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On Saturday, the Perry County Central Commodores hooked up with the Knott Central Patriots with a trip to Rupp Arena on the line. The Commodores took the first two meetings of the season, and were looking to keep their streak alive.
The game started tight as it took more than two minutes to light the scoreboard. The two teams then traded baskets. At that point, Perry Central went ice cold from the floor, and by the time the horn sounded they were down double digits (13-3).
Knott County came out strong in the second period and increased their lead. Perry Central was able to shut the Patriots down completely in the final five minutes of the half, but could not find the basket to cut into the lead. Going into the break, the Commodores trailed 21-8.
Both teams' offense struggled in the third period, with scoring still at a premium. With eight minutes remaining to play, Perry Central found themselves trailing 28-14.
Perry Central caught fire in the fourth quarter, but so did the Patriots. The Commodores were able to more than double their output for the game, but could do little to get back in the game. Knott County went on to win the game, and the title, by the final count of 52-32.
The Commodores finished the season with a record of 26-8, picking up title wins in the WYMT Mountain Classic and the 54th District tournament along the way.
Knott Central will now advance to the Sweet 16 for the second straight season and take on Clay County, winners of the 13th Region, in the opening round. The game is set for 8 p.m. on Thursday, March 7.
Perry Central (32) Braxton Beverly 9, Travis Stacy 3, Justin Johnson 11 and Dalton Cornett 9.
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NORTHRIDGE, Calif. --- Cal State Northridge softball coach Tairia Flowers, women's volleyball coach Jeff Stork and softball volunteer assistant coach Natasha Watley, as part of their respective teams, have been nominated for the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame. The public can help vote these American legends into the Hall of Fame through on-line voting, which closes on April 9, 2012.
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Coaches Flowers and Watley were members of the 2004 US Softball Team, a squad that captured the gold medal in historic fashion.
The 2004 USA Softball Women's National Team was anointed as the "Real Dream Team" on the cover of Sports Illustrated and their performance will go down in history as one of the most dominant ever in Games history.
With its perfect 9-0 record and its string of eight consecutive shutouts, this team proved it was special. The 2004 USA Softball Women's National Team outscored its opponents 51-1 in nine games in Athens and did not allow a run until the sixth inning of the gold medal game versus Australia.
Coach Stork, who will be inducted into the Class of 2012 into the Volleyball Hall of Fame in Holyoke, Mass. on Oct. 20, was the starting setter on the 1988 Men's Volleyball Team.
Team USA entered the Seoul Games as the defending gold medalist. Consistency would prove to be the key to again reaching the podium, going 7-0 and winning 21 out of 25 sets in taking the gold medal.
In the preliminary round, Argentina challenged the Americans by winning the first two sets and forcing the U.S. squad to win the last three, just as it had done in the 1987 Pan American Games. In the gold-medal game, the USA faced its number one rival – the USSR – for the 10th time in 1988.
The Americans wore down the Soviets in the first two sets before overwhelming them in the last two to record their eighth such win of the year – and earn the USA's second-consecutive Olympic gold medal in men's volleyball.

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Seeing the sunrise or sunset over the New York skyline is surely one of those things you just have to do before you die and it has always been a dream of mine to do the classic West Coast to East Coast road trip. Have a small little holiday in California for a week or so and then go and get some car hire for the USA bound road trip, hopefully find a car hire company that will rent me a classic Mustang or something similar and then cruise along the long roads of America until I reach the big Apple (hopefully just in time for a sunset…)
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Negativity, haters, imitators? You may not like the sticker and I know it is OK for Mad River Glen to be a segregated mountain and that fact is accepted by all around the world. But, tell me, is it OK for Mad River Glen to sell T-shirts with a snowboarder with a gun sight on it and selling these T-shirts when a congresswoman from Arizona was shot? Of course it is and Mad River Glen can do no wrong.
So maybe, Val, you need to see the other side of the segregated coin. Or how about all the negative comments about boarders over the years at Mad River Glen at the board meetings (haven't been to one since the beginning of the co-op) at election time (Mad River Glen board members) and at the bar and even when the Mad River Glen staff comes to an all-inclusive mountain and still I heard negative comments about boarders?
So, for some of us who have the guts to speak out in public, I will again get black listed and be thought of as not understanding and let's not forget jerk or something stronger. I was one of the first 100-plus to show faith in this co-op idea and sink money into this fantasy of a mountain that could be affordable to most everyone.
I was also one of the 30 percent (way back when) that wanted to allow snowboarding, and imagine the kind of crap we received from the majority; that's right, majority rules. If Mad River Glen would allow snowboarding, I can be pretty sure there would be a flurry in the beginning but would fade since most snowboarders do not like the bumps. But the ones that can do the woods and do do the bumps would hit the bumps like a tele-skier.
I have done years of study on this subject, in other words a lot of watching, so when I see a tele-skier being followed by a snowboarder and they are taking the same line. It makes me wonder, why are tele-skiers allowed at Mad River Glen? I suck as a skier and took a lot of snow off Mad River Glen when I learned to ski there, but I think the alpine line and tele-lines are different. But remember I suck as a skier, so what do I know?
So ,Val, I think you should get other sides of the story before you go to press, and I suppose back of the bus, separate bathrooms, water fountains and not being served in restaurants and hotels was OK with you back in the old days – you know, separate but equal. That is if you're old enough to remember those days. I don't ski Mad River Glen much anymore because I ski with a lot of boarders, so where do I go?
Also, tell me which is more hateful? A T-shirt with a gun sight on a snowboarder or a bumper sticker that says I don't care that you ski Mad River. Get back to me, Val.
Also, Val, you're making me want to sell my share in Mad River Glen and I love the place but not that segregationist attitude. So please keep making those excuses or strap on a board and see what the fuss is about.
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The Mountaineer Athletic Club (MAC) will open the 2012 Coaches Caravan this week with stops in Wheeling and Parkersburg.
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Legendary Oklahoma football coach Barry Switzer and Oklahoma running back Billy Sims will be special guests at both stops. Switzer, a member of the College Football Hall of Fame, and Sims, the 1978 Heisman Trophy winner and a three-time (1980-82) NFL Pro Bowler with the Detroit Lions, will welcome Mountaineer fans to the Big 12 Conference.
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Here's a fun statistic: at least eight multinational companies compete for the big business of making mobile devices.
How many make all the profit? Two.
So positioned is Samsung and Apple. Thanks to innovative products, a tight grip on supply chains and good relationships with carriers, among other reasons, Apple has 69% share of all operating profit among the planet's leading device makers, while Samsung has 34%, according to a research note today from Canaccord Genuity. (See chart above.)
