Report: iPhone 5 to Have Curved Glass Screen

Advantages over flat?

Nice info. I'll always remember where I was and what I was doing when I didn't give a shit

How about the antennagate *snickers?

Does anyone care about iphone anymore? The os is dated at this point, put down the baby rattle and get an android based device.

the HTC sensation is supposed to have a curvy glass monitor... is this blatant copying that apple likes to cry about?

Can't wait for Apple to claim they did it first ...

I agree 100%. The inferior Phone 4, I mean iPhone 4 not only is a completely outdated os and phone it is the most uncomfortable phone to hold. The iPhone 5 will have the same specs as phones that have been already released. The quadcore snapdragon is supposed to be out this fall, the same time as the iPhone 5.

It looks like Steve HandJobs has his hands full literally on trying to come up with a decent phone.

Thing is Apple will toddle along nicely with a terrible product the same way Intel did with the P4's against the (at the time) superior Athlon 64's.

Jobs may well come along with a true innovation that really does blow the market apart but until then they only need name value.

..yet you took the time to comment....moron.

less reflection an better looking angles???

Why curved? I don't want to be reminded of CRT monitors again, even if it's just because I have to use someone else's iPhone to make a call. Besides, wouldn't that be insanely uncomfortable on the ear?

Curved glass!! How revolutionary!!

I don't know about you all but I'd happily pay $1500 for a white curved-glass iphone.

/END SARCASM

Silly Gin, iPhones aren't use for making calls.

LOL at all the idiot haters out in full force again.

Need I remind you that every single one of you is, and always has been, wrong? You've been bitching about every iPhone/iPod/iPad since the beginning saying it's garbage blah blah blah. And Apple still sells record numbers and rakes in billions. All your little rants telling people to buy anything but Apple have been so successful - you've been able to sway millions of users away from Apple into something that you'd buy. **end sarcasm since you're probably too stupid to even get the sarcasm**

And since you're all too stupid to understand why this happens you have to try and explain it with reasons like "only sheep buy Apple" or "anyone intelligent who understands hardware would never buy Apple". Unfortunately for you, those answers are, like everything else you spew, garbage. Many people (like myself) know the exact differences between various phones, their underlying hardware and their software. Yet we choose to buy an iPhone over an Android. And you technonerds just can't seem to fathom this.

That's why reading your posts are so funny. And why it's even more fun reminding you how impotent you are when Apple posts another quarter with record sales and record profits when you realize your little crusade against Apple is 100% ineffectual.

The iPhone 5 will be out soon, and Apple will sell record numbers of them (as with past phones). And you pathetic little haters will sit and cry and whine about it, as usual. And the merry-go-round keeps on turning the same year after year.

@ ericburnby
I see the only thing positive about Apple that you point out is the record sells. So what exactly do you like about the iPhone? Seems the "idiot haters" weren't far off.

@ ericburnby

LOL, FAIL. Every Apple fan stands behind the sales but not the product. When you say the iPhone 5 is coming out soon, do you mean hopefully in 5 months in the fall. By then the iPhone will be outdated with all the quad-core android phones.

I have a windows mobile smartphone so I am not in either camp at this point, but I do know out of the 9 friends / relatives in my circle of contacts (all on verizon) that do have smartphones, 4 have iPhone 4's, 3 have Android handsets and 2 have BB's. The iPhone users seem to love their phones (1 of them switched from a original droid), the 3 Android users all give their phones a so-so rating and aren't sure if they would recommend them to anyone. The two BB users will still have a death grip on their phones when they zip the black bag up around them which I don't understand because I don't really like either of their phones when I've played around with them. I've been trying to decide what phone to get to replace my Samsung Omnia II for months now but I was waiting to see what the WIndows 7 phones on Verizon would be. But I may just go with a iPhone 4 as Windows 7 isn't impressing me at this point which doesn't feel good to me as I'm going from windows mobile 6.5 so anything else should impress me. Say what you will but specs mean nothing, it's all in the actual day to day use. From years of buying gaming PC gear and being on my 8th or 9th SLi rig now I now you can through together all the greatest individual parts and end up with garbage. Use is 1000x more important than specs and numbers or benchmarks etc. and the iPhone is far more polished than Android is at this point and no amount of wishful thinking can change that.

..and how many first or even second gen iPhones will be left out of the next software release:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/20 [...] es-version

I have yet to see a phone do text like the iphone. The layout is perfect. What are all you guys doing with your phones to need duel cores in them. Put your phone down and Enjoy the world around you! I let intel and nvidia do all my games and surfing the net. Why would you want to do that on a 4 inch screen? Whats next bitchen cause it dosnt have quad core....

@thomasjm52
Swype. Does your precious iPhone have it?
Because Swype beat the world record for fasted texting so I think that counts as another phone texting like the iPhone.

Does THG get paid by Apple to publish these articles ?
I mean seriously, who gives a rat's pattuti about what kind of glass the next piece of iCrap has?
What about the battery? Will it be available in pink or Formosa green?

I can't wait to find out... :-)
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Remember VHS ?
Inferior to Beta or Video2000; and still it 'won' and sold billions.
Just because something sells well to the -generally uneducated- public does not make it technically superior (Windows 95/98/ME/Vista anyone?).

