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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 :rolleyes: 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. :D

I love VR but a headset is effectively putting on a blindfold. There's no way I'd do that among strangers in public, on a bus/train/plane etc. Just too much risk.
 
I love VR but a headset is effectively putting on a blindfold. There's no way I'd do that among strangers in public, on a bus/train/plane etc. Just too much risk.

Bus/Train no, but plane - maybe, not much chance of someone robbing you on a plane, plus a lot of people even wear eyemasks to sleep.

I suppose the majority wouldn't bother bringing it out in public anyway. It's home entertainment first and foremost.
 
With you here, I have the 5S and have no intention of moving. I'm a "tock" upgrader generally anyway. The 6 is not a pretty phone....

Then you will become a "tick" upgrader this time, as I strongly assume the 6S will look nearly exactly like the 6. ;)

I am upgrading from a 4S, which will be a huge jump, and I like the looks of the 6 a lot, so I'm lucky. :D
 
Don't ship mine. I don't need 6.9 mm thickness. Prefer battery life and phone that will not crash in my front jeans pocket when i sit.
You just need to get yourself a pair of slick new jeans and you're all set for iPhone 6, bro.

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Gee, my wife always tells me I'm "one in a million", now I find out I'm only one in 80 million. *sigh*

Well one in 80 million is more special than one in a million, so take it as a complement. You just found out that you're 8X "specialer!"

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You just need to get yourself a pair of slick new jeans and you're all set for iPhone 6, bro.

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I'm a mother father gentleman!
 
So approximately 1% of all human beings will have an iPhone 6/6+ by the end of the year. When you take into account the vast swathes of humanity who are too poor, young or old to be potential customers, that's an amazing thing.
 
Should rename title to "Apple Aiming to Ship 80 Million Tons of Screen Bezel By End of 2014"
 
That should make up for Apple's two hours of live-streaming problems that Samsung so graciously pointed out.

Maybe Samsung should really get into the game and sell 80 million Galaxy Note 4 by the end of the year.

That shouldn't be too difficult... right? :D

Samsung could ship 80 million Galaxy Note 4.
I doubt they could build them.
I'm sure they couldn't sell them.

They'll probably increase the size to 7 inch and call it "innovating".
 
I was gonna wait... but T-Mobile's willing to pay my ETF and give me unlimited data with no throttling and tethering... More and more tempted to pre-order. Hopefully the supplies isn't going to be too bad

Where's this deal?

I was planning on moving there anyways but didn't know about anything like that deal
 
This is the first iPhone release where I want it NOW. I'm trying to figure out the best option for upgrading.
 
So approximately 1% of all human beings will have an iPhone 6/6+ by the end of the year. When you take into account the vast swathes of humanity who are too poor, young or old to be potential customers, that's an amazing thing.

Never looked at it that way :) And that is only in the first roll out in the end of 2014

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This is the first iPhone release where I want it NOW. I'm trying to figure out the best option for upgrading.

Just buy instead of being married to you provider by a 2 year contract
 
If I was on an iPhone 4s, I'd upgrade, but I'm on an iPhone 5 and it honestly still runs so fast and is so light and good looking, that it feels very modern and all around a great phone. Not even considering an upgrade to the iPhone 6 which had minimal changes over the 5s besides the display size, a change I'm not even sure I want.

I'm using an unlocked 5 and have no intention of upgrading anytime soon. I'm at the point now where I can wait a couple years to buy this year's latest and greatest at a fraction of the price on eBay. The one feature I'm really looking forward to is Hand-Off. The A6 is a great SoC. It's nice to see smartphones out there that are still really useful after the normal two-year upgrade cycle. I also prefer the 4" display. If I need a larger display, I use my iPad mini and my phone's hotspot, which is where Hand-Off will come in real handy...no pun intended.
 
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.

Just fine with an Otterbox on it.

I for one wreck things, so the design and shape are uninteresting, bands on the back not pleasing etc. not important.

Just need to get my hands on these to check what size they would be with an Otterbox.

Then comes the pants test. How comfortable is a 5.5?
Wondering if the stores will balk when you try to put their display models into your pant pocket.

For now the 4.7 will probably win:)
128 GB yay finally.

To all the whiners:

These are great phones!
 
I had the opportunity to handle a Galaxy Note 3 with a battery pack on it, and it fit in my pocket quite well. It wasn't much different than an iPhone with an Otterbox case on it, and I think it actually was a bit thinner. I don't have huge pants either.

I'll have to try the 6 Plus out in person, but I think it should fit quite nicely.
 
I expect a ratio of something like 80:20 in favour of the 4.7" model. I doubt Apple will release a breakdown of each model's sales (As they didn't with 5S/5C) but I still think the 4.7" alone will be the best selling smartphone of all time.

Couldn't have said it better myself!
 
Judging by peoples comments, this could be either "the mother of all upgrades" or "the mother of all fu**ups"

Certainly not expecting the launch day numbers they had last year. There are a lot of people on these boards taking the "I want to physically handle both of them before deciding which one to buy" approach. Myself included. I'll wait until the hysteria dies down and I can actually get into a retail establishment to see them.
 
that thing reachability it could be the next big thing for all the big smartphone..
it is very nice and useful for smartphones with screens larger than 4.5"
i am sure that android will make something like this aswell

Apple had to do something for years of bashing large phones. It's like they woke up one morning and said screw it; we are giving people the biggest phone we can make. Not knowing that people would buy the 4.7" with 1920x1080 display, optical image stabilization and better battery life. All they needed was one premium model; not a high-end 5.5" and midrange 4.7".
 
I'm going to upgrade my Droid Razr to an iP6 4.7. Then I'll upgrade my iP5 to a .... Should I get that LG G3? Nothing seems compelling.
 
Certainly not expecting the launch day numbers they had last year. There are a lot of people on these boards taking the "I want to physically handle both of them before deciding which one to buy" approach. Myself included. I'll wait until the hysteria dies down and I can actually get into a retail establishment to see them.[/QUOTE

Just go to any wireless shop and hold a Note 3. Pretend that the screen is smaller and the body is longer. Do the same with the LG G3 when comparing the regular 6.
 
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.

Do you really think double tap home button is elegant solution to sove one hand usability? Just shrink down entire home screen to one corner? According to what I see, it is pretty ugly. Once you choice an app, the whole UI back to full screen, then you need have to double tap the home button again.

Not motioning it is easily to get double click when you do double tap, so you can easily enter multitasking mode than bring down the whole UI.

Some Android UI allow you to drag down the whole app to smaller window, so you can use it in one hand. I think that is better solution than double tapping every time.
 
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.

Really? As far as I know Samsung was in phablet game far emailer than Apple. What gives you impression that Samsung wants to claim they were the first? They just happen to announce the phone in IFA alone with whole bunch of other manufacturers. I could also make the claim tha tAolle did the fine calculation to undercut Samsung by choosing their announcement so close to Samsung.
 
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