Next iPhone delayed for October due to the 28nm chip shortages, to sport Liquidmetal casing

30. Mandroid posted on 20 Apr 2012, 14:51 0 4

What is an itouch? Where did you get it? That's really impressive considering THERE IS NO SUCH F***ING THING.

iDiot.

32. Berzerk000 posted on 20 Apr 2012, 15:44 1 0

I hope that was sarcasm. iTouch = iPod Touch. It's a common name for it.

35. Mandroid posted on 20 Apr 2012, 17:07 0 0

No, it was not sarcasm, it was truth. There is NO SUCH THING as an "itouch". Find me one and I will PayPal you $1,000 no joke.

Just because iDiots are too simple to know what they own doesn't mean they can make up a name and that's what it's called. A LOT of parents and older folks call Xbox, Ps3, PSP, etc "nintendos", doesn't make it so.

I would fully expect my mechanic to point and laugh and insist I leave his shop if when asked what kind of car I own I respond with "an '08 Vroom Vroom." Yes, people who refer to ipods as "itouches", you really DO sound THAT f*cking stupid. Knock it off.

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38. Lucas777 posted on 20 Apr 2012, 20:16 0 0

nobody sounds stupid… its just abbreviating… you used it when u said '08, it's, that's, etc…

if u dont want to use abbreviations than thats fine but practice what you preach

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42. deago78 posted on 21 Apr 2012, 14:57 0 0

Just looking for anything to get angry about, aren't you?

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34. BattleBrat posted on 20 Apr 2012, 16:06 0 0

Keep in mind, my phone is a RAZR.

7. andro. posted on 20 Apr 2012, 03:43 5 7

Sounds like it will change everything again again! $

9. PhoneLuver posted on 20 Apr 2012, 05:18 0 0

Probably with U.S. ONLY LTE!

15. c.hack posted on 20 Apr 2012, 09:54 4 1

If the carriers want to fragment the LTE standard into a hundred different frequency bands, that's the carrier's bad. They're only doing it to keep their customers from switching. Blame the carriers for f*&()&ing up LTE, not Apple.

36. jamrockjones posted on 20 Apr 2012, 17:46 0 0

But still, Apple is the only manufacturer that makes one phone and expects all carriers frequency to support, otherwise the carrier doesn't get it. Everyone else adjusts the phone specific to the carrier.... well except Apple, because THEY believe that the universe revolves around them and their products.

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10. -RVM- posted on 20 Apr 2012, 05:27 1 0

I don't think they are gonna change the display resolution. That would only cause tons of problems with app compatibility and after all, 960x640 is more than enough.

12. ilia1986 posted on 20 Apr 2012, 06:34 0 0

for a 3.5" screen. If they go for a 4" they got to increase the resolution as well..

19. theoak posted on 20 Apr 2012, 10:11 1 0

I don't think they will use the A5X.

It is hard to conclude, but the A5X seems power hungry.

I see Apple bringing in a new chip.

8. stealthd posted on 20 Apr 2012, 04:00 7 1

Yeah just like the Galaxy SII had a stranglehold on the market when the 4S came out. It's just history repeating itself really.

24. taco50 (banned) posted on 20 Apr 2012, 11:21 2 3

Well let's see no android phone has a stranglehold on the market since the iPhone outsells them all.

There's not even quad core phones out yet and you're trying to say its outdated?

Uneducated android user

39. atheisticemetic posted on 21 Apr 2012, 08:43 0 0

"Well let's see no android phone has a stranglehold on the market since the iPhone outsells them all"

actually android sells more worldwide than your apple iphone

yet again another arrogant and ignorant apple user

the iphone will be outdated when it is released, of that i'm willing to bet money on. Your iphone 4s is a Droid X2 currently and you expect that the Iphone 5 is going to somehow set a standard?

what planet do you live on that you actually trust apple?

16. c.hack posted on 20 Apr 2012, 09:55 2 2

In for 5. The whole family is waking up and slowly switching from dying droids that aren't getting any updates.

29. networkdood posted on 20 Apr 2012, 14:43 2 0

Huh, you must have the LG PHOENIX - try the DROID RAZR - works great with ICS 4.0.1.

17. c.hack posted on 20 Apr 2012, 09:58 1 1

Mostly true. But I also want to be able to do anything I need with a phone, and do it well. I couldn't care less about rooting or 3D customizable screen this slow a phone down to a crawl.