All other competitors barely get a sliver of this profit pie. Nokia, Google-owned Motorola and Sony operated at a loss in 2012, while BlackBerry (formerly Research in Motion), LG and HTC barely broke even.
Canaccord's Michael Walkley expects the industry to continue looking this way through the beginning of this year and beyond. Samsung might gain a little on Apple after releasing its Galaxy S4, likely in March, and Apple might grow its own profit share if it ever releases a cheaper iPhone.
Though a cheaper iPhone aimed at emerging markets might put a dent in Apple's margins, it would probably still grow their absolute share of industry profits, says Walkley. "They'd be taking profits from segments they haven't entered yet."
Apple's mobile device business, its biggest contributor to group profits, already boasted a 41%-operating margin for 2012. Samsung's operating margin stands at 21%, still miles ahead of their closest margin competitor, HTC at 6%.
You almost get the feeling Apple and Samsung could stay up there forever. But they won't, because industry leaders come and go. Back in 2008, it was Nokia and Research in Motion gobbling up the profits. Today it is Samsung and Apple. Who will it be tomorrow?
"The wild card out there would be somebody new, like an Amazon who has been disruptive to other hardware makers by being willing to sell tablets to break even," said Walkley. "Google with Motorola may also be getting more serious about making proprietary devices."
It will be new players who come to rule this market, not previously dominant names like Nokia or RIM, he contends. People were fascinated to watch the launch of BlackBerry 10 last week, and to track the fortunes of Windows Phone, but Walkley is skeptical that either mobile platform will crack the dominance of Apple's iOS or Android. Of the 20 best-selling Android phones, he adds, 14 of them are made by Samsung.
And while a gutsy company like Huawei has recently climbed the ranks to become the world's third-biggest handset maker by shipments, it probably won't be a hardware company like this one either. "Making a good hardware device is tough. You have to build a brand and do marketing. What does [Huawei] offer that's different? It's pure hardware."
"In that scenario," he said, "someone who's going to be taking the profits is someone who can really transform the market with a must-have device because of content. Not some hardware guy or a RIM comeback."
"It's all about software services and ecosystem," Walkley added. "Today you need great hardware to make it run and you need software to differentiate."
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Does the "Sent from my iPad" email signature make you seem unprofessional?
The often incendiary, but just as often sincere, Kevin Michaluk of CrackBerry.com followed up a recent, provocative Tweet with an editorial saying no one who uses an iPad should ever leave the default "Sent from my iPad" signature -- or any "Sent from my Any Tablet" signature for that matter -- on their email. While it might be tempting to dismiss Kevin's advice, he argues his position on CrackBerry.com well:
In general, you're replying to emails from a mobile phone because you have to. You're away from your computer. As for tablets -- especially in the business use case I'm focusing on here -- if you're writing a long email on your tablet it's because you choose to, not because you have to.
Unlike the default signature on the phone, which subconciously tells the recipient you're responsive all the time and from everywhere (a good thing), the same isn't true of the tablet signature. To me, and the many others who have expressed agreement with my viewpoint, it gives off the appearance that you're a person who doesn't value your time. If you did, you'd head to a computer and pound out that email wayyyyy faster. Time is money. And if you're a person I'm paying to provide services, the last thing I want to see is time wasted.
Of course, there are exceptions. YES, some people are mad fast at typing on glass. YES, you can use bluetooth keyboards with your tablet and speed things up a lot. YES, you may have to use a tablet for work and do not have a computer alternative to go to. But these are exceptions, and your default tablet email signature does not reflect those exceptions.
Kevin also argues that having "Sent from my [anything]" is basically giving the company, whose product you already paid for, free advertising. Depending on who you are and who your contacts include, that kind of brand marketing can be incredibly valuable for them. And you paid them for that privilege.
Why broadcast what you're using to respond to an email when it doesn't add any value to you, and provides free advertising to a company you already paid $500 to almost $1000?
Like most things, however, it's more nuanced than that. Apple products have a certain cachet. Especially when a new product launches, it's not uncommon for people to want to show off that they have it -- including highly productive people like CEOs and high profile people like celebrities. That filters down.
iPads are also popular in education and enterprise, including health care, insurance, and other verticals where the tablet form-factor is a huge advantage. If IT departments don't change the dafault signature during provisioning, "Sent from my iPad" is what a lot of highly productive people's emails are going to say, and I'm not going to read anything into that other than that's what their email signature says.
Still, Kevin's point has merit. Information is power, and the less information you give out, even if it's just an email signature, the less power you give up, even if its just perception (or misperception).
Check out Kevin's entire rant on the subject via the link below and then come back and tell us what you think -- "Sent from my iPad" or no "Sent from my iPad", what do you prefer?
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Does the "Sent from my iPad" email signature make you seem unprofessional?
Sent from my Android Tablet™
Sent from My Desktop PC
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Sent from my Apple ®.
Honestly, a signature really only needs contact information (phone, alternate email, etc.). Anything other than that starts to detract from the actual text of the email.
Wow, I can't tell if you beat to Betty White or Apple more.
Nothing personal to Kevin but I don't agree that his point has any merit at all. It's more like a form of bigotry really.
To say that using the signature is telling people that you don't value your time because you aren't using a "real computer" is just a thin disguise for dissing the iPad as "not a real computer," but you will notice he never actually backs up that opinion or brings it out into the open. It's just a given part of his explanation, that the iPad is not a "real computer."
I think this is very similar to the refrain you often hear from many quarters about not taking pictures or videos with iPads. No one ever says exactly why or backs this thought up with any real analysis either. It's just presented as a given that this is a dorky/bad/unfortunate thing to do. No one ever says *why* this is supposed to be "bad."
This is all just bias, or bigotry. He is telling us that we are stupid or lame to use an iPad for an important email (unless we cleverly disguise that fact), just as others tell us we are "wrong" to use an iPad to take a picture, but he doesn't actually have an argument. It's just his (seemingly completely unfounded) opinion.
From the article: "To me, and the many others who have expressed agreement with my viewpoint, it gives off the appearance that you're a person who doesn't value your time. If you did, you'd head to a computer and pound out that email"
I realise I'm reading into this, but to me that definitely sounds like he's dissing the iPad as something that isn't really a computer. Personally, I can type on my iPad at about 30-40 wpm, which is less than on a regular keyboard, but still about twice as fast as the average typer on the average laptop. So his premise is flawed and between the lines, it seems to me that there is definitely a "diss" there.
On the plus side, now we know you value your time, since you didn't take any to read the actual post.
