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Re: iPhone 8

#51

Post by khedoros1 »

chris_7 wrote: post #23

Wireless charging is baffling to me. Instead of carrying a small plug and cable around, you carry a... giant disc - and it still has the plug? It would be one thing if it was magic charging that worked anywhere within a few meters of the charger, but I gather that's impossible. You still have to put it on the disc! I get that it's optional.

It's convenient, but not essential. You don't carry around the wireless charger; you put it somewhere where it would be convenient to set the phone on a regular basis. When I had a phone with wireless charging, the charger was next to my bed. My current phone doesn't charge wirelessly, but I use a magnetically-coupled USB cable with it instead, so I can just yank the phone off the nightstand without damaging the charging port.

Re: iPhone 8

#52

Post by procparam »

chris_7 wrote: post #23

Wireless charging is baffling to me. Instead of carrying a small plug and cable around, you carry a... giant disc - and it still has the plug? It would be one thing if it was magic charging that worked anywhere within a few meters of the charger, but I gather that's impossible. You still have to put it on the disc! I get that it's optional.

I have a magnetic phone mount in my car. When I get in, I put my phone on the mount, then connect it to the charging cable. Just because it's a pain to fool with cables in the car (especially if I remember after I start driving) I've found myself wishing that (1) my phone allows wireless charging and (2) the phone mount doubled as a wireless charging pad.

That's the best use case I can think of.

Re: iPhone 8

#53

Post by po1nter »

chris_7 wrote: post #23

Wireless charging is baffling to me. Instead of carrying a small plug and cable around, you carry a... giant disc - and it still has the plug? It would be one thing if it was magic charging that worked anywhere within a few meters of the charger, but I gather that's impossible. You still have to put it on the disc! I get that it's optional.

Not to mention the energy lost in the process.

Re: iPhone 8

#54

Post by more-entropy »

c0nducktr wrote: post #13
more-entropy wrote: post #10

Really? I have to pay 1k for embedded photoshop filters for that? They have just enhanced the camera and... that's all? Really? I missed something? Yep - new CPU is good. But... Anything else? The expectations were much more.

I don't think the iPhone 8 will be $1000. That's probably just the X model, but we'll see.

In EU it will be 1k.

Re: iPhone 8

#55

Post by khedoros1 »

agumonkey wrote: post #39

Tim Cooks oversold the thing massively. I expected something innovative, but it's more a evolution than a revolution. It was so confusing I thought the introduction video was showing old 7 and expected them to be shattered or replaced by the 8. Phil Schiller spent probably 5 full minutes without an audience reaction (until the sky star map AR thing). hold on: one more thinging

I think that the X is supposed to be the massively-innovative one, not the 8.

Re: iPhone 8

#56

Post by taylorswift_ »

Is it me or have we reached the end of the road of mobile phone innovation? Is this going to be Apple's downfall as something like 70% of their sales are from iphone? We've had many years now of mobile phone enhancements and features but it seems like there isn't a lot more we can do on a phone. The next breakthrough ipod/iphone isn't going to be a phone at all. How many more times can we put a better chip or a better screen or a new camera into a phone at this point and have consumers seriously give a crap? Feels like things are going stale.

Re: iPhone 8

#57

Post by jdietrich »

froogle wrote: post #35
chris_7 wrote: post #23

Wireless charging is baffling to me. Instead of carrying a small plug and cable around, you carry a... giant disc - and it still has the plug? It would be one thing if it was magic charging that worked anywhere within a few meters of the charger, but I gather that's impossible. You still have to put it on the disc! I get that it's optional.

I think the idea is you keep the charger plugged in all the time (say, beside your bed) and when you go to sleep you just throw the phone on the charger. Seems kinda convenient to me.

Ikea make furniture with built-in wireless charging. It's not remotely essential, but it's a nice convenience feature.

Re: iPhone 8

#58

Post by chris_7 »

froogle wrote: post #35
chris_7 wrote: post #23

Wireless charging is baffling to me. Instead of carrying a small plug and cable around, you carry a... giant disc - and it still has the plug? It would be one thing if it was magic charging that worked anywhere within a few meters of the charger, but I gather that's impossible. You still have to put it on the disc! I get that it's optional.

I think the idea is you keep the charger plugged in all the time (say, beside your bed) and when you go to sleep you just throw the phone on the charger. Seems kinda convenient to me.

Oh, I get it, it's just that the feature is often talked about like it's the second coming of wifi. It takes me about a second to plug in my iPhone.

Re: iPhone 8

#59

Post by [deleted] »

taylorswift_ wrote: post #56

Is it me or have we reached the end of the road of mobile phone innovation? Is this going to be Apple's downfall as something like 70% of their sales are from iphone? We've had many years now of mobile phone enhancements and features but it seems like there isn't a lot more we can do on a phone. The next breakthrough ipod/iphone isn't going to be a phone at all. How many more times can we put a better chip or a bette…

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Re: iPhone 8

#60

Post by agumonkey »

khedoros1 wrote: post #55
agumonkey wrote: post #39

Tim Cooks oversold the thing massively. I expected something innovative, but it's more a evolution than a revolution. It was so confusing I thought the introduction video was showing old 7 and expected them to be shattered or replaced by the 8. Phil Schiller spent probably 5 full minutes without an audience reaction (until the sky star map AR thing). hold on: one more thinging

I think that the X is supposed to be the massively-innovative one, not the 8.

Yeah, they hustled us. he didn't say that iPhone 8 WAS the innovation, he just said iPhone.
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