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Well he could easily retort that the if you're going to make a phone this big, do it right, make it as light as possible. I assume the iPhone 6 is lighter than the equivalently sized Galaxy phones.
By 2 grams! Go Apple!
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I have absolutely no need or desire for more than 16gb and certainly no need for a micro-SD card slot on my iPhone 5s. I barely use 8GB. I would imagine many people are the same way.
>> "I would imagine many people are the same way." Most people are out of space. The number of people I heard complaining when iOS 7 was released and they didn't have enough space to install it shocked me. I also know a tonne of people (especially younger people) who can't backup to iCloud because they have filled their device with photos and they would have to pay for more backup space. When most new games are over…
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The 4.7 in version bump is negligible for most ppl's palms. Even the majority of people with small hands still engulf the 4 in. size. I think it would be a moot point in a majority of cases unless you are really jones'ing for the pocket space and portability...
Keep in mind that the iPhone 6 is a very large phone for a 4.7" device. Because of its huge bezels, it's actually taller than the 5" Nexus 5.
I run a flip phone and the battery lasts a week and change. So does my iPod. Friends with iPhones are constantly pulling out their phones with dead batteries.
The thinness obsession has always irked me. Apparently it's what the market wants, but I wish they would use the space and weight savings for more battery. Were it not for battery life I would purchase an iPhone and just run it with T-Mobile prepaid and no data.
Nexus 5 is all the phone one needs, at half the price.
Nexus 5 owner and general android fanboy here. I'd agree with you if not for the fact that the Nexus 5's camera is still not nearly as good as the iPhone 5/6's. In fact it can be downright terrible at times.
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Wow, this comment is really full of FUD. Planned obsolescence? iPhone backdoors? You need to reevaluate where you get your Apple-related news from. > They were caught out slowing the older versions of their phones right before the release of the new ones by analyzing google search data Where did you even get this from? That's 100% made-up. But it's also oddly specific in a way I've never heard before. What site is pu…
The New York Times published the article from a Harvard Professor. Link in the original comment, as is the paper revealing the backdoors. Here is the PRISM slide showing the timing of Apples participation, exactly one year after SJ passed. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-... It's not FUD I'm stating a set of facts here. It is what it is.
Apple has been accused of planned obsolescence before, and the claims have always proven to be complete bullshit. There's a very simple explanation for why people complain about their phones being slow around the time new devices come out, and that's the fact that a new OS is released at the same time (as your link even states), and it's very common for new OS's to not perform as well on old hardware as the previous OS. This is partially because the new OS typically adds more functionality, which takes computing resources to use, and partially because the new OS is predominately only tested on new and current-gen hardware, and not tested much on older hardware. This is very well-known, and it affects pretty much every computing product ever. The only reason you're not really seeing this with Android phones is because a) new Android phone releases don't correlate with OS upgrades, and b) most Android phone users either don't or can't upgrade to the latest OS anyway.
I might get downvoted by fans here, but the most commented change for the new iPhone being the addition of a barometer shows a certain decline in the innovation department from Apple, or at least, lack of ability to surprise.
ALL iPhone generations released so far have a CSS pixel width of 320 pixels. But the iPhone 6 is the first to change this. It looks like Apple is finally bumping this up! This means a bit more text can fit on each line when holding the phone vertically for websites using : - iPhone 6 is 1334x750: CSS pixel width is likely 375px (pixel ratio = 2) - iPhone 6 Plus is 1920x1080: CSS pixel width is likely either 432px (pi…
This is going to throw advertising firms into an epic tizzy. The de facto mobile web ad size has been standardized around the 320px (320x50 usually) width of portrait iPhones since basically the dawn of smartphone advertising. Now suddenly they have 3 widths to worry about just for iPhone.
Too bad there is no longer a high end 4" model. The iPhone 5S won't support Apple Pay since it doesn't have NFC, and it is no longer available in 64 GB. I would have thought that Apple understood they have customers that actually prefer the 4" size, or else they wouldn't have had any sales the last years. Let's hope for a iPhone 6S mini next year.
> Let's hope for a iPhone 6S mini next year. Or an iPhone 6S Minus. Am I the only one who thinks "iPhone Plus" sounds oddly un-Apple-ish?
Apple II+, Apple III+, Macintosh Plus, Apple IIc Plus, Laserwriter Plus, ...
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> Let's hope for a iPhone 6S mini next year. Or an iPhone 6S Minus. Am I the only one who thinks "iPhone Plus" sounds oddly un-Apple-ish?
The first thing I thought of when I saw the naming was the Macintosh Plus. Maybe next year we'll see the iPhone ][!