I'm 6'8 with hands the size of shovels, haven't got my phone yet, but have been into store to size up devices and the 6+ is definitely gonna be the model I go for.
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Bought both, kept both.
I do regret not having the patience to wait, I certainly knew better.
A paltry 1GB ram is limiting my speed, stability and thus creating a lot of frustration. Frankly I forgot to identify how much ram it had before buying, because I've had 2 and 3GB of ram in my Androids for years.
Plus I'm a much heavier user in fairness to Apple. The iPhone 6 Plus out of the box is OK, for the average user.
It's my fault for forgetting Apple's always cheap when it comes to ram, installing the bare bones amount.
I'll dump these two asap once the upcoming model is close to release.
To me it's not a man thing. Apple is purposely gimping the smaller iPhone and iPad. Size can't have anything to do with it if the bigger models have the advantage.
Apple should have never released the 6 plus. The 4.7" model should have the 1080p display and OIS. And the iPad mini 3 should have received the upgrades of the iPad Air 2. Apple is subconsciously forcing you into the bigger devices. It will be very interesting to see what Apple does to the 4.7" iPhone and 7.9" iPad mini this fall.
Apple could have easily offered a 16GB 4.7" iPhone at $649 and a 32GB 5.5" iPhone at $749 with no difference in display resolution or camera. Then the 64GB 4.7" would be $749 and the 64GB 5.5" would be $849; the 32GB option would only exist in the base 5.5" model.
And don't say that Apple can't do 32GB. Apple will be criticized heavy if they release a 16GB flagship this year. The only option is to bring back 32GB for 2015. 64GB in base units would be overkill.
Apple should have never released the 6 plus. The 4.7" model should have the 1080p display and OIS. And the iPad mini 3 should have received the upgrades of the iPad Air 2. Apple is subconsciously forcing you into the bigger devices. It will be very interesting to see what Apple does to the 4.7" iPhone and 7.9" iPad mini this fall.
Apple could have easily offered a 16GB 4.7" iPhone at $649 and a 32GB 5.5" iPhone at $749 with no difference in display resolution or camera. Then the 64GB 4.7" would be $749 and the 64GB 5.5" would be $849; the 32GB option would only exist in the base 5.5" model.
And don't say that Apple can't do 32GB. Apple will be criticized heavy if they release a 16GB flagship this year. The only option is to bring back 32GB for 2015. 64GB in base units would be overkill.
Bigger screen is nice, but fitting in hands is more important to me. Yeah, 6 Plus got a huge screen with higher pixel density, but frankly in most case 5S already displays fairly enough information I wanna know at a time in most of the apps. I text quite a lot with my friends, manage my life with GTD apps, skim though my RSS feeds and Twitter timeline and do some quick readings and random, quick web surfing. That's all what I use an iPhone for, and 5S served me well despite its "toy-ish" screen like how some 6+ owners said.
6 just takes the 5S further to a larger screen, but without any compromise in the comfort and one-handability (subjected to my hands), which are what I prioritise, and does improve in some other areas like typing accuracy. Moreover, my iPad Air 2 IMO excels in everything I can think of that 6 Plus might do better for me, yet giving significantly more real estates and still so light to carry around, yep. Higher pixel density? ... frankly even the iPad Air 2 doesn't bother me with its lower pixel density than iPhone, and side by side with 6 Plus, my eyes hardly observe a difference in my general use cases. So for me it would be 6 (planned to get 6S).
Sometimes it is not about small or big hands, or male or female after all, but merely your preferences and your lifestyle.
6 just takes the 5S further to a larger screen, but without any compromise in the comfort and one-handability (subjected to my hands), which are what I prioritise, and does improve in some other areas like typing accuracy. Moreover, my iPad Air 2 IMO excels in everything I can think of that 6 Plus might do better for me, yet giving significantly more real estates and still so light to carry around, yep. Higher pixel density? ... frankly even the iPad Air 2 doesn't bother me with its lower pixel density than iPhone, and side by side with 6 Plus, my eyes hardly observe a difference in my general use cases. So for me it would be 6 (planned to get 6S).
Sometimes it is not about small or big hands, or male or female after all, but merely your preferences and your lifestyle.
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You must have money to burn. I remember back in 2013 when the retina mini came out I preordered it not knowing the ram size and when 1GB was confirmed a few days later I took the tablet back to the store unopened; I refused to own a premium device with 1GB of ram. That's why today I cannot own a 1GB iPhone because I know that eventually it will become the bottle neck.
The only iDevice I can own without felling regret is the iPad Air 2. Got to figure that at Apple's rate 2GB of ram will last at least 3 years.
I'm totalt argee with you, 8.2 is better then 8.0.1 but tell me, will be there a special development on the OS FOR the 6+? Because of that down samples? I mean they could make a special OS for the 6+ ? How do you think about that?
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The world has an old invention namely hardware scaler.
Hardware scaler doesnt exist..
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Have the 6+, because of the screensize.
Well there have always been different builds of iOS for each device if that is what you mean. Each device has its own specific build of iOS with different presets; unlike OS X were its one OS. Any device could run a different or modified iOS if Apple developed it. Really at the core, iOS is OS X, just ported to ARM with a different interface and some different controls. For example both use Darwin, which is basically an Apple-crafted, UNIX open source OS itself.
My guess is Apple's plus-sized phones won't get a completely new interface then what we already see unless every other device gets it. Could it happen? Sure. Will it happen? Probably not, which isn't a bad thing considering iOS is very familiar and easy to navigate.
iPhone 6 Plus.
I still think it's the best phone ever made, though iOS 8 has soured parts of the experience. 8.3 is much better though, still a few dropped frames during animations but a lot of the bugs have been sorted.
