There's no chance in hell id own a Samsung phone ever, I wouldn't even use Android - but there's a bunch of handsets id have over any Samsung junk first.
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The iPhone 6 - The worst iPhone i've ever owned.
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There's no chance in hell id own a Samsung phone ever, I wouldn't even use Android - but there's a bunch of handsets id have over any Samsung junk first.
Yeah have to second that, been the best iPhone I've ever owned and I've had all since 3G
And…this is the sort of thinking that always puzzles me.
You (collective you, not you personally) pay upwards of $500 for a device you'll hide in a case.
It's like paying for a valuable painting and then mounting it backwards on a wall deep in a dark basement no one will ever see.
Oh sure, you can still use the phone in a case and I get that a lot of people buy the iPhone because they want iOS and don't really care about the phone itself. But it always makes me wonder why people who don't care what the phone looks like always put them in cases?
Resale value? I get that. I just have a hard time with paying that much money and not using the phone as intended. Protection because you'd paid that much? Sure. OK.
I guess I don't have to understand it, just like others don't understand why I would NEVER use a case.
I like cases because it allows me to personalize the device and I can change my case at any time. I also like the feel of certain materials over others in my hand and cases allow me to do this. With that, keep in mind I do also like the design of the phone. But I'm too afraid that without a case the phone would be too fragile and one drop would cause it to break. With my current case I've dropped it more times than I can count and not a scratch to the phone at all.
see you TOTALLY get my reservation about submitting to a case...
And generally resale wise i've nearly always found an issue that Apple replace the phone for about a month before the new one comes out, so any minor knocks of bumps my iPhone had picked up over 11 months of use is replaced and I sell it as new when the new one comes out. To be fair (until the 6) they really were minor knocks and bumps too, always made me laugh when people stick horrible £2 cases and screen protectors over their beautiful phones, its really hard to scratch the screen, and any little knocks or marks on the case would still look a lot better than the tacky crap they've chose to hide it in!
I don't knock people who use cases and I totally understand why. For me, if I had a physical job I'd have a case just to protect the phone. I get that.
But I have an office job and my phone is rarely on the move except when being transported between home and office or vice versa.
My iPhone 5 was dropped once or twice, but I learned from the experience and I have yet to drop my 6+, although I credit the size of the phone in preventing that. I had more of the phone to grab before it fell.
As I am spending a lot of money on this phone, however, I often do things in handling it that would be considered ridiculous by others. I use two hands. Even with my 5 I used two hands. Too easy to let it slip and fall in one hand. I've trained myself to put it in certain places that I believe are safe. Lots of people seem to place their phone screen down on hard surfaces. 'To protect from screen damage.' I'm not sure that having the phone on it's face would protect the screen from something big enough to break the screen to begin with, but ok.
In short, I try to be as careful as I can. Which is also why I have insurance from my carrier. Not for my clumsiness, but from the clumsiness of those around me.
Well, part of the reason I also do not have a case is that we do not resell our phones. So, there is no worry about resale value. That has a certain sort of freedom in how I handle my phone although I am not careless by any means.
Gee I buy phones for the functionality - what it looks like and how slippery it is - who cares. Each phone model has added functionality - if you were still running the 3G you'd be complaining that none of your apps work and it doesn't do what you need it to do.
What it does is important not what it looks liken
What it does is important not what it looks liken
Android does a lot of things iPhone can't. You have an iPhone though, right?
In 2009 I bought an HTC Touch Pro. It had MMS, cut and paste and a bunch of other 'functionality' right out of the box that the iPhone of the time did not.
If you're buying for functionality, why are you buying an iPhone?
Yea, I understand it's not always black and white. But to go off about how ugly a phone is, with major hate, for something you went out and bought. Just sounds ridiculous to me.
I've had items before that I thought were good or cool and that I wanted them. Paid good money for them too. And over time realized that I didn't like certain aspects. Which eventually grew into a hate for the item, or at least that specific thing about the item.
That's the type of thing you don't know about until you use the item for a while.
For instance, I did not know that the speaker holes on the bottom of my 6+ would cut into my pinky finger when holding the phone. Both because of the way I hold the phone and the angle of the curve of the phone causes those holes to be somewhat sharp when brushed against a certain way. I don't care for that but it's something I would never have known unless I'd handled the device for quite some time before purchasing it.
That kind of thing.
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It sounds like the 5s model meets your needs perfectly. Just don't upgrade. If you aren't going to consume any media, you really don't need a beefier phone. The only thing you are missing out on the 6 line so far is Apple Pay.
One thing in your original post stands out:
You have a iPhone 5 that is painted? And you bought it from Apple, or from some random guy in a bar? Or did I misunderstand you in some other way?
You have a iPhone 5 that is painted? And you bought it from Apple, or from some random guy in a bar? Or did I misunderstand you in some other way?
