Essruu

... what I mostly want is a really speedy device that is good for browsing the internet and the S3 looks to be the best for that.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/9551873/iPhone-5-review.html

“Starting the phone, loading apps, or taking photos – everything is faster on the iPhone 5. Benchmarking with the Geekbench app has shown that the iPhone 5 is not just faster than the iPhone 4S but it also outperforms Samsung’s Galaxy S3.”

You want me to list all 200+ changes?

http://www.apple.com/uk/ios/whats-new/

If previous major updates are anything to go by, it'll be available from 6pm.

I can't wait. This will probably be the one that means I won't bother jailbreaking anymore.

It has an improved siri

It's own navigation app

Passbook for things like electronic boarding passes

I cloud features

New colour scheme

I can't see much that will make a dramatic difference. Greater facebook integration but I don't use that anyway.

If you think that's the only improvement: even more reason for you to try it out tomorrow night!

wots so good about ios6?

I really can't be bothered to reply in detail to this. It is the best available OS for a handheld device.

If you have a compatible device to upgrade tomorrow: try it. If you don't and want to find out more: Google it.

I'm leaning towards the S3 TBH. Had a look on a few review sites and it does look like the best option, especially because I want to keep my PAYG sim.

If I were you, I'd wait until after tomorrow when you can install iOS 6. If you're jumping because of the current short supply of Nano SIMs: that situation isn't going to last forever.

Bar Med?

After all that on the phone yesterday about iPhone 5 contracts being crap, I very nearly bought one last night.

 

32GB phone, £26 a month or so for unlimited texts and calls, 1GB data, £299 for the phone. Not bad at all actually.

 

Will probably get that deal at some point.

That's pretty good if 1GB is enough for you. 24m x £26 + £299 = £923 [- £599 (cost of 32Gb) = £13.50 / mth]

Personally, 1GB isn't anywhere near enough for me. Anyone that needs more is better off with OnePlan from Three: 32GB iPhone 5 @ £89, plus 24m x £39 = £1025 [- £599 (cost of 32Gb) = £17.75 / mth]

The giffgaff deal is indeed spot on - they're looking at changing it slightly, but the sam deal with unlimited data for £13 instead of a tenner.

 

The only issue is these pesky new nano-sims - they're thinner as well as smaller, so not as easy to cut down. The networks all seems to have totally cocked up over providing sim-only nano's, and for new customers it's impossible to get one at the moment unless you go with three. Giffgaff's won't be ready for months, apparently. =/

 

So, Mr Essruu, seeing as you tend to be the man in the know, am I right in thinking you are already on Three, or is that just for your iPad deal at the moment? They're offering a £12.90 sim-only deal on a one month rolling contract, tempted to jump on that until giffgaff sort their **** out, but have heard horror stories about coverage being shocking...

I'm on O2 for my iPhone and Three for my iPad. I was hesitant about signing up with Three due to historic memories of complaints about their coverage and service: but Three's coverage completely knocks the socks off of O2 (+ hence Tesco, GiffGaff etc). As you know, I'm on the road all day and my iPhone and iPad are always with me. I can honestly say I can't recall an occasion EVER when I have got a better, speedier connection with O2 than Three. That is not just in and around Southampton, but London and other locations too.

I am just taking a break in Marchwood, having dropped some of players into training, and am having to type this on my iPad because of the rubbish data speed on my iPhone. I've just done a SpeedTest on both:

iPad / Three showing 3G = 2.98mb down, 0.67 up

iPhone / O2 showing GPRS = 0.02mb down, 0.00 up !!

I also just switched SIMs over to make sure it wasn't the devices that were having an impact on the results:

iPad / O2 showing GPRS = 0.19mb down, 0.01 up

iPhone / Three showing 3G = 2.96mb down, 0.58 up

This is in a not-very-built-up area, so it can't be argued that Three are 'only good in cities'. This is also not an uncommon scenario. On the drive up to The Emirates on Saturday, my iPad was showing 3G coverage and running fast the whole way when two other iPhones on O2 were GPRS for long stretches and struggling.

GiffGaff price-wise are great (I have a SIM myself but haven't properly switched from O2 for my phone) but I find the whole O2 network a lot poorer now than at any time I can remember in the years I've been with them.

I wouldn't hesitate to recommend Three. Give it a go. I don't think you'll be disappointed.

Why does anyone want an iPhone over a Galaxy S2 or S3 ?

 

Much inferior product. Much worse battery endurance. Awful.

 

And after Apple have behaved recently in the Californian courts, I am never purchasing one of their products again.

Apple shares will tumble at this devastating news.

Apple have done code that Devs can implement to detect the jailbreak. The app remembers detecting it even if you upgrade and take off jailbreak.

Re-Jailbreak, delete Sky Go app, add http://n00neimp0rtant.dyndns.org/repo to Cydia sources, install/update XCON, download then install Sky Go from Installous, Now you can log in and use app as normal :-)

You almost caught me out, you little tinker, Ron.

People, BEWARE: the petition is to STOP the cull, NOT in support of it. Don't fall for this scam attempt.

Pre-orders !

2 Million per-orders within first 24hrs.

They're always in on Sundays now after a Saturday match. Players that played do a cool down session; The ones who didn't play have a regular training session. Then they all (except any that are injured and undergoing treatment) have the Monday off instead of Wednesdays like they used to.

