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Re: iPhone 7

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Post by CountHackulus »

heartbreak wrote: post #318
tptacek wrote: post #233

I think I speak for a lot of people when I say that cameras are nice and so are Retina displays but what we'd really like to see is a big splashy page about whatever's new with the Secure Enclave Processor in the 7. Not because there's anything wrong with the 6! Ivan Krstic's talk about Apple platform security at Black Hat was probably the best talk of the whole event. Nobody is delivering seamlessly integrated chips…

I'm also really excited about this. A lot of people have been distracted by a single issue and are missing some really nice features of this phone. Beyond the secure enclave, if the haptic home button is anything like the new trackpads, it'll be an amazing feature. One less moving part to break. And the cameras...wow. Finally decent depth of field on the camera that's always in my pocket.

My Nokia N900 from 2009 had decent depth of field and a decent lens. It's nothing really to write home about.

Re: iPhone 7

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Post by rocky1138 »

enneff wrote: post #764
chris_overseas wrote: post #762

From the website, big and bold: "iPhone. Now in stereo." Honest question, not having owned an iPhone before - is this really the first iPhone that can produce stereo sound through the speakers? If true, that seems like a crazy thing to advertise given how standard a feature it has been in most phones for so long. On the other hand, if iPhones have had stereo output already, why shout about it now?

It's stereo in the sense that there's a speaker on the top and bottom of the phone, so that when watching media with the phone in landscape orientation you can hear good stereo audio. I'm not aware of another phone that does this; I'm sure they exist, but it's not a common feature.

Relevant article: http://www.phonearena.com/news/Best-phones-with-front-stereo...

Re: iPhone 7

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Post by phasmantistes »

dmix wrote: post #758
seizethecheese wrote: post #679

For comparison, here's how HN reacted to some previous iPhone launches: iPhone 6s: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10193201 iPhone 6: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8292029 iPhone 5s: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6361558 iPhone 5: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4512316

This thread has been getting 2x as many upvotes and comments as the other releases. Interesting. Similarly, this year iPhone SE got even more upvotes (567) than all of these https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11330226 Maybe due to an upswing in HN traffic? Lack of other news today (it has been slow)? I'm not sure this release was particularly exciting.

Likely also related to the fact that this is arguably the first time than an iPhone release has removed a feature. The highest top-level comment in this thread is about the removal of the headphone jack, and that subthread alone has 644 comments.

Re: iPhone 7

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Post by Zhenya »

enneff wrote: post #764
chris_overseas wrote: post #762

From the website, big and bold: "iPhone. Now in stereo." Honest question, not having owned an iPhone before - is this really the first iPhone that can produce stereo sound through the speakers? If true, that seems like a crazy thing to advertise given how standard a feature it has been in most phones for so long. On the other hand, if iPhones have had stereo output already, why shout about it now?

It's stereo in the sense that there's a speaker on the top and bottom of the phone, so that when watching media with the phone in landscape orientation you can hear good stereo audio. I'm not aware of another phone that does this; I'm sure they exist, but it's not a common feature.

Sony Xperia Z2 HTC ONE (M8,M9, etc) Nexus 6, 6P

I'm sure many others.

I can almost see that distortion field works...

Re: iPhone 7

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Post by pervycreeper »

dmix wrote: post #758
seizethecheese wrote: post #679

For comparison, here's how HN reacted to some previous iPhone launches: iPhone 6s: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10193201 iPhone 6: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8292029 iPhone 5s: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6361558 iPhone 5: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4512316

This thread has been getting 2x as many upvotes and comments as the other releases. Interesting. Similarly, this year iPhone SE got even more upvotes (567) than all of these https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11330226 Maybe due to an upswing in HN traffic? Lack of other news today (it has been slow)? I'm not sure this release was particularly exciting.

It could be related to increased moderator diligence in culling Apple threads today. Previously, the front page would become clogged the days new models were announced. # of upvotes on single threads is not particularly useful absent more context/ information.

Re: iPhone 7

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Post by acdha »

nathancahill wrote: post #373

Interesting, the Unlocked option isn't available on the Apple Store right now. Temporary quirk until preorders?

IIRC, with the 6 the unlocked model wasn't available for a couple months but the 6S was available immediately. It was enough that I didn't bother with the 6 because by the time it was available and in stock it was close enough to wait until September.

Re: iPhone 7

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Post by madeofpalk »

nameless912 wrote: post #742
rad_gruchalski wrote: post #602

The premiere of the next mbp next year: "And... We listened to you. We've been hearing that you are upset about not being able to use the same headphones for your computer and iphone 7. We fixed that. We've removed the 3.5mm jack from the new mbp. It's magical."

Oh also, lighting port. For everything. Not USB3, lightning . FUCKYOUEXTERNALMONITORS . But in all seriousness, if they make the port count any lower, the MacBook Pro will cease to be a laptop. It will become an iPad without a touchscreen.

Except where the iPad Pro actually has _more_ ports than the Macbook (Lightning, 3.5mm, whatever-that-pro-keyboard-magnetic-port-contacts-thingy-is.

Re: iPhone 7

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Post by tempestn »

tebruno99 wrote: post #750
DigitalJack wrote: post #584

Earlier quoted context omitted.

you sleep with headphones? Not trying to be a dick here... I would like to do the same, but I'd fall asleep with headphones and roll over or something and send my phone flying.

Yes, I have the lightning cable come up in the middle of the bed and place the phone between my wife and I's pillows. I then route the headphone wire around my pillow and up the top so that when I fall asleep and it falls out it will be pulled back behind the pillow and I won't sleep on it. If I roll over i switch ears (only 1 ear in). She requires complete silence to go to sleep ;)

Ha, that wouldn't fly with my wife. I occasionally get in trouble for reading silently in bed because I apparently breathe differently while focusing on something.

Re: iPhone 7

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Post by tempestn »

mig39 wrote: post #771
mustaflex wrote: post #150

the price for heaven's sake... it's me or every year the new model gets almost 100 bucks more expensive the the previous one. We can expect a base price of 1000€ in 5 or 6 years.

lol, are you Canadian?

Presumably if they were Canadian they would have mentioned a price in dollars rather than Euros.

Re: iPhone 7

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Post by zippergz »

ptaffs wrote: post #487
acomjean wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't get over the headphone jack either. Another dongle to loose. Tons of headphones obsoleted. Can't charge while listening. Laggy audio. more batteries in the world. They're ok with a bulge for the camera but not headphones? I work in a lab and a phone with headphones is standard equipment on the commute and work (for at least part of the day). I would seriously move off iOS if I was making music with it. If onl…

Bulging camera -> broken glass. For two years I've been using a Galaxy S5 with bulging camera and twice I have broken the camera glass needing replacing, it's the first thing to hit the surface when i rest the phone on a table and takes a lot of stress. Of course I could be more careful. It has also scratched and so there's more lens flare, but I'm tired of replacing it. My wife's iPhone with flush camera is much les…

I hate the camera bulge, but I've had an iPhone 6 since they first day they were available, and the camera lens is still in pristine shape with no case, and no particularly special care.
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