Scuffgate? Known defect of the iPhone 5, at least with the Black/Slate models. Not so much on the white models.
I've got to say the iPhone 6 that I have is the best phone I've ever owned. I love the camera, the clarity of the photos to me is outstanding and very useful for copying sheetmusic to use on my iPad. None of the prior cameras on any phone I've owned has been able to do that with razor sharp blow ups. The lens doesnt protrude past the very thin clear plastic case that I use. Im really sorry that you dont like your phone.
I'm having trouble deciding if I should upgrade this fall because I dont think I need to spend the money - this one is good enough.
I'm having trouble deciding if I should upgrade this fall because I dont think I need to spend the money - this one is good enough.
I don't get it. How does mechanical damage to a bare metal edge make your phone painted? Are we using the same language and words and such?
I've owned the 6 for just over a week now and I'm extremely comfortable using it one handed.
Prior to owning one I've always thought, "That's a little too big" but with a minimal clear case and (occasionally but not always) Reachability, I've gotten used to the 6's size very quickly.
I think it's a fantastic upgrade from my 5s and with RBS supporting ApplePay it's even better. Makes my pre work Costa and my lunch from M&S much quicker (and cooler!) to pay for.
Prior to owning one I've always thought, "That's a little too big" but with a minimal clear case and (occasionally but not always) Reachability, I've gotten used to the 6's size very quickly.
I think it's a fantastic upgrade from my 5s and with RBS supporting ApplePay it's even better. Makes my pre work Costa and my lunch from M&S much quicker (and cooler!) to pay for.
I disagree, i thought i liked the design of my iphone 4s and after that my spacegrey 5s.
But if i put the iphone 6 next to the 5s and the 4s now , i think the 6 is the best design, love the feel and the look of the round edges and it feels solid, just the right size.
When i see the 5s now, it is too small and the 4s is even smaller.
Don' t like the design of the 6+ though.
It is just too big, an inflated 6, they should have put an effort in making it shorter, 2mm off the bottom and 2 mm off the top. And 0,5 mm off the left bezel and 0,5 mm of the right.
This sounds like minor changes, but it would have made the 6+ perfect.
Or they should have released one iphone 6, a 5" one, would be the perfect iphone.
A darker spacegrey , no lines and no camera sticking out would have improved the design, i agree, it would have been the perfect phone designwise.
But if i put the iphone 6 next to the 5s and the 4s now , i think the 6 is the best design, love the feel and the look of the round edges and it feels solid, just the right size.
When i see the 5s now, it is too small and the 4s is even smaller.
Don' t like the design of the 6+ though.
It is just too big, an inflated 6, they should have put an effort in making it shorter, 2mm off the bottom and 2 mm off the top. And 0,5 mm off the left bezel and 0,5 mm of the right.
This sounds like minor changes, but it would have made the 6+ perfect.
Or they should have released one iphone 6, a 5" one, would be the perfect iphone.
A darker spacegrey , no lines and no camera sticking out would have improved the design, i agree, it would have been the perfect phone designwise.
So...someone doesn't like the size and shape/design of a phone...to each his/her own. All kinds of people don't like this or that based on all kinds of subjective reasons that apply to them and various others and at the same time don't apply to many others.
Not sure why people really even care about whether someone likes something or not, or justifying why they like something or don't like it--it's just simple personal like or dislike, which doesn't really make something good or bad or right or wrong, simply what works for each individual, nothing more and nothing less.
Not sure why people really even care about whether someone likes something or not, or justifying why they like something or don't like it--it's just simple personal like or dislike, which doesn't really make something good or bad or right or wrong, simply what works for each individual, nothing more and nothing less.
Because Apple used black paint over anodized metal. If you scratched the metal you got a light scratch against a dark background and not a dark scratch in a dark background.
To each his own. iPhone 6+ is the best phone I've ever owned. Love it more than any of the iPhones I've had and beats the pants off the one large screen Android phone I dabbled with.
If you anodise aluminium you'll get a porous surface:
After anodising you can soak the surface in a pigment to colour it. A heat treatment is used to seal the pigment in the anodised layer. The pigment is in the anodised layer, not on it. In no way does it resemble paint. (Which is a ground pigment in a carrier like a resin applied on top of something.)
The anodised layer consists of aluminium oxide. Harder than glas, steel, most carbides. If you manage to damage that you are a very persistent vandal. And you need to strip all of this very hard layer to expose bare metal.
The massive recall and subsequent bankruptcy of Apple that followed the launch of the iPhone 5 shows you how much of a real problem this was, just like bendgate, scratchgate, fartgate and billgates.
I have a 5S, with a scratch on the screen (keys) but no visible or feelable damage to the chamfer around the phone.