iPhone 5 reactions

[mhendo]

Originally Posted by Szlater

That's nice, I'm pleased for you.

He has a severe tremor in his hands that makes hitting the very small icons very difficult, he doesn't have the same problem with his iPad.

Two things.

First, you said that an Android phone is "not at all useable by a 72 year old," which is not true. It might not be useable by a 72 year old with a severe tremor, but not all elderly people have such tremors. The fact that you father can't use an Android phone is a product of his particular condition, not simply his age, nor of the phone itself.

Second, in a case like this, it's pretty silly to say that an Android phone is crap because of its small icons, and then compare it to an iPad. A phone and a tablet are two different things, and the fact that an iPad is a better device for your father's needs says nothing at all about an Android phone or about the Android operating system.

[urban1a]

Sorry, I didn't realize that your father had a physical problem which makes it difficult to touch the icons on an Android phone, but that wasn't the tone of the post. As mentioned above, it appeared that the problem was because it was an Android phone and that the problem would be solved if it was an iPhone. The icons are likely to be smaller, and harder to touch, on an iPhone because of the extremely small screen size.

Sorry about your father's disability.

Bob

[pulykamell]

Originally Posted by interface2x

Picked it up this morning and love it so far. I'm most impressed with the speed of the thing. I had it on LTE and ran a speed test this morning that got me 12.6 down / 7.8 up. Wow! Faster than my Wifi.

Holy cow, that's fast! Mine arrived on Tuesday (it was scheduled Oct 2, but came way early, yay!). My Speed Test app gave me 3 down and 1 up on LTE when I tried it first, but I just ran it again after reading your numbers, and now I have 9 down and 2.5 up.

Overall, the iPhone 5 (I upgraded from the 4, which was long since been having issues with the home button) is a modest upgrade. I like the extra length on it, without it getting wider. There's nothing earth-shattering about it that I have found so far. The LTE speeds are probably the biggest thing to me about the upgrade, along with the extra screen real estate. Siri works much better than I had expected; the new Apple Maps program is pretty cool (that 3D flyaround mode is nothing short of amazing, but I don't think it's as useful as Google Street View).

I haven't really played around with it much beyond the basics. For me, it was worth the upgrade. I upgrade every other generation, and this is what I've come to expect: a modest upgrade, but nothing absolutely "must have!" (well, except for that first upgrade from non-GPS iPhone to GPS iPhone. That was unbelievably useful.)

As I use LTE more and more, I may discover it to be a must-have. My 3G has always been all over the map in terms of speed, and it's a pain in the ass to see 5 bars and 3G and wait for over a minute for a map to pull up. We'll see if LTE is any better, and how wide the coverage is.

[Szlater]

Originally Posted by urban1a

icons are likely to be smaller, and harder to touch, on an iPhone because of the extremely small screen size.

Sorry about your father's disability.

Bob

Nothing to be sorry about, the particular android phone that he was sold (I wasn't there, unfortunately) has a much smaller screen than any of the iPhones. He's tried my iPhone and finds it much easier to hit the icons that he needs to, including keys on the keyboard. He also finds the screen much easier to read, and the unlock screen much easier to operate, for some reason left to right swiping is easier for him than pulling down.

That he's used to iOS through using an iPad probably helps too.

I'm sure that there is probably an android phone out there for someone who has issues with his hands, but he's tried and liked the iPhone so we'll go with that.

[hajario]

My 74 year old mom had a difficult time with the iPhone keyboard and then she discovered Siri. She sends all of her texts that way.

[MsWhatsit]

Originally Posted by urban1a

The icons are likely to be smaller, and harder to touch, on an iPhone because of the extremely small screen size.

This statement only makes sense if you are referring to a specific model of Android phone. I've certainly seen plenty of Android phones with smaller screens than the iPhone, and plenty with bigger. Although just to compare with the Samsung S3, it has a 4.8" screen and the iPhone 5 has a 4" screen. That is not what I would comparatively describe as "extremely small." It is significantly smaller than the Galaxy Note at 5.3" but a lot of people I know think that the Galaxy Note is hilariously oversized and not really suitable for a phone that is supposed to be portable and fit easily into a pocket. YM, as always, MV.

[AaronX]

Tapatalk has been updated for the iPhone 5! It feels like developers are taking longer to come out with updated versions for the 5 than it took for the retina display on the iPhone 4, eg angry birds still hasn't updated. This makes it feel like there isn't much difference for the 5.

[Acsenray]

I just upgraded from the 3GS to the 5. I'll have to say that I liked the feel of the 3GS much better, the rounded, rather than flat, design. And the 5 is too light. It feels like a toy. I miss the heft of the 3GS.

[interface2x]

Earlier this week, a mysterious purple spot appeared on my camera, very similar to the ones seen in this thread. I cleaned off my lens, rebooted the camera, rebooted the phone, everything. It wouldn't go away. It appeared in my pictures and my videos, but not my panoramas.

I ended up taking it into the Apple store on Wednesday and they swapped my phone out with a new one, no questions asked. They said they thought it was a scratch on the lens and the reason it didn't show up on the panorama was the way the software stitched the pictures together.