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However the bit that bugs me most about Apple devices is the need for a specific cable to charge them. At the moment I have a charger at home, a charger on my desk and one in the car. From this I can charge my Garmin, my phone, my watch, my bike lights and various other devices. Should I go for a 6s or 7 I'd need three new cables in addition to the mini usb ones I have now for everything else. Not to mention Apple cables break if you look at them funny.
Worst still in my book they seem to have worked out a way to bork after-market cables - we bought some great, good quality robust longer cables in work so we can connect them to PCs on the floor and have them on our desks - they worked faultlessly for months - then we started to get these messages "this cable may not work correctly" or words to that effect, then as if by magic they stop working. Supposedly they're broken, but if you use them with another Apple device they magically work again, for a few weeks anyway.
I cant work out that upgrade plan either.
It's an interest free loan over 20 months to buy the phone. It's yours at the end.
You can do it just for the phone, in which case it is simply just a way to spread the payments.
Or if you include Applecare (£119) which gets you very discounted accidental damage repairs and some extra support, you have the option after 11 months to upgrade to the latest. You give that phone back, you take out a new plan on a new phone. Or you don't, and after 20 months the phone is still yours.
I don't think it's really any cheaper for the serial upgraders, but it is convenient and Applecare may be a good thing if you're clumsy.
Anyway, Mine's coming launch day... 🙂
I have a couple of choices:
Either I can suck it up, pay a premium for a shiny Apple product which won't support my favourite Sennheiser earphones and instead rely on a set of plasticky earbuds - one of which will inevitably fall out mid ride - which will require frequent recharging and I'll pay a premium to be an unwilling, early adopter of technology.
Or I can buy an iPhone Six, knowing it'll be the last Apple product I buy because it's only a smartphone, it's not something truly important like choosing a new bike which really will provoke much foaming of mouth because some unscrupulous and cynical manufacturer will foist an unwelcome brand new standard upon me. The bastards.
[quote=P-Jay ]Anyway, Mine's coming launch day...
is anyone taking orders yet?
Actually that interest free apple credit might just tempt me. I have a work contract with as much talk & data time as I want (or could ever use) but the phones are quite pap. I can drop the sim into any phone I want.
I'm an apple fanboy, so want the latest and realistically won't miss the £33/month. In fact, I've probably saved that a week since I quit drinking!
So, I may just treat myself...
...won't support my favourite Sennheiser earphones and instead rely on a set of plasticky earbuds
As well as the crappy wired apple earbuds the iPhone 7 also ships with a lighting to mini phono adapter so it will work with your sennheiser earphones.
Waiting for Nokia to release retro phones that make calls and texts. If they can incorporate WhatApp and Instagram I'm sold.
Worst still in my book they seem to have worked out a way to bork after-market cables - we bought some great, good quality robust longer cables in work so we can connect them to PCs on the floor and have them on our desks - they worked faultlessly for months - then we started to get these messages "this cable may not work correctly" or words to that effect, then as if by magic they stop working. Supposedly they're broken, but if you use them with another Apple device they magically work again, for a few weeks anyway.
The cables must have been non MFi hence the message. There is a constant battle with the Chinese factories trying to crack the chips in Lightning cables that do a handshake verification with the iPhone each time you plug it in. In the past each time Apple did an iOS update they barred the latest crack. They seem to have gone through a phase of not doing this, but I assume it will start again. They seems to crack down on counterfeit parts everytime they release a new Lightning product.
Many people do not see the difference between an Apple approved cable and a cheap one that they buy on eBay. So when you hear these stories of cables catching fire, Apple get the flack even when it is a cheap copy cable. We make MFI cables and can't even change the colour of a cable or wording on the packaging without having to get Apple approval.
However you don't get this problem so much with Micro USB cables so I think the problem comes from factories having to spend loads on trying to crack and make copy Lighting cables. To keep the costs down they then cut corners and of course have to source parts from slightly unreputable companies that are happy to make and sell hooky products. Just imagine if a company tried to make and sell counterfeit Lighting connectors in the UK. They wouldn't last 2 minutes before Apple sued them.
Your are now getting copy Lightning connectors that can be reprogrammed on the fly with the latest crack codes, therefore removing the issue of retailers having warehouses of cables that no longer work after Apple do a software update.
Lightning equipped parts are a real money spinner for Apple as the parts costs are massive compared to non Lighting cables. If you also want to use the logo, "Made for Apple" then the license costs are huge.
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Well I officially misread the pricing earlier on, I wouldn't in a million years buy a plus model iphone because they're huuuuuuuuuge! The regular sized iPhone 7 is only £599, only a mere £30 more than the 16GB iPhone 6 I own was at time of purchasing.
