Sooooo. The iphone 6

tip top toker

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So who has one, who wants to get one? Bored of discussing it on tech forums where it is all about every technical niggle being debated.

What are your thoughts?

I just saw someone in the shop with one, and as much as I dislike apple, they've finally produced in my mind, an utterly fantastic phone. The only issue is that it doesn't look like an iPhone. The only way I was able to tell what it was from a distance was because of that absurd sticking out camera. Other than that it just looks like any other high end android handset. It no longer differentiates itself in traditional apple style.

Hardware wise, my opinion is that it is great, but almost obsolete upon release. They let themselves get far too out-dated. Too many of its top features are those that everyone else had for years.

So what're your opinions? Are those looking at buying it doing so because its the latest or greatest, or are you like many folk I know, upgrading from a 4 or 4s because of how underwhelming the 5 and 5s were? Or is it purely because of the screen?
 

BDOGKush

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I still use the 4 and don't have any desire to upgrade, plus if I do, I loss my unlimited data plan. I think they're too big and too expensive. Also like you said, their features aren't anything new.

Remember when manufactures were trying to make small/thin phones? Now everything being released is almost the size of a tablet.
 

tip top toker

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I still use the 4 and don't have any desire to upgrade, plus if I do, I loss my unlimited data plan. I think they're too big and too expensive. Also like you said, their features aren't anything new.

Remember when manufactures were trying to make small/thin phones? Now everything being released is almost the size of a tablet.
How does that work? With regard to losing your unlimited plan. Over here we just have a sim card and can use it in whatever we want.

I did find it interesting that for a year or two reviewers have been slating androids large screens claiming single handed use, and slating phablets but the moment apple release something that size, all the reviewers suddenly say who cares about single handed use on a screen this size, and refuse to refer to it as a phablet.

Too expensive is right though. Its crazy money. Does seem like folk in the USA get massively shafted when it comes to contracts, be it phone or broadband etc.
 

BDOGKush

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How does that work? With regard to losing your unlimited plan. Over here we just have a sim card and can use it in whatever we want.

I did find it interesting that for a year or two reviewers have been slating androids large screens claiming single handed use, and slating phablets but the moment apple release something that size, all the reviewers suddenly say who cares about single handed use on a screen this size, and refuse to refer to it as a phablet.

Too expensive is right though. Its crazy money. Does seem like folk in the USA get massively shafted when it comes to contracts, be it phone or broadband etc.
I'm with Verizon, we have to pay for data plans in the states which sets a data limit we are allotted for the month. When I signed up with Verizon they offered unlimited data plans, the next year they had gone to a different data tier system. They no longer offer unlimited but I'm grandfathered in to that plan and it would end up costing me the same for a 2Gb a month plan as what I pay now for unlimited. If I upgrade my phone, I have to sign a new contract which will void out my unlimited plan. Only way around it is too pay full retail for a new phone, then have it linked to my account and there is no way I'm shelling out that kind of cash for a cell phone.

Where the hell do people put these massive phones anyway? The iPhone 4 takes up an entire pant pocket for me, I wouldn't really want anything bigger.
 

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I'm with Verizon, we have to pay for data plans in the states which sets a data limit we are allotted for the month. When I signed up with Verizon they offered unlimited data plans, the next year they had gone to a different data tier system. They no longer offer unlimited but I'm grandfathered in to that plan and it would end up costing me the same for a 2Gb a month plan as what I pay now for unlimited. If I upgrade my phone, I have to sign a new contract which will void out my unlimited plan. Only way around it is too pay full retail for a new phone, then have it linked to my account and there is no way I'm shelling out that kind of cash for a cell phone.

