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How fast and fluid does your new iPhone 6/6 plus feel?

It's no faster than my galaxy, but it's soooooo much more stable.

People complain about the rigidity of the apple ecosystem, but it's why these phones work so well. I love it.
 
TrueBlou said:
And I'm liking the battery, so far 21 hours 13 minutes on standby with 6 hours 47 minutes of use. Brightness full, WiFi and 3/4G browsing, Bluetooth on and lots of messaging, calls and apps being toyed with (including a very unoptimised app I'm developing just now) and it's still going.
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Just out of interest (cos you're a 6+ and I'm a 6, so not totally relevant to me), what % did you have left when you posted (or now)?
What network are you on?
Was that mostly WiFi with a little 3/4G, or a good mix of both?
 
So, as Apple would say, I love the "customer experience" of the 6.

In my hand, it feels exquisite. The round glass meeting the back, the solidness of the build, and the glass itself seems... Soft. Buttery.

The screen seems better than the 5s, but to be honest, I didn't say, "WOW" when I first saw it. I may have to compare it to the 5s directly to see if I am missing anything. Haven't taken any useful pictures with it yet to say how well I like the camera. The fast autofocus is very impressive compared to every other iOS device to date.

The larger screen area is indeed nice. You get a choice between Standard and Zoomed view, where Standard keeps the same resolution as a 5s, giving you more screen real estate (an extra row of icons on the home page, for example). Zoomed view enlarges everything so that you have the same space occupied as a 5s. This will likely be popular with folks who have less than stellar vision.

The 5s was pretty darn speedy and responsive. The 6 seems faster, but like the screen, I'm not blown away. Again, it may require some comparison, which I haven't had the time to do.

One thing I DID notice was a quickly draining battery. I am dropping roughly 10% an hour, even while not really doing anything. I was in a store yesterday on Wifi for about 30 minutes, screen on (auto brightness) and iMessaging with a friend. I had dropped a percent pretty much every time I checked. It (thus far) seems to be dropping much faster than the 5s. Battery usage basically says that the apps that were open used the most battery. No surprise (or help) there. I will be paying close attention to this over the next few days.
 
JoeTomasone said:
So, as Apple would say, I love the "customer experience" of the 6.

In my hand, it feels exquisite. The round glass meeting the back, the solidness of the build, and the glass itself seems... Soft. Buttery.

The screen seems better than the 5s, but to be honest, I didn't say, "WOW" when I first saw it. I may have to compare it to the 5s directly to see if I am missing anything. Haven't taken any useful pictures with it yet to say how well I like the camera. The fast autofocus is very impressive compared to every other iOS device to date.

The larger screen area is indeed nice. You get a choice between Standard and Zoomed view, where Standard keeps the same resolution as a 5s, giving you more screen real estate (an extra row of icons on the home page, for example). Zoomed view enlarges everything so that you have the same space occupied as a 5s. This will likely be popular with folks who have less than stellar vision.

The 5s was pretty darn speedy and responsive. The 6 seems faster, but like the screen, I'm not blown away. Again, it may require some comparison, which I haven't had the time to do.

One thing I DID notice was a quickly draining battery. I am dropping roughly 10% an hour, even while not really doing anything. I was in a store yesterday on Wifi for about 30 minutes, screen on (auto brightness) and iMessaging with a friend. I had dropped a percent pretty much every time I checked. It (thus far) seems to be dropping much faster than the 5s. Battery usage basically says that the apps that were open used the most battery. No surprise (or help) there. I will be paying close attention to this over the next few days.
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So ignoring the 'indexing' BS and that you're "using your device more" as the apologists will cite, the typical Apple battery life seems evident. A less thin casing would have allowed for a bigger battery, and the protruding camera wouldn't be there either. Win-win.
 
aPple nErd said:
Ehhhh... 8.0 seems a little glitchy and buggy on the iPhone 6, and i have to reboot every once in a while. Hopefully 8.0.1 will fix most of the choppyness.
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I noticed the choppiness more on the 6 Plus than the 6. Does yr 6 get choppy when switching between apps?
 
My 6 Plus is very fast, very fluid except for:
  • scrolling through wallpapers
  • going from portrait to landscape in Messages
Both are slightly choppy. But IMHO this is more of an iOS 8 issue than a problem with the device itself. Time (and 8.0.x) will tell.
 
r-m said:
Just out of interest (cos you're a 6+ and I'm a 6, so not totally relevant to me), what % did you have left when you posted (or now)?
What network are you on?
Was that mostly WiFi with a little 3/4G, or a good mix of both?
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I'm with 3 (UK) decent mix of both WiFi and 3G with a little bit of 4G browsing.
A lot of game playing and testing my buggy code, which believe me takes a massive toll on the battery life.

And just to prove me wrong the battery has just given up now, typical.

