The iPhone 6 - The worst iPhone i've ever owned.

[C DM]

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.

And despite that many people with iPhone 5 got scratches to the chamfer around the phone simply by having one in a case, and others by not having one in a case.

 

[C DM]

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 never used cases or anything else on phones until I got an iPhone and even then only went as far as a bumper primarily for better and more comfortable grip, to make it less prone to slipping on various surfaces, and to add a bit of protection should I accidentally drop the phone.

 

[eyoungren]

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.

I have a 5. If you scratch it or scrape it it will scuff. There are a bazillion and one threads here from September 2012 on it. The product at the end of the run was better than the beginning. I know because I had a launch day 5 that was replaced twice and the second replacement is much harder to scuff/scratch.

I don't know enough to argue anodization with you. I will simply say that there were purported metallurgists on both sides of the argument.

Lastly, by the time of the 5s, Apple had fixed most of the scuffing problems. Not to mention that the 5s is when Apple went to Space Gray and not black any more.

Here is just one of a merged 4,650+ reply thread on the topic to get you started though…
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/iphone-5-black-version-scuffs-merged.1445493/

 

[eyoungren]

I never used cases or anything else on phones until I got an iPhone and even then only went as far as a bumper primarily for better and more comfortable grip, to make it less prone to slipping on various surfaces, and to add a bit of protection should I accidentally drop the phone.

Don't get me wrong. I don't have issues with people using cases. We all have our reasons to use one or not. It just confuses me as to why someone would say they don't care about the look of a phone but slap a case on it.

If you dent, damage, ding, scratch or bend a phone (or other item) that you purport not to care about how it looks - then what does it matter? Except if you're trying to save it for resale value - in which case, it DOES matter. Just not to you. Right then.

I can certainly understand a case if you are saying you don't care how it looks but work in a physical job. Dents, scratches, etc are one thing but getting your phone crushed or smashed is a different matter. So, from that perspective sure.

Again, no issues with people using cases, I just personally don't use them myself.

 

[C DM]

Don't get me wrong. I don't have issues with people using cases. We all have our reasons to use one or not. It just confuses me as to why someone would say they don't care about the look of a phone but slap a case on it.

If you dent, damage, ding, scratch or bend a phone (or other item) that you purport not to care about how it looks - then what does it matter? Except if you're trying to save it for resale value - in which case, it DOES matter. Just not to you. Right then.

I can certainly understand a case if you are saying you don't care how it looks but work in a physical job. Dents, scratches, etc are one thing but getting your phone crushed or smashed is a different matter. So, from that perspective sure.

Again, no issues with people using cases, I just personally don't use them myself.

No, I definitely understand that part. As far as not caring, perhaps it's meant more in the sense of not caring about the look of the phone as in its design (if it has antenna bands, if it has rounded corners, if it has chamfered edges, etc.), and not as much about if the phone gets dirty or scratched or damaged in some way.

 

[eyoungren]

No, I definitely understand that part. As far as not caring, perhaps it's meant more in the sense of not caring about the look of the phone as in its design (if it has antenna bands, if it has rounded corners, if it has chamfered edges, etc.), and not as much about if the phone gets dirty or scratched or damaged in some way.

That would make more sense I guess. But then I question, "Why iPhone"? One person told me it was because of iOS when I asked that. Since an Apple iDevice is the only device that can run iOS I get that too. But for those who are just buying to have a phone for basic stuff, why bother with the iPhone if they don't give a flip about the design or iOS. Just pick up an Android or something and save your money.

 

[C DM]

That would make more sense I guess. But then I question, "Why iPhone"? One person told me it was because of iOS when I asked that. Since an Apple iDevice is the only device that can run iOS I get that too. But for those who are just buying to have a phone for basic stuff, why bother with the iPhone if they don't give a flip about the design or iOS. Just pick up an Android or something and save your money.

Even as far as simple use goes the part about iOS would play a big role too as it's generally seen as being simpler and more "approachable" for typical phone users. Some might like the design too, to one degree or another, or some parts of it, but then other factors related to how they use the phone (perhaps keep it in a purse or use it often in an environment that is more industrial), how it feels to them (slippery or something like that), or how clumsy they might be, might win over the like of the design to make the objective benefits of a case (to that person) as having somewhat more importance than the subjective like of the design (even if they do like it a fair bit).

 

[5105973]

I waited an entire year to upgrade when Sprint got the iPhone just to avoid getting the 4s.

I don't like the glass, both front and back. I don't like the aluminum band around the phone (although if Apple had made it black I admit it might have attracted me).

Apple had Antennagate (you're holding it wrong) and so a lot of people got a free bumper. Many chose flourescent. It's hideous. And it makes an iPhone I don't care for already even uglier. But people seemed to enjoy them for some strange reason.

Anyway, it's heavy. Compared to my all black (and slate), thin iPhone 5 the 4/4s is chunky. I just don't care for that.

Lastly, at the time I saw a lot of people carrying around iPhone 4/4s's with shattered glass on the back. It seemed to be a thing where I live. I don't get why you'd want to show the world just how clumsy you are with a expensive phone.

It just wasn't for me.

Those are reasonable criticisms. I forgot that was the model with the antenna problem. I didn't use the bumper and it worked okay for me. I stopped using any kinds of cases for the 4 and during the last few months carried my 5s without a case, too. I'd never try to go without a case for the 6 or 6 Plus. There's just too much glass to protect. My case has a cover for the glass.