I don't waste time or energy caring what other people's negative opinions might be about anything, much less what assumptions they might make about me because I replied to an e-mail from my iPhone or my iPad. Someone will always be around to assume something negative about you no matter who you are or what you do, so why bother? Use the tech that works for you and if some half baked dying platform loving individual is foaming at the mouth because you're using tech that's superior to his, that's his problem. Not yours, and definitely not mine.
Totally disagree with the general idea, whether its a "sent from iPhone" Android, Blackberry, etc.
A mobile signature can say a lot of things. First, it makes the recipient feel special or important that you took the time to answer away from a computer, especially business emails. Clients are very appreciative if they think you are going above and beyond for them, outside of the office at that.
Second, it lets others know you are away form the computer, so don't expect a lengthy reply or a lot of info. Don't expect documents or attachments right now. Don't expect me to be in front of your file/data to give you exact answers. Basically says this is the best answer you'll get right now until I am back in the office.
Third, it says forgive my spelling or punctuation mistakes. So if you do make one, you don't look foolish to business clients.
I personally don't use a mobile signature (I use my full work signature exactly character for character) but totally disagree with the article.
I totally agree with your comments. These are reasons I've kept "Sent from my iPad" and "Sent from my iPhone" in my signature. Sometimes I'm not at work in front of my desktop and I want to respond to a business email. I think that contrary to what Kevin said, it shows that you DO value the customer by responding to their email even when you're out of the office. Soon, responding from a desktop may even become something of the past.
A personal signature is much better, or none at all.
sent from my iPad, iPhone, blackberry, android, what ever just shows that the sender is
either bragging or can't figure out how to change it.
My sister in law falls into the both category's
She has an android and tells everyone it's an iPhone, she's a moron anyway
"just shows that the sender is either bragging or can't figure out how to change it."
This. The default signature only tells me one of these two things. Neither one is complimentary.
I prefer "Sent from my mobile device"
I like iDevice. It does not make you seem unprofessional at all. In fact, you are showing that you not only check your mail from your computer, but from your mobile devices as well. You are taking the time to check, and respond outside the office setting. You are a person that gets things done, and are not limited to just the computer. If the signature is a problem, just change it to what you would like.
I'm not going tot he site to read the rest. Rene thought that excerpt was representative so I will assume he is correct.
That said, this is a half-baked notion. Some has merit: giving certain information to certain people is not a good thing. The rest is crap.
I've sent messages from my iPad because it was with me when my work computer or laptop were not as easily accessible. It helps to say that any typos or odd word choices may be due to autocorrect or touchscreen typing errors.
Some want to show off. True. So what?
I care but I don't because I remember when any time I mentioned my iPad, I wondered whether some jackass was going to accuse me of flaunting.
Screw that. If you've got a house, car, job, or gadget that others may covet but you have earned, enjoy it. Anything short of you rubbing someone else's nose in it is strictly their problem. Don't make it yours.
"It helps to say that any typos or odd word choices may be due to autocorrect or touchscreen typing errors"
Which is another way of saying the user is too lazy to proofread even their SHORT emails. Again; not flattering.
+1 Absolutely correct, in this age of instant connectivity and availability spelling errors have become all to common, and blamed on touchscreen or autocorrect. No, it is because you do not proofread before you hit send. For personal messages it annoys me but it is okay. For business or professional replies it is inexcusable and the persons professionalism goes down in my view. Now an occasional one is one thing, but constant errors is nothing more than being lazy and or unprofessional. Turn off auto correct and proofread.
I find it really smug to be advertising the particular device you are using
I think his view is very short sided. The fact that one of my relatives had "sent from my iPad" in his signature made our email messages hours apart become instant with iMessage. With us having an 8 hours time difference and international I was able to coordinate my mother being picked up from the airport after she was already on the 10 hour flight. If that hadn't been in the signature I could have never gotten things coordinated in time.
Right; 'cause otherwise you'd NEVER have been able to figure out how to coordinate that. Really? How ever did travelers cope in the years before iMessage?
Very expensively in emergency situations which this was the case. If I hadn't it would have been a car rental at the airport which is twice as expensive as renting a car from in town.
Travelers with time to plan and communicate sure email is fine, but if it's a rush and your communicating with someone you dont often talk with and need an immediate answer the difference in knowing and not knowing can be the difference of thousands of dollars.
I think a lot of people missed Kevin's point: he has no qualms with having a mobile signature when sending an email from your phone, he has issues when people send him emails from a TABLET , especially for business. (the post is called "why you should change the default email sig on your tablet especially for business use).
He explicitly states that he got upset when he received a lengthy email from someone he pays and it read "Sent from my iPad" because it takes forever to write anything on a tablet, regardless if it's an iPad or Playbook.
He would NOT have cared if it said "Sent from my iPhone", he actually encourages it.
Tablet, folks. Not mobile phone.
Still a half-baked idea (although I appreciate you keeping us focused on his actual point) for multiple reasons. Among them:
Voice dictation.
Also, why does he give a damn that it took forever for the person to type on a tablet? It's stupid and arbitrary. I have my iPad more often than I have access to a pc.
Different strokes, K-man.
Other than the fact that RIM is running on fumes, which is why Kevin has this kind of free time on his hands, worrying or caring about a signature should be the last item on his mind. Who cares what device was utilized to send a message or email as long as it was received. Spell check exist for a reason, yet people refuse to use it. Horrible grammar, incomplete sentences, someone hits 'Reply All' instead delivering email to the intended individual so everyone has to deal with the spam or unfunny joke in their inbox, and I'm supposed to lose sleep over a signature?
We now know why RIM is in everyone's rear view mirror. Employees such as Kevin spend their waking moments wishing they had a position at Apple or at least were employed with a corporation where they could hold their heads high.
I love the comments where they say it excuses typos or bad spelling. When you're in business, nothing excuses that. What you send the client is representative of you. It represents your company. It's what they see. If you don't take pride in that, no one else will.
If I receive something or even read something that is full of typos or bad grammar, then my view of that person is lowered considerably. I have to assume the author doesn't know better. Having a signature that it's from your ipad doesn't mitigate this at all.
Love it or leave it but it's true.
Also, there are different levels of business interaction. I sent emails to other staff members via iPad, iPhone, etc. but they were usually relatively short and low-level.
I may need to know if there is someone at the front desk for me or...
I wanted to let the receptionists know that I've got x-number of appointments expected to drop by and...
here's what you need to know about them/I left their files on your desk...
It's unfortunate when we can't imagine much outside of experience but it's worse when that is paired with judgements of other people's choices. That's an unproductive combination.
