Dashing My Hopes on the iPhone 5

    I would love to have my hands on this iPhone

    So, the day has come and it has gone. Apple has announced and demonstrated it’s new iPhone 5.  Now let me be clear, I have been using an iPhone since the 3G and iPod Touch before that (Which my kid has now!)  When the 3G came out it was leaps and bounds better then the iPhone. Then the 3Gs came out and I couldn’t care less, there wasn’t anything especially cool about it, or better about it in my eyes, so I waited with baited breath for the iPhone 4. This one I got, the camera was better, it was faster and most of all it had the Retina Display (which is also why I upgraded my iPad to the “New iPad” which I am writing this blog post on incidentally!) After this I was waiting to see what they could possibly come up with next!  I waited for the next one, and of course the 4s came out and with nothing really floating my boat other then Siri, I decided that I would wait for the next one just like I did last time. Well that new one was announced yesterday, and demonstrated, and touted, and etc. etc. as Apple usually does. Let’s just say that I was a little less than impressed!

 

    The new features of the phone were the new chip, which is very nice for the gamers out there (which I am, but seriously doubt that Angry Birds needs a chip upgrade to play). A “larger screen” which is 16:9, kinda nice if you watch movies on it, but nothing special, though they say it is beautiful with the 44% better contrast ratio, which I would agree to, but still it’s a phone, not an Adobe Photoshop Appliance! I love the way that the photos look that are taken with the phone, but the camera isn’t anything excruciatingly new! There are a lot of Android Phones out there that have an 8mp camera already. At any rate, I was really hoping for a lot more from Apple, rather then this incremental update which could have been called the iPhone 4S2 or something like that.  I do like some of the features of IOS6, but I am getting that on the 4 and the new iPad as well, with Siri on the new iPad.  Should be interesting to see what Siri says to me when I mess with her sometime next week!

 

    What I guess I am trying to say is that I am not happy with the features that Apple has decided to release on this phone and call a Magical Innovative device for all the stuff that is in the phone has been done before by Android.  I don’t think that there was anything (at least that matters to me) that I haven’t seen before on an Android, maybe not all of the features together on one phone, but at least have all been out there on a device somewhere.  I believe that I am going to be leaving Apple this year for the Galaxy Note 2.  I think that it covers more of what I would like to do, and has the features that I would like to see in a phone. I have to play with it though since it is rather large and I want to be sure that it is going to be comfortable to work with.

 

    Another note about Apple.  Steve never wanted porn on his phone (or any of his devices) so there are applications out there like Zinio Magazine reader that work on both the iDevices and PCs. On the PC in Zinio I can read Hustler, or Club or even Playboy if I am feeling rather conservative at that moment. But, on the iDevices these publications are not allowed.  There are ways around this of course, but not in the way that they were meant to be distributed.  I haven’t checked to see about Zinio on the Android, but I don’t think there is going to be any blocking on there for those publications.  Just a thought I guess about how they are tying the hands of the developers and content people out there to make sure they don’t let their devices interfere with their morality, rather than the morality of the consumers taking precedence.

UPDATE #1:

    I just read that the adapters that they are selling to make the iPhone 5 attach to the 30 pin connectors that everyone has will not work with video out or audio out (iPod Out).  These 2 adapters are selling for 29$ and 39$.  I mean really?!  How many cables do we have and how many things we have that connect to our iPhones? Lets just say 4, so with the lowest cost one you are talking about 115$ for the adapters.  So 199 for the cheapest phone then 115$ for the adapters, another 50-500$ for a new iPhone compatible stereo (unless you really went out and got the full surround sound system that takes the 30 pin then you will just be pissed off!)  Then another 20-100$ for a case since it needs one of course. Seriously! You are out another 500-1500$ for a new iPhone that doesn’t really do anything new?!  WTF?!  Not happening here.  I can’t believe that you won’t be able to watch video out like you can with everything from the 3G to the 4s?!  I love watching my porn on my TV upstairs off of the iPhone!