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Wireless charging is a complete gimmick, what happens if you stay at the gf house how do you charge your phone then? I also think that it is less energy efficient due to the changes in energy type.

PS, chargers are going to be standardised soon so that they will all fit and charge all phones, why would wireless be a pro then? apart from you have to charge it on a pad that is plugged into a mains anyway.... Which is just throwing out radiation wherever it wants to.


Please keep up. As people have said already, chargers (you know, other than Apple ones) are already standardised anyway. A Lumia 920 still charges from a Micro USB charger, this just means that it's going to charge wirelessly as well. How is that a bad thing? If you went to your g/f's house then you were going to have to take a charger anyway so whether it's a wireless charger or micro usb one is a moot point!
 
WRT to wireless charging.. if that's fully standardised then that's a good thing too. You can charge your phone on that when you're out and about, much the same why you would with a normal charger./QUOTE]

That's the thing, you could put a wireless charging pad in a car, on an aircraft, in a coffee shop etc etc etc. If you were to do this with a cable then the cable would get damaged etc etc etc.

There's already a standard out there -> [ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Power_Consortium[/ame] which is what the Lumia 920 utilises.

I simply can't believe that anyone would see this additional feature as a bad thing. You can still charge via cable if that's your thing and I'm sure I will when I get a Lumia 920, but wireless charging will be standard on phones in the future and dodgy micro usb sockets on phones from the phone being dropped whilst charging and general wear and tear will be a thing of the past.....
 
Do you work for Nokia or Windows? seem to be pushing the 920 quite a bit..

No, it's just the Windows Phone 8 device that we know the most about and that and the Galaxy S3 are probably the biggest competitors to the iPhone 5 and both eclipse it in terms of specification. I have a Lumia 800 and love it. The experience with a Lumia 920 will be much the same hence why I'd talk about a 920 rather than anything else :)

despite the fact when you take a video it magically transforms into a huge DSLR :ROFLMAO:
Is this not a good thing? ;):p Clumsy marketing aside, the photos the phone takes are pretty stunning :)
 
Actually think the WP8 phone we know most about is the Samsung ATIV S 8 since it came out first :p

I do like the Lumia 800, but all the WP7 phones handle pretty similarly. my experiance with the Lumia 800 was pretty much the same experiance when I tried a Samsung Omnia 7 and a HTC Titan...

So can pretty much expect the same from WP8.


Windows Phone is pretty much like having iOS on multiple devices. A very slick OS thats very easy. WP7 has appeared on multiple devices, all different except the OS.

Thats the advantage over android, although the same underneath, the OS can be changed. They can be Skinned, adapted and shoed to fit any need or device. With different specs and manufacturers, no two are similar.


The photos i've seen are nothing spectacular, yes they are good, but i've seen better come from the Sony Xperia ARC S and the newer Xperia S
 
From the view point of a mobile software developer, I still see WindowsPhone as LOL. I hope WP8 proves this wrong, but from what I've seen of it - I doubt it.

Fragmentation of Android is a good and bad things. It's good that it allows manufactures to customise their devices so that there's a common look and feel to them - but it's bad in that they tend ruin the UI in doing so. This can create a bad impression of the platform. My boss, for example, had some horrid Motorola Android phone - he used to constantly complain about it, how confusing and disjointed the UI was. That was his phone, and his use of Android - so to him, Android was confusing and disjointed. Since then, he's got an iPhone and praises it's UI, which is a fair point as it's worlds apart from the horrendously skinned version of Android that was on his last phone.

The only Android phones that interest me are the which are pure Android, proper GEDs.
 
Actually think the WP8 phone we know most about is the Samsung ATIV S 8 since it came out first :p

I do like the Lumia 800, but all the WP7 phones handle pretty similarly. my experiance with the Lumia 800 was pretty much the same experiance when I tried a Samsung Omnia 7 and a HTC Titan...

So can pretty much expect the same from WP8.


Windows Phone is pretty much like having iOS on multiple devices. A very slick OS thats very easy. WP7 has appeared on multiple devices, all different except the OS.

Thats the advantage over android, although the same underneath, the OS can be changed. They can be Skinned, adapted and shoed to fit any need or device. With different specs and manufacturers, no two are similar.