It depends on your audience really. But in most cases such as this forum, what you see is the only impression you'll get. We've really excused things over time by shouting "grammar nazi," and saying it's acceptable to have typos, butchered language, etc.
It's like dressing well. If you look like a slob, you'll be perceived as one. If you write poorly, you'll be perceived as...not too bright.
Except that many people in professional positions can't spell for shiz. It's a sad ass fact that I'm only accepting after kicking and screaming and holding my breath in defiance... and hoping there's some other explanation.
Being really busy helps. Pounding out a quick message in-between or in the middle of a meeting is helpful but maybe one's time is severely limited.
I understand your point and share it. When I start reading forum posts and see that there's not a drop of goddamned punctuation in the big block o' text, I tune out/switch channels. I'm not going to try harder to understand you than you try to be understood.
Yet I've been in situations where I can either send a message quickly with my phone/tablet or there will be no message and an opportunity will be missed. There is a middle ground.
Agreed. Any business email that merits a response, merits a properly thought out one. I can't even recall how many times I have used that phrase with my coworkers.
My "on the go" emails are usually limited to Yes, No, Will call you to discuss. If they need more than that, and the issue is time-bound, they can pick up the phone and call me.
I didn't really think that it mattered. I have it as my signature because it never occurred to me to change it.
One problem with Kevin's argument is that it's not always slower to reply on an iPad
I choose my iPad or iPhone to reply because I use a special app ("FAQ"- available on the App Store) which we wrote to help in replying to customer email for our other apps, its faster and more accurate to reply using that than going to my laptop as it stores all the answers and explanations you may need, then builds an email from them for you.
"Sent from my iPad" is just a egotistical way to show off you device, to let people know that you have an iPad or a Blackberry. Changing default signatures was one of the first things I did on my Nokia and Apple devices.
Like Rene said, Apple devices have a "certain cachet", which makes the whole thing quite ridiculous, since anyone can walk in an Apple store and buy an Apple device. iPhones and iPads are not Rolls-Royces or Lamborghinis.
It's either egotistical or laziness. It's the default so it's hard to attribute egotistical motives. I've never bothered to change mine because I really don't care. However, for work emails from our CEO and others it's proven useful. It explains why an email may be a bit more terse than expected and that she is mobile and not working at a desk.
Off to drive my Rolls-Royce home.
Not that it's unprofessional but it's on just about every email you get that's not from someone's desktop computer. I've disabled the "Sent from my iPhone" and "Sent from my iPad" because to me it's irrelevant how/where I'm sending, but more important to me that I am sending in the first place. On the other hand, these signatures aren't the worst offenders. The ones that are truly obnoxious are the ones that say "Sent from my ABC device on the XYZ Mobile Network" with all kinds of TM, (R), etc. Oftentimes these signatures are longer than the messages themselves.
I immediately disabled automatic signatures on both my iPhone and iPad. Then my company began a stipend program where they give you a fixed cost to use your own smartphone instead of the company issued Blackberry. Now I was using my iPhone to email customers so I wanted to have a professional email signature but only on my work account. I installed Mail Enhancer Pro (JB app) and love that I can have a great signature for just one account. Only issue was that when I email from my iPhone there's a greater likelihood of mistakes and the emails tend to be shorter so I wanted to let everyone still know if was from an iPhone. I decided to also include the basic "sent from my iPhone" to let people know it was from a smartphone.
I still do not have a signature on my iPad even with my work email.
I must say that I personally enjoyed the creative editing on the first paragraph and the out of context quotes on Rene's post to turn a valid opinion on Kevin's part on an attack on iDevices.
On point though, I've always detested the default signature on all devices I've used (BB, playbook, iPad and iPhone) and their removal is one of the first things I do after initial setup. Having a default anything today just gives a bad impression.
To be honest, I've always found it to be laziness, at best, and pretentious, at worst. A lot of newcomers (which tend to be the, shall we say, "computer illiterate") do not understand how to change the setting. But on the flip side, there are also a bunch of people who FINALLY got the iDevice of their dreams and want to scream it from the rooftops that they've got the world's most coveted item, and I think it needs to be tamed a bit. Don't get me wrong (I'm about to sound pretentious here, but it's being said to show that I am a HUGE Apple fanboy), I have two iPhones, iPads and ATV's, a TC, and a 21.5" iMac. If I could create a complete iHome, I would, but it's a pet peeve of mine when people leave the default, "Sent from my..." signature.
-Sent from my iHome
And ultimately I don't feel invested in all of your apple toys at all. I don't know you, I don't do business with you, so it doesn't matter how big or small your apples are or how many you own. Like I don't go into how many cars Chris Barrie has (he is a collector),I just watch him and enjoy him on Red Dwarf.
I just wanted to say that I have an iPad and a different vendor for mobile phone. I have changed the default signature on both of them because I feel it ads a little bit of personalization to the emails I send from those devices. I don't like reading "Sent from my iPhone" or "Sent from my Blackberry" or "Sent from my Droid Razer Maxx on Verizon's 4G network" in the tag line. I'm sure that my mobile signature is just as distracting though, so I guess I'm a hypocrite.
Mine says, 'Sent from my Newton MessagePad'
nah, i'm lying...
I agree with the premise that the signature line of an email should not be "sent from my.....", but I disagree with the reasoning. IMHO, the signature line of an email should generally convey the name of your company, and perhaps some contact information. I generally attach my name, company name, phone number, fax number, website url and skype username. This is, again IMHO, a helpful signature. The idea that my email signature should annouce anything else is ridiculous. After all, you woudn't write a business letter and sign it anything other than with your name, so why should an email be any different? You end a call with "goodbye". You end business correspondence by signing your name. ANd you should end an email with your name and other contact info so that if a business contact wants to reach you by a more personal means, they can.
<sarcasm> I'm going to start ending my calls with "Talked to you through an (device)" </sarcasm>
to answer the title question: Yes. Those "sent from" signatures are pretentious anyways. i lump it in with fanboys that want to argue with people about their phone brand or worse their network. I like tech but loathe fanboyism. I delete signatures normally. As my friends signature says "who cares what i sent this from?" I sure as hell don't. I can enjoy my device without any need for the world to know i have an iphone, ipad, etc.
A teen using an older iPhone 3GS changed his email signature to "Sent from my iPad 2" when communication with someone on Craigslist about a new car. When the kid arrived to look at the car, there was no car, just a guy standing on the corner. Fortunately for the kid the police were coming down that street at the time and the person walking towards him suddenly turned and ran off. The cops saw the guy running and asked the buyer what he was doing. After showing the police the email exchange with the "Sent from my iPad 2" signature, the police surmised that the buyer was about to be the victim of an armed robber that had stolen iOS devices from others in the area. The teen quickly changed his email signature. Lesson learned.
