Apple: iPhone News and Discussion Thread
11-08-2011 | 02:27 PM
#7724
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And?
Not for me. Works perfectly every time.
11-08-2011 | 02:28 PM
#7725
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11-08-2011 | 04:13 PM
#7729
Is this feature really used by a lot of people on any mobile platform? I know some Android phones have it, but to me I think the time adding support for it would be better spent on fixing other issues or making other improvements that are used more often. 
11-08-2011 | 04:26 PM
#7731
Shooting video in 1080P would be nice. But offering people the ability to output video in 1080P is meh IMHO.
11-08-2011 | 05:38 PM
#7733
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^^ lol... what sucks about it? doesnt stitch it right?
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/...ature-in-ios5/
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/...ature-in-ios5/
11-09-2011 | 06:22 AM
#7734
Yea. It's like a video and you movE the phone while it records and image. But you have to keep it perfectly steady/ balanced or your stitch will look like garbage. And it uses thr gyroscope so your image has weird dimensions if you don't keep thr phone steady (which is nearly impossible)
11-09-2011 | 06:31 AM
#7735
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Those of you who use the iPhone 4S for its camera capabilities, do you find that the ability to use the volume button as the shutter button helps a lot?
Is it being used the way and as much as Apple predicted?
Myself...I have to pay attention to avoid turning the device so the button's on the bottom. :-) After years and years of using the iPhone, my instincts cause me to rotate the phone so that the menu button is at the right.
Is it being used the way and as much as Apple predicted?
Myself...I have to pay attention to avoid turning the device so the button's on the bottom. :-) After years and years of using the iPhone, my instincts cause me to rotate the phone so that the menu button is at the right.
11-09-2011 | 06:47 AM
#7736
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Yea. It's like a video and you movE the phone while it records and image. But you have to keep it perfectly steady/ balanced or your stitch will look like garbage. And it uses thr gyroscope so your image has weird dimensions if you don't keep thr phone steady (which is nearly impossible)
11-09-2011 | 06:54 PM
#7746
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New iOS 5.0.1 Update ‘Nothing Short of Amazing’
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/...e-improvement/
Good news if you’re one of the iOS 5 users who suffers from crippled battery life: Most early reports are showing that iOS 5.0.1 fixes the problem completely.
“Frankly the difference is nothing short of amazing,” said Wired reader Donald Kuntzman, who downloaded the update on his Verizon iPhone 4. “To go almost an entire day without a change in the meter reading seems unbelievable. Where before I could almost watch the battery drain, now it doesn’t move at all.”
Kuntzman noticed that the battery life on his iPhone degraded after the iOS 5 upgrade. He needed to charge his phone once a day, and always worried it would die before he had a chance to recharge it. He could practically “watch the battery drain,” but since the update, his battery level doesn’t seem to drop at all.
Sam Bertolet tweeted to @GadgetLab that his previous 15 percent battery loss per hour has been reduced to 4 to 5 percent with the update. Another reader tweeted that he only needs to charge every other day, as opposed to every day. Others like Khoi Pham “definitely noticed the battery life improvement” in the Beta 2 update.
Yesterday, reports surfaced that select iOS users were getting an early upgrade to iOS 5.0.1 to fix a number of iOS 5-related issues such as battery problems, Siri issues (for Australian 4S owners), and buggy iCloud documents. On Nov. 2, Apple confirmed that it had identified some bugs related to iOS 5, and said it would be delivering a fix in coming weeks.
But it looks like the fix isn’t working for everyone. A few users have not seen any improvement with iOS 5.0.1 at this time. Gareth Evans tweeted that he saw no difference; he’s still getting six hours of usage on standby and four and a half when it’s being used. One user even reported worse battery life with the update, but that unlucky individual seems to be an outlier.
Wired has reached out to Apple to find out specifics of the 5.0.1 update, and will keep you updated as we find out more information. In the meantime, if you have a iOS 5.0.1 update story to share, please hit my e-mail link at the top of this article and describe what you’re experiencing.
“Frankly the difference is nothing short of amazing,” said Wired reader Donald Kuntzman, who downloaded the update on his Verizon iPhone 4. “To go almost an entire day without a change in the meter reading seems unbelievable. Where before I could almost watch the battery drain, now it doesn’t move at all.”
Kuntzman noticed that the battery life on his iPhone degraded after the iOS 5 upgrade. He needed to charge his phone once a day, and always worried it would die before he had a chance to recharge it. He could practically “watch the battery drain,” but since the update, his battery level doesn’t seem to drop at all.
Sam Bertolet tweeted to @GadgetLab that his previous 15 percent battery loss per hour has been reduced to 4 to 5 percent with the update. Another reader tweeted that he only needs to charge every other day, as opposed to every day. Others like Khoi Pham “definitely noticed the battery life improvement” in the Beta 2 update.
Yesterday, reports surfaced that select iOS users were getting an early upgrade to iOS 5.0.1 to fix a number of iOS 5-related issues such as battery problems, Siri issues (for Australian 4S owners), and buggy iCloud documents. On Nov. 2, Apple confirmed that it had identified some bugs related to iOS 5, and said it would be delivering a fix in coming weeks.
But it looks like the fix isn’t working for everyone. A few users have not seen any improvement with iOS 5.0.1 at this time. Gareth Evans tweeted that he saw no difference; he’s still getting six hours of usage on standby and four and a half when it’s being used. One user even reported worse battery life with the update, but that unlucky individual seems to be an outlier.
Wired has reached out to Apple to find out specifics of the 5.0.1 update, and will keep you updated as we find out more information. In the meantime, if you have a iOS 5.0.1 update story to share, please hit my e-mail link at the top of this article and describe what you’re experiencing.
you mean the way it was supposed to be from the beginning.....
11-09-2011 | 08:46 PM
#7750
same here...I'm usually at 70% by the end of the day, including using wifi from time to time, typical browsing/use of maps, a few calls, and listening to a few hours of music a day
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11-09-2011 | 11:01 PM
#7753
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Am I back to being an apple hater again? 
I just think the title "New iOS 5.0.1 Update ‘Nothing Short of Amazing’" I a little much for an update that fixes a bad bug that should've never been released to begin with...
I just think the title "New iOS 5.0.1 Update ‘Nothing Short of Amazing’" I a little much for an update that fixes a bad bug that should've never been released to begin with...
11-10-2011 | 08:56 AM
#7756
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I am not sure that the Comex tribe will want to exploit this particular flaw to get un-tethered, because it's a fairly big problem which could compromise a user's information when it's used by unscrupulous applications developers.
This is how they found out about it, in fact. A developer managed to get an exploitative application past Apple's scrutiny and into the App Store, and then he revealed how serious a problem it was.
11-10-2011 | 12:01 PM
#7759
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the battery thing is a clearly glaring mistake, if it was so easily fixed like that.
11-10-2011 | 12:07 PM
#7760
It should have been caught in testing prior to the initial launch if it was that obvious.
