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8 Things the iPhone 5 Still Can't Do
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/8-thin...-can-t-do.html
In terms of specs, performance, and features, the iPhone 5 is Apple's best to date. This doesn't mean it's as good as it could be, however. There were a few egregious omissions from the keynote presentation – features that we not only want in our iPhone, but that we feel are overdue. NFC for mobile payments Instead of building NFC into the iPhone, Apple would rather have you use its Passbook system, which lets lets users store tickets, gift cards, boarding passes, and the like. It can handle some (but definitely not all) of the tasks that you might use NFC for. For example, you can't use Passbook to wirelessly send money to a friend via PayPal. NFC also lets you beam content between devices just by tapping them together. Samsung's Galaxy S III takes advantage of this feature. Swype An improved texting solution on the keyboard, like Swype Swype is something of a mainstay on Android phones. Instead of tapping out your texts letter by letter, you can drag your finger over them without lifting it. The end result is that you get your message out much more quickly. SD card support for extra storage We'd like to be able to extend our device's storage capability beyond the 64 GB maximum. History suggests that external SD card support isn't going to be in a mobile Apple device any time soon. A 128 GB option The iPod Classic offered users 160 GB of music and video capacity. Many people (ourselves included) had no problem filling it right up. Now that the iPhone is an easy replacement for your old iPod, we'd love to be able to carry the same amount of content around with us without having to pick and choose what stays at home. Non-proprietary dock connection We've never understood why our iPhones can't use a standard USB port and a standard USB cable to sync. Now the iPhone 5 introduces a new micro-dock connection requiring the use of its own special cable. If you want to use your old sync cables, you have to buy this $29 adapter. A micro-HDMI port Once again, if you want to get video off of your phone, it requires the use of a special adapter. (Unless you buy a $99 Apple TV.) The Kindle Fire HD and several Android phones use a micro-HDMI port, letting you run a cable straight from your tablet to the television. This makes it easier, better, and more affordable for the user. Replaceable battery The battery life on the iPhone 5 has seen some nice improvements, but for the power users who are glued to their phones all day, it won't suffice. We'd love to be able to carry an additional fully-charged iPhone battery that we could pop in whenever the first one bites the dust. While we're at it, better battery life! The iPhone 5's battery life is about the same as the iPhone 4S'. Yes, it has a bigger battery, but the new 4G LTE radio and bigger screen use up a lot of that extra power. We wish Apple had included a better battery in the iPhone 5 like the one on Motorola's Droid Razr Maxx. The Razr Maxx can last several hours longer than the iPhone 5. |
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You can receive or send just about any kind of attachment in iOS. I just outlined one method in the previous post. NFC is somewhat debatable. And we've discussed it already. While I would have personally really liked to see NFC on iPhone5, there are lots of reasons why it's not that big of a deal right now. For one, NFC support has met resistance so far in the market. Currently there aren't many available outlets using it. AustinChief has pointed out more than I thought there were, but it's still in infancy as far as adoption. Currently, there's only a handful of locations in the KC area that support Google Wallet and Paypass: Less than a year ago, Verizon was blocking Google Wallet from their new phones: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-1...y-concern.html They have just recently changed their minds and said they would support it on current phones. But NFC is far from being established as a sure bet. Regarding connecting your phone to a PC, that's also misinformed. Apple has always allowed access to the sandboxed Home folder in iOS. I posted a response above as well showing exactly how to access that, and it doesn't require jailbreak. And FYI, this is the exact same behavior as Android. Android also does not "Trust" users with the full file system. They also sandbox a Home folder in exactly the same way. You can't access the full filesystem in Android unless you root. Permissions prevent that. (Whose phone is it anyway?) As far as the keyboard, that's another reason I jailbreak. Here's a keyboard I made for my iPad: The question about MicroUSB connector has been hashed and argued in the Apple connector thread. This author, like so many other people other than AC, wanted the iPhone5 to use MicroUSB. But it's been shown the the MicroUSB is insufficient for several reasons. It doesn't have enough pins, and doesn't provide sufficient amperage to charge all iDevices. A newer 11pin MicroUSB3vB would have been sufficient for addressing most of that. But that still would have required the same connector change for all users, including all those other companies that currently use MicroUSB. I'm not exactly sure what they're talking about regarding Safari and sharing to online services. You can use any service you want. Personally, I use the Chrome browser on iOS, which is infinitely better than Safari.
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Since NFC has come up again, I suppose that one thing that the iPhone can't do is get owned via NFC. Quote:
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The revenue generated absolutely does not go to the stock price. The stock price is up. So what? There is a correlation between revenue and stock price but still, nothing is contributed to the GDP. Investors would simply invest in something else. I guess I'm missing what you're getting at. |
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Your best bet is to point to that collassal corporate headquarters they are building and the employees in it. The economic benefit from the employment and capital expenditures do much more than the stock price. |
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So all these mutual funds that have invested in AAPL have seen no benefit? You're missing my point big time.
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No, dumb dumb. My point is that those mutual funds have more value because of their investment than they would have if they'd invested in, lets say, RIM.
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Another thing that should be on the list...
#9 Inductive Charging |
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The Pre did that, right?
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I don't understand the purpose of inductive charging. What's the attraction to it?
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