what is considered a good cost for a used iphone 4 32GB?
I am with rogers right now so prob need a rogers versions
E2EK1EL
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Originally posted by schiraldihno
what is considered a good cost for a used iphone 4 32GB?
I am with rogers right now so prob need a rogers versions
Currently, the listed price I've seen since the 4S came out is around $450 to $500, and a bit higher for the white models.
I've also seen some that were lower then $400, but they get sold ultra fast ... within 5 mins of posting.
Best of luck with your hunt, it's a lot of work ... but if you score a deal, you will be extremely happy with it.
malek
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Originally posted by jester
Anyone ask Siri about how she feels about Skynet?
I did and it doesn't really care about it.
E2EK1EL
BIG UPS APPLE!!!
The IP4 I bought yesterday was very nice, it had deep small and light large scratch across the screen. It was under warranty and had the yellow tinted screen problem
Brought it to Apple and they took care of me, thank you so much Apple.
(This was a legit warrenty swap, yellow tinted screen gave me a headache after 1/2 day of usage.)
E2EK1EL
Apple Reportedly Contacting iPhone 4S Users To Investigate Battery Life Issues
The Guardian reports that Apple engineers are contacting iPhone 4S customers who are reporting a dramatic drop in battery life.
When Apple had unveiled iPhone 4S, it had claimed that the new iPhone comes with slightly faster battery life even though it is powered by a faster dual-core A5 processor.
However, an extensive battery comparison of Apple's new iPhone and iPhone 4 in real world conditions by iLounge had revealed that iPhone 4S battery life is worse than iPhone 4.
The Guardian reports that one of their readers was contacted by Apple directly to investigate the battery life issues he has been facing:
One owner who was contacted by Apple told the Guardian: "My battery life was extremely poor - 10% drop in standby every hour. I noticed that the usage figure was roughly half that of standby, even when the phone was not being used, so I assumed something was crashing or running in the background. I switched off all the new features including Siri and location services, but it was still really poor. I also tried setting up a clean phone with no apps but it is still really poor.
"I then got a call from a senior [Apple] engineer who said he had read my post and was 'reaching out' to users for data and admitted this was an issue (and that they aren't close to finding a fix!) and asked lots of questions about my usage and then asked if he could install the file below and that he would call back the day after to retrieve the info. I extracted the file from my Mac after a sync and emailed it to him. He was incredibly helpful and apologetic in the typical Apple way!"
Based on this thread in Apple Support Communites, there are a number of iPhone 4S users facing this problem. Guardian reports that they have observed that the battery drain is the fastest when mobile data is switched on, while Wi-Fi usage makes little difference to battery consumption. We wonder if this has anything to do with iPhone 4S improved antenna system, which seems to have fixed the death grip issue.
(The 4S has some very strange batt stats to begin with, poor network coverage will give you faster battery drain, even on standby)
malek
yeah the battery on the 4S is nothing special, it might be actually just a bit worse than my previous 3GS... that sucks!
E2EK1EL
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Originally posted by malek
yeah the battery on the 4S is nothing special, it might be actually just a bit worse than my previous 3GS... that sucks!
For what I've noticed with the "S" series which has one negative aspect, since the redesign will be in a the negative dept and you got so much more power under the hood ...
Battery life is not gonna be that great, something gotta give. Apple will can only place a battery that's gonna be a fractionally larger by a few mAhs.
Imagine if the two so called "let downs" of the 4S came true to the naive Apple haters?
1) instead of 512mb of ram, Apple boosted it to 1GB
2) iOS 5 released last summer @ WWDC along with the IP4S
This would have been a nightmare and would indeed turn Apple into a mini Android for this year. Battery life would be ultra ty and a OS that runs like without iCloud.
Apple has done the best job this year. They made iOS 5 with 200 more functions, make it run blazing fast & smooth and also make it work with a cloud service across all their devices. I hate this saying, but it all makes logic sense, especially now after you've seen the bigger picture.
Next year; the redesigned iPhone with double amount of power, bigger battry,iOS 6 and iCloud ... It's gonna be like another game changing year, just like the 3G & IP4 launch all over again.
(What happens after this, most of the design and marketing aspect of Steve Jobs will be fading out in 2014 for the iPhone 6. This will surely prove if Tim Cook and the entire Apple Team can really hold their grounds.)
E2EK1EL
iPad Thief Who Ripped Off a Victim's Pinky Gets 25 Years
Denver District Judge Edward Bronfin has ruled that Brandon Smith, a thief who ripped off the pinky of a man while trying to steal his new iPad, will be sent to prison for 25 years.
Jordan was just leaving the Apple Store with his new iPad when Smith ran buy and attempted to pull the iPad bag from his hand.
