faetal on 13/9/2012 at 15:26
I'm upgrading next month and torn between Samsung Galaxy S3 (which smashes iPhone specs - quad core processor, 2 gb RAM) and the Nokia Lumia 920 (may have to wait longer for it, but the Zeiss camera on it looks fucken sweet). This iPhone doesn't even make it into the top 3 phones to consider (the next contender being the HTC One X, which is just pipped by the S3 on battery life and memory expansion).
Aja on 13/9/2012 at 15:30
Why would I need a quad core in my phone?
Aja on 13/9/2012 at 15:34
I'm not being facetious; I honestly don't know.
faetal on 13/9/2012 at 15:35
You don't, but app devs can now make apps which can make use of the additional resources, because the hardware is now popular (HTC One X and Samsung Galaxy S3 sales have been pretty decent, particularly the latter).
My phone comes as part of a 24 month contract, so it's not being OTT to future-proof that contract.
SubJeff on 13/9/2012 at 16:11
If you have devices like cameras and camcorders and phone you like that's all fine.
The point of these devices is the unification. My HTC Sensation is my phone, my calendar, my camera, my video camera, my reminder notes, my MP3 player both with headphones and in the car over the bluetooth transmitter, my GPS navigation system and it receives my work and personal emails on different accounts.
I also use it log my gym and training work, it connects to this forum via Tapatalk, to social media stuff and it has my work case logbook and a few work related books and apps on it as well as one or two other books.
It has a translator, which I use more often than you'd think, and a bunch of other little apps I find really useful like Word Lens (on the fly camera translation of printed text) for when I'm in Spain and Super Redial (auto-redials when the line is busy) for when I need to get through somewhere that is always busy.
And there are a few games on it for when I'm on the train/plane.
Why would you need a Quad core in your phone? So that all these things run smoothly and so that you can multitask. If you don't see the point in it its because you don't use one in this way.
faetal on 13/9/2012 at 16:15
Also, because the future.
But yeah, I love my little hand-held world shrinker. It's balls out amazing, so giving it more juice gives app developers a greater spectrum of things to develop.
ZylonBane on 13/9/2012 at 16:48
Quote Posted by Subjective Effect
Is that the only pedantic error you can find itt? Come on, you can do better than than.
Not-pendantry: Pointing out that someone has used a word to mean nearly the
opposite of what it actually means.
Take your lumps, or shriek "peddaaaaaant!" like a spoiled baby.
SubJeff on 13/9/2012 at 18:14
And that is all you can contribute to the thread? Do you trawl the internet for people to correct? Do ever have anything else to say or has looking at textures robotized you completely?
Quote:
moot
verb
[with object]
raise (a question or topic) for discussion;
suggest (an idea or possibility):
Oh my.
Hardly the opposite of touting. Did you think I was using the noun?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLYBlQIf2A0&feature=player_detailpage#t=43s) In your pedantry adorned face.
Aja on 13/9/2012 at 20:59
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Why would you need a Quad core in your phone? So that all these things run smoothly and so that you can multitask. If you don't see the point in it its because you don't use one in this way.
Your preaching and condescending aside, I don't use my phone that extensively, no. I get this uncomfortable feeling the more reliant I become on my phone's various software, as though I'm falling prey to their marketing. Do I want to be the guy who keeps track on his phone of how many coffees I buy until I get the free one? Or how many calories I've burned running? Not really.
That being said, I'll probably get the 5 when my contract expires this month. It might not be a revolutionary leap, but I still prefer the design to anything else, and I'm established in the software ecosystem (using iTunes, iMessage, etc). My main complaints have always been with iOS's restrictions, but jailbreaking mostly alleviates them. Plus, my 3GS is slowly becoming a brick, so for me at least, the 5 will be a significant improvement.
SubJeff on 13/9/2012 at 21:12
There is no preaching, nor any condescension. I'm just telling you what I use my phone for, why I need a fast phone, and I even qualified it with "If you don't see the point in it its because you don't use one in this way."
WTF is wrong with you?
I go to the park because I like the fresh(ish) air and the Sun and the grass and the trees and the squirrels and the ducks. I like nature. But if you don't see the point of the park it might because you don't like the fresh air and nature in the same way I do.
LOOK OUT GUYS THE PARK PREACHER IS HERE
Go and boil your head.
Really.
Who is the one being condescending here? Keeping track of coffees is hardly the same as tracking your training to see your progress which is what a lot of people have always done on paper anyway. And as to calories - I know several people who have lost weight using apps. If you don't think tracking things can be a useful motivator that's another problem you have.
Christ.