"Sent from my <whatever>" is unprofessional, unless you work for the company that made the device. Any advertising for a company other than your own is unprofessional.
Nor does it excuse misspelling or bad grammar. There is no excuse for this in a business document. Period.
Nor does anyone, including clients, care that you bother to reply "even when I'm not at my desk." Clients care that they get the information that they need, when they need it. What you had to do to get it to them isn't their problem. And, really, do you want to train your clients to think that you're available 24x7x365? Need a vacation much?
And, personally, the only reason I would care how long it took someone to type an email would be if I paid them by the hour. Then I'd be pissed to learn they didn't use the most expedient method.
Unprofessional, meh not really......seem like a complete douche, yup! Just like the people that feel the need to say "my iphone" instead of "my phone/cellphone/cell" while they talk, and waaaaay more times than needed (This is coming from a fellow iOS user, so not bias/trolling....just drives me crazy, but....I'm an asshole majority of the time)
I changed my default signature on all of my mobile devices because the vast majority of the time it does not matter to the person I'm emailing what hardware I'm using, and on the occasion when I am sending a work related email it strikes me as unprofessional to have a "Sent from my TechnoToy" sig rather than my name.
So unless my job makes it appropriate to have my sig advertise the device, I will always change it to what +I+ want.
It reminds me a bit of that advertising most car dealerships stick on all of their cars so that after you buy it you are forced to advertise for them. (a plastic sign like a Jesus fish only with "Brantley Ford" or whatever on it. No one ever takes those off.)
Kevin sucks and he is just mad because his pathetic choice of OS is dying. He's a mad bro.
Ever since I have owned an iPhone and an iPad I have disliked the default signatures. I don't want people to be distracted by what type of device I am using, and inserting their biases for or against those devices. If the articles and comments above prove anything, it is that people have wide ranging, and strong opinions on this subject.
As soon as I set up my phone and iPad, I changed the signatures to "Sent from my phone" and "Sent from my mobile device" respectively. This way I still maintain the utility of letting people know I am not in my office, and I am replying on the go, but I don't run into the issues of branding myself.
I don't mind when it says, "sent from my mobile device" and don't think it speaks negatively about time management exactly. Brand advertising is just ridiculous, though. I see enough ads everywhere, I don't need your sig to be hawking a brand. I actually don't care what brand of device you own, I care about what you are telling me in the email. Signatures should be useful and it is not useful info for me to know what brand you have. Having "sent from mobile" is sometimes reassuring because it shows you are keeping in contact wherever you are and paying attention enough to read and reply to emails. But brand? That's all just feather ruffling and ego stroking. And of course there are those who can't figure out how to change it. I personally do not like advertising everything I have and don't like giving free advertising.


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Wonder how VoIP would affect amount of data use ... and if that would be an issue to keep that occurring with the frequency being anticipated?
Will FaceTime audio bring VoIP calling into regular, everyday smartphone use?
FaceTime audio has been jokingly referred to since its WWDC 2013 introduction by some, as the phone. While this may be amusing to some, the wider picture is something potentially more important. In adding audio only calling to FaceTime, Apple has created their own Skype. And, with it, opened up VoIP to the masses.
VoIP calling is nothing new. We've had Skype for a long time, and it has become pretty much the global standard. BlackBerry too has voice calling within BBM -- the soon to be cross platform BBM -- so Apple isn't even the first to integrate a proprietary service. The downside to both of these, on iOS at least, is that they require a separate application. FaceTime is built in to iOS 7, which gives it an advantage the others will never have.
Every iOS 7 user will have acces to FaceTime audio. As such, all of your friends, your parents, grandparents, will all have a free VoIP service that they may not even recognise as such. Jargon is scary, and third-party services rely on the people you want to get in touch with having an account on the same service. If someone calls you on FaceTime audio, it's basically indistinguishable from a regular phone call.
How about telling your grandma in Australia she can call you from her iPhone completely free of charge, just the same as making a phone call? FaceTime audio is available right within the contact listing for anyone it's an option for. You don't have to worry if someone has it, because if they don't, you hit the phone call button instead. iOS 7 takes away the necessity for you to worry about finding out if someone has the same service as you, what their login name is, any of that. You can just pick up the phone, and call them.
So it really could be VoIP for the masses. You don't need yet another account and yet another third-party app. You just pick up your phone, find a contact, and call them. There is now a separate FaceTime app within iOS 7 on the iPhone, as there has been always on the iPad, but the same calling options are available from within the contacts, where FaceTime has always resided on the iPhone.
Apple had a similar kind of hit on instant messaging with iMessage. It's just there, you don't need to do anything special or download any special apps. And that's what matters to most average users. FaceTime audio isn't necessarily a Skype killer, but it's got huge potential in the space.
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Will FaceTime audio bring VoIP calling into regular, everyday smartphone use?
A good question, for sure. And will carriers (AT&T, anyone?) impose restrictions on cellular use of this?
I thought face time audio was wifi only...
So was FaceTime video, but it's not likely to last, surely?
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FaceTime is not cross-paltform, so it will never become a standard any more than iMessage has. And I wonder if people with small data plans understand, upon answering an incoming FaceTime voice call, that they are in fact depleting their data plan... by answering to a call, which would otherwise be free. So the receiver is simply subsidizing someone else's bill (who may have unlimited data, for isnatnce, but not unlimited call minutes.)
Oh, and love how Apple shamelessly cribbed that incoming call experience from WP.
The question is; how many iOS users don't use something like Skype? There's a buttload of iOS users out there, remember.
Something else that this brings ... Voice over LTE! I'm not sure what the quality of Facetime audio will be like, but potentially the quality could be far better than calls over the cellular network.
FaceTime Audio will surely help where cell service is poor but Wifi is ok, and you are talking to another iPhone user. Tango lets you do both audio and video to not only iPhone users but other platforms as well.
The real feature I was hoping to see would be voice over wifi without the need for a femtocell.
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> The real feature I was hoping to see would be voice over wifi without the need for a femtocell.
YES ... I would love to see this!!!
This is going to further my plan of using the iPad mini as my cellphone.