Looking at it alone, the 6 is pretty enough. But put it next to some Android phones that were meant to imitate but went on to surpass, it looks clunky and dated. It looks rushed and like a mass of compromises.

But now looking back on the earlier iPhones I can say that Apple has lingered too long over the oversized bezels.

 

[doitdada]

I broke my first iPhone 6 after a week. Slipped from my hands half a meter over the concrete. Bang, colors bleeding through the black and broken display. The second one is still alive, even after meeting floors and pavements. iPhone 6 wasn't that big a step, but the screen size up from 5S was crucial. The little bit of extra battery also helped me on travels, though I always have to charge it along with a cappuccino at some cafe. Portability suffers when you have to bring the chargers on day trips. I need two empty pockets instead one.

I can live with it, but I would prefer some extra battery, as I feel the current power in the iPhone 6 is good enough for anything else than lag in the multitask menu and reloading Safari tabs. Hoping for something I can't live without on 9.september.

I love criticism, but not whining.

 

[JPIndustrie]

LOL "this phone is so slippery!"

hhahahaaha I just can't stop laughing - get some fingerprint implants or something bro hahah

 

[C DM]

LOL "this phone is so slippery!"

hhahahaaha I just can't stop laughing - get some fingerprint implants or something bro hahah

Because a phone can't be slippery?

 

[lewiguez]

I've always been the type of person that doesn't want a case on my iPhone. After I got the iPhone 6, I felt similarly as OP about the how slippery the darn thing was. However, I've come to like the size. I think I might prefer a hair smaller at 4.5", but otherwise I'm good there.

My three-year-old got me a case for Christmas last year though (he found it at the dollar store and thought it was necessary for me) and I have to say that I liked the device more because it was grippier. (The case is plain black.)

 

[markovchain]

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.

check this out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs#Love_and_belonging

 

[inhalexhale1]

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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.

All reasonable but not the same as a dislike for the appearance of a product. You found some features which aren't apparent right away, that you grew to hate. A device aesthetic is obvious right away.

 

[eyoungren]

All reasonable but not the same as a dislike for the appearance of a product. You found some features which aren't apparent right away, that you grew to hate. A device aesthetic is obvious right away.

I think you missed the part somewhere about having other reasons to purchase.

 

[dannys1]

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

Utter nonsense, what it looks like and feels like is more than half of the user experience!

 

[dannys1]

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?

The iPhone 5 slate grey was painted, hence the paint chipped off revealing the aluminium colour below. The silver phone and all iPhone colours since an anodised aluminium which runs much deeper and can withstand chipping the slate grey paint couldn't. Thats why it was dropped.

 

[trife]

The 6+ is the best phone I've ever used as far as hardware goes. LOVE IT.

That said, iOS has been pretty damn lackluster on it, for the most part. I've never used an iPhone with so many iOS versions that are buggy as hell. It's like Apple said screw quality control--just push the updates out.

 

[dannys1]

All reasonable but not the same as a dislike for the appearance of a product. You found some features which aren't apparent right away, that you grew to hate. A device aesthetic is obvious right away.

Disagree, I actually thought it was ok looking to start with, I mainly liked the thinness, its over time that I grew to loathe most of the things I pointed out and the way it feels and behaves and the issues i've had with it, and that I no longer enjoy the thinness as i've got used to it, but instead look at the failed design elements and the part that annoys me. So no I don't agree that people only decide on if they like the look, design and feel of something instantly and stay that way forever, my opinion of many things like that has changed over time.

 

[dannys1]

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.

The 5S was anondised, the 5 Slate Grey wasn't - I don't know why you can't understand or rather didn't know this...

 

[dannys1]

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.

I do use Apple Pay though - I also enjoy the extra power and speed and the camera - I just wish it was smaller. 4.3" would probably be the ideal size, but meh, i'm throwing pointless numbers out into the wind. Also my unhealthy obsession with wanting the latest thing Apple releases outweighs any feelings I have about going back to a two year old iPhone 5S now - I'll put up with the 6S and try and find new things I enjoy about it (and maybe get a black case for it)

 

[mpavilion]

I do use Apple Pay though - I also enjoy the extra power and speed and the camera - I just wish it was smaller. 4.3" would probably be the ideal size, but meh, i'm throwing pointless numbers out into the wind. Also my unhealthy obsession with wanting the latest thing Apple releases outweighs any feelings I have about going back to a two year old iPhone 5S now - I'll put up with the 6S and try and find new things I enjoy about it (and maybe get a black case for it)

My honest 2 cents is that you try to break this "unhealthy obsession" -- find a phone you're happy with, and stick with it for a few years, or until you feel a real need to upgrade.

 

[dannys1]

My honest 2 cents is that you try to break this "unhealthy obsession" -- find a phone you're happy with, and stick with it for a few years, or until you feel a real need to upgrade.

No, i'm quite happy upgrading every year to be honest, it doesn't cost me anything so.

 

[mpavilion]

No, i'm quite happy upgrading every year to be honest, it doesn't cost me anything so.

Ha ha, it sure doesn't sound like you're happy!

 

[dannys1]

Ha ha, it sure doesn't sound like you're happy!

I'm not unhappy, i'm just disappointed that the iPhone has lost its soul a bit and whilst this is the worst one, thats still like saying you've slept with the worst girl that works for Victorias Secrets