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Discuss the iPhone 5 / 4GS announcements here!

I'll be posting live from Apple HQ here, don't miss it: live.gdgt.com­/2011­/10­/04­/live­-apple­-iphone­-5­-event...

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kirancbit

LETS HAVE A BIG ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR "RYAN" For Live Updates from an Apple Event.
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mappo

I keep hitting F5 but the iphone 5 keeps not being there.
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SMELTN

really dissappointed we didnt see a bigger screen or NFC
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wowpeter

Engadget are up and down intermittently... Ars Technica is down completely... So good job gdgt... you guys are the one that is online with this live blog without any hiccup so far! Well done!
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raopramodh

would like to see some kind of flash support as well as ability to share/download with bluetooth/3g.
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yousufer

Gonna go with no flash support still..
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kirancbit

So, the Apple Store is offline in preparation for the big event... store.apple.com/
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beau

All sorts of liveblogs be crashing.
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kineticartist

yah but not GDGT they innovated everyone else emulated and hence crashed cuz they didnt think it thru
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bonedog73

Ars and Twit sites are completely down......sucks to be them right now! LOL
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bobdesign

ask "siri" if they will present an iPhone 5!
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roberto

Prediction Fail :(
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bobdesign

Congratulations gdgt!! awesome coverage you are the best!... BTW "siri" says... No iPhone 5!
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briansanderson

Yes excellent coverage again Ryan. Should be proud. A bunch of other sites went down and you only went down for like a couple seconds. I luv this site.
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yousufer

iphone4 is great if they add a5 processor and tweak it to fix it's flaws
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yousufer

i would be down with the "4s" model. and would be even if it supported 4G so it could be the "4Gs"
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jordieg03

Good job Ryan, best coverage of the event by far! and to top it off the gdgt website hasn't gone down yet (unlike everyone elses!) which is always a bonus!
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groovechicken

I don't know what RackSpace paid you guys for that ad, but they sure as hell earned it today! Mighty impressed.
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nmpike

I agree! I am moving all of our servers to rackspace! not even a blip! Macworld cant even get their feed up... snicker.
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nmpike

anyone notice the phone says ATT for the carrier? Proof sprint isnt gonna get exclusive.
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zakkforchilli

Good catch.

Rumor = Smashed.
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potench

Its an iPhone4s, the rumors are for iPhone5
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XGames

now whenever you see a keyboard, you’ll see a microphone. Talk to Siri, tap done, and in the blink of an eye it comes back with your text. Speak with your natural language

Isn't that what the Button on my Droid X keyboard does? Except I don't have to tap "Done". It knows when I'm done. Speaking of done, is this it?
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LILIS

$399 for 64? Not a bad price.
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ffcsquall24

boooooo, announcement of price means no iphone 5.
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xjosex09

really? so like the iphone 4s is the phone apple is going with for the time being?
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zakkforchilli

Yes, It's very true.. Hopefully, It's just for the time being.
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Cupajo

So, the 3GS and the 4 are still available, but not all features or apps will be available on them? You know what that sounds like?

Fragmentation.
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mckernanlive

Kinda sucks, but is true. The voice recognition is going to take a significant amount of processing power.
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zakkforchilli

Ahhhh no you didn'tttttt...
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HTC, Andoid, and the old school crap is fragmented..
Apple + Fragmentation in the same sentence?
Never thought I would ever hear such a thing.
You're not wrong, but It's not exactly severe.
It's still incredibly simple, all of it.
Practically, completely streamlined, still.
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jdrichardstech

great coverage Ryan! Thanks!
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zakkforchilli

Such garbage. I cannot believe how weak this keynote was. Fuck Tim Cook. He doesn't know how to please. Where's the 5? Nowhere. Just a fucking 4S. Sweet, but no CIGAR.

UGH. *Hissy fit*
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N3SSQwiK

Is it really that serious to say "Fuck Tim Cook"? I think not.
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zakkforchilli

Is it really that serious that you would pick one of 69 replies and complain about profanity? From what I can see, there is a baby in your profile photo, but It's not a child's account now is it.

