IPhone 4S: A5 chip, 8MP camera, and Siri voice recognition

Re:IPhone 4S: A5 chip, 8MP camera, and Siri voice recognition by kenjackson on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @04:37PM (#3072807)

Apart from "faster", "better at connectivity", and "better at taking pictures", where does Apple have to go with this thing? A new chassis design? Why?

And that's my fear. The first decade of the 2000s' Apple would answer this question with something you didn't think you needed. But it was a gamechanger.

I could imagine Steve Jobs walking out on stage and saying:

"We did the Retina Display. We changed displays forever. The iPhone4 is the best display on any phone, and it's been almost a year and a half since we released it. But there's a huge glaring problem with it -- it's 2D." At this point you begin to hear the audience pick up in anticipation.

"The world isn't in 2D. You can't appreciate the vibrance of a 3D world fully when projected onto a 2D surface. People have tried 3D though." Steve pulls out a the red/blue paper glasses from his pocket. Tosses it on the floor. The modern 3D TV glasses from his pocket, tosses it on the floor. Pulls out an EVO 3D. Looks at it for a second. Tosses it on the floor.

"You don't do something, unless you can do it right. We figured out how to do 3D right."

Maybe next year.

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Re:IPhone 4S: A5 chip, 8MP camera, and Siri voice recognition by tptacek on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @04:40PM (#3072825)

So we're setting the bar for new Apple products at "3D cell phone". Got it. :)

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Re:IPhone 4S: A5 chip, 8MP camera, and Siri voice recognition by joebadmo on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @05:05PM (#3072911)

Maybe I shouldn't speak for kenjackson, but I don't think 3D was actually the feature he was hoping for, just an example of the kind of industry-changing innovation of which Apple is capable but was completely absent today.

And I say this not because I think you missed his point, but in a probably futile attempt to head off discussion about how 3D is stupid.

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Re:IPhone 4S: A5 chip, 8MP camera, and Siri voice recognition by kenjackson on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @05:14PM (#3072949)

Yes, I'm no Steve Jobs. I have no idea if 3D is a dead fad or the next big thing (even in Android land it appears to have died pretty quickly) -- it just made for a convenient example narrative. Although I must admit I think taking out an Evo 3D, looking at it, and then tossing it away would be get a fair bit of applause. :-)

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Re:IPhone 4S: A5 chip, 8MP camera, and Siri voice recognition by illumin8 on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @04:54PM (#3072880)

3d is a fad that will most likely never be a differentiating feature in a cell phone.

How many people at the Sprint store are seriously going to pick up the HTC Evo 3D and say "screw the iPhone 4S, I'm buying this thing because it's 3D!"

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Re:IPhone 4S: A5 chip, 8MP camera, and Siri voice recognition by cpeterso on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @06:02PM (#3073114)

Next year, people will be wondering why they bought an HTC Evo 3D when Apple announces the iPhone 5D. :)

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Re:IPhone 4S: A5 chip, 8MP camera, and Siri voice recognition by spa942 on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @05:09PM (#3072928)

..and lots of people will be disappointed if they keep the chassis design on the iPhone 3D :)

I think it's funny how everyone expects a new design every year, just because that's how the cell phone world has always been. Looking at the iPod, Apple only had a few designs that they gradually improved and made smaller.

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Re:IPhone 4S: A5 chip, 8MP camera, and Siri voice recognition by azulum on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @05:06PM (#3072912)

any "3D" where the images are on one plane and the brain thinks that it is seeing depth—that is, several planes—will ultimately fail. so my prediction is that the iphone will never get 3D until it becomes, the eyePhone.

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