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Re: iPhone 5. Pre-Orders 14/9. Ships 21/9. iOS6 Today @ 6PM This is the problem. There aren't any. Google have the best dataset, as mentioned earlier, they've been out with cars and built their own map dataset from the ground up. Not just roads either. The others main players in geo data...

Re: iPhone 5. Pre-Orders 14/9. Ships 21/9. iOS6 Today @ 6PM http://theamazingios6maps.tumblr.com for your delight and amusement!

Let's hope they're not using maps in iOS6 to navigate their way to delivery addresses! ;)

Re: iPhone 5. Pre-Orders 14/9. Ships 21/9. iOS6 Today @ 6PM C3 is used only for the 3D tech, the problem with iOS6 maps is not with the 3D but with the datasource used to build the geo data. Apple can't aquire anybody (barring google) to fix that, fixing it requires a *lot* of time.

Re: iPhone 5. Pre-Orders 14/9. Ships 21/9. iOS6 Today @ 6PM It's cack, developers told them that when it got pushed to us as well.

Re: iPhone 5. Pre-Orders 14/9. Ships 21/9. iOS6 Today @ 6PM Apple were the ones who were responsible for the original mapping application, not google - google simply provided the maps, apple wrote the application. Whether they were constrained by their licensing deal with google, Apple never...

Re: iPhone 5. Pre-Orders 14/9. Ships 21/9. iOS6 Today @ 6PM Almost certainly the first one. Apple have already done the damage, I can't believe that they've stuck their heads so far into the sand with their "war with google" that they didn't realise that their own offering was, and lets be...

Re: iPhone 5. Pre-Orders 14/9. Ships 21/9. iOS6 Today @ 6PM double lolz. Made the bbc now. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19659736

Re: iPhone 5. Pre-Orders 14/9. Ships 21/9. iOS6 Today @ 6PM Because there isn't one. Edit: And because if there were a google maps app, it still would be a third party citizen in iOS because any applications that used the official mapping API will use the inferior Apple maps.

Re: iPhone 5. Pre-Orders 14/9. Ships 21/9. iOS6 Today @ 6PM You do realise that they collected more information than just pictures for street view? Their licensing deals with tele-atlas and such like for geo data was costing them huge amounts of money, the cars were also mapping every public...

It's taken google a huge amount of time to get their mapping data to where it should be and that involved spending 3 years driving around cars with cameras to fills them with awesomeness. I reckon it'll take apple at least 5 years to get anywhere near the current google maps dataset. Apple...

Re: iPhone 5. Pre-Orders 14/9. Ships 21/9. iOS6 Today @ 6PM I f**king hate UPS, I try to avoid buying anything that will be shipped with them. That might be an East Anglia thing though, they've seem to have 1 depot that covers the whole region.

Re: iPhone 5. Pre-Orders 14/9. Ships 21/9. iOS6 Today @ 6PM lolz. Maps have made slashdot. http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/09/19/153210/major-backlash-looms-for-apples-new-maps-app

Re: iPhone 5. Pre-Orders 14/9. Ships 21/9. iOS6 19/9 None fullstop. http://9to5mac.com/2012/09/18/apple-marketing-svp-phil-schiller-confirms-apple-has-no-iphone-5-dock-in-the-works/

Re: iPhone 5. Pre-Orders 14/9. Ships 21/9. iOS6 19/9 There are no official docks for the 5 full stop!

Re: iPhone 5. Pre-Orders 14/9 00:01am UK Time. Ships 21/9. iOS6 19/9 I don't think that's exactly fair. I own a 4S and I've updated on every update cycle, not necessarily because of new hardware, but because the user experience was so good. Apple have a problem with iOS though, iOS6 is to...

How's jellybean working out for you? How long did it take to get to ICS? Sd is slow, it's always going to be slower than real flash. (Sd is either spi or a 4 bit data bus). Google are trying to fix the problems with android fragmentation and lack of handsets running the latest version by...

Google don't like sd cards either, you won't find a google experience device with a slot for one, just the internal memory that the device ships with. If you're buying a non-google experience device you deserve to get burned by the manufacturer.

No. I have no idea what sort of memory it has on it what it's configuration is. An SD card will be using die direct from the factory, die is small and therefore multiple dies could quite happily sit inside a sd card. More dies you have, the cheaper it becomes. The smaller the capacity the...

Flash memory is expensive. The only comparison is to an SSD for a computer, but even that's unfair because SSD's use multiple cheaper smaller capacity chips to build an larger array for cost and performance benefits. The bigger the flash chip, the more the price increases, it's exponential.

Never ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever buy a non google experience (android) device. We've got a both an iPad and a Nexus 7. Despite Steve Jobs insistence that the 7" format was crap I actually find it much more ergonomic than the iPad, it's easier to hold in one hand (weight & the...

Sure you can, just not high data rates. You could easily get track information transferred without affecting audio quality or breaking any compatibility with existing stuff. But at the end of the day nobody would use it!

Ignore. It's just a case of getting a patent so that others can't or so that in the future it can be presented as prior art. They couldn't possibly hope to implement it, it's not feasable - least of all because outside factors could block GPS anyway, simple FM transmitter on the right...

Its CPU is vastly underpowered - it has a good GPU but it's limited to decoding h264 in hardware (ok, MPEG2 codec and some proprietary wins**t codec are/will be available for purchase). Anything else with a decent bit-rate and resolution will grind. XBMC is slow on it, massive pauses all over...

Prepare for disappointment.

Nope, the EU regulations are to do with a common charger interface, Micro USB. This isn't micro USB, and therefore will still require an adaptor. This is most likely partly about removing the historical crud from the connection (think all the way back to the very first iPod) but probably more...

Of course, if you're willing to put up with 30 min sessions you could "cough" make the most of their free wifi with very little effort....

I think you're making this way more complex than needs be! Get an access point that's compatible with DD-WRT (the WRT54G was the go-to router, but you might need the right hardware version). Register the WAN port as your mac address (with the uni) and tell it to pick up the WAN IP via DHCP...

Its actually better to be ignorant because the damages are lower. In most cases you're actually better off not doing a patent search because then you cannot be guilty of willful infringement. In the case of apple, they believed the terms of licensing to their supplier extended to them, it...

Enlighten us then on why you believe that 90% of their patents are not valid in your opinion. You do realize that once a patent has been enforced in court that it then becomes very strong? Samsung and their laughable legal team have just done apple a massive favour. Like Tom said, the main...