Apple is great at hype and style, they where already back in the 70s when I was programming video games for the C64 and the technically superior TI99. But don't tell me their stuff is more advanced than any of the other electronic stuff out there.
I run a small IT company giving some 20 families a paycheck and guess what, I don't even use a 'smart' phone. I don't need to watch TV or Video on my phone, read emails or 'tweets'.

The iPAD is not a 'productive' device, it is a consumption device; perfect for people with too much money and no time for a real social life. Not Apple's fault, just a sign of the time; like reality TV, Jerry Springer and Facebook.

Now can we go back to some real reviews instead ?

I left the iPhone when the 4 was coming out and headed to the Android world. I was sick and tired of AT&T and their dropped calls.

Since then iPhone has released on Verizon. If I wasn't locked into a 2 year contract and was able to get the upgrade price- I sure as hell would switch back. Android is all about customizing the look of your phone and not much else. The apps suck, the thing fucking lags like a mofo, the battery life is rediculously short, etc.
Iphone was well built hardware wise also.

I'm no Apple fanboy or any kind of fanboy really.. I just like what I like when I like it. I think for myself and always research before a purchase.

I could care less who runs what company. I do however know that they build cell phones and this is a tech site reporting on tech news. I think the youngins these days cry too much on the internet but whatever- the world is going to shit whether I like it or not.

Good day. (or whatever stupid fucking meme you end a comment with these days)

Well said... !


P.S.
If the 'meme' was about the "javascript:%20void(0);" at the end of my post.... it's not mine; it was added somehow to the post; prob. a minor bug in the site's code.

i hope they don't do this....a flat antiglare screen is much better

Try surfing the web and swyping on a 4.3 inch screen for a week, then go back to your itty bitty inferior phone, I mean iPhone and then try it. It is so funny hearing apple fanboys saying ther eis no reason for a bigger screen. You can watch TV and play games on a 30 inch TV fine. But you enjoy the expierence ten times better on a 50 TV. So then why would you want a small screen when surfing the web or daily phone use when 4.3 screens are available.

Social life? What do you call people using smart phones and other devices to access facebook, World or Warcraft, etc...

The iPad is not a cause or different from anything else? The iPad is a tool or a toy, depending on your needs. There is some productivity on an iPad, but that is not what its designed for. Its kind of like asking your car stereo to have the ability to create music or run a radio station.

Here is the problem with saying anything about the iPhone beyond sales friend.. I can say anything I want about it, like its a more fluid experience, that everything works just as intended, no compatiblity issues, that the battery life is very, very solid, that the asthetic look of the phone sets itself apart from the competition, in look, feel, and whatever else I could possibly think of, but those are all just opinions. Opinions. And that alone makes it meaningless in the grand scheme of things. However, cold hard sales is a fact. You can't argue against the numbers, and when 1 phone sells that many quarter after quarter, year after year, you'd be an idiot to think that there isn't something in that phone, whether it be tangible or not, that draws people in. Despite the overwhelming number of people on this site that continually bash Apple products as over-priced, under-spec'd, or over-rated.. And insult those that purchase them as idiots, sheeple, or whatever bigoted retard variant thereof.

When it comes right down to it.. You, are wrong, and shitty people to boot. Perhaps you all didn't learn well enough from being nerds back in the day, and now feel safe in an online forum of almost nothing but nerds, and now must lash out at those who are different than the image you have for the world, technology, and everything that will follow. And with that in mind, I will continue to smile, and give ericburnby a very serious solid internet high five. And after everything I've said, still some people just won't understand.. Ever. Pity. What a waste of a good brain.



Same thing. Read above statement.


I'm am going to resist the urge to post a novel against your post. You have obviously missed the point. A few classes in the right areas could possibly give you better insight into why a slightly hardware inferior product would/could win out against a better one. Marketing is just one side of the coin.. Stop making it seem like it's all there is. Poor form man, poor form.




Okay.. swype might be a much faster way of texting, but it isn't for everyone. And as for the bigger screen size.. I don't want a 4.3 inch screen phone in my pocket.. Too bloody large and uncomfortable, for me, for such a device. And as for the 30 inch < 50 inch statement.. I seem to remember people saying the same thing about an iPad.. And all the haters can't win/get upset and just scream its just a big iPod Touch. Pot... Kettle.

Some real substantial arguments against Apple, rather than childish banter, would be nice for a change..

Apple....It's all about the marketing ...

.I wonder if that creepy French ghoul Clitaire Rapaille is behind the Apple marketing scheme?

America just proves it has a lot of clueless sheeple when it buys in to the Apple hype.

I think the term "herdlings" is appropriate for them.

Being smart and "knowing the exact differences" (yeah when you've got access to Safari and Google) doesn't equate making a logical decision. That's not to say that the iPhone is a bad phone, or that iOS is a bad phone OS. But that's not really why people buy them, it's an emotional decision more than anything.

Hmm... First they make both sides out of glass.... Now they're curving the glass too. It's almost like they're trying to make these things as fragile as humanly possible.

And didn't CRTs move away from curved glass to flat for a reason? The curves distort the picture. And at the very least a curved screen means you will almost always have a glare spot on the screen, no matter the angle.