Iphone 4s coming in oct, will you buy one? [was "Iphone 5 coming in Sept"....}

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Kae Shibata and Yutaro Noji show off their new Apple Inc's iPhone 5 outside an Apple Store in Tokyo.

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People look at Apple Inc's iPhone 5 displayed at an Apple Store in Tokyo's Ginza district.

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Handout image released by iFixit.com shows various chips of a new iPhone 5 in Melbourne.

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A woman wearing a sleeping bag waits outside an Apple Store as she waits to purchase Apple Inc's iPhone 5 in Tokyo.

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Customers who just bought an iPhone 5 from an Apple store resells the newly released smartphone, to another man in Hong Kong.

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A customer shows two sets of iPhone 5 that she had ordered online, at an Apple store in Hong Kong.

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A security guard looks on as customers gather outside an Apple store before the release of iPhone 5 in Hong Kong.

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Customers gather outside an Apple store before the release of iPhone 5 in Hong Kong.

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Staff applaud as customers enter to get new iPhone 5 at Apple Store in Hong Kong.

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Sets of newly released iPhone 5 are displayed at Apple Store in Hong Kong.

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wait til they see the maps of tokyo with their new iOS6

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Before the iPhone 5 launched today, Apple's iOS 6 enjoyed its own launch. The update went live on Wednesday and iOS users have been updating their devices over the last few days. One of the most notable changed that iOS 6 brings is Apple's own proprietary maps application. The company announced plans to ditch Google's mapping solution back in June and this week, users got their first taste of Apple's maps app. The verdict? It kind of sucks.

If that sounds too harsh, take a gander at the Tumblr account that's been set up to document the errors and bugs plaguing Apple's iOS 6 maps. Even the folks working at the London Underground's Hackney Wick Station in east London couldn't resist making light of the situation. Photos currently doing the rounds on Twitter show a sign on display at the train station that reads, "For the benefit of passengers using Apple iOS 6, local area maps are available from the booking office."

Zoom A quick search on Twitter shows that Ben Mathis, also known as @binny_UK, was the man behind the sign and tweeted the original photo. As far as the awfulness of iOS 6's maps application is concerned, Apple said in a statement yesterday that it will get better with time and use.

"We launched this new map service knowing it is a major initiative and that we are just getting started with it," the company told AllThingsD. "Maps is a cloud-based solution and the more people use it, the better it will get."

Right now, the latest rumors say that Google's prepping its own version of Google Maps for iOS 6. Google hasn't confirmed or denied the rumors but we imagine a lot of users would be happy to go back to Google Maps if given the chance.

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Faulty Wi-Fi and a confused Siri: Early iPhone 5 users find catalogue of complaints

The iPhone 5 launch has been one of the biggest and most successful in history.

But that doesn't mean it has been without problems, with users who got their hands on early models reporting a wealth of problems.

The catalogue of complaints include faulty wi-fi connections and scratching on the aluminum casing, as well as confused weather reports from the voice-activated Siri assistant and reports of light 'bleeding' out from the side of the phone.

More disturbing seems to be the small number of handsets which 'rattle' when shaken - attributed to to a loose battery within the device, while other users are finding that their batteries drain within hours.

Users are also warned that the iCloud storage service run by Apple will be reduced from 20GB of storage space to 5GB at the end of the month - potentially placing back-ups at risk.

Alongside complaints about the patchy quality of Apple's new Maps app, the website Ars Technica collated a variety of bugs from Apple users, largely sourced from Apple's support forums.

It is not unexpected for some new devices to have manufacturing errors - particularly when five million products have been shipped within the opening weekend.

Even if just one per cent of the first batch of phones has an error, that is still 50,000 defective handsets in the market.

Some users are reporting problems with connecting to secured WiFi networks - with connections either being blocked or running slowly. Users on the Apple forums suggest this is a software issue which will be resolved with new firmware updates.

While the phone appears to be fairly resistant to scratching, there are also reports that the aluminium casing on the iPhone can wear off around the screen.

The LED backlight also reportedly 'bleeds out' from the screen, appearing as a thin white light around the edges of the screen.

For those who use Siri for their weather updates, many users are finding that the voice-activated personal assistant is mixing up its cities.

If you ask for the weather in New York City, Siri reports the weather for New York, Texas - yet on-screen it still says it is reporting on the city.

it is also confusing Richmond, Virginia with New Richmond, Ohio, alongside other place-names which appear more than once on a map.

Ars Technica finally warned that users will no longer be offered 20GB of free space when they sign up to iCloud - instead the space is plummeting to just five gigabytes.

This may not be enough to contain all your cloud back-ups - particularly if you own more than one Apple device - so users are warned they should consider paying Apple $40 a year, or risk losing their data.

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How To Report a Problem With iOS 6 Maps Data

A large amount of criticism has been correctly directed towards Apple regarding the new Maps app in iOS 6, with common complaints focusing on Points of Interest data. This is the information that Apple has purchased from third parties relating to addresses and phone numbers of stores, museums, hospitals and the like.

Google Maps is a much more complete, more polished product offering, but that's mostly because Google Maps has been around for years. Its developers have had plenty of time to refine it -- but its users have helped a considerable amount as well. Every Google Maps page has "report a problem" located somewhere on it, allowing the company to crowdsource and verify much of its data.

Like Google Maps, Apple also allows users to submit error reports and correct POI data. Last week, Apple said that "the more people use [Maps], the better it will get." Reporting errors in information is surely part of how Apple plans to improve the product.



The Home Depot in Durango, Colorado is located at 1301 South Camino del Rio, but, Apple's map data puts it at 1301 Camino del Rio, in the middle of downtown Durango. It's unclear how quickly the data will be integrated into Maps, nor what sort of quality control processes the company has in place to deal with malicious submissions.

However, with Apple aggressively recruiting former Google Maps employees, it seems likely that lessons learned during Google Maps development will soon be implemented at Apple. Incidentally, Google Maps gets the address correct.