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Official iPhone 6 and 6 Plus Cases Arriving Ahead of Friday's iPhone Launch
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Thanks for the explanations. What both of you say makes a lot of sense.
The 5S has one of the best phone cameras on the market, and if some of the posted images are any indication, the 6/6+ are yet another leap in performance. The 6+ can be reasonably expected to best every Android cam short of the specialized (and bulky) camera phones.
The pixels are part of what makes the iPhone cam so brilliant. Apple wisely chose to remain at 8MP and improve low light performance with each sensor revision since the 4S. For the sensor size, 8MP is just right, and I expect Apple will only go beyond 8MP if they enlarge the sensor size considerably.
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The Canon G16, which is a current compact camera, $400 US, that I bought 6 months ago, makes fantastic pictures and its "only" 12 MP but with a very good fast zoom lense and an extremely fast focus even in low light. That's less MP than most Smartphone cameras; I'll tell you which one takes photos 10 times better than any of them
.Many people who say smartphones take good photo seemingly haven't seen what a DSLR or a midrange compact can do. They take OK photo if you have nothing else with you; but people forgoing buying decent cameras and only relying on their cell phones may regret it later.
This what? Someone prefer cropping than properly framing and you agree with that? Myself, rarely need to crop more than 5% off any photo. Been shooting for 30 years though
. You want more pixels on a small sensor so you have more noise, so you can crop?A smartphone camera is in no way a replacement for a decent compact zoom camera with a fast lense and focusing mechanism.
Even if you cropped 10-15%, you sill got about 7MP which is plenty enough for viewing on an HDTV or a print.
Which is essentially a $99 case + $79 deductible if something goes wrong. Doesn't protect against scratches and scuffs and when they do happen you have to decide if those scratches are worth $79 and a refurbished phone that could be more trouble than it's worth.
Give me a case for $40 that can protect my phone out in the wild and can be removed in controlled environments to enjoy the phone caseless. To each his own.
Bought 4 - 2 leather and 2 silicone for my wife and I. Mainly because I could guarantee we'd have cases on launch day. If the silicone ones arrive and are nice enough I may return the leather ones. Hard to stomach $49 for a case.
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You would have to be such a stupid sucker to by an iPhone case for $45 plus tax when it doesn't even have a battery or something special
So I have the black iPhone 6 on pre-order for store pickup and had planned on getting the black leather case to go with it. But am wondering how the red leather case will look? Has anyone had this combination on an earlier iPhone and if so, how did it look? Anyone have a picture?
Thanks for checking and reporting back anyway. I'm still going to look tomorrow, but I doubt they have them. Maybe they're doing me a favor @ $45 anyway.
What Dock is that?
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If you read the 2 reviews one guy calls it a bait and switch because it doesn't ship immediately.
Colleague got his black leather case today. The leather looks different to my iPhone 5S leather case. Looks smoother/finer. I'm hoping the new cases hold up better colors outside of black this time around. 5S cases (outside of black) did not wear well IMHO.
Are they made of the same material the iPad Air leather cases are?
Because I really like the feel of the Air case.
Because I really like the feel of the Air case.