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

[macTW]

Its ugly, its too big, it has a protruding camera, the space grey is really silver, those antenna lines are just appalling, its too slippy to hold and it just feels like its lost its soul of an Apple product and looks like a generic handset.


Its too big and its too slippy - I keep trying to remember to remove it from my pocket when I sit in the car, but nope, I always forget and it always falls out and slips down the impossible to reach chair sides, arghhhh.

I know a cover would help some of this slippy-ness (as would super skinny jeans all the kids wear to almost literally shrink wrap the phone to their legs) but I don't see why I should have to add a case, i've never liked cases, i've never used a case on any of the phones before and they were all fine, but not this one - in fact this is the first phone that i've ever dropped and broken the screen on too. 8 years of iPhone and this is the first i've broken...

Apple has bowed to mass opinion and to be honest the masses are never right about anything, they like Britain's Got Talent, the X-Factor and Justin Bieber, they also like massive phones, especially people under the age of 20 who consume their entire lives on a phone.

I'm 30, so I still use a Macbook for 95% of what I do and my Apple Watch seems to cover the mobile 4% which leaves me barely ever looking at my phone.

I'll admit, i'm one of the ones who bitter about the size increase

I'd honestly pay £200-£300 more than the cost of the iPhone 6S+ for a 4" phone format with the same specs. I know the real difficulty is making a power house of a phone in a small package. I also know that i'm in a very small minority of people here want the smallest, slimmest phone they can properly tuck into their pockets so it wont fall out and doesn't consume (any) video or media on it. But as I say, id be willing to pay a premium for such a device (instead of the 4" being referred to as a budget device, or a phone for women's hands!!)

i'm sure 95% of iPhone owners won't care about that, its a super successful mass market product now, not a niche device.

This is a year old but wow the ridiculousness... using absurd opinions as if they're fact, acting like he knows more than the majority of people in a generation smarter than he will ever be... LOL was a fun read.

 

[nateofmelb]

Cool story bro. I hate air because sometimes it doesn't smell pleasant.

 

[sunking101]

I will admit I did not read the entire OP's text and I am glad I did not!

I am glad that Apple is not forcing me into the tiny 4" screen anymore. The 6+ is by far my favorite iPhone and I have owned them all.

The 6+ was a freezing, reloading machine.
Utter pants. Worst iPhone ever. It ran far worse than the iPhone 5, a phone two generations older. It had a nice screen, great battery life and a fantastic loudspeaker. Aside from that I absolutely loathed it and wanted rid within a fortnight of ownership.

 

[Sam_S]

1. iPhone 5 (Even though the paint was fundamentally flawed and thus it shouldn't be first, there was just something about the shape and design coupled with that slate grey colour which I looked on in awe of for ages, it was beautiful)

My favourite iPhone as well. There was just something about it. I would buy the iPhone SE if had enough storage for me that is the only reason I haven't. I hate the 7, what an underwhelming piece of crap that adds little value, if anything takes it away.
Hope they refresh the 4" line and give it similar performance to the larger devices. Best phone size in my opinion.

 

[ThunderMasterMind]

Until my 6S learns how to cool down and take care of its battery and actually help me, I will hate it. Not too find of the design either. My 4S honestly puts my 6S to shame, because it actually runs well, battery stays charged, and actually runs an optimized operating system that knows what too far is (iOS 6). I used my 6S for 20 mins and my battery drained from 80% to 56 and the phone heated up like crazy, just from looking at Safari, Instagram, and Mail. My 6S acts so crazy that I can't really tell if its an iOS optimization issue or a hardware issue, haven't even had this thing for a year yet and I'm already having 2nd thoughts about it.

 

[langis.elbasunu]

its the worst iphone i have ever owned

 

[bbrks]

Until my 6S learns how to cool down and take care of its battery and actually help me, I will hate it. Not too find of the design either. My 4S honestly puts my 6S to shame, because it actually runs well, battery stays charged, and actually runs an optimized operating system that knows what too far is (iOS 6). I used my 6S for 20 mins and my battery drained from 80% to 56 and the phone heated up like crazy, just from looking at Safari, Instagram, and Mail. My 6S acts so crazy that I can't really tell if its an iOS optimization issue or a hardware issue, haven't even had this thing for a year yet and I'm already having 2nd thoughts about it.

OK, so why not just visit next Apple store and get a replacement. Obviously, you have some kind of a hardware problem.....it happens, you know

 

[ThunderMasterMind]

OK, so why not just visit next Apple store and get a replacement. Obviously, you have some kind of a hardware problem.....it happens, you know

CRAP! I forgot to mention that I downloaded an iOS update that was 1.56GB, took only 5mins to download, but still managed to get the processor heated up somehow, which doesn't make sense because no other iDevice I have ever owned heats up like this when I download something. This same behavior happens when I update apps too. I didn't do anything else either, the Settings app stayed open and the updated downloaded. It's so weird.

I hope they'll look at it. I bought it from Verizon on contract (which I kinda regret), still being paid off. I thought that I was going to have battery problems when the battery drained significantly from 100% at the store, then 2 hours later after doing a couple of things and getting home, the battery was at 36 IIRC. I was using it practically the entire time, checking out what it could do just by doing the same things I did on my 4S. In the long run, the day I got it, my 4S would last longer battery wise, and my 4S still does a good job with battery management.