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iPhone 6 and 6 Plus Shown Off in Early Hands-On Videos

RebornProphet said:
With the 5s most of us had already gotten used to "shuffling" the phone up and down our hand/grip to accommodate the larger screen. I take it this feature needs to be enabled? Double tap is normally to bring up the Multi-tasking UI.
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It's not the same gesture, multi tasking is double press, this is double tap, you aren't pressing down the home button just making contact.

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X-X said:
Actually Samsung already has that feature for years.
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No, samsung has a "one handed mode" that takes the entire UI and shrinks it into the corner, and is a menu toggle rather than just something you quickly activate with a global gesture. The two implementations are clearly meant to allow for different functionality, with samsung's sort of defeating the purpose of owning a phone with a bigger screen. Apple seems to simply want a person to be able to make a quick selection or close a page and then get right back to viewing the content at the larger size.
 
SMIDG3T said:
They look great, the Plus looks massive but I've gone with the 6, can't wait until Friday!
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Looks great but the antenna is weeeeird!!! Makes it look like a prototype.

I can deal with the camera sticking out (which is also weird) but why... why the antenna?
 
djgamble said:
Looks great but the antenna is weeeeird!!! Makes it look like a prototype.

I can deal with the camera sticking out (which is also weird) but why... why the antenna?
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I know, luckily, it's on the back!

There must be a reason as to why the antenna lines are there. NFC? Even still, could of made them a bit thinner!
 
Tpoccu said:
No, samsung has a "one handed mode" [...] and is a menu toggle rather than just something you quickly activate with a global gesture.
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Absolutely false - IT IS a global gesture that enables it and disables it.

You don't have to use a toggle - that is just to completely turn the feature off.
 
White bands on the gold model are ugly as sin. Didn't think the protruding camera would be an issue but if you go caseless and like to use your keyboard on a flat service it is. Wow. That is a mistake.
 
darknyt said:
I kinda felt like this was aimed at all those women, which admittedly drive a big portion of the market. Still doesn't change the idiocy - they have to know they made a sacrifice.

And if the 5s is tight in some of your pants - those pants are tight. Maybe not skinny jeans tight, but def tight. My pants aren't baggy but they will easily accomodate a 6 plus. The ones that ARE baggy, I won't even notice the plus in them.
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Women use handbags...

It's men I worry about with 5.5" screens.
 
SMIDG3T said:
I know, luckily, it's on the back!

There must be a reason as to why the antenna lines are there. NFC? Even still, could of made them a bit thinner!
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I'll be using a case for sure (never used one in the past since I like Apple's lines)... so I guess won't have that many issues.

Should I stay with my 4S though?!?!? I like the smaller screen and glass/metal look. Only issue with it is the camera and the CPU/RAM. Sorta wish there were upgrade options :)

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X-X said:
But the Note 3 has a 5.7 inch screen. Woopdedoo.
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Why don't Samsung hurry up and release a 17" phone with an i7? That way they can keep claiming they are ahead of Apple in terms of screen size and CPU grunt.
 
RebornProphet said:
The double tap one-handed mode "feature" is something that many here would have mocked had it been a Samsung feature on a Galaxy model.

In fact, it's so ridiculously gimmicky yet impractical that it's exactly the kind of thing Samsung would do.
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Actually this is what Samsung did for one-handed mode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q93Q1CxUe8U

I've actually heard that Reachability is actually very useful from those who went to the Apple event. However, I wish there wasn't all that black space.
 
WTF were John Ive and the Apple design team thinking when they came up with the iPhone 6 rear design? I mean seriously, wtf was going through their minds. On top of that they paint it a weird colour so it doesn't blend in on the black model and white on the silver and gold models.

Still buying one, but well and truely wtf.
 
djgamble said:
I'll be using a case for sure (never used one in the past since I like Apple's lines)... so I guess won't have that many issues.

Should I stay with my 4S though?!?!? I like the smaller screen and glass/metal look. Only issue with it is the camera and the CPU/RAM. Sorta wish there were upgrade options :)
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I never use a case, always naked.

You'd see massive performance gains if upgrading from a 4s to a 6! Go for it!!
 
poppy10 said:
That second video is worrying
http://youtu.be/-9gbf39DJLo?t=2m30s

Look at the lag when they rotate the screen. That could be very annoying in practice
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No, that happens now on all iPhones it's simply because of the way he's shooting the video. He has the phone held almost horizontally and if you change the orientation of the phone when it's like this the screen doesn't flip.

That's why you see it change once he moves the phone more vertically
 
RebornProphet said:
The double tap one-handed mode "feature" is something that many here would have mocked had it been a Samsung feature on a Galaxy model.

In fact, it's so ridiculously gimmicky yet impractical that it's exactly the kind of thing Samsung would do.
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Not really. The way Samsung did it is they literally made it so you can shrink the screen down to a small size for an extended period of time. Absolutely terrible. Apple's use of it is actually practical, takes a second to do and then goes back to normal after.
 
RebornProphet said:
The double tap one-handed mode "feature" is something that many here would have mocked had it been a Samsung feature on a Galaxy model.

In fact, it's so ridiculously gimmicky yet impractical that it's exactly the kind of thing Samsung would do.
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Saying something is gimmicky, yet impractical is like saying something is dumb, yet stupid. If you're going to criticize and hope to sound intelligent, yet smart doing so, maybe you should get those ducks in a row before you just post anything that pops into that little head of yours.

That said, I probably won't use this feature, since I have huge hands.
 
X-X said:
The point was that all other phones provide larger screens in a smaller form factor than the iPhone - not that the screen is bigger. I would never buy such a big phone.

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No solid proof. The screenshots from earlier have been debunked in another thread.
 
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