The photos i've seen are nothing spectacular, yes they are good, but i've seen better come from the Sony Xperia ARC S and the newer Xperia S

I agree about them pretty much all handling the same, this is a result of the standardisation of specs across the board :) I've had an Omnia 7, Lumia 800 and HTC HD7 and like you say they're all pretty much the same :)

But it all depends whether you need something specific which is catered for better by Android I guess.
 
From the view point of a mobile software developer, I still see WindowsPhone as LOL. I hope WP8 proves this wrong, but from what I've seen of it - I doubt it.

Fragmentation of Android is a good and bad things. It's good that it allows manufactures to customise their devices so that there's a common look and feel to them - but it's bad in that they tend ruin the UI in doing so. This can create a bad impression of the platform. My boss, for example, had some horrid Motorola Android phone - he used to constantly complain about it, how confusing and disjointed the UI was. That was his phone, and his use of Android - so to him, Android was confusing and disjointed. Since then, he's got an iPhone and praises it's UI, which is a fair point as it's worlds apart from the horrendously skinned version of Android that was on his last phone.

The only Android phones that interest me are the which are pure Android, proper GEDs.

It's a complicated story though. WP8 shares its kernel with W8 though so this surely makes things easier for app developers?

There's a lot going on, Microsoft offers a safe haven from being sued by Apple ;) Go out with Android and risk being sued or jump on the WP8 train?

It's going to be an interesting couple of years and I wouldn't like to bet on the outcome.
 
It's a complicated story though. WP8 shares its kernel with W8 though so this surely makes things easier for app developers?

There's a lot going on, Microsoft offers a safe haven from being sued by Apple ;) Go out with Android and risk being sued or jump on the WP8 train?

It's going to be an interesting couple of years and I wouldn't like to bet on the outcome.

WP8 shares parts with the ARM version of W8, and pretty much nothing with the x86/x64 version of W8. Neither of these make it any more of a more attractive platform to develop on.

The only reason that Apple aren't suing Microsoft is because they're not a perceived threat in this market!
 
I will buy an iPhone 5 I don't doubt along with millions of other people, in fact it is set to be the biggest selling phone of all time, indeed the 4s sold something like 20million for the same period to Christmas last year.

I wouldn't use wireless charging, I believe Duracell proved people really don't care much about wireless charging with their power at product currently selling in bargain shops up and down the country.
Nor do I care about the 30pin connector, the only accessories I have are for playing music and I have a 160gb iPod classic for music, so my life will be uneffected in that respect.

Over the years I've owned many different makes and models of mobile phones Motorola Nokia Sony Ericsson LG Samsung they all have their problems and in all honesty I simply don't get on with android software, and I don't want to faff about getting something which works for me so I suspect I will be sticking with iOS for a while
Oh and if I want NFC (which I don't) my bank will send me a little sticker to stick to the back of any phone I desire, it's not exactly new ground breaking technology.
 
Having just watched the keynote speech the iPhone 5 is a very nice looking and capable piece of kit, however the thing that really struck me is how Tim Cook is mimicking the mannerisms of Steve Jobs, he even moved onto jeans and dark coloured shirts he's not quite in roll necks just yet
 
Just ordered an iPhone 5. Its a matter of personal choice. For me the other phones I looked at just didn't cut it. The Samsung Galaxy S3 is just too big and plasticy for my liking and the Nokias have Windows which I'm not a fan of the interface of.

Perhaps if I hadn't already had an iPhone 3G and 4 then I might have gone with something else but for me I've already bought into the Apple eco system and the rivals don't have an offer temping enough for me to leave.

While I'm sticking with o2 so won't get LTE I can't say its something I'm that bothered about. For general web surfing on the go 3G is fine and I wouldn't jump to Orange just for faster speeds when in Edinburgh.
 
I couldn't give two flying f***s what it looks like. I like the fact I'm free to do what I WANT with MY PHONE. Something you're not 'allowed' to do on an Apple product of any variety.

It's not so much the iPhone itself I detest it's iTunes and Apples "ethos" governing the device.

I'm quite happy with the walled garden that is windows phone, sure it's a walled garden but it's a nice one unlike Apple's rather expensive and silly one.
 
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