Watched the keynote thingy while I was on dialysis. Hearing theres a new watch OS on the way spurred me into putting it on charge. Since I treated myself to my Omega it rarely sees action! Wonder what it'll bring? 🙂
lol at the fake ads, some people are quick off the mark 🙂
anyway the markets say meh...
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-09/wall-st-falls-as-apple-iphone-7-fails-to-impress/7828530
Phone ordered this morning. Memory has increased but so had the price. £699 which is a good lump more than my iPad Pro purchased earlier in the year.
I'm no fanboy but looking forward to the better screen, camera over my current 6.
No 3.5 jack. No issue for me as it comes with an adapter.
My 7plus 128gb matt black is ordered. Waterproofing won me over in the end (yes i know other companies have had it for ages). No more ikea sandwich bags for me!
andysredmini - MemberMy 7plus 128gb matt black is ordered. Waterproofing won me over in the end (yes i know other companies have had it for ages). No more ikea sandwich bags for me!
I went for Piano black, but otherwise the same!
Be mindful of ditching the bag though, they say half a metre for 30 mins for something - great, but they won't guarantee it, so if it gets wet and dies - you're still on your own.
Does anyone know if they fit exiting covers?
Piano black. Scratch tactic. Apparently after the event when the press got the play with the phones, they were already displaying scratches from the microfibres cloths Apple used to keep them clean.
I can see scratch-gate coming by the end of September.
Its more splashes and sweat i'm concerned about and not full submersion. I always put my phone in my back jersey pocket so it gets sweaty pretty quickly on harder rides.
o2 upgrade site was struggling a bit this morning.
P-Jay curious as to how exactly is your 6S dying ? My 6 is fine and will go till Sep 2017 no problem I think. My wife's5S needs a new battery but otherwise still going strong
It does seem very odd that the Mirror Black finishes scratches so easily and they have even put a disclaimer on their website saying so. The iPhone Colour from a few years back had a very tough and shinny finish so not sure why they didn't just down that route. I can see a massive class action that they have made a phone finish that is not fit for purpose. It bloody annoys me that they make a great looking and ultra thin phone but then nearly everyone sticks a case on it as the finish is so delicate. There are tons of things they could do to keep the same general look but have a tougher finish. The screens don't scratch easily so why should the backs.
Gone for Black 32gb. Sick of my iPhone 6 16GB constantly running out of storage so I glad they bumped up the lower storage level. Let's just hope 32GB is enough and that I shouldn't have gone for 128gb.
My 6 is fine and will go till Sep 2017 no problem I think
until you drop it .
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until you drop it .
is that exclusive to the iphone 6..
not at all - but its the certainty with which he assures us his phone will work for another year ......
the realist iphone 7 launch
not at all - but its the certainty with which he assures us his phone will work for another year ......
Could trash a new phone too...
I say this after my wife put her iPhone 5 through a full spin cycle a couple of months ago and this morning poured a coffee over her MacBook....
yep mine dropped hers from her back pocket down the lavvy.
Banjo'd
We jumped off the apple bandwagon about 6 months ago - and you know what the only thing i really miss is how th ephone integrates with itunes from my desktop so i can change music from around the house.....
Im sure theres an android/windows app for that but tbh - ive never been that arsed about it .
jambalaya - MemberP-Jay curious as to how exactly is your 6S dying ? My 6 is fine and will go till Sep 2017 no problem I think. My wife's5S needs a new battery but otherwise still going strong
It's a standard 6, the 's' was plural rather than model.
Mine's dying because it's had 5 screens, I'm not kidding, including the original one and the current one, 5 in total - it's sort of my own fault.
The original screen failed, no external damage, just half the screen turned into a sea of rainbow pixels - warranty job, but Apple store wanted a week to get a Genius bar appointment to sort it and I didn't have the time so I had an after-market screen fitted by a guy we use in work - I dropped it 2 days later, that one was my fault so it went in for screen number 3. Screen number 3 was faulty - it caused the thing to run very hot and burn through the battery in an hour, took it back for screen number 4, whilst fitting screen number 4 our guy wanted to change the battery "to be sure" in doing so (I should have resisted because he's been awake for 48 hours at this point) he destroyed the home button ribbon wire that's stuck the battery and couldn't get one for a week - he fitted the 5th and current screen whilst it was fixing that.
Ours are works phones, we use covers but we hammer them all day every day and they get dropped a lot. My Boss is worse than me for it, but pretty much all of us are 2 full charges as day users.