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The clarity of Facetime Audio is amazing. I used it a few times between two iPhone 5's running iOS 7 beta and it worked great. Crystal clear. It was like they were stuck inside my phone and talking directly into my ear. That clear. The first few calls were made over WiFi and there wasn't any noticeable lag at all. I don't have LTE in my area with Verizon (yet), so I called someone who was on WiFi while I was on EVDO and it still worked and voice was just as clear and 'HD' as if I were on WiFi. Although there was a 2 second delay thanks to the high latency of EVDO.
I feel it has a lot of limiting factors and questions:
1) Only good if both parties have iPhones with this feature.
2) Unlimited data plans are near non-existent any more, the calling aspect of cellular plans are often unlimited, now start burning thru data expensive data to make phone calls? Really?
3) When usable (see #1 above), will there be controls in the app or in settings that allow it to be turned off? Or set to use only on WiFI?
We've been using BBM Video and Voice Chat for a while now, and from my experience the extra data usage on the audio only part is not very much. It's not unlike streaming music (iRadio anyone?) . Its the video over LTE that sucks your data. I was video chatting with my wife for an hour once and after the call she realized her wifi was off. There was a considerable amount of data used. But the voice and video call quality is beautiful and crystal clear.
I don't have the beta installed, but I thought it was wifi only? Yet commenters here worrying about data caps, and LTE, 3G, etc. at least for now? Not the right questions to ask.
Who does this benefit?
* iPod touch and iPad owners who want a "phone" but the caveat is you can only call othe iOS 7 users.
* iOS 7 users wanting the ability to call international iOS 7 users
Not insignificant, but given the rise of unlimited talk/text (you know, the cheapest to provide services that are seeing decreasing use? Which is why the big providers make it hard to get tiered minutes anymore. So they can provide a perception of value) I just don't see this being quite as big as iMessage.
No, it's not WiFi only (for now). I've used it over Verizon's 3G network (with some minor delay) but it still worked.
"And, with it, opened up VoIP to the masses"
As you yourself said, Skype did that a long time ago. The part of the "masses" that does not know how to download and set up Skype does not know what a Facetime is and what it does and won't have iOS7 anytime soon. Besides, to be really useful you need both ends on wifi, and for the "masses" that begins to be a bit of a hassle.
So, FaceTime comes built into iOS, and with iOS 7 it even has a front facing app, yet nobody will know what it is? And the WiFi thing isn't totally accurate, even Skype works OK on 3G
Yes, but you must have good, cheap 3G to use it, and that is not a reality for the masses. When I think masses, I think globally, since Apple is a global company. I feel that when you say "masses", you mean affluent americans who own iPhones.
But I do agree in general terms with you, I just object to the "masses" thing. I also feel that until cheap and plentiful 3G and 4G are available worldwide, Facetime will be restricted to wi-fi use. I didn't do the math, but I also feel that right now, for the vast majority of people, if you're not on wi-fi a regular phone call will be cheaper than a VOIP one.
I'm not an American...so I'm definitely not referring to them. Where I live, unlimited data is an option, good 3G is pretty common and LTE is in our future :)
Ok, sorry about that, but let's agree that you live in a better place than most of the masses. Where I live 3G is pitiful, LTE is a very expensive reality, and Facebook-less Android devices abound. I like Facetime and use it daily, but wi-fi to wi-fi, and of couse, iOS to iOS.
Too bad the promise of Steve Jobs about an open standard for Facetime never came true. What we really needed was Facetime calling its built-in Android, Windows or BB counterpart, not a proprietary solution. That will never work for the masses.
The first thing that is going to happen with this, when it's released in the Fall, is AT&T will find a way to block it unless you pay more money to them. Either that, or they will raise the price on their data plans and blame it on all of those "bad iPhone users" that are hogging all the bandwidth. Or both...
Wow, what a fanboy Richard is. To say and I quote "Every iOS 7 user will have access to FaceTime audio. As such, all of your friends, your parents, grandparents, ..." All my friends and family? I don't know what world YOU are living in, but I have friends and family that have Android devices. And I am sure in the future have Windows and who knows (Facebook?) devices. But to be so self-centered to think that just because Facetime is "built-in" to IOS 7, that it will be anything more than another (less useful) version of Skype. And just because Skype or BBM are separate apps, doesn't make it less viable. If anything, its cross-platform strength is Facetime's weakness.
And before someone tells me, "Well, you have to have the same app to communicate". Yeah, that is true. So, I e-mail my friend in Hong Kong to go and download Skype for Android and bingo! We are talking. Not a big deal. Really. So stop the fanboy stuff, PLEASE!! Let's talk about something Apple REALLY is innovative about.
Facebook has VoIP calling between friends, I would think this would be more "Voip for the masses" than FaceTime Audio.
I think it will open up VOIP further IF it works seamlessly like iMessage. It will certainly be more convenient than Skype when calling other iPhone users.


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First iPhone 5 reviews
Those major media outlets, technology sites, and journalists who had early review units of the iPhone 5 have now posted their reviews. Here are the links and a snippet of their takes.
Jim Dalrymple of The Loop says Apple has another winner on their hands:
I can't think of any good reason why anyone wouldn't upgrade or purchase the iPhone 5.
M.G. Siegler of TechCrunch says Apple has chiseled the smartphone to near perfection:
I've had the opportunity to play around with the latest iPhone for the past several days. I won't beat around the bush: it's fantastic.
John Gruber of Daring Fireball says the iPhone 5 is really nice:
The question everyone who hasn't yet pre-ordered wants answered: Should you upgrade? My answer is simple. If you can afford it, yes.
There's a reason why, just as with all five of its predecessors, it just says "iPhone" on the back. The iPhone 5 is all new technically, but it's the exact same thing as an idea. Apple is simply improving upon that idea year after year in infinitely finer detail, like a fractal. It's nice.
Tim Stevens of Engadget says the iPhone 5 is the device people were asking for:
Still, the iPhone 5 absolutely shines. Pick your benchmark and you'll find Apple's thin new weapon sitting at or near the top. Will it convince you to give up your Android or Windows Phone ways and join the iOS side? Maybe, maybe not. Will it wow you? Hold it in your hand -- you might be surprised. For the iOS faithful this is a no-brainer upgrade. This is without a doubt the best iPhone yet. This is a hallmark of design. This is the one you've been waiting for.
Vincent Nguyen of SlashGear says it's love at first swipe.
Right now, the iPhone 5 has the best balance of everyday usability and performance, without the distraction of functionality that is clever but unintuitive. It's an area in which Apple excels, and it's the reason the iPhone 5 is one of the best smartphones on the market today.
Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal says Apple has taken an already great product and made it better, overall.
The world's most popular smartphone becomes significantly faster, thinner and lighter this week, while gaining a larger, 4-inch screen—all without giving up battery life, comfort in the hand and high-quality construction.
