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Apple iPhone 6 [OT]
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Booty Patrol
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I got a 5c with Sprint last October. What are my options for upgrade to the 6?
JackLongRod
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I don't think carrier stores or apple will put them up until after being closed Thursday night. What time do you plan on lining up ?
TheDrowningMan
Member
Nope.
And if you're queuing, you won't be able to hold them before you've made your decision. Apple staff will ask what you want and hand out tickets to everyone in line before the store opens.
Didn't they do the reservation system this year? I thought everything at Apple stores was spoken for by 2am last Friday
JackLongRod
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So you think apple is dumb enough to not have phones set aside for walk-ins on Friday ?
TheDrowningMan
Member
They did, but Apple likes queues.
The vast majority will be set aside for walk-ins.
Oh no? What happened?
TheDrowningMan
Member
Gone into administration.
You'll have 14 days to try out the phone and return it with no penalty.
What the hell.
TheChewyWaffles
Member
Ditched the 6+ Preorder (too much uncertainty about when I'd get it, rumors of being hot, etc) and went with a 128GB space gray regular 6 that will get to me this Friday. I'm stoked!
Are you crazy? Have you never paid attention to iPhone releases? Millions of people in the country line up for release day.
Of course Apple is going to have a huge in-store stock, particularly in highly populated areas.
So I have a pre-order for the 64gb silver 6+ that I choose to pick up instead of ship so that I could get it 9/19.
I have waited in lines before for apple products so I understand the insanity that entails. However, I have never waited in line after pre-ordering. Are they going to have separate lines or just one line? Can I just go like an hour before they close and not deal with lines if I wanted to just pick up my pre-order?
What if I wanted to also try to pick one up as well as my pre-order?
I have waited in lines before for apple products so I understand the insanity that entails. However, I have never waited in line after pre-ordering. Are they going to have separate lines or just one line? Can I just go like an hour before they close and not deal with lines if I wanted to just pick up my pre-order?
What if I wanted to also try to pick one up as well as my pre-order?
They will hold your pre-order. It's safe even if you don't go at all on Friday.
No, they won't let you cut in line, and most places will not do separate lines for people who are there to pick up pre-orders.
If you go early, you'll have to wait like everyone else. You can also just wait until later in the day to avoid the hassle.
Rumors of being hot?
Like sexy?
Dreams-Visions
Member
roger that. I'll probably go 6+ and back down if the "pocket experience" is unsatisfactory. 2 weeks is enough to try it in all of my jeans, slacks, gym shorts, etc.
I went over to an AT&T store earlier today to look at some phones that I thought were in the ballpark. I decided I really liked the size of the Galaxy S5 and assumed it was the size of the iPhone 6...but didn't realize until I got home that it was actually a meaningful bit bigger at 5.1". I also looked at the Lumia 1320 thinking that was similar in size to the iPhone 6+...
.....until I got home and found out it was 6 fucking inches. I think the 6+ might work for me if it's not too much bigger than the Galaxy S5.
Try to find a Note 3 if you can. That's about the closest thing, but the iPhone 6 Plus will be thinner.
Yes, the 6 Plus is six inches tall.
Dreams-Visions
Member
I was looking for one, but they didn't have one on display. And I'm probably okay with it being 6" tall. The Lumia's screen all by itself was 6". total 6.4" tall.
Wow, that's huge. I don't think I've seen one of those in person.
noomi
Member
Mine did as well...
Has anyone seen a screen protector for the 6 that has accurately sized cutouts? The ones I've seen all have these ridiculous holes on the top and bottom:
Mine too. I spoke to an AT&T rep and he said it's still on for 9/19 delivery.
Mine too. I spoke to an AT&T rep and he said it's still on for 9/19 delivery.
Dreams-Visions
Member
it was gigantic.
Got the Shakes
Member
It's only a picture so it doesn't help if you were trying to get hands one, but here is a comparison between the 6 Plus and Galaxy S5.
http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/iphone-6-iphone-6-plus-size-comparison/#/22
Dreams-Visions
Member
sheeeyit.
