Multipule buttons? What is up with that? I thought the blessed prophet Jobs said that he hated buttons
I'm not really impressed. The phone may have some new bells and whistles, but we're still dealing with an app store run by Nanny Jobs. Think I'll stick with my Motorola Droid.
Gizmodo pulled a bunch of douchebag moves on this. First they buy what is essentially a stolen iPhone prototype, then they take it apart and THEN Gizmodo outs the name of the guy who the phone belonged to while making snarky comments about him possibly being an alcoholic. I'm surprised they didn't also post his home address and Social Security number.
I know. I'm seriously considering ditching my Storm2 for the Incredible. The only reason I didn't go with a Droid was its lack of ability to sync with Outlook (business need). The HTC Eris did have that ability, but overall it was an inferior phone to the Droid or Storm2. The In credible will supposedly keep this feature. I am a huge fan of HTC phones. Oh and here is a leak on BGR to the new BB OS v6. Supposedly it will be released in June/July and it allegedly has a lot of incremental improvements. Dont know if it will be enough to keep me though.
Why I won't get an iPad. I will tolerate Crazy Steve's lockdown of my phone, but that's about it. All I really want from the new iPhone is better battery life and a much better camera, and I'd like the SDK to stop being so retarded so I can see if the Flash CS5 does a better job of developing iPhone apps as the combination of XCode and IB is shittier than a newborns nappy.
IB is a fantastic tool.... for Mac development. For the iPhone though, it kinda blows, and it's only a teensy bit better for the iPad. For the iPhone, they really should have made it more like a DVD authoring tool than it is. But I don't know where your beef with Xcode is, other than the documentation window which gets worse with every release. Xcode and the iPhone simulator are worlds better than the BB dev environment (you can't even edit code while the emulator is running. What. The. Fuck.), and about 1% the complexity of getting the Android dev environment set up and maintained... 20% if you've already got Eclipse installed.
^I do a lot of work in Visual Studio, and in terms of development environment it's light years more advanced than Xcode. And I can develop both visually and in code on it, not having to switch between two environments. Xcode is like going back 10 years. It does what it says on the tin, and that's it.
This was confirmed to be the real deal after Apple's legal team sent a message to Gizmodo, the site which acquired the device, asking for it to be returned.
Remind me, which mobile platforms that actually matter can you develop for with Visual Studio again? And as far as not having to switch applications goes, that's a silver lining to the dark cloud known as MDI.
I'm going to stick with my 3GS. Apple is stuck on the business model where they introduce a NEW AND IMPROVED SHINY THING, it seems like, every six months. Unless it's a substantial increase in performance or an absolute must have feature (none of those listed are, IMHO), I'll just wait until it's time for me to upgrade and I'll buy the NEW AND IMPROVED iPHONE 6G!!!!!!
I have the 3G still. Waiting till the 4G to upgrade. I do like the thing and the supposedly vast increase in screen resolution would make it the best on the planet. With better battery life and the other frosting, looks good. Jobs may be an asswipe, but there's a reason Apple sold almost 9 million iPhones in the first quarter of this year alone. Blows Droid's multiple phones out of the water. The App Store is assinine in it's control, but it has just about everything you need. Besides, for those who need a porn app because they are too lazy to use the browser to view the entire internet world of porn, I say I mean imagine the tits you could see on the highest res screen. Oh, and he OLED screens on Droid are still in sunlight from what people who have them tell me.
Depends, are we talking business apps or ones that make fart noises? I'm not particularly interested in dick-waving over platforms, in terms of development XCode is far behind Visual Studio which is a real shame. I would love to develop for the iPhone, in fact I invested in an iMac for that very reason, but XCode is pants. It's a fossil of a dev system, and I hope Steve Jobs takes time out from stopping porn or Adobe appearing on the iPhone long enough to tackle that. That and maybe some reassurances that anything I develop won't suddenly be banned because of the current position of Betelgeuse in the night sky or some equally silly control-freak attitude. And if we are dick-waving, Visual Interdev 6 handled WML cards very well back in the day. Long before Apple got into mobile - I think they were too busy being on the verge of bankruptcy around then...
No, they probably won't call it that unless AT&T gets its ass in gear deploying a 4G network. They might call it the iPhone 4 though.
I've heard iPhone HD bandied about since it apparently has a resolution double that of current models.
These days "HD" is all over the place... just take a random product name, slap "HD" on the end of it.
True, but Jobs and Gates have a "bit of a thing" going between them, and I can't imagine that Jobs would like the idea of putting HD on the end of iPhone, since it will sound like they were copying the Zune. Remember, Apple's rarely the first company to introduce a device (I owned an MP3 player long before the first iPod was introduced), but they like to make people forget anything that came before them. And really, calling it an iPhone 4G isn't out of the question, since its about the 4th version of the phone that they've produced. The "G" doesn't have to refer to the network its attached to at all (and heck, maybe they'll put this thing out on Verizon, which does have a 4G network started, IIRC).
I don't think apple will call it that. I'm just saying it is a stupid suffix that seems to be getting slapped onto the end of everything... consumers have had the "HD = good" marketing pounded into their heads for the past several years (HDTV came out in in the US in the 90s, hard to believe it is now ~15 years old!), and just recently are starting to believe it. So now every marketing "genius" and their uncle is rebranding their next version with "HD" at the end.
I'd still rather have the HTC Incredible. Android 2.2 is rumored to be 450% faster too. Can't wait. Screw you Apple.