David Pogue of The New York Times says it's not a compelling update for existing iPhone 4S users...
But if you've had the discipline to sit out a couple of iPhone generations — wow, are you in for a treat.
Ed Baig of USAToday says the iPhone 5 is in front of the smartphone pack:
People have always had lofty expectations for the iPhone 5, especially as the competition stiffens. In delivering a fast, attractive, LTE-capable and larger-screen handset, Apple has met those expectations with a gem.
Scott Stein at CNET says the iPhone 5 is an excellent, well conceived phone.
The iPhone 5 completely rebuilds the iPhone on a framework of new features and design, addressing its major previous shortcomings. It's absolutely the best iPhone to date, and it easily secures its place in the top tier of the smartphone universe.
Stuart Miles of Pocket-Lint says the iPhone 5 is the must-have phone of the year:
The iPhone 5 is a phone that makes you feel safe. A phone that you know exactly how to use as soon as you take it out of the box and that is perfect for a huge number of people.
Peter Nowak of the CBC says the iPhone 5 isn't innovative but is a smart package:
The iPhone 5 may not be terribly innovative, but it does deliver that package better than any previous Apple product, and better than just about any other smartphone.
Luke Peters at T3 says the iPhone 5 isn't as compelling given the alternatives.
Given that iPhone 4S users can upgrade to iOS 6 and do just about everything the iPhone 5 can do, and that Android users can get similarly impressive handsets for less dosh, we reckon the smart money won't all be going on a new iPhone this year, even if the mass market can't get enough of it. It's good, very good. But it's no longer the best around.
Shane Richmond of The Telegraph says the iPhone 5 is a marvelous piece of design:
The iPhone 5 is a great smartphone made even better. It's fast, lightweight and backed by the largest application store for any device. It's also probably the most beautiful smartphone anyone has ever made
Patrick Gross of TechRadar says the iPhone 5 is the most important launch since the original iPhone:
But, in truth, Apple will be well aware that it doesn't need to reinvent the wheel to succeed and, in this case, it has yet again provided a fine phone that will keep it battling at the top of the charts for another year.
Mark Prigg of The Daily Mail says the iPhone 5 is simply the best smartphone ever made:
The level of care and engineering that has gone into the handset is unprecedented, and while iPhone owners are no doubt already reaching for their wallets, for anyone who was on the fence, Apple most definitely has the upper hand in the smartphone wars.
So there you have them! Go forth and read whichever interest you, then hurry back and give us your early assessment -- your review of the reviews.
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First iPhone 5 reviews
I wish I were able to get the new iPhone 5. I would usually pre-order it as I did with my 4...but that darn Verizon company and their stupid lose your unlimited data crap and expensive 32 gig full price has me holding off. Will not lose my unlimited. My iPhone 4 with iOS 6 will keep me afloat....here's to hoping they change their minds when they don't have as many people with unlimited data upgrade to the 5 because of their dumb doings. Grrr. Love you iMore. Best iPhone etc site...user friendly just like iOS.
switch to Sprint. We offer unlimited data, and 20 bucks cheaper-at a minimum than Verizon. $80 gets you Unlimited ANY Mobile, Unlimited Messaging, and Unlimited Data-with 450 LANDLINE only minutes.
Apple didn't elect to give us one. It's entirely their call.
So far it looks like no Verge, no Macworld, no Ars Technica either. (And Daring Fireball hasn't posted yet.)
Am I the only one to notice that top picture is not the Real iPhone 5? The black phone has a silver band.
i wish i can buy one, if one person will give me one, i will love him/her forever *-*
Think of it this way: how often does Ford release a car model that's a quantum leap ahead of the previous year's model? Every 6, 7 years maybe? They don't need to radically advance any one model's design because the industry is mature. All the pedals are there already, there are only so many places you can add cupholders, etc. It's a process of refinement at this point, sheet metal styling aside.
On the other hand, the smartphone industry is still in its infancy. It's only been what, 10 years since the Treo 180? The smartphone industry is like the auto industry was in 1910. Back then there were dozens of auto makers, each with different control layouts, steam engines, electric motors, diesel engines, and yes, gasoline engines. There were huge advances every year as new technologies were invented and implemented.
Steady, relentless evolution has resulted in the modern automobile. Now each model year is boring. But that constant progress has evolved cars almost beyond recognition. None of us could climb into a Model T and drive it without special training. The pedals and steering column stalks have completely different functions than we expect. (Hint: the middle pedal is for engaging reverse gear.)
So steady incremental progress will eventually evolve smartphones in ways we can't predict now. All things in time.
No. The hardware is largely the same design, the software was what was shown, leaked or expected, the upgrades like lte and a 4 inch screen were expected. The press conference had no iphone surprises or anything new. Much of what was added, maps for example is not groundbreaking and is playing catchup to google. And in many cases not as well by some peoples opinion do to the lack of public transit stuff.
If i had a dumb phone this would all be new and exciting. My 4s was my first iphone so it was a great buy. but honestly it wasn't overly exciting. And neither was this. It's what was expected. But that doesn't mean if i had money to burn and an upgrade i wouldn't still buy the phone. i would. but i don't. i'm sticking with my 4S as there's no LTE in my area and i don't have the upgrade. But as for something new there isn't much. it is boring to me. that doesn't mean it's not good.
Pocket-Lint said the best thing possible about iPhone 5 and it is more than enough. Let me iterate it again:
The iPhone 5 is a phone that makes you feel safe. A phone that you know exactly how to use as soon as you take it out of the box and that is perfect for a huge number of people.
It's a real shame that Apple has been so focused on the legal battles of 2008's phones, because they forgot to innovate in any area of this new model. Just my opinion, I'm sure millions of people will still buy this. But, it is very hypocritical of Apple to be suing Samsung then copying so many features from Android... http://advertising-brisbane.com.au
"I can't think of any good reason why anyone wouldn't upgrade or purchase the iPhone 5."
No offense, and I could be wrong, but here is one reason why upgrading isn't a good idea. That reason: there is probably going to be an S model next year that's going to one-up this model.
I apologize if I sound like a douche, but if history repeats itself, apple wise, I wouldn't be surprised at an S model next year that may solve a few of the unforeseen issues from the iPhone 5. Just a thought.
I have to agree you with you. I have an 4S and would love to get hands on the 5, but something tells me that with iOS6 I don't need to do that. And probably de 5S next year will be a little bit better and then yes, the upgrade is more "acceptable". But then again, if you want to wait, this could turn into a snowball rolling down a mountain because then you have the 6 and the 6S and the 7 and 7s and so on... So the question still remain unanwsered, do iPhone 4S users notice a big difference if they purchase the iPhone 5?
