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Apple Expected to Announce iPhone 6 in Early September, With Launch Later in the Month
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I don't like big phones either.5S is perfect for me,but we all must be aware that someday we will have only one option to buy if we want to stick with iPhone. So,if i must buy,i would always choose smaler iphone over the bigger,because whats the point to walk around with brick in my pocket !? 5.5" is oversize for me.
With Apple tv 4th gen which comes this year,you will have Air play to big screen tv with iphone.So,you come home turn on the tv and play your games,surf the web and all other stuff on TV with your iPhone.
With Apple tv 4th gen which comes this year,you will have Air play to big screen tv with iphone.So,you come home turn on the tv and play your games,surf the web and all other stuff on TV with your iPhone.
What he meant was based on all the leaked front/back panels, schematics and dummy phones. Which unanimously point to that exact design. But you already knew that.
I would imagine that the loop striped antenna bands top and bottom are more a cost cutting effort than anything else. Adding precision cut glass inserts to the top and bottom of an aluminum casing costs a hell of a lot more time and money than just adding pin stripes to serve the same purpose. Sure not aesthetically pleasing.
I can't wait to see how Apple explains their way out of the experience driven ads that ran with the 5 and 5S where they defended the decision to not make the phone itself bigger, but rather make the screen a little taller. They made an ad specifically that showed the range a thumb could move across a screen and said they make the decision specifically so as not to have made things difficult for people.
I've owned every iPhone that's come out, and I've also owned 3 Android phones, the last of which was a Galaxy Nexus, and it was annoyingly big. In order to get to all areas of the screen I had to adjust my palm so my thumb could reach whatever I was trying to tap.
Personally, I think Apple's stumbled a bit lately. They haven't done anything particularly interesting in a while, and now they're just caving to market pressure instead of doing what they do best: experience design. Although I like the render associated with this story, I have a feeling that the actual iPhone6 is going to look like the other leaks we've seen so far, and to be honest, it's really ugly. iOS 7 and 8 are a design nightmare too. If I HAVE to go with a larger phone, I think I might be about ready to try Android again, especially with Android L and Material Design looking really nice. Yeah yeah, I know. Nobody's going to miss me. But I've been a pretty die hard Apple fan. My friends would tell you that if I'm considering jumping ship, that something is seriously wrong. And I think something is.
I've owned every iPhone that's come out, and I've also owned 3 Android phones, the last of which was a Galaxy Nexus, and it was annoyingly big. In order to get to all areas of the screen I had to adjust my palm so my thumb could reach whatever I was trying to tap.
Personally, I think Apple's stumbled a bit lately. They haven't done anything particularly interesting in a while, and now they're just caving to market pressure instead of doing what they do best: experience design. Although I like the render associated with this story, I have a feeling that the actual iPhone6 is going to look like the other leaks we've seen so far, and to be honest, it's really ugly. iOS 7 and 8 are a design nightmare too. If I HAVE to go with a larger phone, I think I might be about ready to try Android again, especially with Android L and Material Design looking really nice. Yeah yeah, I know. Nobody's going to miss me. But I've been a pretty die hard Apple fan. My friends would tell you that if I'm considering jumping ship, that something is seriously wrong. And I think something is.
I agree it looks better, but it still looks very plastic-y. I really hope we will see some sort of glass and aluminium or something like on the iPhone 4-5S.
The plastic-y feel could be because it's not real yet, and all the things we've seen were fakes/prototypes built with cheap material, but on the other hand the glass always gave the iPhone a "glossy" feel which fit the design of pre-iOS7, whereas the plastic matte rear would fit iOS7-8. So let's hope it won't be this way. The iPhone 5 already (partially) saw this matte aluminium rear (which looked good, however), and then the iPhone 5S was all plastic and colourful, which obviously fitted iOS 7 very well, as horrible as it looks.
Sorry for being a relative release date noob (Although I did pre-order the iPod touch gen 1 in 2007)...but is release date supply better these past few years, or will I have to wait in line at an Apple store for a week prior to launch? Rumors are kind of bittersweet if I can't get one for months...
And of course I'll wait for the larger version since I have big hands, so I might be waiting either way, but I'd like to know!
And of course I'll wait for the larger version since I have big hands, so I might be waiting either way, but I'd like to know!
From that render it looks a lot like this phone.......
Blackberry Z30
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Yoda says: Expectations are low with this one.......
There definitely are times when I would like a larger screen (5.5", even, though I don't think I would ever be happy with it for every day use), and 4.7" sounds pretty good.
But as far as horsepower goes, I definitely feel the same way; I used other people's iPhones when they were new, and I was surprised by how slow they were (3G, 3GS, and iPhone 4); the 4S was the first one I found satisfactorily fast, and the 5 is the first one I found fast enough at all times (with perhaps a few minor exceptions that are likely due more to storage speed or programming rather than processing speed).
I'm also not a fan of the iOS 7 interface.
GUI - Xerox
Tablets - Microsoft
MP3 players - Sony
Smartphones - Blackberry / Palm
Online music stiore - Ritmoteca.com (1998)
Watches - Pebble / Google
Apple hasn't innovated a single thing since 1986.
Seriously, Apple makes things work better for everyone, and that by definition is innovation. What you're talking about is ideas with no execution.
I have personal sources who say the watch might be from $1000 - $8000. They hired burberry and Tag heuer guys for a reason. So don't count on buying that watch.
A couple years ago I preordered online at like 3am. Pretty sure they still do it that way, no need to wait in any line.
I seriously doubt Apple would price their gadget that high. It will be a flop if they do. Case in point at that price, no deal for me.