Adrian@TORQEN

Is not much It's not like I'll be living 3200 years, I like to live my life on the edge! :lol: I work a lot so I treat myself from time to time... rarely, isn't it?

iPhone 5 Sales To Exceed 8 Million During Launch Weekend, 46.5 Million iPhones To Be Sold In Q1 2013 As we’ve been reporting over the past few days, the iPhone 5 is selling like hotcakes / lemonade / gangbusters. Whether it’s technology enthusiasts, bloggers, cellular networks, or Apple itself, no one expected 2 million pre-orders in under 24 hours; it is an unmatched number in the smartphone industry. Now, the question is: will the iPhone 5 continue its momentum through the launch weekend, and further through the quarter? According to multiple analysts, the answer is a resounding “yes!†We’ll be discussing notes from two analysts: Gene Munster from Piper Jaffray, and Shaw Wu from Sterne Agee. Yesterday, Munster published a report in which he predicts that Apple will sell between 6 to 10 million iPhone 5 units in its launch weekend; using 8 million as a mid value. He cites two reasons for this. Firstly, the 100% increase in pre-orders for iPhone 5 (2 million) over iPhone 4S (1 million), and secondly, the fact that pre-orders made up 25% of total launch weekend sales for iPhone 4S last year, so they may translate into a similar figure for the iPhone 5 this year. I’m not a professional analyst, but the way things are going, sales of around 8 million units seem realistic. Wu from Sterne Agee looks beyond the launch weekend by predicting that sales of all iPhones will reach a whopping 46.5 million in the first quarter of 2013 (October 2012 – December 2012). With iPhone 5 selling out twice as fast as the iPhone 4S, iPhone 4 / 4S still being in demand, and Apple’s record breaking sales of 37 million iPhones in Q1 2012, this looks very much possible. In addition to this, Wu is of the opinion that Apple will sell 27 million iPhones in Q4 2011 – the current quarter. The word around the technology blogosphere may be that the iPhone is a disappointment, but the fact is, an overwhelming majority of smartphone owners do not follow the rumor mill or follow media events as they get covered in blow-by-blow detail. They just see Apple announcing a new phone with a larger display, faster internals, improved design, support for super-fast 4G LTE and buy it because it’s the next “big thingâ€. Mossberg reviews Apple’s iPhone 5: ‘The best smartphone on the market' “I’ve been testing the new iPhone for nearly a week and I like it a lot and can recommend it, despite a few negatives, such as a new maps app that has one big plus, but other big minuses,†Walter S. Mossberg reports for The Wall Street Journal. “On balance, I still consider the iPhone the best smartphone on the market, especially with its staggering 700,000 third-party apps and a wealth of available content.†“In increasing the iPhone’s screen size, Apple took a different approach than competitors. It kept the same side-to-side width, yet added height to grow the screen from its previous 3.5-inch size,†Mossberg reports. “I found the new iPhone screen much easier to hold and manipulate than its larger rivals and preferred it. In my view, Apple’s approach makes the phone far more comfortable to use, especially one-handed. It’s easier to carry in a pocket or purse and more natural-looking when held up to your face for a call.†“The minute you pick the iPhone 5 up you notice it’s much lighter—20% lighter, in fact. It’s so much lighter that you wonder if it’s a demonstration mock-up, not the real thing,†Mossberg reports. “Yet unlike many competitors, this isn’t a plastic, insubstantial-feeling device. Although Apple claims it’s the world’s thinnest smartphone — 18% thinner than the prior model — the iPhone 5 retains Apple’s trademark, solid-feeling, metal construction, with an aluminum back this time, instead of a glass back. Like many Apple products, it’s gorgeous. â€Mossberg reports, “Apple has taken an already great product and made it better, overall. Consumers who prefer huge screens or certain marginal features have plenty of other choices, but the iPhone 5 is an excellent choice.†Purported iPhone 5 benchmark score doubles fastest iDevices, outperforms Android's best A benchmark score logged on Sunday with Primate Labs' online Geekbench reportedly details the specifics of Apple's iPhone 5, with the new smartphone outperforming the average scores of every iOS and Android device on the website. The online benchmarking site reportedly logged a score of 1601 from an "iPhone5,2" that was running iOS 6 on a dual-core ARMv7 processor clocked at 1.02GHz with 1GB of RAM. While it is not impossible to spoof device identifiers, the specifications line up with previous speculation that Apple's A6 SoC boasts a full gigabyte of DRAM and leverages a an ARMv7 CPU with custom-designed cores. If legitimate, the iPhone5,2's score eked out the highest-performing Android devices, including the Asus-built Nexus 7 tablet and Samsung Galaxy S III. In comparison, no iOS device has surpassed the 800 mark, as last year's iPhone 4S netted a 631 while the third-generation iPad (CDMA) scored 734. When the iPhone 5 was announced on Sept. 12, Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller said the new A6 chip doubled both the processing and graphics performance of the legacy A5 SoC. Also promised was an increase in battery life resulting in 8 hours of 3G or LTE talk time and web browsing. The quoted performance bump and increase in power efficiency lead some to believe that Apple's A6 would be a quad-core CPU built on Samsung's 32nm fabrication process, however Sunday's benchmark data suggests the chip holds only two processing cores running at a higher clock speed than the A5 processor. Although the exact configuration Apple is using to achieve the huge performance gains while improving on energy consumption is unclear at this time, a full teardown and analysis of the iPhone 5 is expected to yield answers this week when the device officially hits stores on Friday.