Other than 4G, I'd say no, and I'd also say this is by design. Fast innovation is great, but I think evolution is better than revolution. The cell phone game is a funny game, especially in the US. The game that Apple DOESN'T want to play is to have their customer base buy a brand new phone, and then in a year feel like it is COMPLETELY obsolete. As an AVERAGE consumer, I appreciate that. Why? Because I don't want to spend $700 on a phone, I'd rather wait for my contract to come up so I can get it at $200.
As someone coming from a 4, I am completely excited for the 5 as it gives me many new features. But, next year, when the 5S comes out, I'm going to be hanging on to my 5 feeling good that I got 90% of the features that the 5S is getting. In the Android world, I'd buy a phone and 3 months later it was completely obsolete, making me have major buyers remorse. As others state, by a year into my 2 year contract, my phone is completely abandoned with no new updates, even when the hardware is capable of 90% of the features. It's those things that keep me with iOS. It's reasonable to expect that my iPhone 5 will run iOS 7, and even 8, but you have no idea when buying android if it will ever run Jellybean (unless you root the phone, which I have zero interest in doing). And even if it will run Jellybean, it most likely won't run Klondike or whatever they call the next update, which means that the app store starts slowly "breaking" for me, assuming developers even want to make their apps work on every phone out there.
Windows Phone looks awesome, more innovative than both iOS and Android combined, but every phone on the market today won't get Windows Phone 8, and the fact that MS is willing to abandon phones that quickly makes me again not want to go to that ecosystem, even though every computer I own is a Windows PC. Think about how upset we'd all be if 9 months after we bought a computer it didn't even attempt to run the latest OS. Phones are just as expensive as computers, yet we accept the obsolescence? I have a computer at home that has gone from Vista, to 7, to 8 with no problems whatsoever (it's almost 4 years old).
i watch every leaked detail about iphone 5, i'm really impressed!.. every time i take my lunch break i am hurry to open my old phone just to watch the latest rumors about this iphone 5. now it's truly amazing... how i wish i can have one... thanks a lot apple! good luck & congratulations to a new masterpiece in it's kind.
I agree that the iPhone 5 is going to be a hit don't get me wrong I LOVE my 4s but to listen to some of these guys say that the IPhone 5 is ahead of the pack and everything is to kinda false. Yes Apple addressed some of the wants that everyone wanted to see in the new iPhone but the one major disappointment to me is the OS IOS6 should have been so much more then what it has become all we seem to get is features, features and more features, but the huge problem with this is that none of these features are anything new it's something that has always been done by other phones like Android, Blackberry, and Windows. I was expecting a whole lot more. We all know that the iPhone is going to sell like hot cakes but to me personally I'm going to hold out and wait to see what other options come out towards the holiday season and then make my decision till then I'm going to keep using and enjoying my jailbroken iPhone 4s :-)
Hats off to Apple, they sure know how to market. Sad to say im very disappointed with the iphone. I want to upgrade, but looking at these new features ,4" screen it just dont cut it. Five rows of apps ive been using for a long time with jail break, among other features & im personally tired of jailbreaking to get quick reply sms & other features other phones already have. Two married friends if mine upgraded not too long ago to the galaxy 3 & galaxy note. Omg, i actually slipped my iphone back in my pocket. I never would go near anything but apple but what they showed me and how simple it was to use and the widget stuff was amazing . This is what i want the iphone to do AND i knlw the iphone is capable, just when will apple let it loose!!! Now with iphone 5 days away , for the first time im confused about which route to go.
I'm upgrading from an iPhone 4 to an iPhone 5 and I'm excited to get my hands on it. I love the design and all the enhancements. I definitely understand some of the complaints, but I think people are whining about the iPhone 5 because Rene and the iMore team did such a superb job of providing us with the leaked info which turned out accurate for the most part. I think if Apple did a better job of secrecy this time around, more people would've had that "wow" factor they were looking for. Don't get me wrong there are features I would've loved to see in iOS 6: 1. Quick reply which is the most convenient feature in jailbreak 2. Toggles in the notification center and 3. Font & icon customization. Apple may not be the first to "innovate" or implement new features, but they usually execute it better than the competition in my opinion. Guess I'm a loyalist or a "fanboy", but I'll stick to my Apple products (iPhone 4, MBP, & Apple TV 2nd gen...Fiance: iPhone 4S, MBP, & iPad 3rd gen). After all, customer service is extremely important to me and as long as Apple doesn't waiver in that department, I'm good.
iPhone 5 has astonished this mobile world with number of buyers and orders in few days. Great work and market of iPhone's and why not such a fantastic and smashing features are there in iPhone 5. I too interested to own this wonderful phone please help how soon they will deliver as mine is in long wait. http://www.topinbuzz.com/iphone-5-price-review-release-date/
Besides the iPhone 5 itself, I was also impressed by its new "EarPods" with lateral acoustic outputs. I've never seen a similar design before:
Really, so you have tried them then?
It's a good phone, I just don't get why people are so excited about it. There's nothing about it that's a "must have" compared to the 4S or Android phones. Heck, even the 4S arguably had that with Siri. It's this mob mentality and what people go through just to have it on the release date that I'll never understand. I'd never spend so much money on an unseen product based solely on what the manufacturer has promised.
It reminds me of when Krispy Kreme was so big and every store opening was a huge regional event. Then eventually people realized their doughnuts weren't any better than anybody elses and a few years later those stores were closed.
Faster, thinker, lighter, is the catch phrase going around about the iPhone 5, but what I can't understand is why people would put so many protective devices on it that the size and weight triples! I'm getting the new iPhone though, and one case is enough. I am ecstatic about it being lighter and I'm also looking forward to a bigger screen for watching my shows and movies with the DISH Remote Access app. I like watching on the go better because I get more TV watching done in my day, and all I need is internet and my Sling Adapter at home.
Yeah, I hate how so many phones these days are so fragile. Apple is probably the worst as far as that goes with all the glass on the 4 and up but hardly any are what I would consider durable.
Phones are like watches, they are always with us and may be subjected to extreme temperatures, water, and impact. I would hope at some point our $600 phones will be able offer the same type of durability we have come to expect in $20 watches. There are signs of this: one of the new Sonys is water proof, some Motorolas are "splash" proof, and Casio makes a very durable (but sadly outdated) smartphone. I'm tired of babying my phones, they have been getting more and more fragile over the past several years.
I like it.
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