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iPhone 7 to Include Five Colors, IPX7 Water Resistance, Dual 12MP Cameras on Plus Model
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From what I understand IPX7 provides protection from immersion in water with a depth of up to 1 meter (3.2ft) for up to 30 mins. Basically you're covered against rain, splashing and accidental water submersion, in addition to protection against sustained pressure water jets and pressure washer that you've described. So overall a step in the right direction.
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I don't know where you're getting your numbers from, but here's a site that puts the iPP deltaE at 1 for the 9.7" and 0.19 for the 12".
http://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/tablets/apple-ipad-pro-9-7
I think it's the 9.7" screen tech slated to go into iPhone7.
I find the displaymate results more self consistent though, and they tell a similar story.
LOL yes, sure.
But what does this matter now?
Samsung has a year to gain more ground with high end sales over Apple.
And Apple will have a new iPhone in the next week. Samsung in 6 or 7 months, and an old one in a few weeks, that was called back because it got used to exploding.
But in a year, it is over. Apple and other cheaper Chinese brands will get the same screens or better. And what will be samsungs usp then?
In the next 2 years, Samsung will loose ground. Apple will have a super cycle . Cheaper Chinese vendors will release cheaper android phones with on par specs.
Apple has iOS as their usp. Samsung has oled as their usp. Samsung sells off his oled, so what is their usp then?
Technically the higher IP-ratings do not necessarily include the protection of the lower ones. At IPX7 you do get protection against immersion, but that does not mean the device can also withstand the jets of IPX6 (which may cause a local water pressure beyond that of submersion). To be safe against both one should go for a device with both ratings. Manufacturers and marketing materials are not always very clear on this, and I guess they do sometimes mean the rating in an inclusive sense (i.e. their device advertised as IPX7 also covers IPX6). But in the strict sense of the standard that is not the way to specify this, and thus one should not assume this type of protection.
I'm surprised someone finds it hard to believe that people may want to do this.
In case you're wondering, I do it all the time because I can't afford my phone to die on me and I like to listen to music.
Even Apple reverses direction sometimes... So there might be a (very little) chance for a jack comeback...
iPod shuffle 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010
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Unnatural? That's amusing ;-)
I can think of many things often described as "unnatural", but phone charging methods haven't been mentioned in that category before.
To your question: why do you find it an odd practice? I have never done this, but wouldn't it seem a pretty normal thing to do if you want your battery to remain full/recharge, while listening to music?
Or while making many phone calls using headset and keeping the phone plugged into the power?
What's unnatural?
They will never have heard of a typewriter.
I'm amused that when I was growing up: older relations would speak of "the wireless" (the radio), and here we are decades later on a very long MR thread debating wireless issues.
It's odd that for a forum dealing with new tech - where the future should be exciting - there is a very strong nostalgic flavour here, almost a dread of the future.
"I want to be able to do what I have become accustomed to", "everything is fine now, stop changing things", "keynotes were better before", " I miss Steve", etc
It does happen to me in occasions. My iPhone 6 is two years old and I have just had a new battery fitted.
On a separate note if anyone reading this takes their phone for repair and the person rubs the palm of their hand on the screen and hands it back to you.
Do not key in passcode. If you do wipe the screen before handing it back or better still walk out the shop.
A dongle will simply remain attached to your wired headphones cord - - losing the dongle means that you've lost the entire set of headphones.
And endless debates on even the tiniest matters. Nevertheless, no one have the time to go through all of them.
I try to remind myself that this isn't a monolithic group of people any more. Was a time when pretty much everyone knew how many pipeline stages there were in the latest PowerPC and the static leakage current versus dynamic power draw of the latest process, but now it's gone mainstream and there's different folks.
Some are tech junkies that are obsessed with benchmarks and the latest acronyms. I think those are the voices most upset that Apple hasn't adopted the latest technology they read about in some physics blog.
Some are consumers who have settled on Apple because the ecosystem got the job done for them. I think those are the voices most fearful of change-- they have a product that works, they invested the time in getting their technological nest set up, and they don't want it disturbed. They don't want to adapt, but they don't want to be left behind.
There's also a subset of the consumer segment who frankly can't afford to keep changing their entire gadget drawer over every time Apple gets a new idea.
Some are here because they've tied their identity to Apple in some way or other. The older ones because they were renegades in fighting the PC hegemony, and the younger ones because Apple was cool and hip when they were teens and they wanted to be the hegemon. I think those are the voices that are either do-or-die Apple because the fever hasn't broken yet, or "Apple sucks without Steve" because they've woken up and realized the world is an imperfect place and need to blame someone or something other than their own blind fanaticism.
Then there's a couple groups of Samsung/Android shills-- some are true believers, some are trolls, some think that being blindly pro-Samsung on an Apple forum shows they're open minded. Those are the voices that tend to be most sardonic and snarky.
There is another group of Samsung/Android fans that I think are really just tech junkies who have chosen a different ecosystem because it fits their needs-- they tend to be particularly well informed.
and your phone is powered by unlimited dream energy?
I think it is quite okay, but not as innovative as Samsung Note 7, that include a gimmicky Iris Scanner (at least they tried).
Tbh, I really like the Samsung Note 7 curved screen. It looks better and give edge-to-edge screen impression rather than flat screen, and possibility to replace the micro sd with second sim card is another important feature for me.
Tbh, I really like the Samsung Note 7 curved screen. It looks better and give edge-to-edge screen impression rather than flat screen, and possibility to replace the micro sd with second sim card is another important feature for me.
The event invite is like the dynamic wallpapers in iOS.
Apple clearly getting ready to switch its Mac line to ARM processors.
All the innovations in recent years (hardware and software) have originated on iOS devices and then been ported to Macs (Siri, force touch, fingerprint login, etc, etc, etc).
Apple has a plan, and that plan isn't centred around Intel.
Apple clearly getting ready to switch its Mac line to ARM processors.
All the innovations in recent years (hardware and software) have originated on iOS devices and then been ported to Macs (Siri, force touch, fingerprint login, etc, etc, etc).
Apple has a plan, and that plan isn't centred around Intel.