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Apple to Hold iPhone Event on September 9
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I don't think we can interpret anything if they set it for Yerba Buena/Moscone. If Apple is upending iPhone sizes its not going to want a new product to share the media spotlight with its profit center. Similarly, its not going to want a new product to get overshadowed by a much bigger product.
And if they use the Apple campus auditorium how does that preclude announcing an updated iOS capable AppleTV as a "warm up" act?
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No, it's not a "fact" until its announced. Until then it's an accepted rumor. Facts by definition are provable. Go to Apple's web pages and show me where they list a 4.7" iPhone for sale or in the works. All we have so far are lots of data points suggesting the existence of such a device, but even that doesn't mean it will go on sale.
Here's what Kara Swisher said on Twitter last night:
https://twitter.com/karaswisher/statuses/496787496093499392
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I personally can't stand Kara Swisher, but WSJ has reason to be this arrogant. They are always accurate in Apple matters.
Plug your Apple TV into your Xbox's HDMI port.. "Xbox Snap TV".. and boom, you don't have to choose.
Can't help you if you're on PS though.. stand up an iPad near you?
Yesterday at the mall I told my wife that I was waiting until both models are available so I can see them side by side before I decide which one to buy. Then she dropped the unanswerable question on me. "Why do you need a new phone, is there something wrong with the one you have?"I was not prepared to answer with an appropriate reason, or at least one that she was willing to accept. She still uses her 6+ (?) year old, chipped cell phone. No data plan or text. She only uses a cell phone as a phone, imagine that. Maybe I'll wait for the 6s, ugh.
Let me try to help you out
This isn't a "needs" conversation. Needs are food, clothing, shelter. Anything beyond that is just "want", and balancing toys and happiness with budget.
Depending on what kind of plan you have with your carrier, you may already be paying for a new phone you don't own. Although this has recently started to change, typically your rate on your 2-year contract price doesn't change after your 2 years are up, so you're continuing to pay towards the subsidy of a phone you've long since "paid off". This can be reason enough to get a new one.
The batteries of these things have a defined lifetime, and in my experience it seems to be right around 18 months when the deterioration starts to be noticeable. And at that point it's hardly worth throwing more money at it by replacing a battery for a device that won't be supported with OS updates for much longer anyway. The price of the battery replacement is about half the cost of the subsidized base model of the new phone.
You may have started running into storage problems, as apps have seemingly doubled in size recently, your picture collection grows, etc. They aren't expandable, so to keep up, you're going to need a new one with more space.
(I could go on.
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My hands aren't that big and a bigger phone is more likely to slip and fall when trying to use the phone with one hand.... I tried to like the Samsung S4 and I just couldn't and the Android didn't help either. But I was browsing and consuming a lot of content on that phone. With the 5S it's 90% talk and the rest is a quick glance at e-mail and that's about it and am happy with that.
I am going to be in 5S world for a long time and hopefully Apple will continue to make them as the size of the phone grows over time...
People are obsessing over one-handed use. You can't accurately zoom in on a picture (on iPhone) when holding it in one hand... It requires the pinch gesture, which is nearly impossible to achieve with the same hand you're holding the phone with.
So, for the benefits a bigger display brings, without loss of quality, I'm all for it.
After all, scrolling through music, contacts, dialling phone numbers, etc can be done on a large screen with one hand, so long as the OS scales appropriately. Can't reach the back button? There's a gesture for that.
If you're editing photos or video, working in iWork or anything like that, the chances are you're using two hands anyway.
All this discussion for a .7" increase in screen size...
So, for the benefits a bigger display brings, without loss of quality, I'm all for it.
After all, scrolling through music, contacts, dialling phone numbers, etc can be done on a large screen with one hand, so long as the OS scales appropriately. Can't reach the back button? There's a gesture for that.
If you're editing photos or video, working in iWork or anything like that, the chances are you're using two hands anyway.
All this discussion for a .7" increase in screen size...
Is this really that big a deal? This is clearly a thread about a future iPhone event on a site specifically made for Apple rumors.
It any reader, even a casual one, can't figure out that nothing is confirmed yet and everything here is speculation, they probably can't afford the phone anyway due to having gone broke buying swampland in Florida.
Right, Apple will not come out with any new iPhones this year.
That's not what his post meant.
I feel the new iPhones are going to be so unnecessarily large. Some people may like that but that's just me
Ummm, the 4S IS an odd release, so apparently you don't ALWAYS skip the odd releases.
Wish someone would make a iphone 6 paper template of the 4.7 and 5.5 inch so I can hold it before its released. Pretty sure I will get the 4.7 since i think 5.5 is way to big but still would like to see both.
Right, Apple will not come out with any new iPhones this year.
That's correct. It's not what my post meant. I meant that people think they know what Apple will do better than Apple themselves. And they believe (incorrectly) that things can be confirmed before Apple confirms things.
The large phones will probably be released at the iPhone 6. There is enough rumours about this. But it's still all rumour till Apple officially confirms it (which has not happened yet. All the idiots who say "Apple are expected to do X" And "Apple will do Y" are just full of themselves. They know it's all rumour (but pretty plausible rumour) till Apple confirm it. They just like being *******s.
I think having the most profits of any individual phone line by a huge margin is winning. Apple strategy of decent sized phones is winning. We don't know if it's to emulate the competitors. The iPad Mini sure feels like that. Apart from screen size there's no real difference between the iPad and iPad Mini. That feels like a smaller "me too" sized tablet. Sure it will bring in lots of profits but it is what it is.
If the overzised rumoured Apple phones are not "me too" phones then Apple will tell us why they are not "me too" and how they are different (in ways other then just screen size) to what we have now. The rumours are pointing towards "me too" but if it's not Apple will surely tell us soon enough.
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Is this really that big a deal?
Yes
A lot of rich people have more dollars than sense. They can easily afford 100 iPhones. But they still believe (wrongly) that others can confirm what Apple will do in the future. We can speculate, we can guess, we can rationalise, but we can't confirm. Lots of people like to think they can confirm, bot only Apple can confirm.
This will stop being a big deal when people stop believing they can confirm Apple future plans.
i make the mistake of not speaking quite so literally on forums. but youre right.
Not sure if you're willing to pay or not,but you can get a mockup one online for 14.99usd. I was certain I was getting the 5.5. However I ordered the mockup 4.7 and it's plenty big for me. I also ordered a case for a 5.5 (it comes today) so I can compare. That case was only like 3.00usd.
Does this help?
This is a mocked up (to scale) 5.5" iPhone 6.
Best viewed on an iPad obviously!
An iPhone 4S is a revision of the iPhone 4. An iPhone 5S is a revision of the iPhone 5. 4 is even 5 is odd. 6 is even etc. Ugh.
So...someone is going to come to Mac*Rumors*, read a post that claims NFC,better battery, IR blaster or any of the other *rumors* that get posted on Mac*Rumors* and...what...make a bad purchasing decision?
Yeah...not trying to be a jerk but I'm having a hard time caring what poor assumptions this hypothetical person is going to make.
Does this help?
This is a mocked up (to scale) 5.5" iPhone 6.
Best viewed on an iPad obviously!
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Give me now! I want......
Does this help?
This is a mocked up (to scale) 5.5" iPhone 6.
Best viewed on an iPad obviously!
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If it looks like that, I will buy it. I'm not a huge fan of iPhones, but flat black is just sexy...
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Why "Perv"?
69 = just a number....BUT...if you are referring to that human interactivity that is often associated with that specific number, I would like to add that it is in no way perverse but highly enjoyable and most entertaining for both involved persons...you should give it a try sometime