But considering it usually takes a couple of charging cycles to get any real decisive results, I'm happy with it so far.
 
Doga said:
My 6 Plus is very fast, very fluid except for:
  • scrolling through wallpapers
  • going from portrait to landscape in Messages
Both are slightly choppy. But IMHO this is more of an iOS 8 issue than a problem with the device itself. Time (and 8.0.x) will tell.
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Yeah hopefully it will. Remb how choppy iOS 7.03 was, when 7.1 came out... it was dead fluid
 
sunking101 said:
So ignoring the 'indexing' BS and that you're "using your device more" as the apologists will cite, the typical Apple battery life seems evident. A less thin casing would have allowed for a bigger battery, and the protruding camera wouldn't be there either. Win-win.
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Every time I had turbo battery drain with an iPhone in the past, the culprit was always an email on my Exchange server that for some reason caused push mode to constantly hit the server. It was remedied by moving my current inbox contents to another folder.

This is not that extreme. I was expecting the same or better battery life compared to the 5s based on the Keynote, but this far, not so much. Like I said, it will require some investigation and time. I think that if it is a real issue, it will have a root cause like my Exchange problem, or just a bad battery. I'm not panicking yet, but I am concerned.
 
JoeTomasone said:
Every time I had turbo battery drain with an iPhone in the past, the culprit was always an email on my Exchange server that for some reason caused push mode to constantly hit the server. It was remedied by moving my current inbox contents to another folder.

This is not that extreme. I was expecting the same or better battery life compared to the 5s based on the Keynote, but this far, not so much. Like I said, it will require some investigation and time. I think that if it is a real issue, it will have a root cause like my Exchange problem, or just a bad battery. I'm not panicking yet, but I am concerned.
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Expecting the same battery life as your 5S? Shoot low man! ;-)
Most were hoping for considerably more.
 
JoeTomasone said:
Every time I had turbo battery drain with an iPhone in the past, the culprit was always an email on my Exchange server that for some reason caused push mode to constantly hit the server. It was remedied by moving my current inbox contents to another folder.



This is not that extreme. I was expecting the same or better battery life compared to the 5s based on the Keynote, but this far, not so much. Like I said, it will require some investigation and time. I think that if it is a real issue, it will have a root cause like my Exchange problem, or just a bad battery. I'm not panicking yet, but I am concerned.
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Should be easy to trace. Settings > general > usage > battery usage. Then look at which app used the most battery.
 
unobtainium said:
It's fast but safari tabs constantly reload since I tend to have many open at once. This is the biggest annoyance and has been since like the 4S. Apple won't increase RAM and fix the problem.
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To fix this issue use Dolphin browser. It won't reload tabs.

Chrome on android reloads too on phones with 2 and 3gb of ram with half a gig or 1 gig free in memory.
 
My 6 feels great coming from a 4S. No lag/stutter or defects. Brilliant phone.
 
gardiboy said:
Its a known issue for the 6 Plus. Hope it gets fixed in a software update. the 6 was dead smooth tho.
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If Tim Cook has had an i6 and 6+ "for months", as have (presumably) many at Apple, why the heck have they been released in this state??
 
chupachup said:
To fix this issue use Dolphin browser. It won't reload tabs.

Chrome on android reloads too on phones with 2 and 3gb of ram with half a gig or 1 gig free in memory.
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Just tried Chrome doing the same thing I did in the above video. Once again no reloads. Why do people assume since an Apple device does it it must be normal and all other devices do it. I'm literally making videos (see my above post) now of the problem not happenings on the crappiest Android devices I can get my hands on and people still persist that its commonplace. Hilarious.

Dolphin isn't a very good solution, or any 3rd party browser for 3 obvious reasons and probably more that just don't effect me. One, iCloud tab sync between iOS/OSX devices. Two, keychain is only available in safari. Three, every time you click a link outside of a browser Safari opens.
 

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vgamedude said:
It is quite a bother for me. Especially since the websites I frequent have long long long pages and refreshing makes you lose your spot on the page.
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I don't have a problem with this. If the page reloads, I am usually transported right back to where I was. Wait for the page to load completely. Now, with pages that have dynamic content that is constantly updated, there will be a problem. There is no way around a page refresh taking you back to the start, because the content has changed.
 
vgamedude said:
I just got back from an att store and using the plus exactly as I expected I got tab reloading.

Had about 5 tabs open, (CNN,verge,macrumors,youtube,yahoo), letting them all load, scrolling a bit through each, then went to home screen, then went to camera, came back and 2 to 3 of the tabs reloaded.

You guys pretending like this somehow doesn't happen are delusional, sorry.
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My Galaxy S5 have 2GB of ram!! If I clear the active application tray and I open 5 apps and then go back into active application tray and tap any of them, they will still reload! Quick, but they will still reload! Are you saying that this shouldn't happen?

I can even make a video of it you you don't believe it.
 
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