iPhone 5s, iPhone 5c and iOS 7 Discussed
September 2013 was the launch of the iPhone 5s, iphone 5c and the release of iOS7 for Apple devices. Accordingly, we were obliged to discuss them in Show 92, apparently.
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Another Apple Launch:
Her's the first part of our transcript from Show 92, where we discuss Apple's new stuff:
Pete:
FrequencyCast show 92, Focus Time. Hello, Kelly.
Kelly:
Hello, Pete.
Pete:
Well, here we are, and unfortunately we are obliged to discuss Apple.
Kelly:
We are. It has been the launch.
Pete:
It's been several launches. Yes, the iPhone 5C and the 5S – have you gone out and bought one?
Kelly:
Of course not – you know I'm an Android girl.
Pete:
I must admit, I'm an iPhone person myself, but it doesn't do it for me. These phones are not really doing it for me.
Kelly:
Yeah, I've not heard good things either, if I'm honest.
Pete:
We do have to say, well done to Noah Green though, don't we? He was the first person in the UK to get one. He only queued for just over four days to get himself a gold iPhone 5S.
Kelly:
Four days! Does the man not have a job?
Pete:
What I liked was some of the entrepreneurship, though. People that were camping out were wearing sponsored t-shirts and things, so they were being paid to queue, which I thought was quite clever.
Kelly:
That's absolutely mad, but I guess we always see this every time Apple launches a new product.
Pete:
Yeah, now we've been going since April 2006 – did you realise that?
Kelly:
I didn't.
Pete:
And in that time, we've seen several iPhone launches. The first iPhone launched in 2007, but these launches are getting a bit tiresome now. It's the same old pictures of queues, and the same old fanboys queuing up for their products, and the same old stock shortages and everything else, although the 5C, the cheap one, seems to be in stock everywhere, so that's not selling that well.
Kelly:
And I've seen a lot of the pictures of the launch this time. There hasn't been as many people as anticipated, so maybe people aren't actually as Apple-mad as we thought?
Pete:
Very true. And the 5S isn't really offering that much that's terribly exciting. It's the same size screen. OK, it's got a better camera, and a faster processor, and this silly fingerprint recognition thing.
Kelly:
No, I actually know somebody who called up to order an iPhone, switching from Android, and even asked the sales assistant what the difference was, and got the response back, "Err ... it's just a little bit quicker?"
Pete:
Stunning. What I thought was quite interesting was the announcement last month, when they did the whole big announcement in the US. They didn't actually mention that the new iPhones take phone calls.
Kelly:
At no point – it's a phone! – and they didn't mention that at all.
Pete:
We put out a little tweet the day it launched, to see if anyone was interested. Here's the first four tweets that came our way.
Kelly:
Yeah, Matt Wait sent a tweet saying, "No thanks". Matt Findlay said, "Android all the way" (oh, I'm definitely with you there, Matt). Brinsley said, "Are you going to get one?"
Pete:
No.
Kelly:
And Chriss Benitez said, "Won't get an iPhone till my S3 needs to be replaced."
Pete:
And of course, we've had iOS7, the new operating system, which took me about two-and-a-half hours to download. It was funny, so many people were offline. People were saying, "I'll be offline for the next three hours, upgrading my phone", and so on, I think it was Thursday, no-one with an iPhone was online. It was hilarious!
Kelly:
Oh dear! And was it worth it?
Pete:
Not really. I'm not enjoying it. I'm not loving this iPhone at all. They've mucked about with the interface. How did you define it, when you had a look?
Kelly:
It looks a little bit like a Fisher Price toy.
Pete:
I must admit, there's a couple of nice features. There's this new photo thing, where you can look at where your photos were taken. If I just go into photos here, you can see, I can look at a whole year's worth of photos.
Kelly:
Wow! That's quite interesting, actually.
Pete:
But what you can do is double-click, and you can zoom in, and see where photos were taken. Now, where were we in April?
Kelly:
We were in Birmingham.
Pete:
According to this, we were also in Spain and Germany.
Kelly:
What??
Pete:
On the same day, you and I were in Birmingham, Spain and Germany.
Kelly:
Well, that's quite impressive – how?
Pete:
Let me just show you on this map. There is, just south of Birmingham, there are all the pictures that we took at Gadget Show Live.
Kelly:
OK, yeah – I can see that.
Pete:
If I scroll out, you'll see we also have photos that were taken in Spain and in Germany, and what's gone on is, because some of the advertisers at Gadget Show Live do all the European trade shows, the wireless hotspot that we were in was tagged as being in Germany and Spain, and not in the UK.
Kelly:
Oh no, that's not good. Mind you, though, I could have quite done with a nice little trip to Spain or Germany.
Pete:
That would have been nice, wouldn't it? – beats Birmingham!
Kelly:
I know! Come on, Gadget Show!
Pete:
Gadget Show Germany, we're waiting for you. There have been a few other weird little things. The thing I've noticed, since upgrading my phone, is the battery life is dreadful, and it's all because of Parallex.
Kelly:
Parallex?
Pete:
Parallex, I didn't know what it was either. I've just handed you my iPhone, and there's a background bit of wallpaper that has a starry night on it.
Kelly:
It does.
Pete:
Notice anything odd?
Kelly:
No?
Pete:
Tilt the phone. Keep your head still, and tilt the phone, and focus on, see the YouTube app there, see that little star, top left – keep your eye on that, and tilt the phone.
Kelly:
Oh, OK, so it moves.
Pete:
So there's a 3D effect, which is this Parallex thing, where the background looks like there's some depth to it, and you can turn the phone, and the icons hide the background.
Kelly:
That's, I guess, interesting, but not needed?
Pete:
Completely not needed, and what it's doing is, it's using the gyroscope and the accelerometer in your phone all the time to work out your change of position, so it kills the battery.
Kelly:
Fantastic!
Pete:
This one is a little swine to turn off, as well. You have to go into general – accessibility, and it says, "Reduce motion", and you have to set it to on.
Kelly:
And turn something on?
Pete:
Daft. The other one is, general – background app – refresh, and if you look at mine, all of those apps on the screen there are running in the background, eating my battery, and I don't really want Google running in the background, or Evernote, or Bump.
Kelly:
So you have to turn those all off individually?
Pete:
If you want your battery to last more than a few hours anyway.
Kelly:
Oh dear, that seems like a lot of effort!
Pete:
Insane. Apple – we're not impressed, are we?
Kelly:
No, not impressed – sorry!
Pete:
Having said that, I'm still not going to get an Android.
Kelly:
Oh, you should! We should switch at some point, you know.
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