"Next thing I know I'm spun around and I see this kid, his rear end is almost at the ground, he's pulling this out of my hand. I never heard it coming. I never saw it coming. I just remember seeing this kid pulling, and pulling, and pulling, and pulling until finally he got off it this and it caught on this and took the flesh right off, and tendons and everything. There was nothing here but bone"
After video footage led to Smith's arrest, he tried to put a hit on Jordan by sending a letter to a friend from jail.
Smith plead guilty to aggravated robbery for the iPad theft, assault in the second degree for attempting to have Jordan killed, and guilty to a separate theft charge. These crimes netted him with a 25 year sentence. Nine years for the iPad theft, 12 for attempting to have Jordan killed, and four years for the other robbery.
"I would like to say I am sorry for what I did for messing up Bill Jordan's finger and everything," Smith said during his hearing. "All of this was motivated by drugs. I wish Bill Jordan were here today so he could hear me tell him I am sorry."
(Justice has been served!!! Over a ing iPad; you've ripped off the man's finger, b/c you needed money for drugs. Then you've tried to organize a "hit" on the victim to kill him, during your time in jail.)
Nick Cenik
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Originally posted by E2EK1EL iPhone 4S Goes On Sale In 22 New Countries Today; Greeted With Long Lines
The iPhone 4S goes on sale in 22 new countries starting today.
iPhone 4S comes with a number of new features and improvements, which includes Apple's faster dual-core A5 processor, improvement 8-megapixel camera, Siri - Apple's revolutionary intelligent personal assistant, slightly improved battery life, world phone, faster network speeds and lots more.
The countries in this round include Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. Apple had started accepting pre-orders in these countries from last Friday, October 21st.
iPhone 4S first went on sale in US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and UK two weeks back on October 14th.
We're hearing reports of long lines for the iPhone 4S launch in countries like Singapore with people waiting for as much as 12 hours. Straits Times of Singapore reports:
At the stroke of midnight, the three telcos here started selling the coveted phone, and were staying open through the night. Before midnight, about 700 people were queueing at M1's Paragon store.
StarHub was accepting only a few hundred invited customers, each with a specified time slot, so as to avoid overcrowding.
SingTel, however, expected a larger turnout. The telco had booked the entire convention hall at Suntec, and had already taken more than 10,000 pre-orders.
Some photos of the long queues in Singapore courtesy Strait Times:
(Very impressive for a non-redesigned iPhone, most of these regions are allowed to HUP yearly. I predict the longest line for any iPhone launch will be Hong Kong. Apple placed that store @ the most perfect location in the world)
Honestly, people lining up en masse to purchase iPhones is one of the dumbest occurrences today. It reflects clearly where out priorities as a society are placed. It makes me sick.
E2EK1EL
Apple acquired mind-blowing 3D mapping company C3 Technologies, looking to take iOS Maps to the next level
A 3D model of Las Vegas Strip created by Apple purchased C3
Since the original iPhone¡¯s debut in 2007, Apple¡¯s iOS devices have made use of an Apple-built Google Maps application to provide users with a quick glance at driving directions, traffic, route guidance, current location information, and details about destinations. Like with most sections of Apple¡¯s business, the company is continually innovating, looking to take products to the next level.
A few years ago, Apple set out to seemingly reinvent this iOS mapping experience. As 9to5Mac reported in 2009, Apple scooped up their own mapping software development company called Placebase. In the summer of last year, Apple went one step further in their obvious pursuit of a completely in-house mapping solution and acquired a 3D mapping firm called Poly9.
A third mapping company for Apple¡_
Apple¡¯s Poly9 purchase obviously means Apple is at least interested in (or considering) the field of three-dimensional mapping solutions. We¡¯ve now confirmed that Apple has purchased a second 3D mapping company. In August of this year it was discovered that 3D mapping company C3 Technologies had been purchased and shut down by its buyer. While there was no true evidence for this, there was speculation that Apple could be one of a handful of companies that could be the buyers of C3 Technologies.
Sure enough, we have now learned Apple is now the owner of C3 Technologies. Sources say that C3 Technologies CEO Mattias Astrom , C3 Technologies CFO Kjell Cederstrand, and lead C3 Technologies Product Manager Ludvig Emgard are now working within Apple¡¯s iOS division. The leading trio, along with most of the former C3 Technologies team, is still working as a team in Sweden (interestingly, the division is now called ¡°Sputnik¡±), where the C3 Technologies company was located prior to the Apple acquisition.
What does C3 Technologies do?
