JackClark

Rumours are rife and the WDC is only months away. Will Apple 'Change Everything' in time for the conference or will Jony Ive hold back the change?

Of course this update will be important not only to Apple users but to mobile users in general, where Apple lead others follow, some faster than others, some a bit too similar if you know what I mean.

I'm expecting incredible battery life and massive speed improvements driven by software not the 'throw bigger numbers at it' hardware updates that other devices require to keep pace.

Appearance is likely to be radically changed. Flatter is the current buzzword, sounds about right.

riiidaa

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You have seen the S4 right? Not exactly a 'throw bigger numbers at it' hardware update is it.

* registers your finger from up to two centimetres away, Air Gestures, which allow you to swipe the phone without touching the screen

* eye-tracking, Smart Stay, which tracks your eyes to tell if you're looking at the screen, has stablemates now. Smart Pause will note if your gaze leaves the screen and will pause the video, and Smart Scroll will check when you're reading a web page and scroll up and down as you tilt the device.

http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pho...1137602/review

JackClark

Take away the big numbers, then try running the camera full time. Party tricks don't do it for me I'm afraid.

JackClark

You missed a bit.

riiidaa

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Being able to operate it whilst wearing ANY set of gloves you fancy seems a useful thing to me given this effing weather.

You missed that bit eh?

andy97

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Overdue in release and pretty much confirmed that it will have mirrored features of Android Ice Cream Sandwich

JackClark

You'll be getting a glimpse of your future Andyroid.

CREWJ

I'm hoping it's a decent leap forward this time as there hasn't been a hell of a lot of innovation in the last few generations.

Ant

I'm hoping for a big overhaul but as we know time will tell, it'd be nice if this thread would be troll free , but I doubt it.

riiidaa

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Seeing as it was started by one you mean?

I currently own the iPhone 4 having not bothered to upgrade for such minimal gains, but the S4 appears to have advancements in tech worth considering.

JackClark

Without meaning to sound too much of a ****, the 4s is way ahead of the 4. You'd be surprised by just how much more the 5 offers, hardware and software. You will be disappointed at some point if you go with the S4, everyone is.

ALi-B

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Not another OS update.

Why is so much need to constantly update OSs these days.


Yet another thing to faff around downloading and installing, then pray it doesn't cause any further problems on top of the existing ones.

Ant

I wouldn't call pressing the update button in the menu faffing about

Ant

So that makes it ok then, the thread isn't started to troll unlike some that get started

riiidaa

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I'm not surprised, nor sufficiently impressed that is why I haven't bought either.

Siri is the only draw of the 4s, and it was poor compared to siri improvements on my sister's 5 when they were checked out.

The 5 is fine if you didn't have a working 4 or 4s, but I do and it's got nothing wrong with it, to upgrade when the 4 is still a perfectly good handset (when used with a bumper ) seems foolhardy.

The Galaxy S4 is not out until the end of April so how can that be...

riiidaa

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To patch exploitable holes?

Luminous

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Lets hope the new iOS actually brings some useful BASIC features its missed for years. Time and again I look at a contact where I have more than one phone number. All I want to do is re-order the phone numbers so that the one I most use is at the top.

Can you do this? nope. You have to manually cut and paste numbers in the order you want them to be as the iOS has no ability to re-order them.

I love my iPhone, but for all the singing and dancing about them, they do miss some pretty basic features. Not to mention, they are not nearly as stable as you would expect.

Tidgy

lmao, is this gonna be what the iphone4s was, what the iphone 5 was?

I'd wait till its actualy released before you start crowing jack.

JackClark

Much more than that, this will be the first major update to the user interface. It's obviously going to be big news as the interface influenced all mobile interfaces.

andy97

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Maybe an extra row of icons or even an extra button so you don't after back out of every app before opening a new one

ALi-B

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It is if it f**ks up the phone like iOS6.1 did. Not so easy to roll back to a previous version. Plus it takes 10-15mins, so not exactly quick, but I can live without a useable phone for that long, even if I pressed update instead of cancel by accident.

But of course I should have ensured the phone is fully synced and backed up before doing that. Just in case it gets totally bricked. Oh and charged or on mains power, with a WiFi reception. I don't have much 3G data.

Oh and I suppose I should ensure that there is enough free space on the phone.

Now that's what I call "faffing". Along of the concerns of what it will or won't do....

Like on the previous updates I may find its removed something useful (google maps) for something that's a bit pants (apple maps). Shortened my battery life, made the phone crash and stolen another load of memory. This new one may introduce more new bugs to further tar my enjoyment of this damn phone...although lets pray it finally fixes my pessimistic signal meter (doubtful).

I've turned my updates off now as I really can't be arsed with it anymore. Its getting as bad as a sodding PC on patch Tuesday.

riiidaa

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That's a statement that interests me, because for me iOS is rock solid, very few poxy error messages and v few crashes, both on my iPad and iPhone which is what I like about them. Having said that I'm not using iOS 6. What instability have you experienced?

BlueBugEye

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I can't wait to get rid of my Andtiod phone and replace it with an iPhone having now used the iPad for a while, it's much more user friendly and far more stable.

JackClark

iOS is rock solid for me too. I have had Facebook or the odd free App crash out, but that's super rare, like once a year and I must restart my phone once a quarter.

I was looking at Android again last night, I don't think there's one thing I would take from it. The introduction of Notification Center led to a well deserved hat tip for Android, not so sure that will happen this time. I think they'll take from Windows this time, tiles are kind of nice.

MDS_WRX

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I hope the battery life will be one of the main things they look at, I updated the wifes 4s to 6.1.3 (and 6.1.2 before that) and the battery life is abysmal and seems to be even getting worse with each update.

Luminous

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My phone itself has crashed 4 times this year, mostly when attempting to receive a call. Several of my apps have crashed off and on, maybe 5-10 times.

I also work with computers and see a lot of customer's phones, and they too have had issues with them.

They are good, but not perfect. I am using iPhone 4s and most up to date iOS

Ant

You must of had very bad luck to have all that happen. I plug my phone in just befor bed and let it update then. Wake up and it's fully working.

bioforger

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Phones crashing? What is that? No seriously I've never experienced a crash with my S3.

JackClark

LOL. My iPhone woke me not with an alarm this morning, but with a cup of tea and a bacon butty.

TonyBurns

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Does this mean Apple will get more than 6 hours battery life out of a phone after an update??
Sorry to say but every time Apple has released a new os it's been disappointing