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Actually the most meaningful upgrade was the 5s. Touch ID and 64 bit technology. Consumers don't understand the importance of 64 bit, but for the geeks that know the advent of 64 bit in mobile phone computing opened up new doors to innovation.

The way Apple implemented Touch ID was an innovation that phone manufacturers rushed to copy.

The iPhone 7 is going to be a great upgrade as opposed to the most meaningful upggrade.

Maybe Apple will go 128 bit and leave the competition scrambling.
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Huh? What are you trying to say?
64 bit is not really that much of a huge deal, sure the arm architecture supports multiple store and loads which allow more bytes to be operated on at once but on mobile phones the GPU is king and a major limiting factor.

And regarding 128 bit arm don't have a 128 bit core design anyway....

Most performance "upgrades" comes from the improvements in the arm instruction set and the core revision of the arm design.

Heck, I remember when ARM had 26 bit instructions and apple owned 50% of it!
 
64 bit is not really that much of a huge deal, sure the arm architecture supports multiple store and loads which allow more bytes to be operated on at once but on mobile phones the GPU is king and a major limiting factor.

And regarding 128 bit arm don't have a 128 bit core design anyway....

Most performance "upgrades" comes from the improvements in the arm instruction set and the core revision of the arm design.

Heck, I remember when ARM had 26 bit instructions and apple owned 50% of it!
Well it's not a big deal to you but it's a very big deal to people who design chips and software who want to address more than three gigs of memory.

Regarding 128 bit, it was a bit of tongue in cheek but it's coming...just like multiple cores. As you say may not be a big deal to you, but if you design chips and software it could be a big deal.
 
64 bit is not really that much of a huge deal, sure the arm architecture supports multiple store and loads which allow more bytes to be operated on at once but on mobile phones the GPU is king and a major limiting factor.

And regarding 128 bit arm don't have a 128 bit core design anyway....

Most performance "upgrades" comes from the improvements in the arm instruction set and the core revision of the arm design.

Heck, I remember when ARM had 26 bit instructions and apple owned 50% of it!

Apple's adoption of 64bit CPU caught the competition by surprise at the time.

Sure...it's all water under the bridge now, but back then...
 
2016 might be the first year it might be a mixture of a tick and tock. It is supposed to be a tick year and look totally different but it looks similar to the 6 series while adding refinements to them that the s models do. And iOS10 might be a bigger update than what people realize when that is also usually reserved for the s years. Tick focus on hardware, tock focus on refinements and software.

In my honest opinion, the iPhone 6 series is ugly especially on the back. Maybe 6/10 at best in design. The iPhone 7 isn't any better looking but a space black could cover up the ugly antenna lines. But here is the thing, Apple might move back to the glass art museum from the 4 series and that material just isn't practical to my needs. I don't like the idea being stuck with all-glass for three straight years.

Companies make these beautiful all-glass phones only for customers to cover up these phones which defeats the purpose of flaunting it. Glass shatters, too slippery, fingerprint magnet, the rear glass tends to be weaker, etc. I am getting iPhone 7 because of practical features like waterproofing and wireless charging. Somethings far better than pure design. Practical features.

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^ Bleh design. But it isn't preventing me from getting it. Had a glacial silver One M7 which had far better antenna lines on the back because white and its silver tended to mesh well. The problem was the white lines would get dirty. So when the gun metal M8 came out with black lines, it resolved it.

Rose gold option for the 6s and SE? No, thanks. The space black iPhone 7 should improve the back with its dark lines meshing with its rear color. And it is a color option far less sissy than rose gold and gold where it looked like someone urinated on the back and the stain didn't go away.
 
Flaunt it?

Sorry, I've never and will never buy a phone to "flaunt it"

A phone is a tool.

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You guys ever think the kind of phone you have will impress the ladies? You know wearing it on your holster on belt. Flaunting it a little bit might be just enough to land a girlfriend or even better a wife? Think about it


Thought about it. Threw up. Any girl that would be impressed by a phone is mindless and useless.
 
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^ Prefer the ergonomics of that Moto X

For years, I wanted a waterproof phone that didn't feature a glass rear. Only ones that caught my ear were the Sony Xperia acro S and ZR. The Samsung Galaxy S5 didn't captivate me much. Who knew that my answer of an aluminum body waterproof phone would come from Apple this year? And they might not repeat it again until the next Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

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It is like going on a date with a chick. A pleasing personality can go a long way with me than someone who is pretty but acts like a c-word. I think the iPhone 5 series including SE has the best design. It didn't really wow me back in 2012-2013 like the iPhone 4 in 2010. Their size isn't suited for me but it is a very nice design. But would I take practical features like waterproofing and wireless charging over a prettier rear design? Hell yeah!