Where the hell do people put these massive phones anyway? The iPhone 4 takes up an entire pant pocket for me, I wouldn't really want anything bigger.
What I thought. But typically, a 600 buck phone paid outright on a "sim only" basis costs the same as upgrading on a new subsidised contract. I imagine though that if you're on a 4 then you're already on a "half price" contract (eg if I buy a phone on a contract its 30 a month, if I get it without a new phone, then its only 15 a month)

But it seems you're in the same bots as my missus. She has a 4s, and just doesn't see any reason to upgrade as for average Joe who isn't an image conscious bellend, it does exactly what is needed. Only reason I upgraded to an htc M7 was because I needed a bigger screen to deal with the length of text a long distance relationship creates. Fits just fine in all of my pockets though. Doesn't really feel much different to my old 3.5 inch screen once I got used to it.
 

tip top toker

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Gold, bleurgh! The one I saw was in black or whatever colour they call it, and damn it looked good, although very much mistakable to an htc phone, but that camera, so much stupid. Such a shame that they went and crippled it with such mediocre hardware though. I'd happily buy something like that for say 400, but they want near double that.
 

sunni

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im paying 260, and the rest on a tab so i dont mind, but honestly i need a phone and ya i have an iphone 4s now i like em , thats just my personal choice tho
 

ULEN

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I slanged the mark of the beast in my previous quest for about 5 years.

Having worked for nearly every wireless giant in the western world, I can surely say that apple puts out the best overall product out.

What was missing was the large screen.

Pixel density, megapixels, processors, displays speakers etc... Get changed out by the manufacturer eventually if you didn't pick up that first gen of that model. Other companies begin to make parts for the phones and thats when you buy junk.

If you don't want junk, buy them when they first come out. I suggest you buy a good case to care for that phone that was made sensitive on purpose. It was made to break.

Tech 21 makes the best cases. Might have to buy one from TMOBILE since they own the company.
 

sunni

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I slanged the mark of the beast in my previous quest for about 5 years.

Having worked for nearly every wireless giant in the western world, I can surely say that apple puts out the best overall product out.

What was missing was the large screen.

Pixel density, megapixels, processors, displays speakers etc... Get changed out by the manufacturer eventually if you didn't pick up that first gen of that model. Other companies begin to make parts for the phones and thats when you buy junk.

If you don't want junk, buy them when they first come out. I suggest you buy a good case to care for that phone that was made sensitive on purpose. It was made to break.

Tech 21 makes the best cases. Might have to buy one from TMOBILE since they own the company.
i never had a case on my iphone 4, just cause i never bought one, and honestly ive dropped it so much and its still in perfect condition
 

ULEN

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i never had a case on my iphone 4, just cause i never bought one, and honestly ive dropped it so much and its still in perfect condition
So your calls don't drop and everyone can hear you loud and clear? You do know the metal on the phone is the antenna right?
 

TakeTheTicket

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Having worked for nearly every wireless giant in the western world, I can surely say that apple puts out the best overall product out.
REALLY? I would say they are reliable and modern but thats where the praise ends. They are good for older people and people who don't understand modern technology. No removable battery. No expandable memory. Proprietary software that limits a lot of what you can do. File system inaccessible. Can only be registered to a single computer. If that computer breaks or crashes, you get to erase your iPhone.Third party apps to manage the phone end up corrupting the databases. etc etc etc
 

nontheist

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So who has one, who wants to get one? Bored of discussing it on tech forums where it is all about every technical niggle being debated.

What are your thoughts?

I just saw someone in the shop with one, and as much as I dislike apple, they've finally produced in my mind, an utterly fantastic phone. The only issue is that it doesn't look like an iPhone. The only way I was able to tell what it was from a distance was because of that absurd sticking out camera. Other than that it just looks like any other high end android handset. It no longer differentiates itself in traditional apple style.

Hardware wise, my opinion is that it is great, but almost obsolete upon release. They let themselves get far too out-dated. Too many of its top features are those that everyone else had for years.

So what're your opinions? Are those looking at buying it doing so because its the latest or greatest, or are you like many folk I know, upgrading from a 4 or 4s because of how underwhelming the 5 and 5s were? Or is it purely because of the screen?

The Iphone 6 and 6+ are unimpressive. I watched the the unveiling and it was like watching Samsung galaxy note 3 unveiling (including the watch) that relieved over a year ago. It seems they have lost ground on technology while trying to create a watch and bigger phone.

