It always seemed unfinished to me. The camera bump I can deal with, but the horizontal part of the antenna line bothers me for some reason.
The iPhone 7/7+ looks much cleaner.
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iPhone 6(S)/Plus Is the 6s the last great iPhone?
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It always seemed unfinished to me. The camera bump I can deal with, but the horizontal part of the antenna line bothers me for some reason.
The iPhone 7/7+ looks much cleaner.
Ip7 is a little cleaner, but the 3.5mm jack going was a big downer for me. And Apple could have made the ip7 water-resistant while keeping the jack.
6s/6s+ is the more classic design...can charge the phone and listen with wired ear/headphones w/o dongles, etc.
Only weakness with the 6s was the smaller battery. Stupid Apple.
The removal of the headphone jack had zero impact on my usage patterns. I've tried using wired earphones a couple of times since getting my 7+ and upgrading to bluetooth headphones and it's absolutely horrible. Granted, the only time I use headphones is at the gym.
The iPhone 6 through 7 series of phones have looked extremely safe and generic.
The iPhone 4, in my opinion, was the last truly timeless iPhone design.
The iPhone 4, in my opinion, was the last truly timeless iPhone design.
I think you call the 6s the last iPhone with no serious flaws. The only thing I can think of is Chipgate but that issue didn't really make much of a difference. The iPhone 7 has had many complaints such as the hissing, color coming off, creaking, etc. so even though it's better, more people are complaining about it.
No regulat ear-pods. There are days I've left them home and I guess I was saying, no matter what phone you have, if you've forgotten your headphones...you are out of luck.
@Relentless Power jet black iPhone 7 plus i will vote for to be the great phone,but sorry not for gold IPhone 7 Plus (looks fugly
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So basically a headphone jack is what makes a great phone.
Since getting my AirPods, I don't miss the headphone jack one bit.
I don't agree, and I think if you were to go back into the forum archives prior to the launch of the 7 series you'd find plenty people griping over the 6S series.
Btw, if you're going to give a no-flaw award to a phone over the headphones jack, you might say the iP4S was the last phone with no serious flaws because the charging connector and headphones jack didn't block each other when the phone was docked. Of course, the 4S had the glass back which tended to go boom if dropped onto a hard surface, so there's always something for people to complain about.
Iphone SE form factor > Iphone 6 form factor.
That being said I could never go back to a phone the size of the iphone SE
No, evolution usually proves that the last iteration is the best. In some instances it's not true but it's very rare. Apple has currently probably the best designers on the planet and the best chip designers on the globe so there are good chances the trend will continue.
I know what you mean and I was probably not being clear enough but I meant that the 6s was the last iPhone which had no serious issue that turned away a lot of people. The only thing I can think of is it shutting down for no reason but that is a recent issue. I think you can say all S model iPhones have few flaws because Apple always fixes the main issue from the previous model like antennagate, scuffgate, and bendgate. So if a 7s does come out instead of the 8 next year, that will also probably be called the last great iPhone in 2018.I don't agree, and I think if you were to go back into the forum archives prior to the launch of the 7 series you'd find plenty people griping over the 6S series.
Btw, if you're going to give a no-flaw award to a phone over the headphones jack, you might say the iP4S was the last phone with no serious flaws because the charging connector and headphones jack didn't block each other when the phone was docked. Of course, the 4S had the glass back which tended to go boom if dropped onto a hard surface, so there's always something for people to complain about.
For me, the 5s/SE is the last of the iconic Iphone designs, but they will continue to fall behind the latest released Iphones in camera and features. Ironically, as a person who once used the headphone jack as much as anyone around, the absence of it on the new Iphones is not even of the slightest concern to me. Excessive use of earbuds has virtually ruined my hearing and I strictly use bluetooth with an external speaker these days.
Only I read that the 7 series phones are selling better than the 6S series. At least at the time of publishing of the news story on internet websites...
5/5S/SE phones have that chamfered edge which isn't too nice on the thumb when swiping in from the sides. In that regard, at least I personally prefer the rounded glass edge of the 6 and onwards.
Actually, the issue is a year old...its just that only recently has Apple acknowledged it.
My 6s is in the affected batch...I attributed the occasional shutdown to the 9.0.2 jailbreak, but now know it was Apple's fault.
But I'm not bringing it in for battery replacement primarily because of a spider-crack that I did (dropped the phone on my carpeted living room floor...go figure!) which Apple will charge me to pay for before doing the battery swap. I have 3 years to decide anyway.
This along with Touch disease...not a good track record for Apple lately.
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Assuming for a minute that it is true (that ip7 sales > 6s sales)...what does that have anything to do with what Aditya_S wrote or even this thread.
# of sales means squat...ip6 sales set records.
But the phone was substandard on account of the 1gb RAM, especially if you had the 6+. Definitely not one of Apple's better decisions, not that they cared. The ones that got shafted were the buyers!
Apple laughed all the way to the bank.
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The 7 is much better than the 6s. Try and get over losing the headphone jack. Apple isn't going to bring it back. You're going to have to either switch to Android and stay with them until they decide to get rid of it too, or just stick with the 6s forever.