News - Apple iPhone 5 unveiled today, so what's new?

[Noli]

Never seen NFC being used in the real world. Also wireless charging is stupid. the pad still has to be connected to a plug socket so what's the point? What if my battery's dead and I want to have a long phone call?
Apple don't add features to compete. They live in their own little world.

Really strange. Yes no NFC.... yet but it's inevitable.

The point of wireless charging is not that you somehow escape being near a wall plug, it's the simplicity of simply putting something down & picking it up again. I, for one, hate *constantly* plugging/unplugging my phone just to keep topping it up. And then the connector socket gets loose & breaks (happened - pain in the butt). I plug it in to charge, someone rings and I have to unplug to have a normal conversation without being tethered to a wall... Wireless charging sounds BRILLIANT. And it is an innovation that benefits everyone who buys the phone right from the off, unlike Siri, which I have *never* seen anyone use productively on a regular basis (and I know enough iphone users).

What if your battery's dead and you have a long phone call? Then your phone will turn off. Seriously though, with wireless charging, the whole point is my battery will rarely be low/dead because it is so easy to charge! (just. put. it. down. - yay). Given your scenario though, er... I would just let it charge up for a bit first? You ask this question like it's important - like there aren't usually another 2 or 3 mobile phones, landlines and skype etc in the household you couldn't use if you *really had to* make that phone call straight away.

You're too right Apple don't add features to compete and live in their own little world. Who'd have thought that in just two generations, Nokia would build a better spec, more innovative phone in virtually every way than the richest company in the world who invented these modern, popular, touchscreen smartphones and are already on their 6th iteration...

[TooNice]

Who'd have thought that in just two generations, Nokia would build a better spec, more innovative phone in virtually every way than the richest company in the world who invented these modern, popular, touchscreen smartphones and are already on their 6th iteration...

Now now. We are talking about a company who was, until less than 6 months ago, the largest mobile phone manufacturer in the world by shipment. Sure their share price took a serious beating since mid-2007. But that's because they have been idling for so bloody long. You said it took Nokia 2 generations to catch up/surpass Apple (I'll reserve judgement until release - the camera and special touch screen is appealing, but the 32GB limit isn't and I wonder what else they have up their sleeve), but what were they doing for the other couple of years? Weren't they doing exactly what you are accusing Apple of doing?

[TheAnimus]

[Camoxide]

That ginger beard.