APPLE iPhone 5

[Monseratto]

[Retz]

hahaha!

[Tj_abs]

yup available na sa globe, ewan ko lang smart.

Bossing, have any idea sa postpaid ng globe? Best deal kaya? Thanks

[shadow]

By October pa...forex was talking about nanosim


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[Helios]

Only Apple diehards are suckered.

and android 'curious' fans as well, am i right? heard they're switching. hey i'm a mac fan since day one, and a samsung fan -i snatched up the first sghf330 (a beauty) while visiting the phils to replace my motorola razr's (darn taxi drivers) as my blackberry wasn't climatized yet for the trip abroad. anyway, apple = android bec every apple fan nowadays if you look hard enough has a macbook air on his shoulder and an ipad on the body and iphones on both arms, which make him look like an android. just saying

[pop3corn]

and android 'curious' fans as well, am i right? heard they're switching. hey i'm a mac fan since day one, and a samsung fan -i snatched up the first sghf330 (a beauty) while visiting the phils to replace my motorola razr's (darn taxi drivers) as my blackberry wasn't climatized yet for the trip abroad. anyway, apple = android bec every apple fan nowadays if you look hard enough has a macbook air on his shoulder and an ipad on the body and iphones on both arms, which make him look like an android. just saying

an android looks like human coz he doesn't need to clutch computer, he is computer. have u watched Prometheus

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[bpascal]

Apple is second to none in terms of industrial design thanks to Sir Ive. Even an iPhone 4 feels much better to hold than current offerings from HTC, Motorola, and especially Samsung who is very much in love with plastic.

The problem with iPhone 5 is iOS 6. I can't be certain if Apple just doesn't want to alienate some of its non-tech savvy customers, but 5 years is more than enough time to still be sporting the same UI. Don't be fooled though - iOS is still the most mature mobile platform and it still offers the best possible experience.

My take? Replace Forstall. 👍

[Retz]

Mega Exchange is selling iPhone 5 for Php51K. FYI.

[Monseratto]

Looks like the black marketers have another reason to jack prices up...

iPhone 5 supply in question as thousands strike at Foxconn plant in China - report
By: Reuters
October 6, 2012 7:56 AM

SAN FRANCISCO - Thousands of workers went on strike Friday at a Foxconn plant in China that makes Apple Inc's iPhone 5, paralyzing production of the smartphone, rights advocate China Labor Watch reported.

The reported strike comes at a crucial time for the US corporation, weeks after kicking off its largest-ever global rollout of the smartphone. Apple is already struggling with supply constraints, analysts say.

Citing workers, the labor group said 3,000 to 4,000 workers began their strike at Foxconn's Zhengzhou complex in the afternoon, incensed by over-exacting quality controls as well as demands they work through the week-long "Golden Week" holidays, which began Monday.

The strike could not be immediately confirmed. Apple declined to comment and Foxconn was not immediately available for comment.

Tensions have boiled over repeatedly in factories operated by Foxconn, the Taiwanese contract manufacturing giant that employs more than a million and makes most of the world's iPads and iPhones. Last month, thousands rioted at its Taiyuan facility in northern China, disrupting production for about 24 hours and underscoring the potential for labor unrest.

"In addition to demanding that workers work during the holiday, Foxconn raised overly strict demands on product quality without providing worker training for the corresponding skills," the Watch said in a statement on its website.

"Additionally, quality control inspectors fell into conflicts with workers and were beat up multiple times by workers. Factory management turned a deaf ear to complaints about these conflicts and took no corrective measures."

The group did not say in its release when work might resume.

Foxconn Technology Group of Taiwan, the trading name of Hon Hai Precision Industry Co, is the world's largest contract maker of electronics for global brands such as Hewlett Packard Co, Nokia and Dell Inc.

Apple and Foxconn have come under fire for poor working conditions and wages at plants across China. In response, they have organized an audit of factory conditions, raised wages, improved safety and reduced overtime, among other measures.

[uls]

^^^

reminding the world that Apple relies on slave labor

[Phoenix67]

Not that I side Apple...because the company at fault is just a contractor of apple. So it is the contractor who is at fault there and not really apple. Slaves also are never paid....thus low salaried workers should not complain as being a slave...instead they should quit and look for a better job instead.

People are simply hard to please and demand so much...bigyan mo ng trabaho, ayaw naman gawin ng tama ang trabaho...tsk, tsk, tsk.

[uls]

Not that I side Apple...because the company at fault is just a contractor of apple. So it is the contractor who is at fault there and not really apple.

umm... i'm sure everybody knows Foxconn (Hon Hai) assembles iphones for Apple. anybody here think Apple manufactures in-house?

Slaves also are never paid....thus low salaried workers should not complain as being a slave...instead they should quit and look for a better job instead.

i'm sure everybody knows Foxconn workers are paid workers. anybody here think Foxconn workers are literally unpaid forced labor slaves?

i used "slave labor" figuratively

[Helios]

slavery is so colonial. capitalism is the more apt term, nowadays

[uls]

everybody knows it's capitalism

don't i know it's capitalism?

anybody here think what Apple and Hon Hai does isnt capitalism?

this is what i posted:

reminding the world that Apple relies on slave labor

it's sarcasm. it's word play

ano ba dapat? parang wikipedia?

