I went to my local futureshop last weekend, and compared the iPhone 6 plus with my Note II. I found it have a little bit smaller bezel at left and right, but noticabley larger bezel at top and bottom. Note II was released 2 years ago. I am not impressed.
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I went to my local futureshop last weekend, and compared the iPhone 6 plus with my Note II. I found it have a little bit smaller bezel at left and right, but noticabley larger bezel at top and bottom. Note II was released 2 years ago. I am not impressed.
Because running such a factory is very difficult and expensive and time consuming and not really Apple's business. And the dependence on others is no problem, because _everyone_ depends on them. Let's say Intel and AMD don't improve their processors for the next ten years. Obviously everyone will be moaning, but Apple isn't really affected, because all of Apple's competitors have exactly the same problem. Or let's say just Intel runs into trouble. Then everyone switches to AMD, including Apple. Still no problem. But if Apple has their own factory and that has problems, then Apple has a problem.
Man, I put enough pressure on a given point on anything and it will break. Or am I missing something? No one would care if this was a Samsung phone. These guys are just cashing in on the hype.
Please explain.
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METAL pales in comparison to something like CUDA. They could be giving you more, but they aren't.
You are comparing technologies that are not comparable.
This is quite interesting. Personally, as it has been rumored before, I think Apple will start release iPhones twice a year- an 'S' phone at WWDC 2015 & the 7 in September/October. Before the end of 2014- that sounds really early.
It is going to be invisible in a minute. I just got my iPhone 6 yesterday and sometimes I feel like it is going to break in half. I love the thinness but going any thinner is a bad idea.
Bluetooth Headphones for the win!. With BT4.0 providing better sound quality I see no reason why we should deal with wires...
I didn't even consider that Compass/Level thing. You've found an example where thinness is affecting functionality.
I suppose they could have added another millimeter layer of battery, though I'm unfamiliar with the current battery shape in that model. Battery technology is weird when it comes to the volume of the battery. More volume doesn't always equal more energy. Perhaps the thinness of the phone was defined in the general improvement of internal components, rather than a direct goal to make it "even thinner".
Yeah, but you're going to get a whole bunch of whiny people. Remember what happened when they got rid of 30 pin?
We may be missing the big picture here with the advent of the 14mm chips this will bring the speed up to desktop class resulting in new iMacs, minis, and airs using the "A" series chips.
With the introduction of metal the graphic performance may equal or surpass traditional chipsets.
It's only a matter of time before Apple crosses this performance threshold and begin the rollout again to a new chipset.
With the introduction of metal the graphic performance may equal or surpass traditional chipsets.
It's only a matter of time before Apple crosses this performance threshold and begin the rollout again to a new chipset.
Well, iPhone 7 is going to be a biggie considering it'll be the 10th anniversary of iPhone and iOS.
Impeccable logic! You can break anything if you try hard enough, therefore the iPhone 6+ has sufficient structural rigidity. Brilliant!
So that makes Ives more right than me?
Structural stability. Not referencing Bendghazi.. Just saying that I like something with some rigidity and wouldn't mind some battery life...
Neither do I.
Right. Hilarious. But I get the point.
You don't think the masses would want to do the same thing with fewer devices?
I am? How is that relevant? You used an argument from authority as the first thing you said (the Ives comment), what leads you to believe I will or need to?
The iPhone 6 is even faster than my MacBook Pro 13" from 2010. (2929p vs 2400p in Geekbench 3).
i did purchase it and returned it. it was unusable with one hand (even with double tapping the home button)
Yeah it is crazy. The iPhone 3g was like 12.9mm thick and the 6 plus is like 7.1mm. That is a significicant reduction in thickness. Personally I support thinner and the big bezels don't bother me. I use all my devices in landscape mode unless an app does not support landscape at all. The bezels give me something to hold on to, while I rest my index finger underneath. So a thinner device makes a noticeable difference to the feel and hold for me. I understand how people who use devices in portrait mode often would have a problem with the big bezels.
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In settings under usage post a screenshot of your battery usage. Should be pretty clear why and we would all certainly appreciste seeing the battery usage display of an iPhone 6 that goes from 100% to 0% in four hours.
Yeah, it's true man. It's not like the phone is just waiting to bend at the slightest breeze. How do you measure what's enough structural integrity for a phone? The 6+ is fine man for what it is.
Did you buy one brah?
Be prepared for the "I love the design" comments, followed by the 'justification' answers of the devotees.
It's interesting to see the phone sizes and designs side-by-side with the http://www.phonearena.com/phones/size tool.
I would welcome such an iOS development strategy - it would improve the iPhone user experience dramatically.
As for the NAND life, AnandTech estimated the endurance of a Samsung 840 SSD w/cheaper TLC NAND at about 8 years at 50 GiB/day (48.8 GB/day) on the 120GB model. Halve it to 4 years for 60GB, then halve it twice again and you get 1 year of endurance for 16GB at ~49GB/day.
For 5 years of endurance that gives a 16GB iPhone only 10GB writes/day. Add a conservative fudge factor for 5GB/day. Figure Apple's NAND controller is inferior to Samsung's at wear leveling and the NAND endurance does indeed look like a limiting factor for iOS caching behavior. Of course the problem disappears if the base iPhone has 64GB NAND, but I'd wager even in two years the base iPhone 7 is stuck at 32GB.
Well, you left out a part. THE PHONE DOES NOT BEND UNDER NORMAL USAGE!!
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6+ 64 GB ordered and on the way, brah! I'm building my own version of Google Cardboard out of balsa wood to use with that gorgeous display. Currently have a 4S and find myself carrying around a Nexus 7 most of the time, so hopefully the 6+ is just right. I expect to miss the portability of the 4S in some situations, but until I try a phablet that's all speculation.
However, if the 6+ bends with normal use, I will get it replaced by Apple, sell it on ebay, and go Android. There is no excuse for a mobile device designed to be carried with a person at all times to have anything less than rock-hard structural rigidity. It's a tool for 24/7 use, not a museum piece.
I see this as a design flaw in virtually all mobile phones. We have bulletproof watches and we never worry about sitting on our wallets, so why expect delicacy in a phone on the cusp of replacing our wallet? 10-15 years from now people will look back with amazement at how we put up with such fragile devices. I won't be surprised if the 6+ turns out to be the device that triggers a new design trend towards indestructable mobile units. Apple learn from their mistakes, so the new trend may even originate with the iPhone 7.
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I may be wrong, but I've heard that they use the octal number system in Germany.