Poll: iPhone 6...

[The_Abyss]

171.6 GB of iPhone 6 now sitting in Tamworth

 

[Mynight]

171.6 GB of iPhone 6 now sitting in Tamworth

Is there a model I haven't heard of yet? .

Woop mines on its way according to CPW. Appears I misjudged O2 lol.

 

[Type_R]

Dispatched finally

There is hope yet!

 

[Jabbs]

wish it had Been with DPD , i working 10 hour shift soon and finish at 5.30 in morning, at least with time slot i could get up now am going to have to get up at 10ish.

 

[MoRT489]

Are you new to computers?

Go and buy a 4TB hard drive and tell me how much available space you have after you've formatted it. That's right, about 3.63TB. So approximately 370GB of "lost space".

It's down the the bytes to MegaByte conversion. I believe Apple changed the way this is handled in OS X but have always kept it as-is for marketing.

After all, can you imagine how confusing it would be for customers?

"Do I want the 13.7GB iPhone or the 57.2GB iPhone?"

Yes I am aware of that I have owned HDDs and electronics before (but the 1GB = 1,000,000,000B explanation wasn't very helpful). My point is why can't manufacturers up their capacity to say ~18GB to give an even 16GB to the consumer instead of selling what is in fact a 15% difference (which is significant) from what they advertise? I know it's not only Apple who are guilty of this but it's a lot more obvious on smaller drive sizes.

Is it just an example of the consumer getting screwed or is there a good reason why the hard drive you refer to cant be ~4.4TB so that once formatted it gives much closer to 4TB?

 

[McBain]

Mine's being delivered by UK Mail ... suddenly not overly confident of it rolling up tomorrow.

 

[Lakeland]

Dear*....

Thank you for visiting phones 4u. Unfortunately, we were unable to complete your order. Please take this email as confirmation that your order :*1004516*has been cancelled and your account has not been charged.

Yours sincerely,

Phones 4u

 

[mark35]

First time not had a new iphone on the first day thanks phones 4 you

 

[Soootylad]

Mine's being delivered by UK Mail ... suddenly not overly confident of it rolling up tomorrow.

Just be thankful Apple don't use Yodel

Mine is with UKMail too, bit disappointed to be robbed of the joy of seeing the big brown van pull up!

 

[n111ck]

My 6+ has been sat in my local cpw all day!

 

[morkfromork]

We have Ups collect from us at work. The driver told me yesterday they would be delivering iPhones on Friday and Saturday morning with as many drivers they could. He works out of the Tamworth branch.

 

[Deleted member 651465]

Not really, no. It's the electronics industry using base 2 (binary) counting and the rest of the known world using decimal.

1000 to the power of 3 is 1 billion [decimal]
1024 to the power of 3 is 1.07-something billion [binary]

And that's why there is a discrepancy.

Hard drive manufacturers changed to decimal back in the early 2000's.
Apple changed to decimal with snow leopard in 2009, they they still advertise memory capacity in base 2
Microsoft and Jedec (the memory people) still insist on using base 2.

Funnily enough, the IEC defined alternative names for base 2 values ages ago to stop this confusion, but the industry never really adapted them. ie,

http://i.imgur.com/9zqIOdh.png[img]

if everybody used gibibyte instead of gigabyte then there would be no confusion. But the names never took - probably because they don't really roll off the tongue lol.

Anyway, for people complaining about 'lost' storage on hard drives; the hard drive manufacturers actually got it right![/QUOTE]
That's the one. I couldnt remember if it was base 10 or base 2, so had to paraphrase :D

 

[^187]

I wanted to try iOS 8 today, It won't let me, it wants 5.7gb of free space to install and I can't free up enough space, Ive got the 12.4gb 5S, Nevermind my 54Gb iPhone 6 is in Tamworth at the moment, Can wait until tomorrow :]

 

[rdb2012]

Disappointed mine hasn't been dispatched yet. Do they deliver on Saturday? Assuming it gets dispatched tonight.

 

[McBain]

I wanted to try iOS 8 today, It won't let me, it wants 5.7gb of free space to install and I can't free up enough space, Ive got the 12.4gb 5S, Nevermind my 54Gb iPhone 6 is in Tamworth at the moment, Can wait until tomorrow :]

Do it through iTunes, if I remember rightly you don't need the extra space on your phone.

 

[Guest2]

I wanted to try iOS 8 today, It won't let me, it wants 5.7gb of free space to install and I can't free up enough space, Ive got the 12.4gb 5S, Nevermind my 54Gb iPhone 6 is in Tamworth at the moment, Can wait until tomorrow :]

I just deleted all my music then put it back on after the update. Takes about an extra minute

 

[MagicBoy]

Do it through iTunes, if I remember rightly you don't need the extra space on your phone.

+1.

Doing it OTA it needs space for the download, then space to decompress it, then space to install it.

 

[squerble]

Gents, forgive me for being thicker than a ticket tout's wad, but is the NFC going to work in the UK?

 

[rdb2012]

Anyone still waiting for a dispatch email

 

[dink]

Ordered from Apple and its been stuck at preparing for shipment for 2 days, %#}{%^*!!!