Apple just won the phone wars - game set and match.

[jmshub]

So many extra sensors are gimmicks. Android owns nearly 80% of the global smartphone market. I hardly see some heartbeat sensor pulling the large majority of those people away from the green robot.

 

[dkediger]

Heart rate, schmart rate. Quantified self stuff is sooooo 2013, and according to my calendar we're a week away from 2014....

 

[theefman]

April fool?

 

[Jazmac]

Apple Granted 23 Patents Today Including an Embedded Heart Rate Monitor that could be integrated into a future iWatch - Patently Apple

Already a 64-bit A7 processor with motion co-processor(now we know for hover touch and eye tracking). Embedded heart-rate monitor and improved Siri/Maps. It's game over folks. In 2015, anyone who has 2 bits to rub together is buying an iPhone 6.

If it comes with a 5 inch screen or better, there will be a folk taking a second look.

 

[Citizen X]

Already a 64-bit...

What do you use 64-bit processors for? On my desktop I use it to address more than 4 gigs of total memory and transcode video... two things I can't imagine doing on a phone any time soon.

I thought after the release of the 1520 people would realize that WP 8 really doesn't need a crazy amount of hardware to run decently. The speed boost from the Lumia 900 to the quadcore 1520 is there but it is no where near as mind blowing as the specs would lead you to believe. Let's not go down the Andriod spec blackhole. Let's just get the specs we need, not the specs that look pretty on paper and drive up the cost of phones while draining the battery.

I felt no need to even address the heart rate monitor foolishness. Yes it might be nice for some fitness nuts but it's just a gimmick for everyone else.

 

[SwimSwim]

Some people just don't like to be like other people. To me it isn't about smart brains or choice. I like to be holding the device that stirs more conversation between people, I sure know my lumia does the job, you know, connecting people ;-)

I've become a master at pitching Lumia 1020's and Surface Pro 2's, because any time I use either one, I always get questions... It's getting kinda annoying, but then again, I also kinda relish the fact that my devices always get everyone to look up from what they're doing and stare (and I don't even have one of the crazy colors!).

So many times a day am I asked, "Is that the phone with the amazing camera?" "Why does your phone have such a big case [camera grip]?" "Wait, that thing is a phone?" "Is that the Surface?"

Ahh people. I suppose I'm the black sheep in an otherwise white herd, surrounded by Androids and iPhones. But it's so silly how I always manage to shatter their views on the world when I walk in armed with my Lumia and my Surface.

 

[SwimSwim]

Well Well,
It seems the Patent war will continue.. OP Forgot about the Patent Nokia Got in the View attachment 52737
So Definitely Nokia will start fight back soon

What about the patent 8615432 Doesnt it look like Windows Push Notification Services
hm hm, Be ready to see a fight/Joke

The clock looks pretty, mostly because it looks exactly like the lockscreen on WP/Windows 8. Very beautiful. As for all the other screens? I don't know why, but in the patient diagram, they look very unclean... I don't know how to describe it, but I reminds me of iOS 6 and earlier. Very ugly. Hopefully that's just for the sake of the patient, because I'd be very disappointed if Nokia brought something like this to market with that ugliness of an OS.

Metro UI all the way!

 

[psudotechzealot]

I still do not see the point of a smart watch.

 

[anony_mouse]

Have you guys heard of 'prior art'?

 

[masterchief1984]

I have had an iPhone 4, 4s, and 5. I also have owned a Lumia 920. I left apple for WP8. And I honestly enjoyed the phone deeply, even though I left to go back to apple. And that was for one reason apps. And as of now I will be purchasing a Lumia 1520 tomorrow. WP8 has finally grown to a point where I can fully shake iOS. So these patents that you speak of I have totally no use for. But rest assured if WP 8.1 is in any what it needs to be then Microsoft is gonna be here a min.

 

[anony_mouse]

But rest assured if WP 8.1 is in any what it needs to be then Microsoft is gonna be here a min.

I couldn't have put it better myself.

 

[Loco5150]

I still do not see the point of a smart watch.

Me neither... We are getting phones with bigger screens to be able to browse the web, type and view our feeds better, where's the point with 1" screen? Are you so lazy or busy that you dont want to pick your phone from your pocket and see the message? Even if so, often at the same time we do something else, like check the feed real quick. I would also just love the fact you need to charge 2 devices...

And Im sorry I have a watch, 2 actually. These are not some plastic craps, these are real quality watches.

I dont see future for smart watch, I think its just an industrys way of trying to generate new source of income. However smart watch most likely will be a stepping stone to something that might be the next big thing...

 

[gsquared]

Pardon me if I'm wrong but haven't electronic heart rate monitors been around for about 30 years?

 

[Speedygi]

I don't see the link in logic between having patents for a heart rate monitor and winning the phone wars, almost by default, as I interpreted this thread. That said, the phone wars are far from over, because Android has so many weapons and manufacturers in there that I don't even think iOS can win in terms of overall market-share...It's just numerically impossible. That said, Apple will still sell alot of phones and they will have a sizable chunk, but unless it's a monopoly, which isn't with the presence of Android around, they haven't won anything.

 

[rcazador]

Apple Granted 23 Patents Today Including an Embedded Heart Rate Monitor that could be integrated into a future iWatch - Patently Apple

Already a 64-bit A7 processor with motion co-processor(now we know for hover touch and eye tracking). Embedded heart-rate monitor and improved Siri/Maps. It's game over folks. In 2015, anyone who has 2 bits to rub together is buying an iPhone 6.

TROLOL. You should ask Apple to pay you for the propoganda.

 

[etad putta]

TROLOL. You should ask Apple to pay you for the propoganda.

Maybe a good reply to the OP would be a link showing all the latest windows phone patent filings. Anybody have any?

 

[Dave Blake]

To get a device with a 4 inch screen and no Microsoft app integration.... I don't think so... Still junk no matter what you put in it.

 

[crystal_planet]

Apple Granted 23 Patents Today Including an Embedded Heart Rate Monitor that could be integrated into a future iWatch - Patently Apple

Already a 64-bit A7 processor with motion co-processor(now we know for hover touch and eye tracking). Embedded heart-rate monitor and improved Siri/Maps. It's game over folks. In 2015, anyone who has 2 bits to rub together is buying an iPhone 6.

Improve their maps? They were so pathetic, they couldn't go anywhere BUT up - good god. And an imbedded heart rate monitor - wow that has been on everyone's wish list for years!

Have fun with your iPhone 6. Enjoy those static icons and improved 4.1" display. I'll miss you here....

EDIT: I fell for the troll and deserve my shame. Well done, OP.

 

[teckris]

I was wondering if the so called Heart Monitor malfunctions Giving some wrong values, then how many Apple Fans will have heart attack??

 

[snowmutt]

I am all in on this Apple stuff now. I am scared for MS's future. This going-nowwhere-doing-nothing-never-get-headlines corporation that has no resources, very little money, and no basis on which to build on is getting BURRIED by the mobile juggernaut that is Apple.

Because EVERYTHING Apple does turns to gold and buries Microsoft, Google, Samsung and all the other competition. I mean, look at their Macs which outsell MS products, their Smart TV's which outsell LG, Samsung and Vizio, their mapping tech with Tom-Tom which has Nokia shaking in their boots, their search engine is kicking Google and Bing to the curb on mobile devices, the iPhone 5C is a runaway success, iTunes is so reasonably priced and the ONLY real option for media and is so easy to use, the iPhone hasn't lost ANY sales, the iPad is the only tablet with any success still to this day....

*pulls muscle laughing, unable to keep a straight face any longer*