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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
so does she still want hers? or is she getting a majick jack instead?
and how many ounces of chinese baby meat came in the box?
(btw, it's a nice box, isn't it?)
and how fast is it? (for serious now)
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I would say ask her yourself, but considering the fact that she never comes here these days, I'll do the whole "I speak for my woman" thing. (Seriously though, she's really busy these days.)
She likes it quite a bit, but isn't thrilled about the lightning charger. Neither am I to be honest, but if I know Apple, they'll be making sure all of their products require the damn thing just to force people onto buying the 5.
But she and I both think its a great and remarkably practical phone, and we used to be Blackberry people (eons ago though it may have been), so we know about illusory utility.
Fast? It's quite fast. But not so much faster- if at all- than the competition that its a deal breaker. Honestly, I'm sure the new HTC, Samsung, and even Droid models are just as fast, and probably a good deal more impressive visually. But for some reason I hate Samsung. Possibly b/c I've owned a number of their products and have yet to be satisfied, let alone impressed, with any of them. Their phones were shit last time I used one, and I doubt they are anything more than polished, shiny shit today.
The most impressive thing about it is the clarity of the pictures and videos, and the accessibility of the device itself. I've never been an Apple guy, save for owning a few iPods way back in the beginning, and a MacBook which was stolen, but I may just turn out to be one.
12 Droids come out every year. I'm pretty sure the same is true of HTC and Samsung. That's a shit ton of opportunities to drool over a slight variation on what you have. At least with Apple it's one phone at a time, and the phone is perfect this far. Even maps is working fine for my purposes.
Downside... Nothing is compatible with it yet, and that means they start releasing stuff that is, it's going to cost your soul. So I would only recommend it to new Apple converts who haven't already spent thousands on pillows that charge their 4's. So if you have. 4 or 4s, stay put.
Also, Google comparability is not great. I wish those two behemoths could just kiss and make up already, and let the oligopoly get begin! I do not miss the open source bullshit apps that fucked up my Droid. At least there's some quality control with iOS.
And plenty of sweatshop babies work for Motorolla and Samsung to support their opium habits.
I do kind of feel like my phone is a socialist, and that I am it's tool (rather than the other way around). But being a socialist myself, I can't fault it much.
I think E. might settle for the vastly cheaper 4s, which means she has a lot more fortitude than I do, as that was my plan when I walked into the store.
Oh, and fuck Verizon.