Concept renders of the next iPhone transform rumors into art

10. alecgale posted on 30 Jun 2011, 08:38 2 2

ya i'd buy a phone if it looked like that even if it was an apple product

3. clevername posted on 30 Jun 2011, 04:50 3 5

Thank you for the constructive comment. I will thumb it up.

9. Gilgamesh posted on 30 Jun 2011, 08:00 3 5

not to mention his excellent grammar....

27. CX3NT3_713 posted on 30 Jun 2011, 22:02 4 0

Why don't you two, get a room!!

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18. stealthd posted on 30 Jun 2011, 14:19 3 3

Thanks for the prediction Nostradamus but if you look at reality iOS isn't going away anytime soon. The notifications and iCloud aren't signs of a company no longer being able to innovate, they're signs of a mature platform.



Maybe you should try forming your opinion based on facts instead of fanboy delusions.

19. ilia1986 posted on 30 Jun 2011, 14:36 4 3

I would say that blatantly ripping off features from Android is the absolute opposite of innovation.

Oh and before you call me a fanboy, let me say that I was Apple's advocate in many arguments over the past year - and I've seen people mocking and bashing it - while I was defending it vigorously. And I bought an iPhone 4 in Sep '10 - and I still love it - but Android in 2010 is not Android as it is now - and now - Android is way way way better than iOS as a software (given that Apple has no hidden tricks for us in iOS 5) - and high-end Android phones are also much better in their hardware - save for the screen resolution - which if you heard - will probably be mitigated by the Nexus Prime or whatever it's called.

The iPhone 4 was awesome in 2010. It's still good now - hardware-wise. However, everyone expected iOS 5 will be truly innovative.. concepts of Widget screens, better multi-tasking, and other things have been floating around for some time until WWDC.. and then this guy who is responsible for iOS software development comes along and uncovers only Notification Center and iCloud wireless syncing..

iOS 2.0 was in 2008 - and it introduced the App store and numerous tweaks - that's fine.

iOS 3.0 was in 2009 - and it introduced copy\cut\paste, landscape keyboard and some more tweaks.. that's fine even though by that time Android was already rising up.

iOS 4.0 introduced Folders, multi-tasking and home-screen wallpapers. Overall not bad, and indeed much much needed in mid 2010.

You see - each new version was more significant feature-wise than the previous one. Not so with iOS 5. Not so at all. It doesn't seem like iOS 5. It seems more like iOS 4.5. And I tell you right now - Apple fanatics and purists can continue to buy iPhones for the next 100 years or so - but unless Apple releases some revolutionary tweaks to it's UI - instead of that boring set of icons which already was old in 2009 - A lot of people - myself included - will buy a phone with a Green Robot on it.

26. stealthd posted on 30 Jun 2011, 19:36 1 1

So what features is iOS missing? It's a mature platform, it doesn't need useless features added on just to appease your short sighted sense of competitiveness, especially when every android update is nothing but incremental features. Adding on features just to pad the update list to look better is how bloatware is born (read:Norton, McAfee).

They also don't need to do much to the OS when the App store already makes it the better platform. The App Store is a thriving software ecosystem. The Android Market is full of crappy free apps, soundboards, knockoffs and second-rate ports.

And it's not a ripoff when you do it better.

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28. mfrapp20 posted on 30 Jun 2011, 23:22 0 0

@stealthd I'm sorry to break it to you, but having more features, whether they're useless or not, sounds a heck of a lot better to consumers, and have you even used the Android Market at all? It has almost all of the applications that the App Store has, and like you said, they're free. Plus, android is an open operating system. Which means that you have an unlimited number of ways to customize your device to exactly your style. i have an iPod touch, and love it, but I would never buy and iPhone and pay for an overpriced plan when I could get a cheaper and overall more technologically advanced phone for half the price. Don't call him a fanboy when your comments scream fanboy

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29. ilia1986 posted on 01 Jul 2011, 03:48 1 1

"They also don't need to do much to the OS when the App store already makes it the better platform"

You see that's sort of thinking is exactly what's leading companies like Nokia and RIM to death. You don't sit on your laurels when you're successful. Even more importantly - you don't sit on your laurels when the competition has more than 2x market share than you do - AND and OS with 2x - 3x more features than yours is - which for many many many many people are far from useless.

And the Notification center is indeed not a ripoff - since it MUCH WORSE than what's going on Android. Because On Android people get to have quick-settings on it - something that's only enabled on the iOS5 via a hack in Cydia. And please don't tell me that it's better because it got weather and stocks - which is NOTHING compared to the amoung of WIDGETS Android has - on it's Home screen - and without the need to swipe to access them.

I used to be a huge Apple fan - I defended the iPhone 4 during the Antenna crisis, I claimed that Apple knows what they're doing, I believed that Android will stop growing in one point or another = but after WWDC - I was so underwhelmed by the announcements - that unless Steve get's a huge bunny out of his magic hat - I will no longer support iOS.

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15. ns5741 posted on 30 Jun 2011, 11:54 1 0

Looks are Apples primary concern; NOT function (death grip, cough cough)

21. zuno gyakusatsu posted on 30 Jun 2011, 16:08 1 3

you mean like all android devices? email doesnt work 90% of the time, constant power cycling, defective touch screens (constant scrolling, "possessed" phones), known call quality issues, terrible keyboard builds, botched updates, etc...the list goes on an on when it comes to android phones of all makes.

20. DigitalBoy05 posted on 30 Jun 2011, 15:32 0 0

i hear ya man. I switched from a Droid X to a iphone4 for about a month but returned my iphone to go back to my X. Its next to impossible to type on a 3.5" screen at the same speed and accuracy of a larger 4.3 display. Also it became immediatly apparent how much I came to depend on widgets and and androids multitasking.

22. GALAXY-S posted on 30 Jun 2011, 16:54 0 0

a bigger screen is also keeping me from having and iphone and also having to live with itunes :(