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It sounds, technically the onslaught of initial full reviews will begin in a few hours, like 12:01 PST later, maybe. So this is going to be a long, great night for me.

I hope 9est, which would be in 38 minutes :))
 
Apple will not like that. I am pretty sure they meant on the dot Wednesday PST. Just like the time references for keynotes and pre-orders. :p

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Nah, I said 9:00 eastern as in about 33 minutes.

haha I am already sleepy, duh!

brb, I am so ready - getting some healthy snacks and drinks!
 
The only review I care about is Anandtech's, it's the Ars Technica of iPhone reviews. Hope it comes tonight.

Not anymore. You honestly believe Anand is going to allow anything negative to be said about the company that employs him?

Nothing on his website can be taken as unbiased any more.
 
Apple will not like that. I am pretty sure they meant on the dot Wednesday PST. Just like the time references for keynotes and pre-orders. :p

The 5S reiviews were posted last year at 9:00 EST so they were fine with it a year ago.
 
Not anymore. You honestly believe Anand is going to allow anything negative to be said about the company that employs him?

Nothing on his website can be taken as unbiased any more.

In my opinion, all reviews seem to be biased when they don't reflect one's views. :)
 
Not anymore. You honestly believe Anand is going to allow anything negative to be said about the company that employs him?

Nothing on his website can be taken as unbiased any more.

I thought he was quitting Anandtech and heading over to Apple full time?

I agree Anandtech's reviews are the most thorough...but a bit TOO technical for my taste. Almost like it's from an engineer's perspective..
 
In my opinion, all reviews seem to be biased when they don't reflect one's views. :)

There is a difference between reading a review on a site like CNet on say... a Windows phone, and a review from a Microsoft employee on a Windows phone. Anand now is an Apple employee, so you really think he'll produce a completely unbiased review? (And keep his job?)
 
There is a difference between reading a review on a site like CNet on say... a Windows phone, and a review from a Microsoft employee on a Windows phone. Anand now is an Apple employee, so you really think he'll produce a completely unbiased review? (And keep his job?)

I doubt that Anand will actually do the review. It'll be someone else at Anandtech. Someone who isn't employed by Apple.
 
There is a difference between reading a review on a site like CNet on say... a Windows phone, and a review from a Microsoft employee on a Windows phone. Anand now is an Apple employee, so you really think he'll produce a completely unbiased review? (And keep his job?)

Well seeing that his 2012 iPhone 5 review was a collaboration done by him, Brian Klug, and Vivek Gowri I'd assume he trained those guys for a few years to be able to do thorough reviews on their own before he took the job at Apple.
 
There is a difference between reading a review on a site like CNet on say... a Windows phone, and a review from a Microsoft employee on a Windows phone. Anand now is an Apple employee, so you really think he'll produce a completely unbiased review? (And keep his job?)

He doesnt work for anandtech anymore so why would that have an affect?
 
Not anymore. You honestly believe Anand is going to allow anything negative to be said about the company that employs him?

Nothing on his website can be taken as unbiased any more.

The only thing most of us care about at Anandtech.com is the massive battery of benchmarks they running on each device. These test can each be replicated independently and not really subject to one's biases. If the website were to come out and say that the iphone 6 had a Geekbanch score of 6000, it would be really easy to prove them wrong. While opinions are subjective, benchmarking software doesn't have a favorite OS.
 
Whoever reviews these phones I hope will cover more than just the old standard boring screen resolution, performance, and camera photo results. Why doesn't anyone comment on something like the speaker quality and volume? This is an area which iPhones are terrible in and have needed improvement for years.

Because if you're really interested in high sound quality, you're going to be using headphones or playing the media through some other device (e.g. via airplay, bluetooth, lightning/usb connection, or even the headphone jack). No one is going to seriously expect hi fidelity out of any cell phone's speakers. Even if other cell phones have 'better' sound out of their speakers, it's a moot point: you want good sound, you're going to use headphones or stream it to something with real speakers.
 
So most of the bad things people are saying is it's too big (which solely depends on each person) and apps have to scale (which can be updated).
 
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