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. (trading as Foxconn) is a Taiwanese multinational electronics manufacturing company headquartered in Tucheng, New Taipei, Taiwan. It is the world's largest maker of electronic components.[3][4]

Foxconn is primarily an original design manufacturer, and its clients include major American, European and Japanese electronics and information technology companies. Notable products which the company manufactures include the iPad,[5] iPhone,[6] iPod,[6] Kindle,[7] PlayStation 3,[8] and Xbox 360.[9]

Foxconn has been involved in several controversies, most relating to how it manages employees in China, where it is the largest private-sector employer.[10] In 2012, Apple hired the Fair Labor Association to conduct an audit of working conditions at Foxconn.

^^^ o ayan

some people take things too literally

[uls]

SLAVE LABOR

Chinese Reporter Slips Inside The Foxconn iPhone 5 Assembly Sweatshop | Cult of Mac

Chinese Reporter Slips Inside The Foxconn iPhone 5 Assembly Sweatshop

The Shanghai Evening post sent a reporter into the Foxconn factory in Tai Yuan, China to pretend he was a new worker. His 10 days at the factory has been published as a diary, exposing the inside story of making the iPhone 5.

The Tai Yuan factory is known from the March workers’ strike, in addition to needing 20,000 extra workers to fulfill orders from Apple for the new iPhone 5, which is expected to be announced tomorrow at a special Apple event in San Francisco.

According to the Shanghai Evening Post, the reporter went through an extensive seven day orientation,which includes a form that all workers must sign to state that there are no environmental hazards. He began to work on the production line for the iPhone 5 on day eight. He was only able to stay two more days, due to the poor working conditions.

After an exhaustive seven day orientation, on the eighth day of work, the reporter is sent to the TOP SECURITY AREA to work on the iPHone 5. A metal detector screens all employees, with a warning that any metal detected will result in immediate termination. The factory floor smells of plastic, and the sound of heavy manufacturing machines dominate the area. The team is warned to only do what they are told, and they should be honored to have the chance to produce the new iPhone 5.

“Our line is being assigned to use masking tapes and plastic stoppers to cover up the earphone jack and the connector ports of the back plate in order to prevent the paint from being sprayed onto it on the next process,” he writes for the Shanghai Evening Post. “I’m being assigned to mark placement points on the iPhone 5 back-plate using an oil-based paint pen. I’m being scolded many times for spilling too much oil on the markings. My roommate has being assigned to paste the masking tapes of not more than 5mm wide on the right spots that I have marked. And he has being scolded many times for pasting them too slow.”

The reporter has also been told that his job was supposed to be assigned to female workers, due to their more nimble fingers, but that Foxconn couldn’t find enough female workers to fill all the roles needed.

“An iPhone 5 back-plate run through in front of me almost every 3 seconds,” he writes. “I have to pickup the back-plate and marked 4 position points using the oil-based paint pen and put it back on the running belt swiftly within 3 seconds with no errors. After such repeat action for several hours, I have terrible neckache and muscle pain on my arm. A new worker who sat opposite of me gone exhausted and laid down for a short while. The supervisor has noticed him and punished him by asking him to stand at one corner for 10 minutes like the old school days. We worked non-stop from midnight to the next morning 6 a.m but were still asked to keep on working as the production line is based on running belt and no one is allowed to stop. I’m so starving and fully exhausted.”

The reporter calculates that he must mark five iPhone 5 back plates every minute, at minimum. He has to do this non-stop for his entire shift. His goal is 3,000 iPhone 5 back plates every 5 hours.

“There are total 4 production lines in charge of this process, 12 workers in every line,” he writes. “Each line can produce 36,000 iPhone 5 back plates in half a day, this is scary … I finally stopped working at 7 a.m. We were asked to gather again after work. The supervisor shout out loud in front of us: “Who wants to rest early at 5 a.m !? We are all here to earn money ! Let’s work harder !” I was thinking who on earth wants to work two extra hours overtime for only mere 27 yuan (USD$4) !?”

These are the conditions that are in effect to produce the iPhone 5, at least at the Foxconn plant in China. Perhaps we can all think of the men and women that endure a situation that no one would tolerate here in the US when we pre-order our new iPhone 5 devices over the next couple of days.

[CoDer]

Mega Exchange is selling iPhone 5 for Php51K. FYI.

Best part of the deal is...

You get the bugs for FREE!!!

[Retz]

Best part of the deal is...

You get the bugs for FREE!!!

haha, and expect the price to come down dramitically in the months to come.

[Monseratto]

SLAVE LABOR

Chinese Reporter Slips Inside The Foxconn iPhone 5 Assembly Sweatshop | Cult of Mac

Foxconn is under the limelight because of Apple. If Foxconn were to subjected to US labour laws, di papayag ang Apple. It will eat into their bottomline...

[CoDer]

SLAVE LABOR

Chinese Reporter Slips Inside The Foxconn iPhone 5 Assembly Sweatshop | Cult of Mac

That's slave labor indeed.

[Phoenix67]

I still don't find it slave labor ...if they were bright enough duon ba sila magtatrabaho? As long as there was no coerssion or force for them to work there, then they should not complain. Everybody is free to leave and find a better job.