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Re: iPhone 6

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Post by sid05 »

eisa01 wrote: post #78

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.

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...

Re: iPhone 6

#102

Post by Aloha »

currysausage wrote: post #94
eisa01 wrote: post #78

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?

Macintosh Plus.

Re: iPhone 6

#103

Post by sp332 »

Swizec wrote: post #18

The iPhone6+ looks just like one of those giant Android monsters from Nexus or Samsung. This makes me sad. I have small-person sized hands and often struggle even with the normal iPhone5 and the trend for making phones bigger and bigger makes me angry and sad at the same time. I hate it and always, always , when my friends would ask why I prefer Apple over cheaper and better speced devices, my answer was "Because App…

According to the keynote, you can double-tap (somewhere? home button?) and the top of the screen will move down to where you can reach it with your thumb.

Re: iPhone 6

#104

Post by LaikaF »

k-mcgrady wrote: post #79
polym wrote: post #74

The iPhone 6 Plus is just too big - as big as my hand. I bet, you can't sit down with this monster in your pocket. Stop making it wider and higher!

Look at how popular the Galaxy Note is. I don't understand those people, but they love it. And I think the iPhone 6 Plus is actually smaller than a Note.

My father was an early adopter of the Galaxy Note. It really comes down to how big you can make words on the screen for him. Old people don't like having to squint at their phones.

Re: iPhone 6

#105

Post by XorNot »

scottcha wrote: post #54
dominotw wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is that going to be useful?

I build an avalanche safety app http://www.ullrlabs.com and knowing your elevation is one key aspect of determining the avalanche risk (due to differences in altitude for wind effect, temp, and snow accumulation).

Wouldn't GPS be far more accurate for this purpose?

Re: iPhone 6

#106

Post by jarek »

pjmorris wrote: post #50
51Cards wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have big hands and I still agree with you. I hung on to my Nexus One well past its expiry date because of the size of it. Eventually I had to move up and being in the Android realm I came VERY close to buying the Moto X because of its narrower form factor in my hand. In the end I went Nexus 5 but it still feels big to me.

I've still got my Nexus One, though I almost clicked 'Buy Now' on a Nexus 5 today. Mind doing a comparison?

I went BB Pearl 8100 > Nexus One > Nexus 5. Each upgrade felt stupid big at first, but I got used to them.

N5 is workable particularly if you install a launcher that lets you open notifications other than swiping from top. I also like its keyboard better than N1's - bigger keys do make a difference (though 4.4's keyboard software might also play a role).

You definitely hold and use the bigger phones slightly differently but I've found it's not a huge dealbreaker. And well, N5 screen is beautiful coming from N1.

Don't know about buying an N5 today, though, it's been out for a while. I haven't tracked refresh rumours but I'd expect there to be some.

YMMV of course!

Re: iPhone 6

#107

Post by allegory »

jcromartie wrote: post #55

Wake me if Apple ever return to the kind of innovation they brought with things like the original Macintosh, the iMac, Mac OS X, the iPod, or the original iPhone.

Macintosh = nicked from Xerox, boxed up.

iMac = TRS-80

Mac OS X = FreeBSD munged with NeXT.

The iPod = Diamond Rio

Original iPhone = every damn windows mobile phone for at least 5 years before hand.

The innovation was the style, the marketing and the packaging, nothing more.

Re: iPhone 6

#108

Post by Thimothy »

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.

Re: iPhone 6

#109

Post by mikeash »

tonyhb wrote: post #17
dominotw wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is it used for in the phone?

It means instead of waiting for a GPS lock in 30 seconds it's under 10. The barometer makes calculating your position via GPS much quicker, as it has an additional piece of data to simplify some of the maths it does. Edit: here's a source which may confirm - http://pocketnow.com/android/google-confirms-barometer-inten...

Any decent smartphone can already get a GPS fix in a second or so.

The main bottleneck to a GPS fix these days is simply downloading the satellite positions. This is done over a 1970s-era protocol that operates at 50bps and takes about 30 seconds to transmit all of the data.

Smartphones bypass this by downloading the positions over their local data connection, which cuts that down to a fraction of a second.

Fixing your altitude to +/- 2000ft doesn't really help the process to any significant degree. If you have the satellite positions or can get them quickly, the rest comes fast. If you don't, you're doomed to be slow.

Re: iPhone 6

#110

Post by Amezarak »

twodayslate wrote: post #7

I was looking forward to that sapphire screen. Oh well.

Why? From what I understand, sapphire is more brittle than Gorilla Glass (although supposedly scratches can contribute to the likelihood of cracks), so what I think for most people the common breakage case is quite possibly not any better. Additionally, sapphire is more reflective than glass which is problematic all in itself.

Apple reserving sapphire screens for watches makes perfect sense to me.

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