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2012-09-13 , 08:01
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Originally Posted by ranbaxy View Post
Wireless charging is one of the best features ever.
Agree and no more stress if somebody or something very dear to you trips over the wire ripping USB or proprietary Apple connector apart.
With wireless charging only the docking station suffers
Missed chance Apple.
 

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2012-09-13 , 13:07
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It's hilarious how this company that's supposed to be all cutting-edge and innovative isn't doing much more than repackaging long-existing technologies.

Remember when they introduced Face Time and their ad campaigns claiming that "this changes everything?" No, it doesn't. You just repackaged video calling.

Now they're flossing iPanorama like it's the latest thing, and spouting figures like 28MP images (four 7MP images stitched together - it's not that complicated).

Yet people continue to lap up that bull***** and marketing hype.
 

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2012-09-13 , 14:47
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Just want to dump this is in here.

IRemember reading a fellow forum member commenting that people genuinely asked him if this was the iPhone 5.

I Chuckled to myself, people can be so dense, but then imagine my surprise when people began asking me that very question.

Here was the public self-appointing the N9 as a worthy successor to the iPhone title (hate apple or hate apple, they're pretty much industry-wide benchmark).

So what do people say after they know what the actual iPhone 5 looks like?

"damn, that phone is sweet.Nokia? Crap, I love Nokia.. Where can I get one? "

Ignoring obvious heartbreak that nobody gets the chance with this phone anymore, Ihonestly don't understand how anybody could want this?

Irony, that a major highlight of this iPhone is "it's substantially cheaper then similar Android phones"

How the mighty have fallen.

Fyi, constant I in front of words is not an extra layer of pun-filled goodness, for some reason my N9 has decided I isn't a real word.
 

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Originally Posted by Janitor X View Post
It's hilarious how this company that's supposed to be all cutting-edge and innovative isn't doing much more than repackaging long-existing technologies.
Wait. The irony on this statement if it were applicable to Nokia is way too high.

For instance... the Nokia N9 came with the OMAP3 chip whereas OMAP4 was already released in products for months. And then charged a premium for 2+ year old chips.

Remember when they introduced Face Time and their ad campaigns claiming that "this changes everything?" No, it doesn't. You just repackaged video calling.
Meanwhile, Nokia dropped it and never updated it to be more applicable. For a company that's "connecting people", they dropped the ball there.

Now they're flossing iPanorama like it's the latest thing, and spouting figures like 28MP images (four 7MP images stitched together - it's not that complicated).
The marketing hyperbole in the Apple event was incredible. It gets worse when the uneducated or ill-informed think this stuff is new. It's not. But who do you blame? Apple's marketing for blanketing old tech and features as new tech and features or Nokia's marketing for not blanketing this stuff as old hat and not for taking old concepts and adapting them to the newer uses.

Yet people continue to lap up that bull***** and marketing hype.
Unfortunately, it seems to go both ways. Marketing is for the lazy masses that need to be told what to think and what to buy. Research is for the productive few that want to know what's behind their purchases. Criticisms is the cop out to point the finger while committing to neither possible mistakes made during research or falling to marketing ploys.

Nokia needs to step up their game. This is a different marketing era and they need to drop the Microsoft inspired marketing. It doesn't work.
 

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Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
Wait. The irony on this statement if it were applicable to Nokia is way too high.

For instance... the Nokia N9 came with the OMAP3 chip whereas OMAP4 was already released in products for months. And then charged a premium for 2+ year old chips.
But more importantly, it came with THE OS and lots of RAM.

The core CPU chip is not that important when the other parts are ok.

If you compare N9's screen with the 920 and even iPhone 5, now that is an insult from Nokia.

N9 will never be a classic in my eyes until I turn 65+ and unable to read small text anyway.
 

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Apple vs Samsung: victory for one, but everyone loses?

a perspective I really enjoyed
 

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Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
Wait. The irony on this statement if it were applicable to Nokia is way too high.

For instance... the Nokia N9 came with the OMAP3 chip whereas OMAP4 was already released in products for months. And then charged a premium for 2+ year old chips.

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The marketing hyperbole in the Apple event was incredible. It gets worse when the uneducated or ill-informed think this stuff is new. It's not. But who do you blame? Apple's marketing for blanketing old tech and features as new tech and features or Nokia's marketing for not blanketing this stuff as old hat and not for taking old concepts and adapting them to the newer uses.
I hear you, and I'm not disputing that Nokia regressed on several points in its "flagship" models since the N8, or that it should have taken a page out of Apple's slick marketing playbook (unless that's patented too ).

But what I do take issue with is how so many people - including reviewers and others who should know better - willingly buy into the hype, even knowing that there are better products out there.

So who do I blame? Lord knows, because this is an issue that transcends Apple or even the mobile industry. I'm wading into philosophical waters here, so let me just take a step back and get on-topic again:

iPanorama, you say? How quaint. My N9 already does that..
 

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2012-09-14 , 20:54
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#78
A very interesting (Warning rather lewd language and content) review of the iPhone 5.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMJio6137VA

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Lol best review ever LOOOOOooool.
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Honestly, I think Lumia 920 lived up to the hype and the iPhone 5 just didn't bring anything new to the table.

Windows Phone 8 = weird, BUT something NEW.. and in some places, very interesting.

iOS = getting as old as Symbian now with nothing particularly "new". Even Android changes significantly with every iteration.

I really thought they'll give something that'll make the whole world swoon and buy it (which they will anyway) but it's just not impressive anymore. I was more impressed watching Lumia 920's live feed.

This time, almost EVERY adjective like beautiful, world's best, amazing, perfect, revolutionary and all that crap actually seemed like CRAP. " two times more powerful".. "3 times graphics".. "bigger battery".. the same old ****. No facts, just words thrown at your face like you're stupid.

Nope, Apple annoyed me, but they were interesting.. but not anymore. I gave up on Apple. They should put another bite in their logo.
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