Not really. While it is amazing what they manage to do with high end products, Samsung sells more phones in more countries, more carriers and has faster rollouts.
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Apple Aiming to Ship 80 Million iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus Units By End of 2014
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Not really. While it is amazing what they manage to do with high end products, Samsung sells more phones in more countries, more carriers and has faster rollouts.
SchneiderMan
macrumors G3
Better battery life, a more versatile iOS-enhanced big-screen landscape viewing layout and OIS? Count me in. I do everything on my iPhone, why not use one that can only make my experience grander. After all, the iPhone 5's smallish screen was what made me want to use bigger Android devices which I won't need to anymore.
I still think the 5.5" is too big despite Apple coming out with one, but then again I have small hands and wouldn't really be able to hold and use one comfortably.
That said, though, they still look ridiculous when being talked into. It's like holding a kitchen tile to your ear!
MacrumoursUser
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nagromme
macrumors G5
Not really: Samsung and LG both have awkward, limited one-hand modes, but not an elegant solution akin to Apple' Reachability. LG simply squishes the keyboard (not the whole UI) to one side--no help getting to stuff up top. And Samsung reduces the whole screen to a corner, making tap targets smaller and wasting the screen with ugly L-shaped black bars. And neither "solution" is ambidextrous.
Apple Reachability isn't some setting to dig for, it's ALWAYS present, and yet it takes effect only at the moment you need it, then automatically goes back to normal. It doesn't require a choice of left or right-handed, doesn't shrink anything (keeping it all easy to read and tap), doesn't look like a bug, and unlike LG, works for everything.
It's a great example of how others "just try anything" in an attempt to control another company's OS (Google), while Apple designs a well-thought-out user experience, from the ground up, built into the core OS.
It's such a shame they didn't use a more premium material on those plastic strips.
I'm also not sure how well those curved 'glass' corners are going to withstand a short drop or bump on a hard surface.
I'm also not sure how well those curved 'glass' corners are going to withstand a short drop or bump on a hard surface.
AppleInTheMud
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MacrumoursUser
macrumors 6502
5.5" is a fine size, but when I start imagining myself making a call and raising it to my ear ... Damn ... It's a ****ing brick. Then you realize.
AppleInTheMud
macrumors 6502
Samsungs doesn't just pop down. And pops down and goes left or right. Depends on your settings. This reachability doesn't look very nice.
iHack13
macrumors regular
I think am going to switch to a Nexus or LG G3 .
The price for the iPhone 6 16GB is 700 euros .
I can get two lg g3s for that price that's just ridiculous .
The only thing that sounded interesting or rather heard like distinguishes the iPhone from the rest was the camera sensor and a8 chip.
Truth is the magic camera sensor can be found in other phones , apple just explained how it works , thanks for that .
And the a8 comes with 1gb ram. I don't want to spend the money for two phones on an iPhone and struggle with ram after a year or two when updating to ios9.
I think the iPhone 5c (and the dot cases if you remember) was the first sign of decline. And at least the apple watch seems to be the next sign.
Apple tries to cover their failures . Best example is that they tried to convince us by saying the iPhone is the number one selling phone out there (5c and 5s summed up together)
Now ask yourself how many Galaxy's Samsung has sold . ( basically any device from them is called a galaxy)
The price for the iPhone 6 16GB is 700 euros .
I can get two lg g3s for that price that's just ridiculous .
The only thing that sounded interesting or rather heard like distinguishes the iPhone from the rest was the camera sensor and a8 chip.
Truth is the magic camera sensor can be found in other phones , apple just explained how it works , thanks for that .
And the a8 comes with 1gb ram. I don't want to spend the money for two phones on an iPhone and struggle with ram after a year or two when updating to ios9.
I think the iPhone 5c (and the dot cases if you remember) was the first sign of decline. And at least the apple watch seems to be the next sign.
Apple tries to cover their failures . Best example is that they tried to convince us by saying the iPhone is the number one selling phone out there (5c and 5s summed up together)
Now ask yourself how many Galaxy's Samsung has sold . ( basically any device from them is called a galaxy)
SchneiderMan
macrumors G3
It is too big, and the 4.7-inch model isn't that much of an upgrade over the 4-inch 5s IMO. I keep saying this, but Apple should have released one iPhone model - a 5-inch or 5.1-inch iPhone 6 Plus-like model.
Here's a PDF you can print out to give you an idea of the actual sizes before you put a pre order in.
http://photos.appleinsider.com/iPhone6_preorder_picker.pdf
LG doesn't have to make an OS and everything associated with it. LG doesn't even support their phones. LG doesn't even design their SoC. The sensors are similar, but Apple's post processing software is miles better.
You could buy 2 LG devices for the price of the iPhone 6? Then the products are in the correct price range.
What Apple said is that the iPhone (the 5s) is the best selling phone, and that is correct. Samsung is selling less devices than it did last year. Apple is selling more than ever. A "galaxy" phone can be had for less than 100 € (Y?) Maybe you should check that.
SchneiderMan
macrumors G3
It's thinner than all other similarly sized devices, so it won't really feel as brick-like lol
I wasn't even arguing that. Apple do product 'launches' better than anyone else. What the rest of the industry do is announce then wait months before releasing. By then they have fully run out of steam and something better has already been announced. Samsung announced the Galaxy Note 4 last week and it still won't be available to buy until next month, by then everyone would might have purchased a GN4 would buy the iP6+
Look at the moto 360. Announced months ago and finally arrives in a more mature competitive environment and underwhelms massively.
bobob
macrumors 68040
That's true.
It is also why I believe that Samsung only showed the Note 4 1 month before release so they could say "first!" against the 6 plus.
They must be shaking like there's not tomorrow.
don't ship mine. i don't need 6.9mm thickness. prefer battery life and phone that will not crash in my front jeans pocket when i sit.
i'll skip next awesomely thick models too. thank you.
i'll skip next awesomely thick models too. thank you.
What Samsung should have done imo is have the Note 4 ready to ship within days of announcement. The GN4 + Gear VR would have been a solid 1, 2 punch to Apple. I mean Apple have nothing to compete with Gear VR. And to those saying it's equivalent to Google cardboard 🙄 Samsung have Occulus Rift and John Carmack developing for it, it's going to be a success no matter what. VR is the real next gen tech, not watches. 😀
20 million more than iPhone 5? Okay it's two devices but...Apple seems to think that iPhone 6 is the greatest thing they've ever made when in reality it's...a bigger (and slightly uglier imo) 5S. I'm not sure what part of the 6 Apple thinks "is the biggest advancement in the history of iPhone".
Perhaps one needs to hold it in ones hand to truly appreciate it. The only thing that interests me is the bigger, higher contrast ratio screen, but as a big one-handed user, if I can't use it well with one hand it's a no-go. And the fact that you really need a case to cover up that ugly back...and if it's 1GB RAM on top of that...oh dear...Still, it will sell millions. Because who wants to be stuck using last years model, right? 😉
Perhaps one needs to hold it in ones hand to truly appreciate it. The only thing that interests me is the bigger, higher contrast ratio screen, but as a big one-handed user, if I can't use it well with one hand it's a no-go. And the fact that you really need a case to cover up that ugly back...and if it's 1GB RAM on top of that...oh dear...Still, it will sell millions. Because who wants to be stuck using last years model, right? 😉