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First iPhone 6 and 6 Plus Reviews: 'Thin and Sexy', 'Bigger and Better', Impressive Battery Life Up to 2 Days

Can't wait to receive my 6 Plus but the Verge's comment about it looking better in a case has got me thinking. I didn't use any sort of protection or case for my 5s and I've loved using the phone exactly as Apple intended. I looked at getting one of their leather cases for my 6 Plus but the Apple leather case has got to be the single most marked up product that they sell. That case is not worth £39 which ever way you look at it. The leather iPad case is £65!!!!! Totally, totally over priced.

That being said, I'm struggling to find a case I like on Amazon which I can have delivered before Friday via Prime.
 
a.roden said:
Have you read the comments?! some serious Apple haters :rolleyes:
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I know. I suppose all we have to do is develop the thickest of skins, like Stephen Fry. :)

I've been noticing it on all all review videos. Funny really. Made me realize it was high time I hide all youtube comments.
 
Keirasplace said:
- Much Better Camera than Note 3 or Note 4, even last year'S 5s had a better camera.
- Much better CPU (compared to benchmark cheating and sluggishness reports about the Note 3), especially single core performance (the most important one),
- touch ID
- Better GPU, Better battery life (looked at several reviews).
- h265 encoding (first to do so).
- The Note 3 screen uses Pentile like tech AND is a lower resolution than the 6+, Anandtech gives it a lower score than the 5s or 5c.

YOu want me to continue... Or you going to tell me that 4K video on a very small sensor is anything else by a side show and is a "great" deal. Go get a photography course if you think this is true.

Anyway.. NO, the Note 3 is not in the same league as this phone, not even close.
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Note 3 has something that iPhone 6 doesn't: Stylus...lol welcome to the 90, Samdroid.
 
Watabou said:
I know. I suppose all we have to do is develop the thickest of skins, like Stephen Fry. :)

I've been noticing it on all all review videos. Funny really. Made me realize it was high time I hide all youtube comments.
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I can't believe the sheer volume of negative comments on the article, but yes in some cases comments should be disabled. And it's no wonder Apple does so on their YouTube videos
 
Rogifan said:
I'm sure commenters at The Verge are popping some blood vessels by the 9.0 and 8.7 scores these phones got. :D

Design wise I think of these like the 3G/3GS phones. Adequate but not great. Clearly they were spending all their time on the watches and the phones got farmed out to junior designers. JMHO.

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So will some of these 6+ keyboard features come to the iPad?
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Not great? Ask android design to come up with a phone that thin but still perform like storm with battery last that long. No they can't.
 
Interesting comments… how far we've come that now it's down to nit-picky things.

What I want from the iPhone 6 is more battery life, better phone call quality, and faster connections. These are the things that affect me the most on a day to day basis. Improving these things (which appears to be the case) will make life good.

Can't wait until Friday… mini Christmas in September. :)
 
ecrispy said:
Some sites are truly shameless in their blind Apple worship, like The Verge. I mean its almost like they've never seen a big screen phone before! And why does no one take Apple to task for the huge top, bottom and size bezels? Phones like Note 4, G3 have bigger screens in a smaller body.

There's zero innovation, except for Apple Pay. Its literally just a bigger phone with updated internals. I bet that tons of hw/sw features were held back for the 6S/7 next year.

Its really frustrating to read reviews that seem like they came from the Apple PR dept with little in the way of actual facts or measurements or comparing to the competition, other than just gushing over how it made someone feel.
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Note 3/4 has smaller body? You need to get your eyes checked again unless you mean smaller is shorter but wider and thicker. Should I call that a dumb comment? Yes, I should.
BTW, this is not the only one reviewing these iPhone but all other reviews had the same impressions. You can disagree with them all, but the truth is butt hurt.
 
fallenjt said:
Not great? Ask android design to come up with a phone that thin but still perform like storm with battery last that long. No they can't.
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Let's see how it holds up. iP5 for example had some very serious flaws that made me quite disappointed. "Scuffgate", almost inevitable power button failure, purple spots on the camera lens (I already got three of them on my lens, they kinda ruin the pictures). All of these are manufacturing defects, so no, not a "user failure". I still stayed loyal to the company because of my pleasent overall experience (especially with my iP4), but I'm hoping that their quality control got stricter.
 
Mr Fusion said:
The revolution is over. It's just a phone now, there's nothing left to impress.

That said... "Sexy" is the last word I'd use to describe this phone. Once again Ive has demonstrated the horrors of design without checks and balances. This one should've been binned at doodle-on-a-cocktail-napkin stage, instead we're stuck with it for two years. This is what happens when there's no Steve to yell, "Jony that's ****ing ugly you gotta do better than that." :rolleyes:
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I agree. I don't like the design, can't see where is the sexiness. Technology and software wise, the most important features almost every OS has, there is nothing that people can look and say "damn, that is a game changer!". Nowadays it's all about preference, since smartphones are neck a neck.

MentalFloss said:
Well, when was the last revolutionary smartphone released? I think it was in 2007. :D Ever since then, we have just seen variations and evolutionary improvements.

For me, personally, the phase detection AF on the iPhone camera is a major revolution (if Apple implemented it well, which remains to be seen). I own a Canon EOS 70D which incorporates just that functionality, and it was considered quite a big deal. Read or watch any review of the 70D, and the AF will always be the major topic in the review, while it's just an afterthought in iPhone 6 reviews. Of course, this is something that the majority of users won't care about, so if I had to write a review, I probably wouldn't use the title "New iPhone with revolutionary camera upgrade!" ;) I think it's something that most people will only notice when they go back to a camera that does not have this technology. And yes, in half a year, every Samsung phone will have phase detection AF.