40. atheisticemetic posted on 21 Apr 2012, 08:44 0 0

so doing things like widgets is doing "anything and doing it well?"

pardon me while i throw up

20. theoak posted on 20 Apr 2012, 10:13 0 1

Personally, the longer they wait, I am okay with it.

I purchased my i4, two years ago Christmas. So essentially, I would have to wait till the New Year 2013 anyway before I could upgrade ;)

28. ayephoner posted on 20 Apr 2012, 13:32 0 1

thats partially true chack. rooting can increase the speed (through over clocking) and custamizable screens, im guessing you mean wall paper. i think its silly, but if the specs are there, it shouldnt noticably slow it down at all.

theoak, they'll probably offer you an upgrade when it launches or shortly after. i doubt you'll wait until 2013. when i look now, its 20 months after my last upgrade.

33. Jonathan41 posted on 20 Apr 2012, 15:53 2 0

A lot of people buy iPhones just because there iPhones. A lot of them don't really know anything about dual core, quad core, etc. Their just buying iPhone because they want to have that phone they see constantly in the media and hears about in the news. Most iPhone costumers go in to the store saying "I want an iPhone." Hell, some of the older people don't even know what the damn thing looks like, and parents get them because thats what their children want, and the children want it so they can be like the stars and the popular kids playing their Gameloft games. It's very rare that costumers are well informed about the specs or any of the other phones on the market when purchasing an iPhone. The iPhone's best asset is its name. People hear iPhone and think "Oh, thats the best because, that's the phone the stars have right?" and the don't even go thought the trouble of seeing what else is on the market. It's commodity fetishism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity_fetishism)​. The iPhone in are society symbolizes "status" just like what we say before with Blackberry's. We saw it with the Instagram fiasco. The general reation put forth by iPhone users was basically "don't let those poor android users have what we have!". That doesn't sound like a reaction from a well informed costumer to me when there price difference between top android phones and the iPhone are not far apart. Thats not to say that there aren't well informed costumers buying iPhones as well but, they mostly do it for the extraordinary developer support of the App Store. Almost all major dev's put there app on the App Store before any other app market be it the Play Store or Windows Phone. Some of them don't even bother to put there apps anywhere else at all and there are reasons. The point is thought that Apple really doesn't have to be the best in spec. department, they only have to be just a good as their competitors and they will still win in sales because Apple keeps their devices in the media. The only way that will change is if people become informed about the other phones on the market.

37. jamrockjones posted on 20 Apr 2012, 17:50 0 0

Amen.

18. c.hack posted on 20 Apr 2012, 10:02 2 0

- My DSLR has a 6MP sensor and takes awesome pictures. For a phone, the limitation on picture quality is not the number of pixels, but rather the quality of the sensor and optics. A bump to 10 mp would be meaningless.

- Why do you need a quad core!? Most laptops running 64 bit Windows run more very fast with a dual core.

Seriously, there's a difference between changing specs just to be able to say you have more megapixels or more cores, and changing specs that make a difference.

21. theoak posted on 20 Apr 2012, 10:15 1 0

I agree here. Why quad core? Yes, you want games to be fast. Yes, you want fluid navigation.

In the end though, the purpose of the phone is to be "mobile". Having a phone tied to a charging cord all of the time is far from "mobile".

I would gladly sacrifice a core or two if it meant I did not have to charge the thing so much.

22. theoak posted on 20 Apr 2012, 10:24 0 0

Personally ... I think a faster imaging processor ... optical/digital stabilization ... these will provide more quality and a better experience the pixels.

Mind you, the memory/NAND manufacturers are going to love you. More MP means larger sized pictures. The phone will then need the extra storage for all these larger pictures.

25. taco50 (banned) posted on 20 Apr 2012, 11:24 0 1

I think LTE and camera upgrade are a no brainier. They already added two widgets to ios 5.

I think 4 inch screen and quad core are likely but not guaranteed. You have to understand processor with an iPhone is not that important because iOS is well written OS that functions very smoothly. Android needs faster processors and still has more hiccups.

26. taco50 (banned) posted on 20 Apr 2012, 11:25 0 2

Try reading up on what it is. You make yourself sound very ignorant right now.

27. darth8ball posted on 20 Apr 2012, 12:21 1 1

‘metallic glass is a metal alloy, but one with the disordered structure of glass’. The material has been around since the 1990s, but since a new breakthrough in ‘superspeed pulse mould technology’, this type of glass, which is as tough as metal, can now be used for phone casings.

I know what it is but read the above description and see if you can find the problem