Don't bother with Apple's 9 Sept hype-day: Someone's GONE AND BLABBED IT ALL

one-handed mode

"According to some of the paper's sources, Apple has tweaked the iOS user interface to include a 'one-handed mode'"

[insert fanboi joke here]

Really

Perhaps I'm just a grumpy old git, back in the days I had mac 2 fx number 7 in the country (somebody else paid the bill for that). Now my attitude is that it's just another bloody phone. So it has dohickeys and whatyermacallits, most phones of whatever flavour do. Most people have a phone sufficient for: a) calling; b) checking their e-mail or c) a bit of light browsing.

Since I have neither a myface or whatever account perhaps I'm not the target demographic.

Back to polishing my zimmerframmer obviously...

How is this fresh news. I remember seeing pictures of both devices on the net 4+ months ago. If an I watch exists I'll be impressed as Apple did a good job keeping it hush as everything else they do these days is leaked. Unless that was always the plan, leak iphone/iPad news to distract from the highly anticipated Iwatch.

To me it looks like apple stole the design for the new iphone from HTC if you ask me.

I'm looking forward to ios8, the hardware is all well and good, but the tie in between Yosemite and iOS 8 looks very good.

Guessing here...

So, could there be an iPhone6 and an iPhone6C?

Will Apple be taking their usual...

...30% cut from all NFC payments?

Le Sigh

I really hope they haven't convinced the major card issuers to back their proprietary proximity payment system. The last thing we need is that sort of fragmentation.

The right answer is to tell them to get with the program and implement the open standard everyone else uses.

So that's it ?

Wasn't this announced by the Cookster as 'the most exciting product launch ever' or 'most exciting product line ever' or something to that effect ?

And the grand total is 2 phones and a watch ? And this is 'the most innovative company on the planet' ?

Cook should be genuinly ashamed.

Handoff

The preferred method of getting an iWatch without standing in line?

And how many of those employees were briefed individually?

With sufficient information for Apple to identify them in the event of a leak?

Hate the idea of a watch

But I also hated the idea of the iPhone when it came out. Too expensive, too big, too heavy, etc.

Also hated the idea of the iPad. Didn't understand the point. (I still mostly don't, but it sure has caught on with other people...)

Who knows, maybe Apple will surprise.

I just wish

there weren't leaks. I much preferred it when the new phone was a surprise.

Am I the only one looking forward to this?

If the rumours are true with a larger iPhone and a really well implemented watch, I may be tempted back from Android.

Or, as has happened before, Apple take what other people have been doing for ages and work out a better way to package and present it. Then others like Samsung can go 'ahhhh, that's a much better approach to a smartwatch' and improve their current crappy offering.

Either way, I think I win.

use for one-handed

when Google changed their Maps app for Android to remove the + and - zoom buttons, I was pissed. I commute for work almost 30 miles each way through very heavy traffic (yes i live in the US, DFW area of Texas). I used the app to check traffic conditions while driving as there are several alternate highway routes I could take each way. they removed these zoom buttons, andthe app became near useless while driving, as zooming really took two hands to do. Pinch zooming while driving didn't work well, whereas memory muscle for pressing a plus or minus button to zoom does..then glancing to see which routes are green/orange/red.

Didn't mean to ramble, just to point out that for several hours a day I have a legitimate need to use a phone one handed...bravo apple! Maybe I'll break down and finally buy my first Apple product.

iPad or iPhone apps?

Will it be possible to install iPad apps on the 5.5" model I wonder.

How I decide upon what mobile technology to buy:

I weigh up on its longevity and maintainability (especially limited timeframe items like the battery) as I do not upgrade 'for the sake of it'.

Does it simplify or complicate my life? Prior to the advent of smartphones, I used to carry around an electronic dictionary, a foreign phrase translator, a calculator, a personal mpg player, a map and that's just for starters, so the answer to that is a resounding 'simplify'.

DOES IT WORK WELL AS A PHONE? I.e. holds it's charge for several days if I don't use it for anything else, doesn't drop a call just because I am in a car/train, does it have loads of adverse publicity of "you aren't holding it right" just to make a call (OK I admit it, that was a bit of a low blow/easy target!) -nope.

If I decide to get a bit 'tricky' with it by dabbling with open source (which I tend not to but it's nice to have the option) is it easy to go back to a 'bare metal' install -yup.

Are there lots of alternatives that all work the same way but have differing options for their capabilities (

(such as camera resolution) - yup.

Can you easily dabble with code (using an open source IDE that can actually emulate your smartphone environment) to experiment at writing your own apps? -yup

This is why I am pro-android and anti-apple.

Apple is for techno-pseuds like Stephen Fry who have (a) more money than sense and (b) no clue as to why everyone else with any technological nous whatsoever hates them.