Apple WWDC 2014 – iPhone 6/ iWatch? / iWotM8?

Nope. Going to pick up a 5S cheap, hopefully.

I prefer the size of the 4/5 but I quite fancy trying the ApplePay etc, hence getting a 6.

@Jamie, IME you won’t get a brand new 5S cheap, 10% off maybe. Best bet is to pickup a second hand phone a year or so old. As I am sure you know the 5S is very good phone, when side by side my 4S appears clunky and ancient, you can see differences in screen quality and camera and overall speed.

side by side my 4S appears clunky and ancient, you can see differences in screen quality and camera

I’ve not had a good play with a 5S but I’m surprised at this, I thought the screens and cameras were more or less the same?

Looking at the tech specs both have 326ppi IPS screens with 800:1 contrast ratio and 500 cd/m2 max brightness. So on paper the quality should be identical, the 5S screen is just a bit longer.

And both cameras are 8MP images with 1080p/30fps video. The 5S has a f/2.2 lens versus the f/2.4 lens in the 4S but that’s pretty minor.

If the reality doesn’t reflect the specs then that’s me a bit happier to move to the still-slightly-too-big-for-my-liking 5S. 🙂

i have a 5s (you may know) and iT’s rather Ace, iT’s gold (you expected that) and iT’s only 7 months old..

So why am i thiNkiNg about changiNg to a 6? i don’t know TBH, but i thiNk i’Ll get the small 6 iN Gold iF, iF iT fiT’s iN my Rapha case.. i stiLl have to measure the bloomiN thiNg.

i guess Apple liKe folks liKe me.. 😆

Ok. All of those who think bikebouy should be banned from the thread, raise your iPhones.

😈

i would offer to buy your 5S off you biKebouy, but as iT’s the gold one iWill have to see iF my wiFe iS iNterested.

(EdiT: just because iT annoys JamiE 😆 )

mrblobby – Member
So orders in tomorrow. People going for the big one or mahoosive one? I think I may go for the latter but still undecided despite having been “living” with my mock up for a day

I’d just wait until they’re in the shops and then go and have a proper fiddle with them.

Jamie – Freeloader!
Ok. All of those who think bikebouy should be banned from the thread, raise your iPhones.

I’m actually iMpressed with biKebouy’s capiTialiSatiOn tenaciTy. Takes some effort, when typiNg faiRly long sentences, as I have just found out.

@Jamie, I am enjoying thinking about the amount of stick he must get at work for having a gold phone !

@Graham, I think the 5S camera is much better than my 4S, it does much better photo and video in practice IMO. Apple have spent time pointing out that pure mega-pixel counts are misleading.

I’m actually iMpressed with biKebouy’s capiTialiSatiOn tenaciTy. Takes some effort, when typiNg faiRly long sentences, as I have just found out.

He has an app for that, it only comes with the gold phone though

😆

@Graham, I think the 5S camera is much better than my 4S, it does much better photo and video in practice IMO. Apple have spent time pointing out that pure mega-pixel counts are misleading.

Interesting, ta. That makes me feel happier about moving to a 5S.

And yeah, once you get above a usable amount megapixel counts are not a useful indication of quality, but I didn’t notice much else in the paper specs to suggest they had improved the camera so that’s a pleasant surprise.

Some cracking mocking videos on the samsung youtube channel of the Apple event:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWwgaK7x0_FR1goeSRazfsQ

Anyone know what time tomorrow they will go live on the website?

Is it a stay up late job or does it just go live at some time in the morning so I have to keep bashing F5?

I think I saw somewhere mention 08:01 but not sure if that was GMT or PDT.

raise your iPhones

Which one, I have 3…

so I have to keep bashing F5?

Never heard it called that before 😯

So, to save starting a new thread, wheres the best place to get a second hand (non gold) 5S? Oh, without using eBay.

So, to save starting a new thread, wheres the best place to get a second hand (non gold) 5S? Oh, without using eBay.

Probably here by asking that question on this thread eh? 😉

Wot’s rong wiv Gold ??
🙄

bikebouy, your old gold is now officially rubbish as Apple have invented a new better gold[/url].

