cook said that he planned to “double down” on secrecy to prevent his products from leaking ahead of their unveiling. He failed.

Far more disappointing than the fact that the iPhone leaked, however, is the fact that there’s nothing at all innovative about it.

The screen is larger (4 inches now, as opposed to 3.5 inches), but Android phones all got 4-inch screens over a year ago. The camera is a bit better, of course, but it’s not better in any way that really matters–we’re all used to each new generation of phones sporting incrementally better cameras. The phone can connect to a faster network–this time its LTE–but that was to be expected, too. The dock connector is smaller and faster… who cares? Same with the new processor. And the (barely) new screen technology. Everything is a bit better, but nothing is so much better that it’s notable. Nothing is new and nothing is exciting.

We saw this phone before it was unveiled because it leaked, but the leak really made no difference. You could have guessed exactly what the iPhone 5 would look like without any spoilers and been spot-on.

Gone are the days in which phone hardware was what mattered. Today, it’s the software that determines a phone’s value. And the software running on the iPhone, iOS 6, is lagging behind its main competitor, Android.

Apple unveiled not a single killer new feature in iOS 6 today. There will be no Android-style widgets on the iPhone 5–the extra screen resolution will be used for a fifth row of apps. Ho hum. There will be no innovative use of NFC (near field communication) technology, which means that the prediction that we will all soon use our phones as our bank cards and our keys looks to be delayed at least another year.

Apple’s big new feature is a revamped, proprietary version of Google Maps. Seriously. Beyond that, the only new features are inconsequential. You can now share your notifications on Facebook. Have fun with that.

There’s little doubt that the iPhone 5 will sell millions of units. At this point, iPhone (and iPad) owners have bought enough apps that they are locked in to Apple ecosystem. The iPhone 5 just might go down in history as the least impressive device that Apple has produced in the 21st Century, though. Even the semi-disappointing iPhone 4S had one notable new feature, Siri.

What does this phone have going for it? It’s called an iPhone. That’s about it.

And that’s disappointing.

[Russian Crushin]

[Shadow boxer 3]

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[ANDROIDISM]

Originally Posted by iBreakbeat

So dragging and dropping thousands of files to a device is not a hassle?

If you're faced with a list of 20k amount of files to copy only 5k of the exact files you want......its a hassle.

Your phone dying at the airport and having to sit on the floor next to an outlet for the next 2 hours because you can't swap out your battery..........Now THAT'S a hassle.