We've been zonal marking for some time. It's not just the first team, but the U21s, U18s and U16s that are all defending this way too.

You can just tell Pilchards' usual idea of a meal out is a Harvester or The Haywain's £3.50 roast.

not impressed with the iphone 5 and why would anyone waste money upgradeing from a apple 4s unless you need 4g network or slightly bigger screen and slightly thinner handset,looks poor compared to the other 4g handsets being released.

You could equally say the same thing about, say, the Samsung Galaxy S2v S3: yet nobody makes a fuss about that or looks to knock Samsung - because unlike Apple, nobody really expects Samsung to come up with anything groundbreaking and amazing.

The one big improvement the S3 had over the S2, was in the OS it ran. Yet strangely enough, this is the one area that Apple does not get enough credit for.

If only the iPhone 5 shipped with iOS 6, leaving the iPhone 4 & 4S with iOS 5.1.1, people would be getting excited over the whole iPhone 5 package. The fact is, Apple provide free iOS upgrades to older iPhone versions. Effectively, your iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S will become a brand new handset on 19Sep if you upgrade your firmware.

That's what I normally do. I have a very old O2 £20/mth contract that has is now a rolling 30 day contract so I could cancel it whenever I wanted. The main reasons I'm really keeping it going is for the convenience factor, plus it's still giving me truly unlimited data (I use roughly 3-4Gb per month.)

The only issue you'll have is that the iPhone 5 uses a new (smaller) Nano SIM Card, do you can't just put it straight in. The iPhone 4/4S uses a Micro SIM and your provider will send you one to replace an existing SIM. I've also cut down a few standard sized SIMS into a Micro SIM size and it works fine. I'm not sure if the standard sized SIM can be cut down to the Nano size as I've not looked into it or where the corresponding connectors are. It might be possible, but your easiest option is just to ask your network provider for a Nano SIM if you go down the iPhone 5 route.

I've always gone down the 'pay outright for the phone do it's unlocked and you can put any SIM in it you want or a local one when travelling overseas' route. In reality however, apart from testing other SIMs in them and not having to get a contracted network operator to unlock the iPhone when it's time to sell it, I have never bothered with a local SIM when travelling!

I never thought I'd go back to a contract, but 3 (my iPad data plan is with them) offered a 16Gb iPhone 5 for £79 plus a 24mth x £36 contract = £943, or a 32Gb version for £89 plus 24 x £39 = £1025. If you take off the cost of buying the phone outright (£529 or £599), you are effectively paying £17.75/mth for 2000 minutes, texts and UNLIMITED Data. This is a mega deal in my mind, particularly as 3 have purchased some of EE's 4G and will be the only other network provider that you'll get 4G LTE with when they are allowed to utilise it.

Okay essie you try and use passbook to go on the tube, buy groceries (not just use a discount voucher), open you car and gain admission to a football stadium and when you have done that I will accept I just described passbook. Otherwise no.

It's doable, and doable a lot cheaper for merchants than upgrading all of their tills and terminals to accept NFC payments from the tiny amount of handsets that can use them!

My Starbucks card and balance will be straight on my lockscreen when I walk into a Starbucks store. My Apple giftcards balance likewise, any discount voucher or gift card total for other stores just the same. I can top up my card in-store (and probably eventually in-app); if I can do this with all of these retailers, it's not a big jump to imagine Oyster developing an App to integrate with Passbook also.

Some American airlines have already embraced Passbook, bringing up your boarding pass as you enter the airport. It notifies you of delays and gate changes automatically and even gives directions to the gate and estimated time to get there. I've used UK Airlines' own Apps and e-boarding passer - it's no big feat for them to bring it all together into the OS-level Passbook.

As and when Apple take it one stage further to integrate payments direct from their 300m stored debit/credit card information, NFC is blown away.

 

Having said that it really is an area where, because most current NFC systems, such as oyster cards, are proprietary, there is no easy way to tie them all together. It would be so much better if they could all be loaded onto one device, especially one that was network connected so they could be disabled if lost and synced to a new device. It would be very useful to end up being able to user one device to say go on the tube, buy groceries, open your car and gain admission to a football ground rather than dig out the card for each (personally found that when I had 2 cards in my wallet the readers for each would not work until they were separated).

Oh, wait... you just described Passbook and why Apple was right to forget NFC!

Definitely missed a trick with no NFC. That might have made upgrading worthwhile.

Really? How many outlets can you use NFC at? Of those, how many actually have them switched on?

Apple's wallet-replacement Passbook will become the way to go for retailers who don't want the expense of NFC hardware. All they need is their gift card linked to Passbook: parents and grannies giving birthday gifts, Starbucks cards, existing High St stores' gift cards infrastructure is already out there. Added to this Airline tickets/boarding passes, sports tickets, theatre tickets, etc., It's a no-brainer. One step away for Apple is having your credit/debit card properly linked and, hey presto: a barcode that can be scanned at virtually every till for instant payment. Bye bye patchy NFC.

http://bit.ly/OfpqRJ

The whole of p*mpey is the same. Now the South Pier owners are at it. Do all p*mpey businesses have 'do not pay bills' written into their business plans?!