Goodbye Apple

[Mother Grabber]

looks like Apple may be joining the larger display size game:

 

DisplaySearch speculates that Apple may launch both a 4.7-inch and a 5.7-inch iPhone next year, roughly in line with a Wall Street Journal report from September claiming Apple has been experimenting with iPhone models carrying displays of 4.8 inches to 6 inches, perhaps for a 2014 release.

 

taken from http://www.macrumors.com/2013/10/09/supply-chain-sources-feed-speculation-on-apples-display-plans-for-future-devices/

 

Interesting to note that the resolutions given are 1280x720 and 1920x1080 respectively, suggesting more display/content sharing between devices and specific attention given to video based entertainment.  Apple intentionally does not include 720 or 1080 resolutions on iMacs and MacPros, so to have them target that number these displays is suggestive of their plans for them.

 

Also mentioned is a 12.9" iPad, with a resolution equal to or higher than most 50+" TVs.

[Guest Spider Monkey]

Apple products don't get bogged down like Android and Windows phone. The IOS platform is locked down and this means less flexibility but it keeps it from having various background apps and services ruin your phone's performance.

Also Apple tablets do extremely well and they practically own the Mp3 player market the same way Nintendo owns the handheld gaming market.

Samsung make great products but they still have work to do .

Maybe by 2020 Apple tablets will have this groundbreaking USB technology.

Also, Android does not get bogged down. You should try a developer edition Nexus or Moto X that doesn't have an obscene amount of Samsung/Verizon bloatware.

[Mother Grabber]

Apple will likely never put USB support on their tablets and phones.  They are pushing cloud based file access instead.  Not so handy when you want to watch the RR presser stream in the middle of the Kalahari desert, or archived episodes of GoT whilst visiting Machu Picchu, and don't get LTE support.

[DirtyMagic97]

Mom just got the new iPhone.  I just set it up for her and starting messing around with it.  That thing is obnoxiously slow connecting to the internet.  It's terrible.

[Darth Biscuit]

Mom just got the new iPhone.  I just set it up for her and starting messing around with it.  That thing is obnoxiously slow connecting to the internet.  It's terrible.

 

My son grabbed my Droid Maxx this morning to search something for school... (his iPhone was not charged and he's also a die hard Apple sheep) and even he commented on how fast my phone was... :)

[Mother Grabber]

new curved version of the Note III:

 

  http://news.yahoo.com/samsungs-first-curved-smartphone-hits-korea-market-040859905.html

 

I'll bet most high end phones in 2014 will be curved like this.