pie-eater 207 Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 Link to post Share on other sites
Thundercat 60 Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 I just spent the last 20 minutes playing around with it and my first impression is that it looks really similar to the google maps app. It also doesn't accurately find my location and when I try to find directions to my home it is setting the location to my old address (I moved 3 years ago). Really quite annoying and no obvious fix for that. Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 This may have been mentioned but the au iphone 5 supports tethering out of the box. http://japan.internet.com/allnet/20120919/2.html I haven't paid that much attention to smartphones before, but I think this is the first time au has subsidized the handset cost for existing au users. It sounds like you can get the 16GB one of under ichiman. If so, I think we'll get one. http://www.au.kddi.com/iphone/ryokin/index.html Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 On further research, the data plan isn't unlimited, its 7GB a month. That might sound a lot, but if you stream your music off the cloud, like all the hey wow isn't it amazing adverts suggest, its only 230MB a day. That's only a couple of hours of music. Tethering may be allowed, but I wouldn't go hard on it. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 At the risk of sounding a heathen.....what's tethering? Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 Basically your phone acting as a wifi point to connect other things to the internet to. Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 About Maps Jokes aside, the sheer scale of what it is and what it does is pretty mind-boggling, so some slack perhaps should be given. (Or maybe not) Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 iOS6 panorama shot Yes, that is the magnificent Mt Granview in there to the left. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 Apple look like they are going to be taking lots of heat on the Maps thing. I'm sure it will improve quite quickly but yet there is a lot to do. Not that I have personally used it yet really other than a quick look. Link to post Share on other sites
Chriselle 158 Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 Bummed that all the cool stuff in the upgrade won't work on my 4. I mean...it's not THAT old.. Link to post Share on other sites
tokabochi 9 Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 Do the new maps work on 4? You might be lucky there! Link to post Share on other sites
Chriselle 158 Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 Not sure...apple just had a few of the new features that wouldn't work on the 4 in fine print on their site. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 On Apple Maps, there's a PUB on the spot where my parents live back in the UK. (The actual pub is about 3km from their house!) Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 Nice pub actually Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 I am honestly not making that up. Cool pic muika, must give that a go. Link to post Share on other sites
Slippery Jim 65 Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 gg, you sure the folks haven't broadened their horizons and turned your old room into a money spinner? Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 I'm going to phone them tonight just to check. But unless they have rebuilt my local pub on my parent's land, I think I know the answer! 1 Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 Yikes could this be a potentially hugely damaging thing for Apple? Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 No new phone for me tomorrow then. They said, maybe first bit of next week. How will I survive!? Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 I was out today so I asked at the au shop. For existing users the 16GB iphone 4S is discounted so you actually get 10,000 cash back off the data plan. The iphone 5 is discounted to pay about 10,000 on top, so a 20,000 yen difference. Japanese tech sites reckon the au android lineup will be updated in the next three weeks or so. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 Wow, Apple maps really is bad. There's going to be a shitstorm! Link to post Share on other sites
big-will 7 Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 There is talk of Google already submitting a Google Maps app. Wonder why they don't just let Apple stew for a bit! All 4 of the main TV channels had "live coverage" of the opening of the Apple store in Ginza this morning, with a carefully delayed opening by a few seconds so they got the countdown in. Link to post Share on other sites
klingon 10 Posted September 20, 2012 Author Share Posted September 20, 2012 The one I saw also had some woefully inaccurate info: - the display is now a high definition retina display (whereas the 4 and 4S weren't??) - it's 5 times faster at web browsing - take a look.... showing you the phone connected to 3G. Link to post Share on other sites
klingon 10 Posted September 20, 2012 Author Share Posted September 20, 2012 Where's the popcorn, can't wait to see what happens next with the Maps and googles supposed submission of an app. Will they reject it? Link to post Share on other sites
klingon 10 Posted September 20, 2012 Author Share Posted September 20, 2012 With the launch of iOS 6, Apple finally brought a clock app to the iPad. Now, however, the design of the clocks in the app has become somewhat of a controversy as Swiss Federal Railways (mostly known under its German acronym SBB), has accused the company of ripping off the design of its iconic railway station clock design. Apple’s design is almost an exact copy of the Swiss Railway Station Clock that the organization has been using since the 1940s. Exactly what I thought when I saw it. Are Apple getting dumber? Link to post Share on other sites
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