I still think it's the best phone ever made, though iOS 8 has soured parts of the experience. 8.3 is much better though, still a few dropped frames during animations but a lot of the bugs have been sorted.
Hmmm i see, what i mean is because of that downscaling sample what the 6+ every does, will there be a different version/OS for the 6+ phone's/users? Because you said, '' at least a 1242x2208 display '' because of that 3 times, rendering at 1242x2208. Will there maby a different OS resolution special for the 6+ because of that high rendering sample on the GPU. Because the GPU gets the high load every time.
How long do you think the 6+ will get with the time? i mean.. after how many years you think that the 6+ will gets old. If you look at the iphone 4 and the 4S. 2 or 3 years max.
How do you think how long can you use the 6+ with the time?
I don't think so. Apple set that point count for a reason, so older apps scale properly (apps like eBay who hasn't updated yet). Plus it would be an even bigger headache for devs when scaling to that display. They will make the OS more lean so it isn't as dependent on the GPU, but I don't see that scaling going anywhere.
For updates, I see the 6 Plus following the footsteps of past iPhones. It'll get 3 updates (4 iOSes total) so iOS 9, 10, and 11. Personally, I always update at the two year mark so that would leave my iPhone on the second to last OS (iOS 10).
iPhone 6 and love it. Perfect size for me, the only thing that makes me jealous of the iPhone 6 Plus is the battery life. But the 6 gets me through the day so that's alls I can ask for.
Hmmm i see, and still i realy think that new generations iPhone, like the 6 and the 6+ will last longer then the last generation like the 4 and the 4s. Because the proccesor power is much stronger then the time before (4/4s), so i suspect the new generation will longer go.
How do you think about this theory?
I got a 6, I think the size is a perfect balance.
However, I may get the large size when my contract is up in 2016. By then, it should have more RAM (2GB or more), a better battery and more graphics power for all that screen resampling that is done.
However, I may get the large size when my contract is up in 2016. By then, it should have more RAM (2GB or more), a better battery and more graphics power for all that screen resampling that is done.
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Well you do pay more for the bigger device. This is like saying how the 15" MacBook Pro shouldn't exist and the 13" MacBook Pro should have a quad core processor and Apple is forcing you to get the 15" model. Some people wouldn't buy the 15" MacBook Pro because it isn't as portable as the 13", even though the 15" is more powerful. And yes size does come into it. For most the screen resolution and OIS in the camera wouldn't matter, in fact if I was to try and explain that to a iPhone 6 buyer at the store they probably wouldn't know what I was talking about.
I think Apple releasing the 6 Plus is a good thing. It is obviously seeing strong sales around the world because of the phablet craze. I love my 6 Plus and I am glad they made it. It gives people more choices. Why not throw more features into the 6 Plus? The customer spent an extra $100 on the phone, why should they not get better features? Plus the 6 having a 1080p display would give it a PPI of 468 which is well above the 6 Pluses 401 PPI. Don't tell me that the 6 Plus having 32GB as a base storage makes up for the extra $100 spent because the 64GB models of both phones (which in your world would have the same specs) would be $100 more.
Regarding the iPad mini, I have had this discussion in the iPad forum. The mini was always meant to be an entry model kinda like the iPhone 5s is right now. It won't have the same features and specs as its newer bigger brother, but it will have the specs as last years iPad. Again, people are paying $100 premium for the bigger iPad so they get better features. Most people will buy because of one of two things, either portability or price. There are very few iPad and iPhone buyers that actually look at the specs and care. Oh, and if you bring up the iPad mini 2 vs iPad Air, that is one exception and even then the Air has a slightly better SoC. The RAM is outside the SoC on the logic board and the CPU is clocked 100MHz faster.
No not necessarily. The iPhone 4s was pretty cutting edge when it came out. It was the first dual core iPhone. I think 3 OS upgrades is the max any iPhone will see, but there are rumors that iOS 9 will run on the A5 processor so we'll see.
Uh what?? I and many others happened to have wanted a 5.5" screen.
While I'm not going to say that you're wrong, I will say that Apple historically has put all the bells and whistles into their flagship product and the 6Plus is their flagship phone, so it's not surprising that the 6Plus has everything. If you don't want the size of the 6Plus then that's your choice but you can't get everything in the cheaper phone.
No they're not. It was my decision to buy the 6Plus because I wanted it. Apple is just a company. They can't force anything, let alone tech devices upon people. I think it's just you that's annoyed you couldn't have it your way.
Yes it will but don't get annoyed if you don't get what you want.
Coulda Woulda Shoulda. That was their decision, just as Samsung, Nokia and HTC design their phones and sell them the way they want. The great thing is you don't have to buy any of them.
No argument, Apple can design their phones just the way you want them. But they aren't. And since when does Apple care who criticizes them. Their phones still sell in the millions.
As a customer you have two options. Buy or not.
iPhone 6 here, I have a contract still going and will get the iPhone 7+ most likely when that finishes. Maybe wait for 7S. By then they likely will have slimmed down the bezels making the large screen even easier to use. But my friend got a 6 plus recently and it seems amazing, it's not even that unwieldy for me either. I am concerned about trying to use it when in a cramped space or something though?
Main things that are getting me are large battery, and landscape features. Obviously the large screen would be amazing but at the moment I can tolerate the 4.7" screen.
Oh also in the future it seems like they will be more likely to slag the small phone and take away more and more features. I already am sick of being thrown under the bus on the iPad mini line, not having it happen again on my phone.
Main things that are getting me are large battery, and landscape features. Obviously the large screen would be amazing but at the moment I can tolerate the 4.7" screen.
Oh also in the future it seems like they will be more likely to slag the small phone and take away more and more features. I already am sick of being thrown under the bus on the iPad mini line, not having it happen again on my phone.