Looks...perfect to me. I was thinking as I browsed today that I would maybe want something a smidgen bigger than the S5. Not much, but a little bit.
*slams gavel*
64GB iPhone 6+ SOLD.
The 6 and 6+ will use a standard lightning cable like this, right?
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00J46VW9O/?tag=neogaf0e-20
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00J46VW9O/?tag=neogaf0e-20
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So now I'm thinking I might go with this case:
http://www.att.com/cases/body-glove-satin-gel-iphone-case-iphone-6.html#fbid=?sku=sku7380443
Sounds like it covers the entire phone in a slim and soft material, which is important for when I have a case on (I hate cases but I'll suck it up for a while). No TPU, plastic, polycarbonate, etc. Those can all scuff the metal. And I definitely need it really slim, which is why I still might go for the tight fit of the official Apple cases, despite the open bottom.
http://www.att.com/cases/body-glove-satin-gel-iphone-case-iphone-6.html#fbid=?sku=sku7380443
Sounds like it covers the entire phone in a slim and soft material, which is important for when I have a case on (I hate cases but I'll suck it up for a while). No TPU, plastic, polycarbonate, etc. Those can all scuff the metal. And I definitely need it really slim, which is why I still might go for the tight fit of the official Apple cases, despite the open bottom.
infiniteloop
Member
Glad I went for the 6 then <_< The GS5 is pretty much the biggest I'd want to go with a phone.
LordOfChaos
Member
So, 6S, S is for sapphire?
By the way, ion strengthened glass is exactly the process Corning uses for Gorilla Glass 3, I think they're just avoiding saying the brand to make it sound more advanced.
CPU bump is quite a letdown this time, I doubt 20% will be perceptible. Though understandably it's harder and harder to increase single threaded performance since the architecture is already nearly as wide as Haswell without just increasing clock speed, which would impact battery life and heat. So I wonder if next round, they'll cave and go with quad cores, as single threaded gains will be hard to do.
By the way, ion strengthened glass is exactly the process Corning uses for Gorilla Glass 3, I think they're just avoiding saying the brand to make it sound more advanced.
CPU bump is quite a letdown this time, I doubt 20% will be perceptible. Though understandably it's harder and harder to increase single threaded performance since the architecture is already nearly as wide as Haswell without just increasing clock speed, which would impact battery life and heat. So I wonder if next round, they'll cave and go with quad cores, as single threaded gains will be hard to do.
TheChewyWaffles
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The iPad Mini Retina isn't scaling 3x and then downsizing to 1920 x 1080.
luknotluck
Member
I ordered my 6 off Apple.com and I was wondering if their deliver by 9/19 is factual. I ordered mine on 9/12 around like 3pm.
luknotluck
Member
When you ordered the IPhone, it gave you an option to pick up in-store. Not too sure if you can change that, but I would give them a call.
Your pre-order is your pre-order. If you were to change the shipping method at this point, which you could only do by calling Apple, it wouldn't change it to day one.
You could have chosen "pick up in store" when you made the order originally.
That's what I thought. I think I'll just wait for it to ship c: hype yay
Can't wait to finally get LTE speeds, since the GS5 I have is the global model that doesn't have it.
Sir Abacus
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57.1GB with most likely a 2.2GB OS install for 54.9GB free at the worst. But it's hard to say because of the GM install sizes might go down once all of the debugging info gets stripped out.
Maninthemirror
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Can i go to the Apple store on launch date and if I get it, cancel the online Apple.com order and get the phone in the store ?
Community Forum
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If I show up early at a Verizon corporate store on Friday, do you think they will have iPhones for walk-in customers, or are they all reserved? Like, do they have a set number they set aside for a "launch" just for normal foot traffic?
Yes, there will be a walk-in stock.
In most places, people will be camping out for them, though.
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Regular iPhone 6's yea. The 6 + probably won't be in stock for most stores (except Apple stores). And even those will be very limited. But there should be regular 6's in stock for most places.