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First iPhone 6 and 6 Plus Reviews: 'Thin and Sexy', 'Bigger and Better', Impressive Battery Life Up to 2 Days
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I still am. My 5S is plenty thin enough. Not to mention that slide on cases (such as the Mophie I always end up buying to use on long bike rides) are going to be a mess with that stupid camera lens sticking out.
That lens is going to end up being, to borrow a phrase from Jobs, "A bag of hurt."
Interesting on the battery life. One reason I went with the 6Plus was the 6 was seeming it would be about the same as the 5s. If this review is correct a day and a half would be welcome.
Though the landscape mode and camera will be nice in the 6plus. Will take some getting used to and I haven't been this excited for a new phone since the 4 came out.
Though the landscape mode and camera will be nice in the 6plus. Will take some getting used to and I haven't been this excited for a new phone since the 4 came out.
Ahhh going to be so difficult to choose between the Plus and the Note 4. I'm afraid the iPhone will end up being just that bit too tall for my pockets though.And with a screen this size, no dual window multitasking is quite a loss.
Depends on how you feel about quality and reliability. I have owned the Note 1, 2, and 3. My iPhone 5 is 2 years old and NEVER had an issue. Had my Note 2 replaced 3 times as well as my Note 3. People exprience the same thing with Samsung in charging ports and screen issues. Samsung is not all about quality.
If you are talking dress shirt pocket neither phone is most likely to fit. Just last week talking with my boss about if he was doing the 6 or 6+. Since I have the Note 3 he placed it in his shirt pocket and it didnt fit but it does in most of my shirt pockets. Neither will be an issue in your pants/short pockets.
I have ordered the 6+ to replace my Note 3. I never use dual window on my Note 3 or Note Pro 12.2 so that's no big deal for me.
Passed both of them already, because it doesn't have that pustule ridden OS known as Android it.
- 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.
I'm sure commenters at The Verge are popping some blood vessels by the 9.0 and 8.7 scores these phones got.
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?
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?
I'm sure commenters at The Verge are popping some blood vessels by the 9.0 and 8.7 scores these phones got.
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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If you have both models, you have 2GB of ram
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"We"?
Speak for yourself, my good fellow.
There's a story over at phonearena with a purported image of someone running a benchmark, which appears to put it at 1 GB. (Again, purported..)
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Direct quote from New York Times article claiming the regular 6 has better battery life than the plus:
"Call quality on the new phones is excellent and I found battery life on the smaller iPhone 6 to be impressive. I went almost two full days without a charge. Battery life on the iPhone 6 Plus is more like a day of constant use and not much more, but thats not terrible on a phone that size."
This can't be right, Right?
"Call quality on the new phones is excellent and I found battery life on the smaller iPhone 6 to be impressive. I went almost two full days without a charge. Battery life on the iPhone 6 Plus is more like a day of constant use and not much more, but thats not terrible on a phone that size."
This can't be right, Right?
Is there not one review comparing night shots of the 6+ and 6? With optical image stabilization being a differentiator, that seems like a no-brainer.
I swear Anandtech is the only review site worth anything.
I swear Anandtech is the only review site worth anything.
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.
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.
Screen off time, I can see the Plus winning because all other things are the same besides the much bigger battery.
Screen on time, it will be a lot closer; bigger screen = more energy use, especially if they had the brightness cranked.
If I wore cargo pants all the time, I'd definitely get the Plus for the bigger battery.