So, roughly right after they merged with Enix, who stopped caring about creating good games after the SNES? I agree, sir.

What's annoying is that we still can't get the remake that everyone, fanboy or not, wants. Bastards.

I think anyone wearing such an outfit deserves to have cappuccino spilled on them. Preferably on their face.

Well... Unless you're a telekinetic and can make your phone levitate while you perform your multitouch gesture, you'll probably need your other hand to hold the phone.

Really? When I was in Japan, I saw this symbol everyday.
 
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Are you sure they weren't your own drawings and/or in your own house?

I'm currently in Japan and have, very recently, been to a number of major-ish cities, including Fukuoka, Nagasaki, and Kyoto and have stopped at many Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines along the way. And with all the traveling and sightseeing I've done, I've yet to see a single swastika. Not that I've been looking for them, or that I'd even be offended, but, as someone who's spent the vast majority of his life in America soaking up western culture, I'd like to assume that such a symbol would stand out to me.

I'm not looking to start an internet argument or anything; your experience just seems extremely contrary to my own, and I'm really curious to learn how/why any modern society would even consider using that symbol, knowing the complete history behind it and how horribly offensive it is to a sizable portion of the world's population.

Wow... really? How the fuck did you get modded insightful for that drivel?

Yes, it's only one little spot. One little spot that bridges two antennae and causes a rather nasty reception issue. Whether or not this actually impacts your personal use in a high-reception area is up for debate, but to be completely unable to accept that it's a design flaw borders on fucking insanity. This is one of those things that they should have caught in testing, but didn't; likely due to a number of reasons.

Other phones having a signal loss when you hold it in the "wrong" spot has more to do with your meat fist fucking with the signal and less (see: none) to do with completing a circuit with your hand. Basically, it's exactly as the GP says.

Now if you and the rest of the rabid fanboys could just accept that and move on, we'd all be much better off.

Yes, the people demand LCDs capable of 640x960!

Wait...

I can think of one reason this will never work: People suck at driving. All it would take is one idiot to roll their car, snag a wire and take the whole cable system with 'em. It would severely hose traffic for hours since not only would you have the usual mess from the jackass's car, but now you'd have potentially hot cables all over the highway mucking things up.

Apparently you haven't put gas in a vehicle in the last 30 years or so.

"Specialist?" Well... They are pretty special, aren't they?

Even so, that still puts him at -4 or -5 on the bad-thing-o-meter.

I agree with you on the original iPhone. As much as I hate Apple, their marketing nonsense and their idiotic fanbase, the first iPhone did completely change the face of the cellphone market. Since then, though, they've simply been milking the brand name; which is something Apple does incredibly well.

To address your points on each:
1. Screen: Yes it's a high resolution, but it's not really innovative to cram more pixels using ancient LCD technology. Samsung's OLED displays are quite sexy and arguably nicer looking -- even if the resolution is 25% lower (roughly, too lazy to do the exact math). Then you've got those PixelQi displays which absolutely dominate everything else when viewed under sunlight or other high-intensity lighting. There are lots of ways they could have gone which would have made other manufacturers crap themselves, but instead they chose to play the numbers game. Nothing to see here.

2. Camera. Throwing a 5mp camera in a phone is hardly innovative. Hell, the SE K850 did that three years ago and it had a xenon flash to go with it. My two year old c905 had an 8mp camera with flash and the very user-friendly Cybershot UI -- both in software AND hardware. This is nothing more than an incremental upgrade to the 3.2mp that was on the 3G. Nothing to see here.

3. CPU/RAM: Come on now. If you don't have an argument for it, don't throw out some ambiguous statement like that. Let's be real: High-end smartphones have been using 1ghz Snapdragons for at least six months prior to the release of the iPhone 4. Moreover, these are mostly Android phones which have their own apps and real multitasking, so it will get used. Again, this is Apple simply catching up to everyone else.

4. Music: This comes down to UI preference, which is why I don't really count it for/against Apple. Damn near any smartphone will play music in a large variety of formats, it's just choosing your poison. Personally, I prefer the XMB style SE uses in their phones, but that's just me.

5. Bluetooth: I've been utilizing stereo bluetooth since damn near its inception. That the iPhone never supported the full BT spec until this iteration is nothing short of embarrassing.

And these are just hard specs comparisons which, with the exception of music, don't even take user preference into consideration. But really, when your latest-and-greatest high-end phone is being outclassed by two-year-old dumbphones in many regards, there's a problem. Unless, of course, you're Apple and your fans are willing to overlook everything just so they can get some seating on the bandwagon.

Wait... Apple has been raising the bar!? How did you (or anyone) come to that conclusion? In every area I've ever cared to look into regarding phones, they're outmatched. Let's see: Screen? Nope. Camera? Nope. CPU/Ram? Nope. Music? On par. Bluetooth? Fuck no.

About the only thing I'd credit Apple for was making touchscreens "cool" and making phone manufacturers care about apps and otherwise extending the capabilities of your phone without raping your bill. Personally, I hate using a touchscreen as the primary input, but I do enjoy the fact that I can now write my own software on my Android-based phone (thanks to Apple plowing the way). However, that was years ago. What they've done since then is jolly jack shit. There's no revolution. Hell, each new iPhone just adds crap that other phones have been doing for ages -- and they still aren't there yet.

If anyone is playing catch-up these days, it's Apple. However, when you have the type of fans they do, why bother innovating when you can leave that to your competitors who are trying so damned hard to kill you?

OS Installation. Seriously.

I've attempted to install the various forms of Ubuntu a number of times over the last few years and every single time has failed during installation/setup in some horrific and, somehow, unique way. And the best part? Posting anything on the Ubuntu "support" forums gets me treated like a retard by the community, regardless of how in-depth and/or technical the content of my post is. Oh how I love being told to "make sure the thing I burned to a CD was actually an ISO" and "follow the on-screen directions" when the issue is Ubuntu treating my three independent drives as if they were a single disk in a RAID array.

If that were the case, then unlocked phones wouldn't work (since they don't come with the preloaded garbage locked phones do).

I don't know why US mobile companies enjoy blasting themselves in the foot like this.

What amazes me is that you kept buying the stuff after repeated problems. At what point will you stop paying for overpriced junk?