We can at least flaunt it for some underwater selfies, right?
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From 3.5 years to 6 years catching up with features from competitors. I guess better late than never...

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We know Apple copies too. Without a headphone jack and acquiring Beats, I hope what they copy next is BoomSound without the speaker grills...
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Apple is slowly winning me back by copying software and hardware features of Android and their OEMs.
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Ya know that post got me thinking that I might go to over to android given how much they have copied from apple over the years. But I wonder how the "just works" mantra is on the other side of town. Yawn.:D
 
Well it's not a big deal to you but it's a very big deal to people who design chips and software who want to address more than three gigs of memory.

Regarding 128 bit, it was a bit of tongue in cheek but it's coming...just like multiple cores. As you say may not be a big deal to you, but if you design chips and software it could be a big deal.

You say that like the iphone 5s had even close to 3GB of ram.
 
It's not about the amount of ram on the 5s, that's not the conversation.

The iPhone 5 was my first iPhone ever it was Amazing vs any phone I ever had and it was All black. A year later I was gifted as a replacement a 64 GB iPhone 5s by Sprint I still have it and use it. It's just as fast as the iPhone 6 which I bought but the iPhone 6 4.7" has horrible reception and battery life. I sold it for a Samsung Note 5 now IMO the 5s is the best. If I am not mistaken it's the first to have WiFi calling and its small form factor makes it a great back up device. I highly suggest people keep the 5s in mint condition it's an iconic design.

All I know is that my Note 5 better last another year until 2017 and the iPhone Pro launches.
 
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Hell yeah, you can flaunt it!
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Flaunt it as much as you want, baby! And I don't mean just the phone. ;)

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Back in early 2013, I loved that ad for the Sony Xperia Z. Water-resistant phones existed long before, but Sony popularized it for flagships with the Z. Then the ZR came along a few months later and it looked perfect for me because it had a soft touch rear, cool LED lighting scheme, removable battery, and rated higher for water-resistance than the Z. Only probs with both was the awful TFT screen with terrible viewing angles, weak external speaker, and weak mic. We were also dealing with those silly flaps.

Fast forward to 2016, and Apple is finally doing it right with a water-resistance phone. No glass rear. No flaps. No bad viewing angles. Hopefully, a strong external speaker and voice quality that Sony is terrible at. All Apple has to do is copy those Sony's ads of the Xperia Z and ZR watching swimming and doing underwater selfies and the iPhone 7 series will sell a boatload. I suggest Kate Upton for those underwater selfie ads while Jennifer Lawrence does one for iCloud. :p

More testosterone-driven marketing to the reconnect with the tech savvy male (ages 17-35) demographic but instead offer these My Little Pony color options for people who have hands the size of little girls. Get Apple out of their recent slump by reaching out to a demographic they are losing to Android. Call it a Game "7" comeback.

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it's time to move on from iOS and iPhone anyway.
You are switching platform because of one phone model's look?
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reason for me to switch is simply due to the fact that i am not gonna buy the "same" design again and iOS 10 looks ugly (my opinion so zip it). also its time to try something different.
So you buy phones based on looks?
Check out the Meizu or Vivo phones. For the money, the look and feel great. Samsung is overpriced, copying Apple down to premium pricing.
 
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yea, along with iOS being tired and old now...you can't even view gif files in photos. Then they ask to pay $950 to use of them.
Tells me that you are not using smartphone as a smartphone then if the "looks" of the OS is what you cared most.
When I use my smartphone, be it iOS or Android, I would be in an app doing something, not looking at my home screen being bored.
 
Is this foreal? You seriously buy a phone to show off it's the latest and greatest. Who cares about these things lol? It's a phone for crying out loud. I'll be upgrading like I have every year. I could careless if others can tell if it's the new phone or not. Again it's a phone!!!
 
why was the Rose Gold 6s the best selling ever because you could flaunt it. It's a social filter hey look at me new cool iPhone showing off even at the Apple Store. I'll stop there.

From all looks at the iPhone 7 coming unless you look up close no one can tell. Even if it's all black it looks just like anyother All black phone out there.

It's gonna be thinner really is that necessary ?

Unless people with an iPhone 6 or 6s like losing a feature they have no reason to update their devices.

So despite several enhancements the iPhone 7 Achilles heel is that you can't flaunt it.



In case you are wondering the Lightning port audio is confirmed by recent leaks and Apple liquidating all it's Wired BEATS headphones last month $300 down to $149 $200 down to $80 even $50 in some stores. And heck you can already buy Lightning port headphones at Apple.com from other vendors.

Alex I admit I had a smile on my face when I read your post. I guess if I want to be noticed, I might just make a case for the iPhone that lights up with LEDs and say "steal THIS!"...
 
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