Im excited for this

"Outer body". I see you skimmed over that. Mess @ all that spacing.

Sis, my point is that even among all these blogs, the writers themselves have differing opinions on what is the most beautiful device to them. I read The Verge and AnAndTech daily so don't even. Josh Topolsky has stated on multiple occasions that he thinks the iPhone's design has gotten stale and loves his Galaxy Nexus. Chris Ziegler is in love with the iPhone 4 and 5's designs. Vlad Savov has said in their podcast that he thinks the One X is the best looking smartphone. And that's JUST at The Verge.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and even if one writer says the iPhone is the best looking, it doesn't make it universally true, just because they said it in a review.



But I digress. Back on topic: I think people are underestimating the usefulness of a flexible screen like this. It's not all about "why you would need to bend your screen". Flexibility makes it more durable and less sustainable to breakage, cracks, etc. More compact and easier to throw into your bag when you're in a rush. Not to mention the possibilities of consuming content. Imagine, you can bend your screen into a slight curve and place it on a desktop to watch a video. There's tons of uses. Tbh, durability is the most compelling to me. Like the translucent tv, we should at least wait and see what it's for before calling it useless.

The software, not the hardware. Them daily reads weren't helping I see.

I was talking about the hardware. I listen to the podcasts every week and Josh has said multiple times he thinks the iPhone has gotten stale, talking about the hardware AND software. This is no shade to the iPhone. I'm just trying to make you understand that just because a writer says they think something is aesthetically the best, doesn't make it universally true. Apple is not the only one with competent designers, sis. We're in a time where Windows 8 is both beautiful AND functional/intuitive.

Why did he gush over it in the review and on twitter then? Basically almost every review has talked about its impressive enginnering. Y'all are the ones acting like its ugly.

We're not saying its uglee we are saying its STALE

Flexible screen? Kinda awesome but kinda useless

When did I say the iPhone was ugly? I just said in an industry that is constantly moving forward with very creative and interesting design and engineering, it has just gotten stale and boring to me. I never said it was ugly.

And he has a similar opinion. He praised Apple for having a design that is good looking and clean. But he also says he thinks they're not doing enough to innovate on their hardware and software design, when companies like Nokia and HTC are coming up with creative AND beautiful designs like the One series and the Lumia series. But that's my point. Just because Josh has that opinion doesn't mean it's universally true. Beauty is 100% subjective, so just because one writer says a smartphone is the best looking (or is boring looking) doesn't make it fact. We're no longer in the days of ugly HTC G1's with messy Android 1.5 and clunky Windows Mobile.

Call me a pressed Apple fanboy, but I don't see the point of such a massive screen. I don't want to carry something the size of a portable nav system in my pocket.

Maybe they'll somehow make it less awkward to hold than the S3. That said, the iPhone 5 is rather awkward itself, but I like that it's still narrow enough to fit comfortably in a small pocket.

The Lumia design >> this. This isn't even anything FRESH to me. One of the main reasons people are praising the iPhone 5's engineering because if you actually pick one up its unbelievably light as hell.

The camera bump is really awkward, and it's like that with all of their recent phones.

And the design is nice but came out in 2010

This is from 2012. Yeah, those camera bumps always look awkward to me.

The bluntness.

That's not even the real iPhone 5...

and please, show the backs of the phones, just because the screen didn't change, doesn't mean the whole phone didn't change.

Sit.






BYE.

Lord, the S1 and S2 backs were hideous. they got it right with the S3 but the flash and speaker grill square kinda cheapens it.

Galaxy S4? Wow, that was fast...

Why would I want a flexable screen? That is obviously just a "really cool feature" that does nothing and makes people shove more money down their throat.

H-I-M clocking everyone in this thread.