Congratulations!!!!! I remember the same feelings 5 years ago, nothing compares to this!

After wrapping! CAN'T WAIT!!! :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

iPorn. Do you?

On my cross please write: Adrian Cherciu contemporary with Steve Jobs

Go on...

And another delivery! Off to fit the lot Great job, Wasso! Thank you!

These have arrived today as well, two more parcels to come and we're good! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/251134930483 - in Black

Read my previous posts on this page, using Android on a Nexus 7, but just because it's 7" to be able to fit it in the zed IT IS A HUGE DIFFERENCE in terms of Android vs iOS! My daughter which is 5 will be able to give you some serious reasons why she still prefers the iPad

OK, OK, sending it back!

Dear Ian, As per our funny conversation on the 350z-UK forum...

What on earth...

Not yet, but got this other delivery just now

Just wasted another 3minutes of my life! Blah blah blah, don't buy iPhone5, just get the Samsung S3, it's perfect... as a tennis racket!

Pro Bolts for the engine bay arrived today. Many thanks Wasso for organising this list for me!!!

Aloha!

My iPhone 4s works fine as a Personal Hotspot on 3, works for macbook, iPad, Nexus, etc Can't see why not being able to do the same for the iPhone 5

What is a "slogun"?...

I've been using macs since 2006, love the OS and can't imagine working on a windows based PC on a daily work stuff. Own iPads, iPhones, iPods, apple tv, airport express, macbook and macbook pro. Meanwhile my media player acer revo runs on windows 7 with xbmc, takes at least 7 minutes to boot, windows 7 known bug, unresolvable Few days ago I got a Nexus 7, love the android 4 for the in-car pc stuff, navigon and sygi, soon the tomtom, torque and so on, but I can't imagine using it like I'm using the iPad, it's way beyond the iOS5, talkless iOS6... Never had any problems with Apple products, you open the lid on the macbook, start working, no crashes, no restarts, uptime it's few months, unless restart is needed after system upgrade, you finish work, close the lid, all perfect. No defrag, no antivirus, no BSOD, no windows not responding, no windows has performed... and will be shutdown, etc How can I not advocate products that never failed me?

Meanwhile... The reaction to the announcement of the iPhone 5 may have been muted, with many of the new features widely trailed in advance, but that didn’t stop pre-orders breaking records. More than two million pre-orders were placed in the 24 hours following its availability, according to Apple. ‘iPhone 5 pre-orders have shattered the previous record held by iPhone 4S and the customer response to iPhone 5 has been phenomenal,’ said Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. ‘iPhone 5 is the best iPhone yet, the most beautiful product we’ve ever made, and we hope customers love it as much as we do.’ Apple began taking pre-orders on Friday, but within an hour had sold out of its initial allocation and shifted despatch estimates back by a week. The company’s UK website is currently showing delivery estimates of 2-3 weeks. The iPhone 5 goes on sale in Apple retail stores on Friday and long queues are expected. In addition to those lining up in the hope of bagging a new iPhone, Apple’s retail launches have attracted so much media attention that they’ve become a magnet for publicity-seekers and those who want to promote their business or website. and Excitement over the iPhone 5’s imminent arrival is driving Apple’s stock to new heights. Shares of the company rose past $700 in after-hours trading Monday after closing at $699.80. Apple’s journey to a $1 trillion valuation seems to be getting shorter by the day.

And the pile of junk coming off the car

Front Eibach ARB and MeisterR arms fitted, coilovers going in next. Should I get the uprated ARB links?

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