While iPhones have changed dramatically since the first one was launched 4 years ago, one thing that hasn't changed is the size. They've all sported 3.5” displays. While, I think 3.5” works well on an iPhone, it’s hard to ignore the giant screens found on it’s competitors.

As such, the new iPhone 5 sports a 4” display. The biggest ever found on an iPhone though still much smaller than pretty much all it’s competitors. But as they say ‘size doesn't matter’.

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*Edit* Sale is from Sept 28 - Oct 1

Looks like it's opposite day. Now it seems Bell is about to drop the price ...

*Edit* Pricing sheet has just been pulled. Guess I don't need to line up now.

I just got word that Bell is increasing their pricing on many of their phones:

Motorola Atrix HD LTE $49.99 -> $79.95
Motorola RAZR V $0 -> $29.95
Blackberry Bold 9900 $49.95 -> $99.95
Samsung Galaxy Note $49.95 -> $99.95
Samsung Galaxy S II HD LTE $0 -> $49.95
Samsung Galaxy S III 16GB $99.95 -> $159.95
Samsung Galaxy S III 32GB $149.95 -> $209.95
LG Optimus L5 $0 -> $49.95 (voice contract)
Motorola Motoluxe $0 -> $59.95 (voice)
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I got a chance to play with the RAZR HD LTE today.

When I reviewed the ATRIX HD LTE a while back I was checking off features on my checklist and couldn’t help but notice its screen wasn’t as big as the competition plus it was missing NFC. Turns out Motorola had another trick up its sleeve. 2 high-end SKU’s; the ATRIX HD LTE and now the RAZR HD LTE.
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*Update* Now they're telling people to come back in 2 hours. Uh oh, the smugness is taking over!*/Update*

As someone who wanted to line up for an iPhone but couldn't because Apple isn't allowing users to buy unlocked, I can't help but feel a little smug.

I've just been told by someone that the lineup at the Apple store has stopped moving because all 3 carriers activation systems have crashed.

<sarcasm>What a surprise, this never happened with the iPhone 3G, 3Gs, 4 and 4s launches</sarcasm>

So now, Apple isn't selling any more iPhones because they can't activate any more phones.

What they should do is have a separate allocation for unlocked buyers and allow each person to only buy one. ...

With the new iPhone launching tomorrow I thought I'd make HoFo your place for all things iPhone 5. Here are some links to fun iPhone 5 related threads:

Who's getting an iPhone 5
Pre-order shipping thread <- mine's is coming tomorrow!
who's waiting in line tomorrow <- I was going to but Apple Canada isn't selling unlocked one's on launch day.
AT&T or Verizon iPhone 5?
Does the iPhone 5 have hidden LTE bands?
iPhone 5 on Sprint
iPhone effect on Verizon's LTE network's
Using the iPhone's nano SIM in a Galaxy S III

For iPhone 5 users:

Post your iPhone 5 first impressions and reviews
Post your iPhone 5 case
Now that you have an iPhone 5 what are you doing with your old one?
Post your iPhone 5 wallpapers. [Some may be NSFW]

Now Android users will probably think that HoFo has become some sort of iPhone fanboy (fanboi) site. To balance our coverage, here's a link to a 'Stupid iSheep' thread. You can go there to talk about how awesome your Galaxy S III/HTC One X is or maybe brag about how many custom ROMs you've loaded on your Galaxy Nexus or maybe you just want to laugh at iPhone users (like me... though I'm also an Android user).

Oh, there's one more thing... I'm getting TWO iPhone 5's tomorrow (to make an iPhone 10). You know what that means... I'll be giving one away! So stay tuned for a giveaway! ...

Last week HowardForums was a booth 404 at the Canadian Wireless Trade Show. Despite the ominous booth number, a lot of people found their way to our booth.

On the first day, we presented our round table discussion on Android. It was a packed house, I’m told it was one of the most well attended seminars.
While we recorded the discussion, unfortunately, my camcorder ran out of memory half way so we only have the first 15 mins. Sorry about that! A big thanks goes out to our panellists; Tony Palazzo, Ken Price and Marc Saltzman.



Since I don’t have the complete discussion here's a link to my presentation. Please excuse my not-so-l33t Powerpoint skillz. Last time I used it was for last year’s CWTS presentation.
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*9/18 update* No change, GoDaddy is still waiting for Aust Domains to respond. I wonder if Aust Domains normally takes this long to respond to other kinds of requests. Please! Give us back our stolen domain!

*9/17 update* I asked GoDaddy for an update today. They're waiting for Aust Domains, the registrar with the stolen domain to get back to them with some information. It's been more than 24hrs so I hope Aust Domains acts soon. Please! Give us back our stolen domain!

Hi everyone and welcome to our temporary domain. As I'm sure you've noticed HowardForums is currently located at the temporary domain www.howardforum.com (no "s"). In case you can access this on some of your computers and not others, it will take a few hours for the changes to propagate throughout the internet.

In the meantime, do not access the site via www.howardforums.com unless you hear otherwise from me.

Unfortunately, our domain was stolen over the weekend and I'm currently working with my registrar, GoDaddy on getting it back. While I initially thought GoDaddy wouldn't do anything till Monday, after a a few hours they got back to me. Since then, they have been working with me to get the domain back so kudos to them helping me on the weekend.

Our stolen domain was transferred away to http://www.austdomains.com.au/ so GoDaddy is waiting for them to respond. Hopefully things will go smoothly so we can get our domain back.

In case you're wondering our forum data is unrelated to the domain so it is safe.

How did this happen? My GoDaddy account is attached to a family member's email. I did this so that our domains would be safe in case anyone ever tried to break into MY email. While the family member's email is used for other things it doesn't have anything else to do with the forum besides the domain. Last week, we were forced to log into this email at a hotel business center in order to print out something. Normally, I know better but we were in a bind. I suspect our thief was able to capture our email and password using a keylogger then.

The theif used the email to reset our GoDaddy account and then transferred the domain away. Before they did this they setup filters to automatically delete subsequent emails from GoDaddy. This would keep us from realizing our domain was about to be transferred away plus it would create the illusion that everything is okay.

Regardless, I apologize to all of you for our downtime and thank you for your support. I'll let you all know more as the situation unfolds.

Howard Chui ...

HowardForums will be at the Canadian Wireless Trade Show this Wednesday and Thursday at Toronto's Direct Energy Center!

There's still time to register for free at the Canadian Wireless Trade Show's website.

Come visit us at booth #404 where we will be giving out FREE t-shirts to HowardForums members.

We will also be giving out discount cards and give-aways from various HowardForums advertisers including 2 Maximum Signal in-house amplifiers, 2 in-vehicle amps and free Clarivue screen protectors.

Don't miss the round table discussion of the future of Android on Sept 12th at 2:15pm with Marc Salzman (who is he????), Tony Palazzo (Director of Handset Procurement from Mobilicity) and Ken Price (Director of Marketing, Mobile communications Division Samsung Electronics). ...