Was that Nokia or 3rd party though. That's back in 1998 so I think it's safe to say that Apple didn't come up with it.
Was that Nokia or 3rd party though. That's back in 1998 so I think it's safe to say that Apple didn't come up with it.
Heh. I still have that guy's big brother. That was the Nokia 5190, and I had the 6190 back in the 90s. It's still sitting in my closet.
Honestly can't remember, I do remember that you could get replacement covers everywhere and in just about every colour and/or pattern.
Note though that just about everyone's 5190 and 6190 were black. You had to swap the faceplate to change the colour. I put a custom metallic silver faceplate on my 6190.
... Are we really arguing that apple started the multiple colors for a product? Who cares?
Are we seriously concerned about who released multiple colors when?
I would buy the 5C over the 5 actually. It actually slightly better specs, and I think I'd like the red or the blue.I don't think the 5C is for grown men period.
Here are my thoughts on the iPhone 5C:
The 5C is the first fully produced Jony Ive phone. He (and Apple as a whole) always talk about the seamless integration of the hardware and the software. Most of you on this forum like to call it the 'walled garden'. Jony had heavy influence over iOS 7. The 5C is just the hardware interpretation of iOS 7. He wants the hardware to be a mirror of the software. The 5C wallpaper will even ship with the same color as the phone itself. I think he wielded Steve Jobs like power over the complete design of it. You can tell from the product videos and the way he talks about it that the 5C is his baby.
The 5C is not for me. It isn't for many people in this forum either. I would rather have a sleek black or the occasional white phone. I don't think the 5C is for grown men period. Women will eat it up. The affluent Asian market will eat it up. It is for the market that wants to be different from the rest.
What we can all learn from this is the following: The media gets it wrong when it comes to Apple ALL of the time. Even I ate it up, thinking Apple would release a cheaper version of the iPhone. Has Apple EVER done anything like this? Has it ever tried to become the mainstream product that competes on price? Moving forward I don't ever see Apple coming out with a cheap iPhone for emerging markets. It just is not the way they have EVER done business. I am sure a bigger screen will come eventually, but it will take them years to do so. They have only increased the screen size of the iPhone by .5 inches in the 6 years the phone has been out. They did this without increasing the width of the phone at all. Apple has never been a reactionary company. They follow their own path. Whether that leads them to a downward spiral or they continue to gobble up 70% of the smartphone profits while only having 10% marketshare remains to be seen.
Are we really arguing that apple started the multiple colors for a product? Who cares?
Exactly my point. Once you take out the labeling and marketing behind the 5c, it's just a crappier iPhone 5 that is slightly less expensive. Who cares about the entire product outside of the colors? It's barely interesting, and only because it's coming from Apple. The Jony Ive, wallpaper-color-matches-phone-color isn't new, it's the same feature of the Surface.
Where did the rumor come from though that the 5C was going to be affordable and penetrate the Chinese market? It's neither. It doesn't even have the bands for China iirc.
I think people just forget about how awesome Nokia was.
Here are my thoughts on the iPhone 5C:
The 5C is the first fully produced Jony Ive phone. He (and Apple as a whole) always talk about the seamless integration of the hardware and the software. Most of you on this forum like to call it the 'walled garden'. Jony had heavy influence over iOS 7. The 5C is just the hardware interpretation of iOS 7. He wants the hardware to be a mirror of the software. The 5C wallpaper will even ship with the same color as the phone itself. I think he wielded Steve Jobs like power over the complete design of it. You can tell from the product videos and the way he talks about it that the 5C is his baby.
I would buy the 5C over the 5 actually. It actually slightly better specs, and I think I'd like the red or the blue.
Note though that I bought the iPod mini in baby blue.
I also bought the white iBook when all the men were buying stodgy black plastic laptops. It was a great decision too, since all of a sudden there were college girls asking me about my laptop. As soon as I sold it and bought a TiBook, they stopped asking, so clearly they were just interested in the laptop, not me.
But then again, check out my avatar.
Improved facetime camera, whatever that means (as the paper specs are the same).What are the improvements from the 5 to the 5C? Trying to find a spec list.
I find it surprising that something like the "non" in the picture below got by Ivy.
I noticed this during the presentation. The Apple logo should be in the middle circle, not "non" from "iPhone." Something like that would not have slipped by Jobs.