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#1 deleteduser198
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Everyone in this thread needs tocheck out Bastion. Bastion probably is the best action RPG out right now. Should be a $30-$40 3DS game but it's only $5
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The solution is far simpler than you'd think.

Your basic warm water and mild soap. Use a cloth or thick paper towel and gently rub both sides down and rinse. Let dry.

Shiny like new!

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Gotta love it
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I got a 3gs, and upgraded to Ios6 and now my battery barely last for 3hours on a FULL charge....

Does anyone else have this problem for Ios6? WTF is apple doing?! I love my iphone, but this is retarded.....I'm thinking about going back to 5.1.1.

Your thoughts?

metroid5
How old is the 3GS? It may be natural battery degradation. Can always bring it to the Apple Store, and if their diagnostics reveal it to be battery degradation, they'll replace it for free.
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#5 deleteduser198
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According to Master Card there are 4157 merchants with PayPass within a 25mile radius of New York City.

http://www.mastercard.us/cardholder-services/paypass-locator.html

And then there is also Visa payWave that adds a couple thousand more.

http://usa.visa.com/locators/visa-paywave-locator.jsp

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Quoted from Wired "most retailers dont have NFC scanners, the few that have scanners dont always have them turned on, and consumers arent frothing for the option. Apple clearly recognizes that lack of demand and has little incentive to push consumers in that direction. While the company excels at creating technology the rest of the world never imagined and then making its devices mainstream must-haves, NFC still feels too geekily cumbersome to have made sense for the iPhone 5. A lot of infrastructural change has to occur that Apple cant control before NFC just works. But no NFC doesnt mean Apple has abandoned paying with your phone. In fact, the iPhone 5 could do more to make mobile payments commonplace than any other phone or app yet. Some of the speculation around NFC had to do with the new Passbook app, which arrives when iOS 6 launches next week. Passbook lets you keep in your iPhone virtual versions of some items you might normally carry in your analog wallet or bag: boarding passes, movie and sports tickets, coupons, and gift cards. Passbook stores these items as barcodes, but some wondered if Apple would tie NFC to Passbook to make direct payments possible. While NFC could have made Passbook more versatile, barcodes fit Apples sensibility in every way that NFC does not. Unlike NFC, barcodes and barcode scanners are ubiquitous. No one really thinks about them as technology with a capital T, if anyone thinks about them at all. Theyre just part of the landscape. And thats because they just work. People know what bar codes are. Weve been living with them for a long time, says David Stone, CEO of CashStar, which handles the backend of several major national retailers digital gift card programs. Stone couldnt be happier about the route Apple has chosen, since his company built its system on the premise that e-gift cards would be barcode-based. He says Passbooks open API a departure for Apple means gift cards issued by his clients, such as Starbucks, Old Navy, and Sephora, can leap immediately into Passbook. Stone believes Passbook will eventually offer a payment mode directly tied to your bank account. But Passbook may not have to go that far to nudge shoppers toward thinking about their phones as a standard way to pay at the register more than any NFC-enabled Android phone with Google Wallet has done." Pretty much says it. Passbook has already caught up with NFC usage in less than a month mainly because there doesn't need to be any additional system put in place. Everything is already there, and any retailer can offer full fledged support without investing a single dime. Makes much more sense.
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[QUOTE="The_Joker1721"]So if IGN has reported an ad for Borderlands legends has been announced coming to iOS this month:
An advertisement for a Borderlands iOS game has been spotted. According to a page from the Borderlands 2 digital strategy guide, Borderlands Legends has been specifically designed for mobile and tablet and will be released this month for iPhone and iPad.IGN
Link Seems to be a Horde mode kind of game where it states on the ad that your gonna be fighting waves of enemies. If it can muster up any of the charm of the retail games this could be a really fun game. Thoughts?

Definitely awesome! I'm a huge borderlands fan, so this is great news! Hopefully multiplayer will be compelling. Thank God for GameCenter
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[QUOTE="BeErBOnG29"]And yet Passbook can't do even a quarter of what NFC can. Therefore, Passbook is superior? Puh-lease xD

The other things NFC can do is already mostly handled by bluetooth, save for one or two rare usage cases. Likewise, Passbook can do things NFC cannot do. Serves as your boarding pass for concert, airplane, bus and other transit tickets so you don't have to carry and/or lose them. Also serves as a discount coupon carrier.
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[QUOTE="Kid-Atari"][QUOTE="NVIDIATI"]

I like how you edited the title with some false information.

Once again, it doesn't have quicker adoption rate than NFC. What you said is a complete lie, please remove it.

NVIDIATI

NFC has been around for what.. A year? Two years almost? I don't see it being used anywhere in the NJ/NY area, whereas passbook has been available for less than a month yet major retailers, sports events and even all my local theaters support it. It may be subjective analysis but it sure is telling as all heck

NFC is already in many new phones and is becoming a standard feature on future phones and tablets.

NFC is also being introduced into laptop computers, all-in-ones and other electronics such as powered speakers, headphones, stereo receivers, and more.

NFC stickers and stubs are also growing, allowing users to pre-program the sticker/stub and use it in everyday applications.

NFC is in over 300,000 stores via PayPass system. It is used every day in Visa and MasterCard.

Japan, the worlds capital of NFC integration, has NFC in everything from vending machines to metro/train stations and even in billboards/posters.

BMW will be integrating NFC into their cars and specifically car keys, this can be used as a train ticket, parking pass, hotel room key, credit card, and whatever else you can think of.

NFC in USA is already being used with services such as Google Wallet and the small but growing ISIS. Retailers such as American Eagle, Bloomingdales, Champs, Guess, Foot Locker, Macys, Office Max, Toys-R-Us, Old Navy, and more already accept NFC to pay, earn store credit and redeem offers.

SITA plans to bring NFC to airports for airport parking, flight check-in, baggage check-in, access to lounge areas, airline boarding, etc.

The scale of NFC is just massive and undeniable.

Meanwhile Passbook has "widespread adoption" in a few American retailers and a sporting league.

So stop spreading false information and fix the title of this thread.

http://m.guardiannews.com/technology/2012/sep/14/apple-iphone-5-near-field-communication-nfc?cat=technology&type=article Ouch. It seems like it's not as successful as you make it appear to be. Seems like NFC is in purgatory than it is going anywhere. Lots of telling statements from the likes of EBay CEO, and even spokespersons from ISIS. Infact, the exclusion of NFC on the iPhone 5 caused ISIS to delay a huge launch for yet another year in reaction. Of all those stores you mentioned that supposedly support NFC, none of them in NJ or NY have it. Again, I say, there is not one NFC payment station anywhere in my area.
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http://www.wired.com/business/2012/09/iphone-5-nfc/ Wired writes a very reasonable argument as to why Passbook is and will be more successful and standardized than NFC payments. It's really not hard to see the reality of it. Passbook is already well on its way to being the standard mobile-device payment solution.
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I like how you edited the title with some false information.

Once again, it doesn't have quicker adoption rate than NFC. What you said is a complete lie, please remove it.

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NFC has been around for what.. A year? Two years almost? I don't see it being used anywhere in the NJ/NY area, whereas passbook has been available for less than a month yet major retailers, sports events and even all my local theaters support it. It may be subjective analysis but it sure is telling as all heck makes a ton of sense too. Barcodes have been around, and barcode scanners are present everywhere. NFC systems are not. Not surprising. just very interesting. I was opposed to the lack of NFC in the iphone 5, but it turns out it may end up being a very good thing.