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yeah that slate was really sexy. But apple needs to figure how to coat the black aluminum better. My iPhone 5 had a ton of scratches and I only owned it for two weeks.
first thing used iphone is you need to take care your iphone
no one care it for you - just like your ring jewelry you responsible for it
 
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I love reading all the love for 4k and 12mp when the competition has been doing it for years and now all of a sudden its a new holy coming when apple finally does it.

I also read the 6s is getting the same modem the gs5 had lol all the hate when competition had it and nothing but love when apple finally catches up.

Yeah, but when Apple finally does something, it's so much better & more refined then the early adopters. I don't know about you, but I much prefer a company that does it right, then one who rushes to be the first but gets it wrong. :)
 
ming chi kuo - i dont see any information about this guy in google search
???
 
Probably now an "ex-Foxconn employee".

Not a smart move.

Doubtful they can track who it is. Even if they can, offer them a few hundred bucks and it's more than they'd make in months at their job. So, they'll be fine.

I don't really care about megapixel news. I want sensor news.
 
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does 4K, in the current form, even support HDR, wider Color Gamut, etc.? If not, is there really a need for it?

4k is being pushed down consumers throats because television sales are dwindling. 3D was supposed to be the next thing to put money in the pockets of the television industry, but it failed miserably. They've now moved on to 4k (UHD) as their next transition in television production. Everybody THINKS they want 4k, because of the marketing, but they haven't actually had to deal with 4k file sizes, the lack of ecosystem to support 4k, and the barely perceivable difference when casually watching 4k content.
As a professional video producer for 19 years, transitioning from analog SD to digital SD to digital 16x9 to HD, this is the most trivial transition yet. At NAB this year they were already pushing 8k hard, which is going to be the next step to try and pull more money out of consumers. I've got a few professional level ($35,000 each) 4k cameras, and they're really only good for shooting a wide shot and then cropping multiple HD images out of the one 4k shot.
 
If this is true, which I would welcome, you can also expect that apple will release a new version of apple-tv that is 4k capable and more powerful!
 
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4k is being pushed down consumers throats because television sales are dwindling.

I 100% agree with you, I just feel like 4K is a way for everyone to make more money off us consumers: from the Television industry selling more units, to phone manufactures playing into the consumer frenzy, to ISPs making more money off of data sales. I think if people actually sat down and thought for a moment they'd realise that the disadvantages/costs of 4K outweigh the benefits for most.
 
yeah that slate was really sexy. But apple needs to figure how to coat the black aluminum better. My iPhone 5 had a ton of scratches and I only owned it for two weeks.
I didn't use iPhone 5. Does the back covered with glass? if so, I think this might be related to scratch of glass.
iPhone 4 and 4s back are both covered with glass. Scratch is really easy to see.
 
i've got an app that shoots 2K video on my iPhone 5S - you have to download the stored footage by entering your ip address into your desktop browser in order to DL off the phone via wifi... it looks fantastic, i wonder if some kind of Apple spin on this method could mean you store the footage via iCloud OR continuity on your mac... then the 16gb limit would still not matter.

i personally think apple will go the other way (even as tech-heads scream and cry for more base storage to suit the needs they'd have IF they were even the types to buy a base model phone)... meaning i think we'll see a base model iPhone one day with ZERO local storage. cloud computing folks... it ain't just a river in egypt.
 
I love reading all the love for 4k and 12mp when the competition has been doing it for years and now all of a sudden its a new holy coming when apple finally does it.

I also read the 6s is getting the same modem the gs5 had lol all the hate when competition had it and nothing but love when apple finally catches up.
Wow, no one has ever pointed out that Apple adopts some technologies later than Samsung, Google, and others. Thanks for sharing that. I think it is pretty commonly understood that Apple is about an ecosystem and the unification and usability of features - not the individual features themselves. Could they have put a 12mp camera on the phone earlier? Sure, but maybe it was more important to provide 64 bit processing power to support using and editing the 4k video that people would be shooting. This is the same as with the NFC-based payments. It could have been done a lot sooner, but (as Google proved) you're going to see very little adoption if you don't work with the banks, merchants, and card networks to get everyone on board first. Apple went so far as to create a unique security solution that allowed the Apple Pay transactions to be run at the lower card-present transaction fees - which is huge for merchants and adoption of the service.
 
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Happy with any camera upgrade, if they get rid of the stupid current-models-only bulge.
Well, force touch.
Anything new on hardware could be claimed as "current-version-only".

Luckily, if the only brand new hardware added on iPhone 6s or 6s Plus is force touch screen, I think I don't need to expect much difference between current 6 and upcoming 6s.
 
What gets me with 4K camera's is that most screens cannot show 4K as there is too many pixels - if its for zoom, would it be better to improve the zoom features on the camera itself also?
The problem with 4K screens is most cameras don't take 4K. It's a chicken and egg problem. That's why we still watch 480i TV. No one had the vision to go first.

In the real world, 4K screen prices are coming down fast. Soon it won't make sense to sell new 1080 TVs any more. The'll get dragged off to the back of the store the way the CRT TVs did a few years back. Then they'll mostly disappear.
 
meaning i think we'll see a base model iPhone one day with ZERO local storage. cloud computing folks... it ain't just a river in egypt.
Fully cloud based thing? Where are those apps?
And if my device heavily relies on Internet, I would better not buying it. Chromebook is an example moving ahead of time. They have too much faith on their cloud storage service security.
 
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