Mine will be for sale in a few weeks, wearing screen number 6 as mine is scratched and has weird blotches on it - because of that and the fact it's always had a robber cover it will look pretty much like new, but I wouldn't recommend buying it. I'll shoot it off to Mazuma or someone.
The original screen failed, no external damage, just half the screen turned into a sea of rainbow pixels - warranty job
A variant of "Touch Disease" maybe?
http://ifixit.org/blog/8309/iphone-6-plus-gray-flicker-touch-death/
EE website offering me £213 for my 64Gb 6+.... Hmmm! 😀
It does seem very odd that the Mirror Black finishes scratches so easily and they have even put a disclaimer on their website saying so. The iPhone Colour from a few years back had a very tough and shinny finish so not sure why they didn't just down that route. I can see a massive class action that they have made a phone finish that is not fit for purpose.
Seriously? A class action for people who were stupid enough to buy something that they were told would scratch and it gets scratched?
While I agree it's lame to be even thinking of selling something that you know is crap and faulty, buying it and being shocked worse.
I think Apple are trying to head off the inevitable class action with the statement that it will probably scratch. Yanks will sue for anything.
I just had my 64gb 6s Plus replaced at the Apple store this morning, was contemplating flogging it and replacing it with a 7. Then I saw what it offered. No chance. The prices are insane. [b]Plus, in a cloud storage and streaming world, who really needs 256gb on a phone?[/b] I struggle to fill half of my 64gb.
Well, in the real world of shonky cellular network connections, anyone who actually wants to listen to their own music would have to be bloody daft to rely on shovelling all their stuff into the cloud and expect it to work consistently.
Seeing as how I'm currently spending anywhere up to or over sixty hours a week travelling all around the country in cars, often trying to get a network connection that will allow data usage, and failing spectacularly, I'd have to be out of my mind putting my music into the cloud, or relying on streaming services like Spotify.
I can't even get google maps to work in many places, it's possible to drive for fifteen-twenty miles along the A30 through Devon and Cornwall and have no 3G coverage, only E or GPRS showing; dammit, 4G isn't even really available in the centre of Bath!
I've still got 19Gb available on my 128Gb 6+, but only because I'm being stingy with what music I put on it; having 256Gb would allow me to put a significant chunk of my entire music library onto the phone, while still allowing loads for all my OS maps, books and satnav stuff, without ever having to be at the mercy of the networks.
I'll be going on holiday in two-three weeks time, camping where there isn't even a phone signal, so relying on cloud storage and access would be madness.
And I'm not talking a remote area, I'm talking South Devon, where I can see Dartmouth across the bay.
Somerset, Devon and Cornwall have huge holes in network coverage, and that's unlikely to change anytime soon.
Wonder if it will have the same sporadic screen unresponsivnes issue that my work issue iPhone 6 has.
Total pain in the backside.
It's like it stores up every desperate screen touch then flies through carrying them all out once it unlocks itself.
IT were a bit sceptical until it emailed half the company address book last week.
Apologies for digging this up again, but my 6 did this - faulty screen, swapped for a new phone by Apple with minimal fuss (after Vodafone did nothing apart from what I'd done i.e. wipe and start again, 3 times).
Phone is waterproof to 1m for upto 30 mins. Video below would suggest thats it's more than waterpfoof enough for a drop down the loo or dampness in a pocket.
Have to agree with Countzero.
I filled my iPhone 6S 128gb with apps, pictures and 4K video interviews.
My iCloud account didn't work properly while I was away for 3 months and I had to delete apps, pictures and videos.
Ended up buying a spare hard drive and borrowing a laptop for the transfer.
I filled my iPhone 6S 128gb with apps, pictures and 4K video interviews.My iCloud account didn't work properly while I was away for 3 months and I had to delete apps, pictures and videos.
Ended up buying a spare hard drive and borrowing a laptop for the transfer.
If only there was a way you could conveniently increase the memory of the phone. Maybe a little card in a little slot.....
My 64gb iP6 half full. As / when I upgrade it will be an interesting choice between 32 / 128. Even the iPad (also 64gb) which has many films on it has never got close to being full
Maybe a little card in a little slot...
They seem to be phasing those out on a lot of Androids too now.
I suppose it might be quite tricky to keep that bit waterproof.
I have a little waterproof handicam that does it but it has big clips and rubber gaskets.
How much do they cost?
Oh
Is it 6 times better than my g3?
I'll not be paying the poser/gulliblility tax then
And it even has this pointless feature
At least they are catching up with the competition
Mine should be here tomorrow...
I'll not be paying the poser/gulliblility tax then
move on grandad
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