Official Apple Thread

**Diff-chan** · 10 Sep 2013, 03:05 PM

Ugh, 4S is the free one now. It's still a good phone, plenty fast, but no LTE and the old connector. They really should've put the 5C at free/$99.

Release date: 9/20.

**Chux** · 10 Sep 2013, 03:39 PM

I'm gonna see what I can get at the apple store for my current phone, and if it's $200+ (Which it very well might be), I'll get the 32g Slate 5S.

**Yoshi** · 10 Sep 2013, 03:45 PM

I'm still not excited. I wish there was a black and gold option on the 5S in addition to the black, white and silver and white and gold. I guess I need to give this some thought over the next week, but at least I won't be buying on excited emotion this time.

**Frogacuda** · 10 Sep 2013, 03:46 PM

So basically the 5C is just a repackaged 5 with candy colors (for girls?) and the same price drop you'd expct.

The 5S's processor sounds killer and moving to 64-bit and OGL ES 3.0 could offer some very nice gains, but the lack of a bigger screen is disappointing. I don't think the fingerprint thing is enough to really motivate upgrades. I almost feel like repackaging the 5 as something cheapy/kiddie/girly is an effort to make the 5S look better and more sophisticated by comparison, because to the average user the improvement over the 5 seems pretty invisible.

iOS7 continues to look like a huge improvement. It also seems to match the colors of the 5C.

**Diff-chan** · 10 Sep 2013, 03:55 PM

I'm bummed about the lack of retina MBP update news.

**Chux** · 10 Sep 2013, 04:07 PM

Actually, bump that. eBay will give me $50 to sell my phone on there by 9/15, and my phone (ATT, 32g Black) is going from $250-$350 on there now.

Free upgrade imo.

**dave is ok** · 10 Sep 2013, 04:13 PM

I need a new phone, but neither of these new options look too appealing.

**Chux** · 10 Sep 2013, 04:22 PM

I'm trying to figure out why anybody would buy my old 4S for that amount I posted. It boggles my mind. Is no contract THAT big of a deal?

**EvilMog** · 10 Sep 2013, 04:29 PM

Yes. I sold my old 3GS last fall for $100!

The new phones aren't that interesting to me so ill stick with my 5. I don't care about colors. I always get a case anyways.
Bring on ios7.