Maninthemirror
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comparison in my hands.
i think I will go with 6+
i think I will go with 6+
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Apple iPhone 6 [OT]
- Thread starter OriginalThinking
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Holy shit. Mine gets like 30 min on a full charge. If I even LOOK at my phone it dies.
Valkyr Junkie
Member
Replace the battery. I just had mine swapped out during the "recall" and it's amazing how good the battery life is again.
Since 1984, the Apple Kool Aid has been passed around and drunk heartily among its fans.
Hari Seldon
Member
Yeah, that is what it might come down to, which means bye-bye iPhone.
Maninthemirror
Banned
are you denying these that the screen apps looked amazing vs competition, performance was almost always better than competition and camera was above almost all phone companies barring nokia?
thecouncil
Banned
ok, now upload those templates so we can all try!
"Lol cool aid" is the only answer you ever need to someone that likes something Apple makes. It can't be that they simply have a different opinion, it's that their opinion is based on something dumb and is therefor inferior. Obviously.
Nicktendo86
Member
What do you mean by screen apps looking amazing?
Not sure about your camera claim. The software apple have is good no doubt but I am sure there are many other phones with better cameras.
Maninthemirror
Banned
http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/iphone-scale.pdf
when printing, make sure the setting doesn't say Fit to paper. Uncheck that option for actual size
Edag Plata
Banned
So I'm really going to have to be up at 3am on Friday to pre-order this thing?
Maninthemirror
Banned
I mean when you open the app say Weather.com on both an iPhone and a competing device and the competing device has 2x the resolution, that what you see looks better on the higher res if you ignore the screen size?
The Haterade has been drunk in even larger numbers.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Do what I do. Wake up, boot up the Apple ap on iPhone, order, go back to bed. If the app is working like it should you should be back to bed in 5 minutes.
If I remember correctly they come out 1-2 days before the release date.
Mammoth Jones
Member
Yep. I live on my phone. I work on my phone, emails, apps, work chat, personal chat. I need maximum battery! If the iPhone 6 had the same battery life I'd get that.
But I'm sitting here holding a Galaxy Note 2 and it's big as fuck. But I can deal with it. I'll just need a bluetooth headset to talk. No way am I holding that beast against my head for an hour.
RIght now with my iphone 5 by the time I get to work my phone is at 40%. Sometimes lower. That's with heavy use. But I have a 2 hour one way commute.
This. It's a fucking phone. Why are there grown ass people that HATE on a phone? I don't understand. I personally don't like Android, but I don't shit up Android threads with how bad I think Android products are.
Mofo's got a serious chip on their shoulder about it.
Edag Plata
Banned
Do what I do. Wake up, boot up the Apple ap on iPhone, order, go back to bed. If the app is working like it should you should be back to bed in 5 minutes.
Even on a 4s?
The Apple Store app, right?
Maninthemirror
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if you go to apple.com. it contacts ATT for you when you decide to buy the phone. it gives you 2 options, ATT Next or 2 year contract
thecouncil
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Mammoth Jones
Member
Even on a 4s?
The Apple Store app, right?
Yea. Took me about a half hour 2 years ago for the iPhone 5. But I went through the website.
Thank you.
Anyone preorder from Best Buy before? Have a bunch in gift cards from trade-ins and was saving for this.... wonder how smoothly or not it goes lol
Same. I'm always curious about what other phones bring to the table. I won't laugh at a phone unless it's a complete trainwreck, made of flimsy "metallic" plastic or pleather, or ludicrously large. (The 6+ is kind of in that "too large" territory.)
Except they won't. The Android platform has been really really good for a few years now.
Wait till you try it first. The weight of the device can also be annoying (e.g. when you're in bed holding the phone above you for long periods of time). I say this as someone who tested the Note 3 for a week, and still ended up reverting to a smaller phone. Amazing devices, but the size and to a lesser extent, weight, can definitely be bothersome, depending on your needs and uses.
Only because other Android vendors have taken some of their share. Overall Android sales are up.
OEMs like Samsung are down YoY in sales.
sweetvar26
Member
iPhone 6 surely did improve over the iPhone 5s with a better processor and all but the battery life hasn't changed. Up until now, Apple had one iPhone to begin with except for the 5c but this time it is a full fledged iPhone that can be compared with which has better screen (Resolution), better OIS and the biggest of all, better battery life.
In this day and age where Android phones are coming up with easy 1.5 days of charge battery life, and considering I came back to iPhone 5 from my LG G2, this thing blows and I don't want the same thing with a regular iPhone 6.
In my case, battery life is a huge deal, I do lots of texting on WhatsApp and browsing, so I will take what I can get. But YMMV obviously.
Minsc
Gold Member
What do people expect the pre-ordering to be like? I got both my prior phones around day 1, but they were wildly different scenarios.
iPhone 4 was a chaotic mess to pre-order. I think i had to wait in lines, and it wasn't even shipped out properly (i think even with a pre-order it was still first come first serve).
Then iPhone 5 pre-ordering was literally going in to a store with no wait on the first day, pre-ordered in a few mins, and picked it up no troubles when it released. Couldn't have been easier, and no lines or shortages in sight.
