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New iPhone 7 Video Offers Side-by-Side Comparison With iPhone 6s
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Man, this sucks. I'm really trying to get excited for the new iPhones, hell they're less than 2 months the away but I just can't. Not only so they appear to be another "S" model, but I really want some features like waterproofing, fast charging and wireless charging and the only one that *might* show up is the waterproofing. What is even more discouraging is the apparent fragmentation of the iPhone line that Apple insists on making even more apparent with a possible Pro model, more RAM, smart connector and a much better camera to the Plus model. This is on top of the better resolution and battery life it already holds over the 4.7 inch model. I'm just really discouraged with this iPhone this year and I hope the regular and plus model are close in features and I really hope they don't make a 7, 7 Plus and 7 Pro model which will further fragment the flagship iPhone models.
The current design is fine. I have it two years now without any serious damage while dropping it on occasions. The previous models dropped ad scattered and the metal sides were a horror in the long run. Why try to fix something that is not broken?
Any case looks worse than this bump. People nagging about the design just to put it in a silly case, ridicules.
The cameras are duelling. Whichever one wins the duel is the one whose picture gets saved to your camera roll.
I wouldn't be too sure ...
Completely irrelevant post.
The Magic Mouse will go for a month on a charge, or a full day after 2 minutes charge. It will literally spend <0.25% of its life ever being plugged in to charge. Hence there's no need to put the port in an accessible location.
What BS is that. I have a 6 Plus since launch and it's not laggy at all...
Yeah, we're kind of losing the meaning of "flagship" here. If they end up with a crappy 4", a mediocre 4.7", a pretty good 5.5" and a great 5.5", then there will really only be one flagship device and not everybody wants a phone that big.
According to this website from about 7 months ago, 27% of people want a 5.5" phone: http://appadvice.com/appnn/2015/12/around-20-percent-of-us-customers-would-prefer-an-iphone-6c
I actually love the idea of a larger screen, but I would like a smaller footprint. I have the plus right now and will be purchasing the 4.7" model next time because the bezels make the phone too big. (I would actually prefer a 5.1" screen, but I seem to be in a very small minority).
It would be fantastic if they could try to make them all as great as possible, but I know some things just aren't physically possible yet (ie a bigger battery will give longer battery life). I'm sure some things are within reach though (3d touch on SE, 3gb ram in 4.7", etc). Time will tell what they decide to do though. I will be shocked if they decide to release a Plus model and a Pro model. Most rumors indicate they're kind of buying time until they are ready to release the 2017 iPhone. I don't see why they'd waste extra energy throwing yet another 5.5" iPhone into the lineup this year.
No, you are alone (along with the fellow naysayers who weren't going to buy an iPhone anyway). Apple will still sell record numbers of iPhones, and faced with this inconvenient truth all the people who "claimed" they won't buy because it's lacking a headphone jack will have to find some other excuse to explain the sales figures. Usually it will be something like "Apple owners are stupid and will buy anything Apple even if it's flawed" or "Good thing Apple has a loyal base of fanboys to buy their garbage."
It's a way for them to save face without facing the cold, hard reality that their predictions were wrong.
I disagree the charging port on the Magic Mouse was a design failure. It shows that sometimes Apple gets it wrong. It was an Apple deign from the ground up not some 9.99 cheap no name product.
Someone should have seen that and sent it back for re-design on the first review.
my investment in headphones is larger than the cost of a new iPhone. No headphone jack, no buy.
why save a few mm of thickness to make millions of headphones inoperable?
I'm coming from WM6.5 as well and use BB10 as well iOS now. Truth be told, iOS is the "easiest" OS but at the price of limited features -file system access being one of them. But the problem with th 3,5mm jack is that Apple is heavily promoting usability. The removal of I/O is the exact opposite of that, which has the potential of driving away loyal customers to Android -which has matured in many ways and given the build-quality of latest Samsung phones it's more than serious competition. If Apple goes the same way Microsoft did (just remember Ballmers iPhone comment), which was mainly overconfidence, then their sales will drop further.
It's not a failure at all. Putting it on the bottom gives the mouse a very sleek design with no visible seams or ports. Sticking it in a visible location would cause it to stick out like a sore thumb. You can bet Apple thought carefully about the look and seamless design vs the charging port. And they made the right call.
I have 2 and don't have any issues charging them at all. Only got caught once dead, and I simply plugged it in for 60 seconds and was good for the rest of my day. It's quicker and easier than changing the AA batteries you see in other wireless mice (that is, if you even have a battery handy in the first place).
Yeah they were really great...
The design I liked the most was the iPhone 3g the curved sides just seem to fit in my hand really well.
Yeah they were really great...
Apple used cheap shatter prone glass back then. Today's Gorilla Glass 4 is a lot tougher and shatter resistant. Much like the cheap bendable aluminum on the iPhone 6 Plus that was improved on the iPhone 6S Plus with aircraft quality aluminum.
They got rid of the the old 30 pin connector to save a few mm of thickness and it made millions of chargers/docks/iHomes/AV cables/etc "inoperable" too.
(They didn't really make them inoperable, they just required an annoying adapter.)
Same thing here. People were upset then, and people are upset now, but people will get used to it. The 8 pin Lightning connector is smaller and faster than the old 30 pin connector. Bluetooth headphones and Lightning headphones offer superior sound, and you can always use an adapter until you're ready to purchase new equipment.
Please list all the headphones you own. I doubt you even have any "audiophile" grade versions.
Really? I am sorry, this is(or used to be) a free country. We can talk about anything we want. Sorry you seem to take issue with that.
Sure the current design is OK but I just hope Apple isn't being stagnant. However Next years iPhone will be the 10th iteration and is supposed to be a game changer so we'll see.
And kids are being kidnapped, and women are being forced into sex slavery, and people are being tortured in North Korea and Guantanamo bay, and millions of pedophiles are doing unthinkable things, and other sick people are making crush videos. There have been how many large terrorist attacks this year now involving the murder of dozens of innocent people? 5?
It's incredibly sad and unfortunate. It is. The world is a horrible place, but there are also lots of good people with good hearts doing good things. All the evil in the world doesn't mean we can't carry on in our own individual ways and try to make our own bubbles of happiness.
Spread love where you can, but don't try to take on all the problems of the world.
Yeah they were really great...
if my phone ever looked like that,, i'd rather not. Those iPhone 4's cracked easily.