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<p>It’s competing with a model from a company that isn’t making any money on the hardware so Apple has to cost-reduce the mini-iPad. I’m wondering if they will be going to plastic from aluminum and providing a similarly crappy camera.</p>
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<p>Humm, perhaps we are talking about different things. The legit unlocking procedure (to use a foreign SIM card) required a reset to factory settings. It does not seem that one could avoid loading IOS6 after it was unveiled. The part I messed up was not doing it when IOS5 was still alive and kicking. </p>
<p>The battery drain is noticeable on the 3GS but one can assume that those batteries have also seen their better days. Regardless, the Apple geniuses will probably offer the solution to … keep the brightness down and not use the phone too much. :)</p>
<p>Samsung has been running ads implying that the iPhone 5’s screen is too small but they are announcing a 4 inch Galaxy S3-mini tomorrow.</p>
<p>[Samsung</a> set to unveil a Galaxy S III mini with 4-inch screen? - latimes.com](<a href=“http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-samsung-galaxy-s-iii-mini-20121003,0,870273.story]Samsung”>Samsung set to unveil a Galaxy S III mini with 4-inch screen?)</p>
<p>“We’ll be launching a 4-inch Galaxy S III on the 11th in Germany,” Shin said. “There’s a lot of demand for a 4-inch screen device in Europe. Some call it an entry-level device, but we call it ‘mini.’”</p>
<p>Designwise, the handset should be very similar to the original S III. All of that sounds really good, and it comes just as the iPhone 5 has arrived, raising questions about the benefits of single-handed usage on a smaller screen. Samsung might just deliver that tomorrow, stay tuned.</p>
<p>I have a favorite cross body leather bag that is my standby for 25 years. It just fits a wallet, my iPhone & a pen. It “might” allow for a iphone5, but not a bigger phone.
Although now since I am supposed to carry an epi-pen I should use a larger bag anyway.</p>
<p>I also always use earbuds for phone calls.
H confirmed he absolutely does not want an iPhone, ( He wont use a case & he currently has a flip phone) so if I get a 5g I will either save the 4g incase an extra phone is needed or sell it.</p>
<p>What I don’t like is that I still wouldn’t be able to handle calls & data at the same time with Verizon, & since I have unlimited data, I don’t want to switch to AT&T.</p>
<p>I have a bunch of running shorts that I bought this past summer and the back pocket will fit an iPhone (I used an iPod Touch) - the earphone jack sticks outside the pocket. There is no way an iPhone 5 will fit in the pocket. I think that a lot of fitness clothes were designed for various iPod model in the past.</p>
<p>I was wonder about the phone/data thing until I used the earbuds to do phone calls. I found that it’s possible for your ear to activate the buttons on the display.</p>
<p>The flip-phone may be old and outdated but it’s still quite good if all you do are phone calls.</p>
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<p>I have iPhone 4s and haven’t upgraded to ios6 and subscribe to the Verizon plan. When youre talking with someone press the Home button to bring up the default Home screen. Pick Safari and do your browsing while talking with someone. Ditto with checking your e-mail. I don’t think ios6 will remove this “multi-tasking” feature.</p>
<p>Just be careful not to touch the green area at the very top of the screen which says Touch to return call This action will return you to the phone keypad window.</p>
<p>The Verizon thing is a restriction from the carrier, not the device or operating system.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t want a smaller Galaxy. I LIKE the size. Turned on its side, the keyboard is nice and big. I can read the yahoo stories easily. Photos look great when they are larger.</p>
<p>And despite early concerns about the company’s new maps software, which replaces Google’s maps with its own, a large majority of iPhone 5 owners and iOS 6 users polled by the company did not seem to be bothered by its shortcomings. Ninety percent of respondents said it was not a problem, and only 3 percent said it was a big problem.</p>
<p>Another new feature in the iPhone 5 that could annoy some is the new Lightning connector, which renders obsolete the spare charging cables and iPhone accessories that people have collected over the year. Most survey respondents weren’t fazed by this either: 31 percent said it was somewhat of a problem, another 31 percent said it was not much of a problem, and 26 percent said it was no problem at all. The remaining 6 percent said it was a very big problem.</p>
<p>[Despite</a> Maps Debacle, Demand for New iPhone Appears Strong - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/12/changewave-survey-iphone-5/]Despite”>Despite Maps Debacle, Demand for New iPhone Appears Strong - The New York Times)</p>
<p>I had some time this morning so I played around with the iPhone in a few areas.</p>
