When will the fanbois realise...
Apple make crap products at hugely inflated prices - then trick you into thinking theyre good when theyre actually sh*t
MYSTERIOUS GREEN GLOW seen on iPhone 5s
Days after Apple explained the purple haze invading iPhone 5 photos as a holding-it-wrong problem, a new strange colour is tripping out 5-owners. This time a green glow described as a plasma bleed from the edges of the screen is appearing on some of the new handsets. The green light is momentary, and appears on the unlock …
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Friday 12th October 2012 11:33 GMT Rob
Re: When will the fanbois realise...
Or it might be down to using a different screen supplier, perhaps they should have opted or a screen supplier that wasn't struggling to stay afloat and not go bust. I would worry about giving a contract to a company that is struggling financially as it could have repercussions on manufacturing/build quality.
They should of gone with someone like Samsung...oh wait a sec....
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Friday 12th October 2012 15:36 GMT Mad Chaz
Re: @RobE
"All you have to do nowadays is mention Apple/Samsung/Microsoft and the idiots are jumping out of the woodwork to spew their bile."
That's not true. Even when Apple, Samsung or Microsoft aren't even part of the article, someone will find a way to insert them (especially Apple) in the comments.
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Monday 15th October 2012 03:34 GMT Esskay
Re: @RobE
Funny - I've heard stories about Apple employing people to go around telling people that google are employing people to go around all the forums, blogs and news sites posting negative comments about Apple and other competitors. They really want to win the spin war.
Yay for unsubstantiated rumour!
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Friday 12th October 2012 17:06 GMT Anonymous Coward
ACTUALLY
The purple haze does exist, accidentally taking a photo of the inside of my car, the top of the picture showing the top edge of the steering wheel WAS purple. Sunlight could not be blamed, it was raining and in any case the windscreen was not even in the picture.
I took several other pictures but could not replicate it, yet.
It is a pretty purple though.
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Friday 12th October 2012 19:23 GMT ThomH
Re: ACTUALLY (@AC 17:06)
For the purposes of anecdotes, I've seen the purple fringe too, with a lot of light coming from the top of the frame but no light source in or near the shot.
Conversely, there's no green glow, the battery seems to last about twice as long as that in my 4S (though I'm comparing one after several months of development use, with the huge number of part charge cycles that result from plugging in and unplugging the device, to the other more or less straight) and if there are any other hardware complaints doing the rounds then I can't claim to have experienced them.
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Friday 12th October 2012 17:21 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: When will the fanbois realise...
That Fandroids love articles like this, it subdues their jealousy for a little while, as they play with their mid-range android handsets justifying to them their choice of phone.
Sadly this is only temporary, they realise they are still waiting for their update, promised a year ago, the battery not lasting the day. The worst aspect for a Fandroid is when the go into a mobile phone shop to look at upgrading their phone knowing they will come away with another shiny plastic device, free with a new contract and the promise of another update that will probably never happen. They hate the fact that most iOS devices got a free upgrade on the same day it was released and took less than 30 minutes. That and no data had to be reinstalled.
Even worse is the fact that they will have a friend who has let them hold the new iphone, after caressing the all aluminium body they realise the piece of flexi-plastic in their pocket just looks cheap.
Most days they carry a list of 'why I hate i-devices' in their pockets, usually at the top of the list is the walled garden.
Finally each day they scour the news like sheep willing there to be an article on Apple.
I am glad that I do not subscribe to this envy.
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Friday 12th October 2012 17:49 GMT JeffyPooh
Re: When will the fanbois realise...
"...took less than 30 minutes. That and no data had to be reinstalled. ..."
Harrumph. Updating my wife's 3GS from 4.2.1 to 6.0 took most of the day (~7 hours, primarily due to 7500+ not yet backed-up photos) *and* the update process failed to preserve her apps (note:iTunes explicitly warned that it would fail to preserve the apps, a promise kept).
It's a case of YMMV because updating my 4S from 5.latest to 6.0 was as easy as you state.
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Friday 12th October 2012 11:36 GMT Lee Dowling
Video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFEcIxJBkUE
Spot the problem. Because it took me a few goes to notice it.
It's basically a split-second where the screen is powered up.
Much as I love all the Apple-hate, this is really not worthy of an article, let alone such a hyperbolic one. The forums posted even say it's so brief that they had trouble capturing it.
It's like me complaining that I can see a slight black outline race towards the edge of any LCD screen when you first turn it on. It's called the screen coming on. And it doesn't impact on anything, at all, ever, anywhere.
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Friday 12th October 2012 12:09 GMT Anonymous Coward
@Lee Dowling: "it took me a few goes to notice [...] Much as I love all the Apple-hate, this is really not worthy of an article, let alone such a hyperbolic one."
I've watched that clip repeatedly and can't make it out - getting old I suppose.
The only reason articles like this appear is because Apple 1) has produced many products that capture attention, and 2) sets high standards for itself. A company that churns out routinely boring/derivative products that are often associated with so-so build quality (Samsung et al) won't get this kind of scrutiny because frankly no one would be surprised or interested. But this particular article borders on the bizarre.
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Friday 12th October 2012 14:50 GMT Anonymous Coward
This is yet another total non issue. What next - how about let's use some super measurement system and find out that it's 1 micron out. I have an iPhone 5 - had none of these issues - I quite like the new maps (certainly faster and the 3d is better than Google) but if I wanted to use Google Maps I have the icon on my homepage as well (too all of a few seconds). I also realise that if I point a camera at the sun I will not get a decent picture and if I scuff an anodised aluminium surface it may scratch - that's what cases are for.
Think we need to keep a bit of perspective but unfortunately it degenerates into an Apple vs Samsung slingfest - I drive one car - just because you drive another does not mean I should slag you off for it.
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Friday 12th October 2012 23:31 GMT Franklin
"Video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFEcIxJBkUE"
Okay, so I'm looking at this video, and I...I just...
Seriously? This isn't some kind of elaborate Internet joke? I don't know what's sadder, the fanbois obsessing about this, or the trolls spouting about how Apple makes crap products because of it.
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Monday 15th October 2012 17:54 GMT Michael Dunn
Re: OMG, my TV and monitors must be broken too then
"valve based CRT " We used to arrive at work roughly twenty minutes before the shift start, go round turning on all the 'scopes, retire to the coffee area for a pre-work coffee, finish the Telegraph crossword and then go in at the start of the shift.
Of course, those on the 2 - 10 shift just inherited 'scopes that had been in use since 6 o'clock, so didn't need 'warming up'
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Friday 12th October 2012 12:04 GMT Big_Ted
Simple responce from Apple should be.........
Not a problem just the screen coming back on.
However if it does proove to become a problem during the normal operation of the phone and not just for the short period when the screen wakes then we will of course swap them out under warranty the same as we would any hardware problem.
That way its a non story and Apple owners would be happy they have one of the few that have it as it makes them special among fanbois plus they would know if they needed to they will be able to swap the phone.
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Friday 12th October 2012 12:11 GMT tony72
Halo
The green glow is obviously a halo, which is only to be expected from a hallowed object of worship such as the iPhone 5. If your iPhone is missing it's halo, you should take it to the nearest Apple temple and ask a Genius to bless it for you, otherwise it may not work properly, even if you hold it right.
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