So I'm sort of expecting this to be more like the iPhone 5, demand will be there, but I doubt it'll be the mess the iPhone 4 was.
I think it helps me too that my iPhone 5 is still perfectly serviceable, where 2 years after owning the 4, it was dragging pretty bad and the slower speed was definitely apparent (so if I have to wait an extra week or more it's not bad). I'm expecting this to be true of others as well, people who have the 4S/5 probably are still satisfied with it, more than in the past. And the seemingly gigantic size (and extra cost) of the 6 Plus will probably help it stay in stock rather than hurt it, as not everyone want's to spend $400+ on a subsidized phone (with taxes and activation fees it'll probably be closer to $600).
iPhone 4 was a chaotic mess to pre-order. I think i had to wait in lines, and it wasn't even shipped out properly (i think even with a pre-order it was still first come first serve).
Then iPhone 5 pre-ordering was literally going in to a store with no wait on the first day, pre-ordered in a few mins, and picked it up no troubles when it released. Couldn't have been easier, and no lines or shortages in sight.
So I'm sort of expecting this to be more like the iPhone 5, demand will be there, but I doubt it'll be the mess the iPhone 4 was.
I think it helps me too that my iPhone 5 is still perfectly serviceable, where 2 years after owning the 4, it was dragging pretty bad and the slower speed was definitely apparent (so if I have to wait an extra week or more it's not bad). I'm expecting this to be true of others as well, people who have the 4S/5 probably are still satisfied with it, more than in the past. And the seemingly gigantic size (and extra cost) of the 6 Plus will probably help it stay in stock rather than hurt it, as not everyone want's to spend $400+ on a subsidized phone (with taxes and activation fees it'll probably be closer to $600).
So, none of these Android vendors are scared then? They're laughing all the way to the bank while they take chunks out of each other's pie, and these ads reflect this? Interesting theory.
Tim Cook says it will be the "Mother of all upgrade" cycles. Wake up at midnight PST on friday and pre-order if you want to be guaranteed to get one on day 1. They'll probably be sold out of day 1 phones (and worse) before I wake up on the east coast. And I wake up early.
UND3RxOATH
Neo Member
I will be holding off for now and waiting till next year. I do enjoy my Nexus 5 and already own an iPad. I don't see a. Need to rush when the watch is the item I want the most.
I don't hate iPhones at all, and would argue that they are perhaps the best "overall" phones still. It's justfunny to see some of the cultish attitudes some of its fans exhibit sometimes.
Preordering was hell when i did it for the 5.
The website was down for HOURS
android vs apple is the new Microsoft vs Sony.
It is really dumb. They are all phones. Choose what you like, why care what others choose?
The website was down for HOURS
android vs apple is the new Microsoft vs Sony.
It is really dumb. They are all phones. Choose what you like, why care what others choose?
BruiserBear
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Truth
Got the Shakes
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So much this. I'm actually someone who uses both iOS and Android. I currently have a OnePlus One and an iPhone 5 (which is getting sold because I'm going to buy a 6 Plus). There are pros and cons to both, and I can see why someone one would prefer Android over iOS and I can see why people prefer iOS to Android. I do not get this culture of people shitting all over other people because they choose to use a phone that they don't "approve" of. If you don't like an iPhone, buy Android, if you don't like Android, buy an iPhone and if you don't like either buy a Windows phone. It's as simple as that.
Minsc
Gold Member
Guess we'll have to wait and see. I don't really see the 5.5" model being more popular, and the prices are higher than usual going for that model too. I'd expect stock to be quickly available in stores, but that's just a guess.
Stores get their own stock separate from online for pre-ordering too. I went in to an AT&T store on the first pre-order day for the 5, and no lines, and issues like I mentioned, and didn't have to deal with website crashes or anything.
I do expect it to sell out (since that good PR and what you want), but I'll be surprised if you can't walk in to a store a week later and at worst get on a short waiting list for something (if they don't have the 64GB 5.5" maybe they have the 128GB or vice-versa).
Solideliquid
Member
Would someone mind going over the procedure for buying off contract during this Friday's preorder using the apple store app?
Thanks!
Edit: AT&T
Thanks!
Edit: AT&T
Totally anecdotal, but I teach a class. This morning I walked in, everyone was talking about the phones. Almost everyone seemed to want the big one.
I think there will be some large age differences in who is getting the big phone and who gets the smaller phone
BruiserBear
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I'm super psyched about the iPhone 6. I bought a 5 two years ago, and I'll be thrilled to get a slightly bigger screen in the 4.7, improved battery life, better camera/video, better screen, fingerprint unlock.
I can't be bothered to jump through any hoops to pre-order though. So I'll get one when I get one. Probably a month after it comes out.
I can't be bothered to jump through any hoops to pre-order though. So I'll get one when I get one. Probably a month after it comes out.
Minsc
Gold Member
You mean it wasn't full of people saying how awkwardly huge they were (that seems to be the consensus where I work, but the average employee is older with kids)? Somewhat surprising, perhaps the demographics between the two are more balanced overall than I guessed...
That would definitely be the case if true. But "worse" may still be 60fps for most things, the phones are pretty fast nowadays and apps/games generally target specs for 2+ generations past. Anandtech's review will definitely point out such things though.
If only it had OIS