<p>1) Widgets on Android can be useful and I wondered if there was something like this for iOS. I found a website with a lot of cool widgets but you have to jailbreak your phone to use them. Then I found that Apple’s implementation of widgets is through the Notification Center and that I could configure my applications through Notifications. It would still be nice to have widgets that control status information (buttons for WiFi, Mobile, Airplane mode - there’s a jailbroken widget for this, free RAM, CPU information, free flash storage, etc.) but the notification center is pretty useful for now. There might be third-party apps for the geek stuff.</p>
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<li><p>Setting up VoiceMail. I was planning on doing this but was really busy when the phone arrived up until today. So I set up voicemail with Google Voice. I also tweaked my Google Voice settings for all of my phones. I need to memorize my Google Voice number - I had been giving out my new phone number and things work better with the Google Voice number.</p></li>
<li><p>Maps. A friend strongly recommended Nokia maps (they provide maps for Garmin and others) so I used it before driving into Boston last night. Good thing too as traffic in Boston was really awful. It gave me an overview of traffic before I left. I turned the Garmin on and it routed me to the #3 route. The usual #1 and #2 routes weren’t useful because certain highways were jammed so it put me on the next best thing which I took until a certain point and then took my own route. The Garmin has costing issues on surface roads and I can always beat it easily with my own knowledge of Boston and that worked out fine. This morning I played around with Google Maps, Apple Maps and Nokia Maps in traffic mode and what I found is that Apple Maps is the fastest and uses the whole screen but provides the least amount of detail. It may be that it’s an app rather than something that you run in the browser that accounts for performance. It’s nice that it uses the full-screen too and it can also do that because it isn’t run in the browser. It shows traffic problems as a thin red line or red dots on roads. I imagine that this could be hard to see if it’s on your dashboard - it’s rather subtle and I had to look hard to see traffic sometimes. The upside is that it is easy to see roads and other details because the traffic information isn’t as noisy.</p></li>
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<p>Nokia Maps showed a little more traffic information than Apple Maps. Both Apple Maps and Nokia Maps show major traffic problems - that is the highways. Apple Maps and Nokia Maps show only a little bit of the congestion on a few surface roads. You can run into slow-moving surface roads and you won’t see that on Nokia or Apple Maps. Nokia maps uses different colors which I think is better than Apple’s use of only red.</p>
<p>Google Maps showed the greatest amount of details on highways and surface roads. You could see how traffic was on a lot of roads besides highways and even main surface roads. My assumption is that they are using information from Android phones in NAV mode. Android has more phones out there and maybe more phones used as NAV devices than any other Mobile OS. The downside of showing all of this information is that the screen looks very busy. Google has a rather chunky look to their traffic information and road information is somewhat obscured by all of the traffic detail.</p>
<p>You do get ads with Google Maps too but they are easy to get rid of if the device is in your hand. Google is working on a native iOS 6 map App. I plan to use Apple Maps for now as it is good enough. I will probably install the Google Maps App when it comes out just to provide more detail.</p>
<p>BTW, I only use the maps stuff while driving if I have a co-pilot. I just use the Garmin normally.</p>
<p>Mini, I’m with you. I was all set to buy the iphone 5 when my upgrade date arrives but then I saw the Samsung. Finally, a phone for the old folk. I can read on this one! I can see the screen! I’m not happy though that the latest update for this phone is stalled somewhere in Europe and no immediate plans for its arrival in the U.S. I’m still torn.</p>
<p>Did not take that long!</p>
<p><a href=“CNN”>quote</a> – Scott Forstall, one of the most visible faces of Apple in the wake of Steve Jobs’ death, is leaving the company in a surprise shakeup at the head of Apple’ ranks.</p>
<p>As the man behind the system that ran Apple’s industry-changing iPhone and iPad, Forstall had been considered a favorite to replace Jobs as CEO after Jobs’ death last October. More recently, Apple observers pegged Forstall, 43, as the next in line behind Cook </p>
<p>Almost universally lauded for its smooth, easily navigated design, iOS was dinged by many last month for a wonky Maps app and other problems. Replacing Google Maps for the first time as the system’s default tool, users found the map product incomplete and sometimes comically wrong in many locations throughout the world.</p>
<p>Some critics said iOS 6 didn’t offer many significant advancements over its predecessors, while Google’s Android system continues to evolve more rapidly.