Other than that, yep, it's a bigger thinner iPhone with a better display and a new payment method that is not rolled out yet. So it's just about as exciting as every other phone release since Steve Jobs held up the first iPhone in 2007. Exciting enough for me, but obviously not for everyone.
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I won't say I'm not excited, but never felt as excited as when the iPhone 4 came out. I was so excited I couldn't wait until I got mine, I was really looking forward to it and loved it right after I got it and also after I sold it. Never felt like that again sadly.
 
JarScott said:
Can't wait to receive my 6 Plus but the Verge's comment about it looking better in a case has got me thinking.
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With early Apple reviews on mainstream sites you have to understand one thing: these guys absolutely cannot be seen "badmouthing" the product if they want to stay on Apple's "good guys" list. These kind of "subtle jabs" might be the reviewer trying to say what he cannot say ("the back is ugly").
 
ecrispy said:
$199 for an entry level phone, skipping the most popular 32GB model to force people to upgrade to 64GB for an insane markup - is there no end to the greed?
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What the F are you talking about? Apple gives you 64GB for the price of 32GB compared to previous model. So it's okay to you if 16/32/64 but not 16/64/128 for the same price scheme?
 
JarScott said:
Can't wait to receive my 6 Plus but the Verge's comment about it looking better in a case has got me thinking.
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Well, looks are a matter of personal taste. I for one actually like the look of those terrible evil stripes on the back. But if you are one of those people who keep looking at the back of their phone while using it and who dislike the stripes because of... reasons, you might want to get a case, yes. ;)

By the way, his main argument for a case seemed to be something else: "Between the size and the slippery curved aluminium edges, I prefer using it in Apple's leather case."

I think some people might simply be scared that the phone is too slippery to hold without a case.
 
SJism23 said:
Not too happy about the 1 GB of RAM in the phones as reported by MacWorld.
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It's amazing how fixated people are on this particular spec number.

I suppose there's no other obvious stat for critics to cling to as the tidal wave of iPhone 6's wash them away.
 
fallenjt said:
What the F are you talking about? Apple gives you 64GB for the price of 32GB compared to previous model. So it's okay to you if 16/32/64 but not 16/64/128 for the same price scheme?
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The 16/64/128 memory options are definitely a chicken**** move by Apple to maximize profits. It's indefensible.

... But please, don't let me stop you from trying. ;)
 
bobob said:
It's amazing how fixated people are on this particular spec number.
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It's mostly due to the complaint of excessive tab reloading in Safari - which is a valid argument.

However, I am actually wondering if a RAM upgrade will really fix this. I have the sneaking suspicion that it is more of a problem of iOS and/or Safari, because you don't need hundreds and hundreds of Megabytes to store the contents of a few Safari tabs, and if it were so bad on the 5/5S due to the RAM, then my 4S (with 512MB) would have to be completely unusable with tabbed browsing - which it isn't. So while there is something to be improved in the web surfing experience on iOS devices, I somehow doubt that additional RAM will change anything, but that seems to be the basis of the whole RAM upgrade discussion.
 
bobob said:
It's amazing how fixated people are on this particular spec number.

I suppose there's no other obvious stat for critics to cling to as the tidal wave of iPhone 6's wash them away.
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Specs don't interest me, but constantly reloading Safari tabs do. If it can keep a dozen websites open and some apps running at the same time, I don't care how much RAM it has.

There goes your straw man... Now it's time for you to lecture me on how I have better things to worry about, or how it's simply "not an Apple priority" like others have attempted to argue. :rolleyes:
 
AppleScruff1 said:
I wish that they would get rid of the home button. The 6 Plus is bigger than the competition with the same size screen and harder to use one handed than it could be. One of the reviews also stated that the rounded edges make it more slippery than the 5S which is more squared edges.
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Ok. Let's get this **** cleared up once for all:
*Note 4 dimensions: 153.5mm x 78.6mm x 8.5mm - 5.7" screen
*iOhone 6+ dimensions: 157.1mm x 77.8mm x 7.1mm - 5.5" screen
The size of these phones is pretty much the same.
0.2" extra diagnostic doesn't look much difference ( LG G3 next to Note 3 comparison).
Stop trolling would you?
 
H2SO4 said:
It means he’s never used one. I have and though I’ve not yet used the iP6 camera I’m pretty sure the Lumia will trash, and I do mean trash it.
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At least according to Engadget's review, the difference is not quite that huge.

"Shots taken by the Lumia 1020 were far more detailed and had a slightly more accurate white balance and color representation outside; but while it did a fantastic job capturing the shadows, the highlights were typically more blown out than they were on the iPhone. "

So while I read out of this that the 1020 ultimately had the better camera (no surprise there), it does not win in all regards. For a phone that is being marketed as the camera phone with "unbeatable photos" (their words) and that looks like a point and shoot camera with a phone glued to its back, that is not such an impressive performance.
 
MacModMachine said:
thats why there is tons of manufacturers making pens for the ipad...because its so 90's ?
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Thank you,

Just because Jobs made that comment about the stylus all of the ifans think all of a sudden that a pen on a device is wrong. To me the BIGGEST mistake of the ipad is not having an official stylus with a thin tip. I could easily be a option instead of the horrible crayon sized ones we have now.

Being an artist, I would really appreciate a proper pen.
 
Why would you need to develop thick skin? Why would someone's opinion on an electronic device affect you personally in any way?

Watabou said:
I know. I suppose all we have to do is develop the thickest of skins, like Stephen Fry. :)

I've been noticing it on all all review videos. Funny really. Made me realize it was high time I hide all youtube comments.
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One thing I've noticed is no one in reviews ever says anything about the RAM. It's totally a macrumors thing. :confused:
 
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