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Post by afreak »

wired8 wrote: post #199
afreak wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

France and Austria, unlike Canada are very much dense so the infrastructure required to setup an LTE/UMTS/etc network is less costly. To travel from Vancouver to the next principal Canadian city (Calgary), it requires 900 KM of driving and there's only really one metropolitan area of sorts between the two, meaning that you're going to be setting up cell towers that handle only so much traffic in a day. As a result, t…

Which carrier/plan?

WIND Mobile. The plan isn't offered any longer but there are similar ones available.

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Post by kylec »

jonknee wrote: post #165
ljk wrote: post #133

6-7inch screens are getting too big but 4-inch is a little too small imo...

Well then you should love the iPhone 6s with its 4.7" display.

It's like different people prefer different size phones or something

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Post by ibmthrowaway218 »

pcl wrote: post #158
c-slice wrote: post #128

Why the exact same shape as the iPhone 5S? I feel like a significant reason people buy new iPhones is the idea that people will notice you have the newest model. With SE, it will just appear like you have an out of date iPhone 5. Why not round the edges like the iPhone 6?

I will replace my iPhone 5 with one of these. I'm happy to hear that the dimensions are the same, since I have some existing accessories that would probably not work if the size were a bit different.

> I will replace my iPhone 5 with one of these.

I probably will too (currently on an iPhone 5) given that my current strategy is to replace my phone every 2 years by buying a refurbished model with 12 month warranty for ~£150 from eBay. I usually get ~£50 or so for each old phone so the physical phone only costs me £4 a month.

4GB data (4G), unlimited texts and unlimited minutes for ~£20 a month here in the UK. Was always amazed at the price of plans in the US, luckily I never had to pay my own bill when I lived there.

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Post by mojuba »

sotojuan wrote: post #125
mojuba wrote: post #106

> The only camera you’ll ever need. Apple, you are usually good at slogans and titles, but this one... At least three flops in one sentence: "The only camera" - so no more Canons, Nikons and Leikas? "...you'll ever" - so there will be no more innovation ever, even from you, Apple? "...need" - so you are confident everyone needs a camera?

The average consumer doesn't need a Canon, Nikon, or Leica (definitely not a Leica!) for everyday photography. The iPhone is "good enough". Of course, it's a middle/upper middle class tradition to get your teen a DSLR but as we all know the end up using the iPhone more.

I thought Apple wasn't quite for "average consumers" though.

Again, I used to bring Apple as an example of good, minimum-BS, no exaggerations, well though out marketing. "Your iPhone is beautiful. Give it a complement." Nice, to the point, with a neat pun (complement, as in accessories).

The phrase about the camera is awful. I don't know why I'm getting downvoted so much.

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Post by mortenjorck »

Only Apple would launch a new phone that looked physically almost identical to one that has been out for two and a half years.

Similar to keeping the design language of the MacBook family the same across generations of the product, it's a reaffirmation of Massimo Vignelli's famous quote "Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style."

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Post by gergles »

brandon272 wrote: post #93

I'm becoming rather impatient with the stagnating Macbook/MBA/MBP product category. Would very much like a lightweight retina Macbook 13" or larger.

As indicated in the keynote, Apple views iPads as the future of personal computing. This was said multiple times by multiple people. I wouldn't be surprised to see the MacBook lines continue to stagnate.

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Post by bendykstra »

wolfhammer wrote: post #178

I don't like the touch id and touch pay that they're pushing. Fingerprint scanners everyone is probably not a good thing. I'm sure they're all going to end up in a database somewhere.

The Touch ID module hashes fingerprints as part of its scanning process, so the representation of a fingerprint would be of limited use if stolen. In addition, the hashes are stored within hardware that is not accessible by the iPhone's processor, so liberating the hash from the phone would require physical access and sophisticated tools.

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Post by agumonkey »

roymurdock wrote: post #136

Here is the fundamental problem for Apple WRT new iPhones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eSrdgTHhK0 The processing power wall. The difference in processing power is extremely negligible between the latest models. What application are you going to be running on your phone that needs more power than the A7/A8, which can load webpages almost instantaneously? More processing power at this point seems like it will only…

They will milk the cow as long as possible, since getting cash is probably the safest path to high innovation by funding their R&D labs nicely.

In my mind the only innovation is to make software invisible, which would somehow lower the visible value proposition of devices.

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Post by [deleted] »

aiabgold wrote: post #208
cm2187 wrote: post #180

I would buy it if there was a 128GB version. It's the only form factor that works for me. I can't reach the whole of the screen with a single hand on the 6s and 6s plus.

You're probably already aware, but there's a nice feature on the 6s and 6s plus which somewhat handles this: double touch the home button (without pushing it down) and the screen moves down by half, leaving only the top half of the screen visible. Makes it a lot easier to reach options located at the top of the screen.

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Post by ubasu »

I couldn't identify all the car company logos. Specifically, in 1-based (row, column) format:

(1,3), (3,2), (3,6), (4,4), (4,6), (4,7), (5,9)

Can people please chime in with the correct identifications?

(There seems to be a logo behind the speaker, which I am not counting)

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