Earlier at Apple…

Probably here by asking that question on this thread eh? 😉

Thought hadn’t even crossed my mind, honest 🙂

mrblobby – Member
bikebouy, your old gold is now officially rubbish as Apple have invented a new better gold.

Well, any gold that’s going to be used for anything that gets day-to-day wear is going to have to be alloyed, and goldsmiths/metallurgists have been using all sorts of tricks for centuries to improve wear/colour, etc.
If they’ve found some sort of whizzy alloy that gives better wear over regular 9ct, without resorting to plating, they’re to be congratulated.
I’ll be having a conversation over the pub tomorrow night about this very subject, my regular drinking mate is a goldsmith…

Well that’s mine purchased.

O2 upgrade servers appear to have melted. I’ll call them later.

The apple servers themselves pretty much melted and about 20 minutes after opening for purchases delivery times appear to be being pushed in to October. Looks like it was a popular phone.

Ordered mine. Cases are on 3-4 week delivery, but phone is 7 days…

Untitled by brf[/url], on Flickr

Got mine. Same one as Footflaps but with a jazzy blue case. Phone says delivery on the 19th, case 2-3 weeks.

The phones have either flown out or Apple couldn’t get enough of them ready for launch as you can no longer pre-order any of them (except the undesirable 16gb in silver or grey) for delivery on launch day.

Most are now 7-10 days but the 6+ is saying 3-4 weeks.

Not sure if this is because its a knock out phone or because there is so much pent up demand from people with the 4 or 4s who wern’t seduced by the 5 range but who’s phones are now borked. The only people I know who have ordered today are upgrading from older iPhones.

£25 for a silicon case? Is it worth it?

I’m waiting to see if my daughter can get a discount then it will be a 64GB 6 as per @footflaps.

@curious I use my phones without a case, £25 for a Apple store case seems quite good value vs historical sky high prices.

@jtech, it’s normal for them to sell out, they pre-order millions but demand is very strong. Apple predicted the 6 would be a huge seller as the overall size change will drive more sales than just the past spec orientated upgrades (5 was only slightly bigger than 4/4S)

£25 for a silicon case? Is it worth it?

Nope. Apple’s own cases are usually pap. By the time they ship, there will be much better alternatives from the likes of Spigen, Speck, Incase etc.

*makes note to look for a 5S from 29th September*

Well, I will be receiving a case and an extra lead in the next couple of days, but have to wait 4 weeks for a phone to go with them 🙁

I’ll do what I usually do, think about it for a few weeks by which time production will have happened and I can easily see the new model and all you keen people will have ironed out all the bugs in the OS for me. 🙂

18-karat gold that our metallurgists have developed to be up to twice as hard as standard gold.

Pure marketing bullsh*t, what is ‘standard’ gold, do they mean pure if so then 18 carat could easily be harder if alloyed properly.

@tom, is that 4 week delivery from Apple or your phone provider ?

I’ll do what I usually do, think about it for a few weeks by which time production will have happened and I can easily see the new model and all you keen people will have ironed out all the bugs in the OS for me.

You can download iOS 8 provided you have a 4S or later, its out soon

🙁

i iS sooooo sad.. i seem to have miSsed out on the fiRst batch of Gold 6’s and you know what..
i feel liKe kiLling myself.

😕

i iS sooooo sad.. i seem to have miSsed out on the fiRst batch of Gold 6’s and you know what..
i feel liKe kiLling myself.

Do iT! 😛

….but can I have your phone before you go?

3-4 weeks from Apple.

i, i, i, iiiiiii can’t liVe wiTh myself any longer..

The tradgedy of iT all iS i was up early this morniNg (4am) and logged on, but the store wasn’t even open for busiNess.. PatiEntly waiTed, made a cup of tea, triEd agaiN, stiLl no luck. Naturally fell back to sleep, got to work, logged iN agaiN and horse shite iF all the soddiNg Gold jobbiEs have been snapped up already liKe.

i’M seriOusly consiDeriNg a Greggs ChiCken Curry sliCe as puniShment..

😥

There there, BB.

I guess you could chance a visit to the store on the launch date?