I think most people mean they wanted a smaller iPhone 6 option. Not just the same phones we all could get even if Apple stopped selling them. Reminds me of those who wanted a dvd/br drive in the NEW macs, not the older model without the better screen.
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Apple Announces 4.7-Inch iPhone 6 and 5.5-Inch iPhone 6 Plus, Launching September 19
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I think most people mean they wanted a smaller iPhone 6 option. Not just the same phones we all could get even if Apple stopped selling them. Reminds me of those who wanted a dvd/br drive in the NEW macs, not the older model without the better screen.
Right because it's the cheapest. They're economizing. I'm sure those users would prefer and deserve a 32gb model instead of 16gb for years now. I just feel like the baseline models should be 32gb with where tech is at today. If you're an iPhone user using less than half the storage space then you probably don't need an iPhone. Just buy a cheap phone. If you want the ability to take 1080p videos you need a good 8gb of free space, so you don't find yourself deleting crap all the time.
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What, the fact that 16gb is useless today?
Thats a case of what you think you need. You don't need megapixels you need a bigger sensor with bigger photo sites, OIS and larger aperture. More megapixels without an increase in sensor size will degrade the picture quality.
Thats why I was disappointed - sensor same size, photo sites same size, lens same aperture...
Same as me, but don't you mean you had the 3gs 1 year.
The 3gs came out in June 2009 - 5 years ago...
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Or put yourself in their shoes, they might have been used to buying a Ferrari every year and one year they come out with a BMW both nice cars to a lot of people will like both, but the one who likes their Ferarri might be a bit miffed at getting a BMW.
Sure he can go with the competition but maybe he doesn't like driving Porches.
Not really - and the decision is almost certainly based on sales of earlier iPhone models.
16GB is plenty for people who are happy to keep all of their media files in the cloud (or mainly want a phone/email/web terminal). Probably a strategically good idea to keep 16GB models going, too: prevents app developers getting too greedy with space.
If you want to store your media library on the device, 32GB is neither here nor there, you probably want 64GB or 128GB.
Try filming 1080p video and see how fast that fills up your 16 GB. It's not just a matter of cloud storage... the base model should NOT still be 16 GB at this point in technology. App sizes are increasing as well. 16 GB is garbage. End of story.
That's about the 4th or 5th time I've heard the "you don't need megapixels" BS.
Firstly I AM looking for more pixels - If I take a picture with the 6+ now and need to crop the image, that impacts on my ability to print that photo at a high quality. Uncropped I can print at 8" x 11" at 300dpi, cropped will be lower. Obviously these pixels will be of an amazingly high quality as a result of stabilisation and larger sensors.
Secondly, we're not talking about a giant increase in megapixels, this isn't about competing with other brands. If it had been a jump to 20MP (or 40), we'd call it ridiculous, but a stepped change to 12-15MP would be ideal whilst retaining the image quality and pixel/sensor size from the previous generation.
Oh for %^$#$% sake, its an expression.
Why do people get so friggin bent out of shape over his post?
Gotta be only those apple cult member types for this phone hasn't, I suspect for most people, that "just gotta have it" feel as it once had....
Maybe the times have changed and he might have had to as well?
I only ask as I was an original iPhone user and have all the other toys but I went to Samsung 2 or so years ago when the screens got bigger.
I dont deny that iPhone is still in the long run a better made phone than Samsung but its a two edged sword.
I prefer my Samsung as I like a bigger phone and more importantly, I got tired of jailbreaking iPhones to have the phone do what i needed it to do.
The more jailbroken apps you use, the less stable the iPhone becomes.
Yet with Samsung I don't even need to do anything. Sure, I could do the android version of jailbreaking if i just wanted to get rid of some Samsung apps I don't use but I have more than enough room on my phone using an SD card so its not necessary.
And I have a phone that is large enough i can actually read the web properly.
The iPhone was too small for me to enjoy browsing.
My point is, the market has expanded and there are people who want more than iPhone can give.........maybe Tim Cook will make Apple $$ in the long run and they won't lose so many iPhone customers to Samsung.........Apple isn't here to lose money .......
Just my $0.02
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If everyone agreed, they wouldn't be complaining, its easy to understand.
They aint pretty thats for sure. I thing they are ugly, perhaps they might grow on me and I'll probably eventually put my phone in a case to hide them.
Apple goes to great lengths to state how gorgeous things are or how functional, yet they didn't say that about the antennae lines. I can't recall seeing ugly lines like this on other phones.
No, not BS: physics, and the usual mistake of confusing the number of megapixels with the resolution of the image.
More pixels on the same sized sensor & the same aperture lens = less light falling on each pixel = more amplification and/or longer exposures needed to get an image = more image noise and/or camera shake.
Phone cameras rely on aggressive noise reduction (low-pass filtering) and digital image stabilisation (cropping & resampling) - both of which reduce the true resolution of the image and introduce artefacts.
The optical image stabilisation on the 6+ is probably more valuable than a few extra MP.
Exactly the same here too. 128GB iPhone 6 Plus for T Mobile and an Apple Watch at launch. So excited.
What makes you think they won't sell to as many people as possible?
Apple added a feature for you, double click on the home button and the top half of the screen moves down, then after you click goes back to its original position.
So, available for preorder on the 12th, and in stores/shipping on the 19th. When they say "shipping on the 19th," I wonder if that literally means it will ship on the 19th, or, will it be shipped prior and delivered on the 19th?
Its not BS, its fact. You could read http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/mpmyth.htm
Nothing wrong with wanting that.
Any increase in megapixels without increasing the sensor size results in less quality (unless there are improvements in sensor tech)
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If you mean between iPhone6 and 6+, I don't think they have published any pics yet.
The difference between OIS and non OIS is that with OIS, you can keep the shutter open for longer letting in more light which is good for lower light photography. The drawback is that this usually only makes sense when your subject is static so not as much use when taking pics of kids...
I don't buy iPhones and Macs just for the specs. I buy them for the Apple ecosystem, which I prefer.
iPhone 6+ 64GB for me, it's insanely expensive though (7590NOK or $1220), a whole 50% more than in the US. You could say I feel a bit cheated but at least it didn't go up in price again like the 5S over 5. That's just insane though, it costs as much as a damn MacBook air.
Hmm, you're right. I was so sure..but numbers don't lie.
Let's say it like this instead;
2009 & 2010 - 3gs
2011 & 2012 - 4
2013 & 2014 - 5
"Thereabouts" - and that's close enough for me.
He's allowed the pippin and he's allowed later iPhones which just didn't measure up.
This phone isn't as good as other phones, but they are the best phones from Apple