Sony's already going for battery life above all else with the Z3 at least. Not sure how they were using the phone exactly but it is rather impressive.
If I wasn't already absorbed into the Apple ecosystem I'd definitely be getting this.
First iPhone 6/6 Plus Reviews
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If I wasn't already absorbed into the Apple ecosystem I'd definitely be getting this.
Ol No Bones
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Typing this on my 6 inch Nokia 1520. I love it. Its certainly not for everyone.
It matters to some, and to others, they are all devices that make phone calls and run apps, so again, no reason not to compare to the competition.
Everything you are saying will look really stupid when they end up implementing it all at the same costs in the iPhone 6S/iPhone 7.
Technology has come a long way, and has significantly decreased in price, especially for tech giants like Apple. If they were to include an additional GB of RAM, this wouldn't force them to increase the price, or change the design of the phone itself.
People complaining about the 6+ being too big, me and my mammoth Xperia Z Ultra laugh at your pathetic tiny phones.
A thin phablet makes a world of difference when using your phone, and once you go big, it's hard going back. 6+ will be fine although im not that big of a fan of IOS. IOS 7 looks like crap IMO
AstroNut325
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I currently use an LG Optimus F6, and a iPhone 5. I will pick iPhone every time. The OS, the apps, the refinement, the ecosystem, the FEEL of touch input being more responsive... hands down iPhone every time. I have the iPhone through work. One day I hope to own iPhone for personal use!
Mammoth Jones
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It's not a matter of who does it first. It's a matter of which products/ecosystem users prefer.
A 1080p 5.5" Android phone don't mean much to a person that prefers iOS.
Ken Masters
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They don't get that very simple fact
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Deleted member 17706
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Why would it look stupid if they eventually implemented those specs? Just as you said, technology has come a long way and still has a long way to go.
Apple tends not to implement anything that is cutting edge-new. Just like with LTE, they waited a couple of years until the radios were more efficient.
I doubt Apple is looking at the minuscule cost difference between 1GB of RAM and 2GB or 3GB of RAM and making the determination based solely off of that, but I'm sure you know the ins and outs of their engineering team.
Technosteve
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If we are going to talk about specs, what other smartphone has it's own custom bespoked tailored SOC with 64 bit memory addressing with native 64 bit OS support. How about that Touch ID, the technology that's just works. You teach it your fingers a couple of times to learn who you are by putting your finger on the home button. You don't have to repeatedly swipe your finger across a narrow bar, you have an entire button. Apple even designed a memory allocation on the SOC just to store your Finger Print key hash that is sandboxed away from everything else on your phone.
If you are going to talk about specs on the iphone compare to android you are going to lose. There is only one company out there that puts alot of thought in to what they design for their phones from the silicon up and that's Motorola (RIP_Lenovo plz don't suck) with the Moto X. They have a vision of what they want that device to do and they have backed it up not with gimmicks like gaze tracking like Samsung does but by designing better Antennas to deal with attenuation better so your phone has better signal and battery life, developing a very low power chip just to monitor voice and motion, integrating motion gestures that actually work and makes Google Now work seamlessly with out taking a giant battery hit.
Here's my thesis on why phones in the 5+ inch category are so popular, Big screens for media consumption, reading email, watching media, surfing the web are all better on a bigger screen, and Big batteries for every evolving Arm SOC dick waving contest by measuring the number cores and how many gigs my phone can do better then your phone. Immeasurably it is a device that you pay 200 dollars on contract that will always have a data connection and on the Android world have not the greatest of options for a small tablets that act like tablets and not big phones.
You would say well Android has NFC, and I would say the japanese has had NFC payment for over 12 years but it only works because there national train system effectively gave them a reason to have a NFC system. It made paying for a train ticket more efficient. By product of that allowed NFC to be used in situations were mobile payment made it more convenient like in a 7/11. But japan is still a cash society so outside of trains and 7/11's most places in japan takes only cash.
So what's the point of Apple Pay? It's a way for you the consumer to use Apple as the middleman to buy goods. It will be a profit center for Apple, it is a way to put those Millions of Apple ID's with attached Credit Cards to spend money outside of it's Apple Stores. They are doing this by making it as friction less as possible and as secure as possible. There is trust there with Apple that I don't think you would get with a corporation like Samsung. (Side note Sony invented this technology yet in those 12 years never thought of bringing it to the united states, Christ they could of integrated in the PS3 as a secure way to make purchases online)
So in conclusion, I have no idea what the fuck the health kit shit is going to do or won't do.
Maybe i should get the 6 instead?
If you are going to talk about specs on the iphone compare to android you are going to lose. There is only one company out there that puts alot of thought in to what they design for their phones from the silicon up and that's Motorola (RIP_Lenovo plz don't suck) with the Moto X. They have a vision of what they want that device to do and they have backed it up not with gimmicks like gaze tracking like Samsung does but by designing better Antennas to deal with attenuation better so your phone has better signal and battery life, developing a very low power chip just to monitor voice and motion, integrating motion gestures that actually work and makes Google Now work seamlessly with out taking a giant battery hit.