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<p>xiggi - saw that yesterday. Whoops. I wonder how soon we will get the good maps back.</p>
<p>I already skipped one iOS update, so I think I can wait until iOS7 or 8 shows up. 
Which means I’m in no hurry to get the new hardware as well. I wonder how many folks like me are still on the fence?</p>
<p>I have noticed the apple maps have improved locally from the ios6 launch, I double check it with an alternate map application though.
I also have maps saved so i can use them without a data connection.</p>
<p>I just traveled about 900 miles on a trip. I had turn by turn instructions for free from google maps. The other person had Apple maps without turn by turn instructions. My maps were accurate. The other persons’ were not accurate but fortunately the apple maps were silent.</p>
<p>Love my iPhone 4. Company just ordered iPhone 5 for my upgrade.</p>
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<p>[The</a> Associated Press: Yacht commissioned by Steve Jobs launched](<a href=“http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gP6pdYXLIE4l7ABrkSMuiQVMD0zg?docId=24a2f6ac5e764ff092f866ebf89aeb83]The”>http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gP6pdYXLIE4l7ABrkSMuiQVMD0zg?docId=24a2f6ac5e764ff092f866ebf89aeb83)</p>
<p>Steve Jobs was brilliant and amazing except with one respect. He has built among the ugliest yachts ever.</p>
<p>I read an article on the new dock connector. Apparently the Micro USB standard allows for 9 watts maximum. The new Apple Dock Connector power limit is at least 12 watts (they sell a 12-watt adapter); they don’t publish the spec so we don’t know what the limit is. I have a feeling that the x86 Core i5 tablets are going to have proprietary power ports because they’ll need more power than what you get from 5 and 10 watt adapters.</p>
<p>I admit I go old school for yachts.
[Johnny</a> Depps yacht seems nice (8 Photos)](<a href=“http://thechive.com/2011/10/25/johnny-depps-yacht-seems-nice-8-photos/]Johnny”>Hot Celebrities | Hot Actresses and Celebrity Videos - theCHIVE)</p>
<p>I’m planning to buy iPhone5’s for DD’s and thought the release of the unlocked version yesterday would help with my confusion, however, despite being told yesterday (by a genius)that it would work with all networks, the Apple store online says the unlocked version only works with AT&T here in the US. Other online research indicates that the Verizon model will also work with an AT&T nano sim in addition to compatibility with some European networks (with their nano sims) without unlocking. My goal is to keep as many options open as possible and would prefer not to be tied to a network for 2 years though DH prefers the contract priced phones! I’ve been an AT&T customer for years but am not currently bound by a contract so is there any advantage to staying with them - given they will not unlock their iphone for foreign travel till the 2 year contract is up? Does anyone have any experience with the Verizon model or can confirm it works with nano sim in Europe or indeed on AT &T here? Any input gratefully received - this is taking up far too much of my limited head space.</p>