Everything new on the 6 and 6+ is a year old or older, while they now have HD resolution phones are now coming out with 4k and Virtual reality, yes 4k VR is now linked to phones. 360 degree immersion in movies and games. Their "new" watches are tethered to the phone like the original (old) galaxy gear watches, while other manufacturers have removed the need to tether it to a phone at all.

Apple revolutionized cell phones but within the last 14 months Samsung has jumped far ahead in technology. Im afraid Apple may have died with with Steve Jobs, we will see in the next few years.

 

tyler.durden

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I thought this article was hilarious, I lol'd several times sitting downtown by myself, so much that I received some strange looks :) -

http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/18/6410659/should-i-get-new-iphone

In today's editorial, my former friend and co-worker only by obligation, Ross Miller, claimed his life — and tacitly, your life — would continue if he chose not to purchase a new iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus, and instead continued to use his markedly inferior and aesthetically repulsive iPhone 5S. This is a baldfaced lie, and I know, because I was awake at 3AM last week to order an iPhone 6 Plus, making me an expert on this topic.

Here's the truth: I do need a bigger phone and so do you.

I know, because I was awake at 3 AM last week

A bigger phone will improve my life and the lives of those around me — because it will be impossible for them to not look at the radiating 5.5-inch display. Henceforth, my personal email, Twitter, and Instagram will be providing countless hours of entertaining pathos for those who sit alongside me on subways and airplanes.

Look inwards, and you will uncover deep within your consciousness this suppressed fact: for too long, you have had to hold your phone within two feet of your face to read updates on Facebook. Now, we as a culture can allow our arms to loosen and heal, as we Like baby photos from a nose-to-screen distance of four feet.

As someone with small hands, the larger phone will remind me that, yes, I am small, not just in the physical sense, but in the spiritual and existential sense. Cosmically speaking, our bodies, our planet and our very reality are microscopically microscopic. As Ted Theodore Logan once said to Socrates, "All we are is dust in the wind, dude." Touching an iPhone 6 Plus is like reaching through all dimensions and touching the very fabric of existence.

I do need a bigger phone and so do you

But, and this is important, so please stay with me, the power of my new phone is only validated if we all purchase the new iPhone 6 Plus, the largest and newest possible phone in Apple's line of phones. I don't care if you have a contract or don't really need a new phone or if making this purchase sends you deeper into the endemic debt forced on millennials by a baby boomer generation that duped us into private universities, multiple credit cards and international wars. It's imperative that you buy the newest, biggest phone and the reason is obvious:

If everyone doesn't buy this phone, I'm going to look like a real asshole.

Have you seen the iPhone 6 Plus? I have. They have one in our office. The first time someone handed one to me I dropped it, because it's stupid huge. Like, I struggle to hold it with two hands. You know those tubes full of liquid they sell in novelty shops? The slippery ones that squirt out of your hands if you squeeze too tight? Well that's me holding an iPhone 6 Plus.

So, trust me when I say I need an iPhone 6 Plus (because it's already too late to cancel the shipment) and so do you (because don't leave me here alone).

Before you go, a parting thought: For millennia, size has been the benchmark of empires. Who are we to stand in the way of history. It makes sense if you don't think about it for too long — just like my iPhone 6 Plus purchase...
 

tytheguy111

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i ordered mine in gold i had the 4s i dropped it so goddamn much never cracked once, works better than the android i had
im excited

Naw Samsung with the kit kat upgrade out does any shitty ass fruit phone

Any day

Any time

Any where

On any planet

In any galaxy

Plus my S4 mini does the same as a s4 just not as big
 

tip top toker

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Ive no love for apple but ice equally no love for Samsung overpriced plastic tat.

Yesterday was a day of much amusement at apples expense. Bending phones, brand new operating system that requires a patch less than a week later, said patch then making the phone unusable. Tim Cook is becoming the new Steve Ballmer. Resign before you royally duck up anything else. Had a tutorial yesterday after a lecture, and it involved a video highlighting Steve jobs presentation abilities, and she admitted that she was an apple die hard and Jobs was her hero, and then admitted that Cook on the other hand, she laughed.
 
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