Here's my thesis on why phones in the 5+ inch category are so popular, Big screens for media consumption, reading email, watching media, surfing the web are all better on a bigger screen, and Big batteries for every evolving Arm SOC dick waving contest by measuring the number cores and how many gigs my phone can do better then your phone. Immeasurably it is a device that you pay 200 dollars on contract that will always have a data connection and on the Android world have not the greatest of options for a small tablets that act like tablets and not big phones.
You would say well Android has NFC, and I would say the japanese has had NFC payment for over 12 years but it only works because there national train system effectively gave them a reason to have a NFC system. It made paying for a train ticket more efficient. By product of that allowed NFC to be used in situations were mobile payment made it more convenient like in a 7/11. But japan is still a cash society so outside of trains and 7/11's most places in japan takes only cash.
So what's the point of Apple Pay? It's a way for you the consumer to use Apple as the middleman to buy goods. It will be a profit center for Apple, it is a way to put those Millions of Apple ID's with attached Credit Cards to spend money outside of it's Apple Stores. They are doing this by making it as friction less as possible and as secure as possible. There is trust there with Apple that I don't think you would get with a corporation like Samsung. (Side note Sony invented this technology yet in those 12 years never thought of bringing it to the united states, Christ they could of integrated in the PS3 as a secure way to make purchases online)
So in conclusion, I have no idea what the fuck the health kit shit is going to do or won't do.
Maybe i should get the 6 instead?
BLACK AMERICAN PSYCHO
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I think I just found my next phone, holy shit.Sony's already going for battery life above all else with the Z3 at least. Not sure how they were using the phone exactly but it is rather impressive.
It's crazy that people still don't grasp this. Apple owners, like Android owners, live in their own OS/ecosystem bubble. The iPhone 6 could have a $200 phone worth of hardware in a $850 phone, but as long as the Apple is on the back then it's all gravy.
There's already 1440p screens on phones, but people are excited about 1080p for the iPhone, why? Because 1080p is a new thing for iPhone users, why would they care about a higher resolution of a phone that has an ecosystem that they don't use?
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Great post, but I just wanted to correct this bit. You can use your mobile phone for payments in a great deal of locations in Japan. It's extremely common these days. The Wii U just supported (will support soon?) it, too.
Technosteve
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Oh man my friends told me they had to carry cash every were and not a lot of places took credit cards. Wii U with NFC payments just makes sense!
Technosteve
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I'm only refreshing Anandtech for the review
BocoDragon
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jts
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I'm probably on a particularly dumb night...
Can you explain this to me? I read 18% left after 8 hours of usage, and according to the reactions that can't be right. Is it 18% used?
Sony's already going for battery life above all else with the Z3 at least. Not sure how they were using the phone exactly but it is rather impressive.
Can you explain this to me? I read 18% left after 8 hours of usage, and according to the reactions that can't be right. Is it 18% used?
Don't you guys mean the New 3DS? Because the Wii U is the home console and thus not so useful to make payments with?
sweetvar26
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I'm grabbing my popcorn.
Here we go...
Come on Anandtech.
Here we go...
Come on Anandtech.
infiniteloop
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jts
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Ohhh as the reader. Ok that makes sense.
Wondering if they can make the New 3DS a way of payment too, because it has NFC as well. But I guess it doesn't make a whole lot of sense, seeing how the tech so ubiquitous and more practical to use with one's phone.
jts
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Anandtech have took their sweet time back in the day, way after embargo lifting day. Not sure how it's going to be now without Anand though.
Vanillalite
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-Pyromaniac-
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So the phones are great apparently. Purchases justified guys.
Vanillalite
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The Verge Apple iPhone 6 Review: YOUTUBE REVIEW
Vanillalite
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Anandtech actually reviews shit vs just throwing shit up. So that takes time.
/rimshot
massivekettle
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Watching the Verge video review now - wondering if the reviewer bragged about his iPhone 6 as he was walking by people camping in front of the 5th Ave store in NYC.
That's how you get killed.
sweetvar26
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Why did he put the iPhone on those rocks? Couldn't it get scuffed?
Technosteve
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no anandtech =(
the mainstream tech sites really just use the phone for a week, takes some pictures and do daily usage type reviews. I think its been like this for ages.
anything in real detail, involving battery benchmarks or screen color gamut, etc, etc requires waiting longer for Anandtech to do their thing.
Vanillalite
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It's like Samsung made those commercials just for the Verge.
DOWN
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Why couldn't it be the best? iPhone 5 integrated touch into the glass and became the most color-accurate, right? We already know Apple branded Retina display just that because it pioneered having the pixel density so high that they weren't perceivable or identifiable in testing at normal viewing distances. When you can barely see the pixels already at the 6 density, then they increase it with the 6+, on top of it being very accurate color and contrast (compared to the awful blue AMOLED coloring), it could easily be a contender.
BUNTING1243
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theverge said:
Okay fine I'm on board for a Six+
Yes, and also for actual concerns or differing views on the actually handling the phone, apps, or the ergonomics, non mainstream tech websites or more tech orientated sites are great.
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