I imagine they would feel excited to see the new equipment. Everybody expects better equipment to be out after they buy a piece of electronics.
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First Impressions of iPhone 6 and 6 Plus: Sleek Look, Great Display, Unoptimized Apps Blurry, Loud Vibration
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I imagine they would feel excited to see the new equipment. Everybody expects better equipment to be out after they buy a piece of electronics.
Too bad you can't program with a series of short bursts followed by one long burst that slowly fades out.
Well it was bound to happen, but no reason for it. Been a huge Apple fan for decades. They screwed up my iPhone 6 order I placed at 3AM on 12th, was suppose to deliver today. I'm currently in the black hole of procedures to resolve. 4 calls to order support and still run around. They have been releasing these things every year you'd think they would have worked out the bugs on ordering! What knuckleheads!
We should put you in charge and see if you can get several million phones delivered with no glitches.
Probably more like genuinely annoying, but thanks. Finding rhetorical head-slappers in MR articles is like the proverbial shooting of fish in a barrel. It's too easy to be sporting. But what the heck, if they don't care then why should I?
Well, to get this convo back on track then, I'll add this tidbit:
I have the gold 4.7" & it is NOT even slightly yellow gold; it is actually closer to the rose gold of the new Apple watch. Looks fabulous.
Yeah. I was playing with the iPhone 6 at the Apple Store earlier. I'm torn between the white (silver back) or black. Both are really nice. The 6+ is too big for my hands.
What features does the iPhone 6 on T-Mobile have that the 5S doesn't have with respect to the T-Mobile network? Wi-Fi calling is on both? Both are Cat 4 LTE devices? Are both VOLTE capable? I am just curious as I might get the 5S as a replacement (refurb one too) for my defective S5.
Lol...they don't look that bad. But there definitely is a noticeable difference in quality between the ones that have been optimized and those that haven't....
There's a lot to look forward to as apps are updated. Tons of behind the scenes improvements for devs to take advantage of. We'll be seeing new little feature updates for a while.
The 6Plus is too big because they just enlarged an existing design, which isn't the elegance one expects from Apple.
It i bigger than other phones with smaller displays, thanks to the huge areas above and below the display. I get the bottom due to touch ID (most people have ditched the physical buttons) but the top could be shrunk down. There was much more "space" in that phone.
Next gen, they need to work that out more.
It i bigger than other phones with smaller displays, thanks to the huge areas above and below the display. I get the bottom due to touch ID (most people have ditched the physical buttons) but the top could be shrunk down. There was much more "space" in that phone.
Next gen, they need to work that out more.
Apple obviously isn't ready to shrink the bars down yet. It probably has a lot to do with it being an iconic iPhone look.
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I just picked up a extra 12W charger at Best Buy for $19.00. I figured no mater what I plugged in this one will charge at the best Wattage for all my stuff.
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Its odd Apple and Apple fans love to talk about sales figures, but I think people must have gotten tired of iPhones. Because frankly I don't see people with them as much as I used to. It seems like everyone really likes bigger screen phones. It used to be for every 10 people I'd see out in about, 8 of them would have iPhones, no it's more like 6 in 10 people have large screen Android phones.
I LOVE Android Phones from a hardware perspective, but always hated the operating system. So I think the iPhone 6 and 6plus are definitely a step in the right direction. I'm not convinced it's worth upgrading from the 5 (it was a free replacement phone) that I got just two months ago. I was waiting forever for an large screen iPhone that would match Android phones and while this finally has the screen size, I'm not impressed with the specs. I would have liked a much improved camera, battery, and maybe Beats audio drivers added (I'm sure it'll be in the 6splusplus).
Its odd Apple and Apple fans love to talk about sales figures, but I think people must have gotten tired of iPhones. Because frankly I don't see people with them as much as I used to. It seems like everyone really likes bigger screen phones. It used to be for every 10 people I'd see out in about, 8 of them would have iPhones, no it's more like 6 in 10 people have large screen Android phones.
I LOVE Android Phones from a hardware perspective, but always hated the operating system. So I think the iPhone 6 and 6plus are definitely a step in the right direction. I'm not convinced it's worth upgrading from the 5 (it was a free replacement phone) that I got just two months ago. I was waiting forever for an large screen iPhone that would match Android phones and while this finally has the screen size, I'm not impressed with the specs. I would have liked a much improved camera, battery, and maybe Beats audio drivers added (I'm sure it'll be in the 6splusplus).
Im afraid the 5s is the last iphone for you then. Once apple decided to go big, there was no going back. Only thing i can think of is maybe the Iphone 7 will have the same size display but minimal top and bottom bezels, who knows.
It's funny that some apps, like 1password, have updated to implement the new TouchID features but aren't optimized for the bigger screens. The blown up header bar is driving me crazy on my 6+! Evernote is one of the very few apps that has optimized for the screen size and is just stunning looking.
I was at an Apple store tonight (where people were still waiting in line for the new phones) and I thought the phones looked much better in person than in pictures. Based on photographs I was expecting the camera bulge to look awful but it is hardly noticeable (very similar to iPod touch). And while I'm still not sold on the look of the antenna lines they looked much better seeing the phone in person than in any photo. The person I was with loved how thin and light the 6 was (she preferred the curved sides to the more boxy 5) and never once commented on the camera or antenna lines.
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Um, I think Touch ID and the home button have something to do with it. Until they can come up with a solution for that which allows them to shrink the bezels I don't see the bezels going anywhere. Apple will never do asymmetric bezels.
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Um, I think Touch ID and the home button have something to do with it. Until they can come up with a solution for that which allows them to shrink the bezels I don't see the bezels going anywhere. Apple will never do asymmetric bezels.
I'm sure there is a 3 bears joke here some where.
Next years ad will say the 4.7" was just too small, the 5.5" was way to big.
This year try the 5.15" iPhone "its just right", lol.
Bleh, now I have to update my apps for oversized^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H bigger screens.
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It's silly, really, because "optimizing for iPhone 6" really just means recompiling in Xcode 6 in some cases. The iPhone 6 sees an old app and scales it up from 1136x480 instead of just telling the app that the screen now has different dimensions. Most well-designed apps would rescale themselves appropriately in that case without the need for an update. Now, I'm not 100% sure that I properly laid out the GUI on my apps... I can see why Apple would consider this risky. But an option to change the dimensions and attempt a proper rescale would have been nice. Oh well, everyone will just update their apps eventually.
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I did get a chance to get up close and personal with an iPhone 6 yesterday, a girl that was waiting with me at the car wash had one.. She had just gotten it the day prior (release day) She had a gold & white 4.7 inch version and thought it was too big for her small hands.
I on the other hand didn't think it was as horrible as I thought it might be, in fact I thought it was nice. The only thing that bothers me a little bit is the camera protrusion.
So yeah, I think I could go with that, but not the 5.5
I personally wouldn't put a smartphone in the back pocket simply because things get squished when you lean back and it's also quite uncomfortable.
The phones are strapped down in the store so it'll be hard to try out the practicability. They should really have non-functional dummies so you can try it out in your pockets, sitting down (you can't sit down anywhere in the iPhone aisles... in an apple store)and generally judge the haptics of it.
iPhone 7 at earliest. Touch ID could be integrated in the screen, instead. Could probably be done. I think a lot could be done if they wanted to. Apple could leap frog everyone in terms of design and tech, but they would have to compromise on their profit margins. So, instead we grow old waiting for the usual incremental hardware upgrades, and see our money end up as dividends for rich people, or go to Dr. Dre.