Find something else to focus on, such as your grammar. Ending-punctuation always goes inside the quotes, under any circumstance.

While we're at it, I might as well throw you some punctuation techniques from the World Wide Web.

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"Put a question mark at the end of a sentence that is, in fact, a direct question. (Sometimes writers will simply forget.) Rhetorical questions (asked when an answer is not really expected), by the way, are questions and deserve to end with a question mark:

How else should we end them, after all?
What if I said to you, "You've got a real problem here"? (Notice that the question mark here comes after the quotation mark and there is no period at the end of the statement.)"

There you have it. I've also found a link to the webpage in which I've received that information. It should help a lot kid, here you go: grammar.ccc.commnet.edu­/grammar­/marks­/question.htm
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N3SSQwiK

1) I'm not complaining about profanity. Feel free to use as many curse words as you like/ I was focusing on the direction of your dislike/hissy fit towards Tim Cook, to which I disagree with.
2) Sorry for not making grammar a priority online. I sincerely do ... /s
3) Out of the 69 comments, yours caught my attention. You should be happy, isn't it what we all expect/want when commenting online? For someone to reply and read what we write.
4) I have a right to my opinion
5) Have a good night
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zakkforchilli

I hear ya man. There was some good and bad energy there.
That's fine if you disagree with what I said but you didn't just disagree..
Was a judgement. All good though. I come in peace.

Anyone is entitled to think and say whatever they want. Wherever, whenever. Which sucks, sometimes. Sorry I offended you if I did so.
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LILIS

Great coverage! Thx for the updates!

BTW, S. Korea's twitter reaction to this is..
" Siri, where is iphone 5? "
" No where "
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stumpjumper16

my first gdgt experience following you at the apple rollout event. Very nice. Thanks. i signed up and now I'm "following". If i don't get spam, you guys will be my new besties.
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moorerandall

So while i was expecting something big from apple. Im rather disappointed. A lot of these features and specs have been available on android already. While apple may do them better in my mind they are playing catch up. Also does the 3 models of phones with iOS 5 create fragmentation? I think it does.
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userf8c668783c8

Older phones can run iOS 5 as well. The voice integration is the only item that is 4S exclusive, so i am not sure how fragmentation would occur in this specific scenario.
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jr77

There are three currently selling models with three different OS capabilities. That is the definition of fragmented. BTW my 3G cannot run IOS 5 and it chokes on IOS 4
3gs = no facetime no voice control
4 = no voice control
4s = all capabilities
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userf8c668783c8

Okay, I see what your saying now. I don't believe, personally, that facetime and voice control would be considered fragmentation since as far as I know, you can't access them for programming. The camera can be accessed but that is different.

As for the 3G, that phone is now four generations old but I suppose it does offer slower hardware, so in that case I can see the fragmentation argument.
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rrushton

I think that Apple messed up by not making the screen bigger. I want a bigger screen. They offer a 64gb phone, with a small screen? That's crazy. I love my iPhone4, but i will learn to love the Droid OS just as well....
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beau

The main reason this is taking place in Cupertino and not San Francisco is that Oracle has taken over the Moscone/Yerba Buena Gardens complex that usually hosts Apple events this week for Oracle OpenWorld. Absolutely no room there for an Apple announcement this week.
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EBone

Glad to see you've decided to go back to covering product announcements live. You always did a great job, and it's been missed at the last few big announcements.
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ryan

Thanks! It's one of my favorite things to do, even if it isn't exactly what the rest of gdgt is all about. The reality, though, is that people really care about Apple products (they're the most popular on gdgt -- and now often the most popular around the world) and it only makes sense for us to be there driving conversation around these launches.
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jstanley

Agree, this is exciting. There really is nothing better (still!) than your liveblog system.
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SMELTN

You know with this years event being at a much smaller venue, I was hoping we would see Apple streaming it live....
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