C3 Technologies creates incredibly high-quality and detailed 3D maps with virtually no input from humans. The 3D mapping is camera based and the technology picks up buildings, homes, and even smaller objects like trees. C3¡äs solution comes from declassified missile targeting methods. C3 Technologies¡¯ official company description:
C3 Technologies is the leading provider of 3D mapping solutions, offering photo-realistic models of the world for search, navigation and geographic information systems. Since 2007 when it was spun out of the aerospace and defense company Saab AB, venture-backed C3 has redefined mapping by applying previously classified image processing technology to the development of 3D maps as a platform for new social and commercial applications. The Sweden-based company¡¯s automated software and advanced algorithms enable C3 to rapidly assemble extremely precise 3D models, and seamlessly integrate them with traditional 2D maps, satellite images, street level photography and user generated images, that together are forever changing how people use maps and explore the world.
iOS Maps in the third dimension.
Typically, when Apple purchases a company ¨C which they do not do as nearly as often as competitors like Google ¨C they have a clear goal in mind, and tend to take the best elements of their purchase and make it into their own creation. The latest example of this would be Apple¡¯s purchase of Siri: Apple scooped up the company behind the popular iPhone application and pushed out the iPhone 4S with Siri voice technology a little over a year later. With this in mind, what will the future of Apple¡¯s mapping services look like?
A virtual, 3D look at the Hoover Dam created by C3 Technologies
We already know that Apple has its eyes set on reinventing their maps solution, and with Placebase being a part of the corporation, moving completely away from Google seems inevitable. Apple ¨C with the speedy custom made chips (A4, A5) in the latest round of iOS devices ¨C could make their mobile mapping solution the best in the world with C3 Technology¡¯s 3D mapping technology. C3¡äs solutions are so powerful and remarkble, and would truly transform Apple¡¯s basic Google Maps application into something entirely new, fun, and powerful.
Based on Apple¡¯s past moves in the maps arena, we have a fairly good idea of what to expect from Apple in the near future of iOS:
Rebranding: Although Apple and Google signed a deal to extend the use of Google Maps in iOS, Apple¡¯s purchase of Placebase is a clear indicator that Apple is looking to split from Google¡¯s backend control at some point in the neat future. Placebase could potentially replace the entire Google backend, Allowing Apple to completely market iOS Maps as an end-to-end solution from the Cupertino-based company.
3D: With Apple¡¯s aquisitions of both C3 Technologies and Poly9, we think it is very likely that the future of iOS Maps will include a third-dimension.
Traffic: Apple has gone on the record to say that they are working on an improved traffic service for end-users.
Apple is now collecting anonymous traffic data to build a crowd-sourced traffic database with the goal of providing iPhone users an improved traffic service in the next couple of years.
The service is crowd-sourced and is another indicator of Apple moving away from Google in their iOS mapping services as Google currently supplies iOS Map¡¯s traffic data.
We¡¯re not expecting anything big in the immediate future but we¡¯d be surprised to see the same old Maps program in iOS 6. Expect something much much bigger.
E2EK1EL
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Originally posted by Nick Cenik
Honestly, people lining up en masse to purchase iPhones is one of the dumbest occurrences today. It reflects clearly where out priorities as a society are placed. It makes me sick.
You have no idea why the ppl line up @ launch day for their devices.
Let's take a trip back to the IP4 launch ...
1)Redsigned device
2)Everyone on Rogers is going to HUP
3)Factory Unlocked iPhones will be bought and shipped out of our country *I totally forgot about this*
You put in 8 hours of wait for one night in the summer and you get your phone right away. The demand for a redesigned iPhone is totally insane; I've seen friends call up every store for 8 hours a day for the next 5 months trying to find any model they can get their hands on. By then, you're already half way into the product cycle and a new device is just around the corner. *The IP4 had a extended cycle due to iOS5 and iCloud*
Lining up for 8 hours chilling with your friends; "drinking" whatever, "smoking" whatever and shooting the during a warm summer night to catch up on things is pretty good. The crowd is like a rave, everyone there is super nice & cool and very helpful. There are a lot of sheeps and resellers; who are there for the wrong reasons and make the rest of the country suffer since it's their full time job to resell these. It does sound super dumb and crazy, but until you've exp one of these launches ... you really don;t know what you're talking about.
Would i do it again? Yes, but only under certain circumstances...
1) Summer Launch Only (Winter is too cold)
2) If I'm allowed to HUP @ subsidized cost
3) Redesigned device
4) Attending with a lot of cool friends who aren't scare to drink and smoke
I don't see this happening in the near future with our carriers up here, HUP has gone skyrocketed and ordering online is much better.
LightsOut
^^^
You two are talking about different things.
Of course it makes sense to get your iphone early in its life cycle when demand is so high and your eligible, where as Nick is using the iphone as a metaphor for societies consumerist tendencies and lack of priorities. Both are legitimate.
