Poll: iPhone 6...

Which iPhone have you bought/ordered?

  • iPhone 6 16gb

    Votes: 82 15.1%

  • iPhone 6 64gb

    Votes: 223 41.1%

  • iPhone 6 128gb

    Votes: 49 9.0%

  • iPhone 6 plus 16gb

    Votes: 18 3.3%

  • iPhone 6 plus 64gb

    Votes: 109 20.1%

  • iPhone 6 plus 128gb

    Votes: 62 11.4%
  • Total voters
    543
Robbo said:
It has a one handed mode which shrinks the screen size for these situations - not read much about it yet though.
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http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/0...-and-6-plus-apples-first-crack-at-big-phones/

I feel like they haven't really thought through the larger screen issue at all and just rushed out a solution. Having to double tap every time you want to select something on the screen (it reverts back to full screen after you press a button) is just very frustrating. I would have expected something more elegant from Apple than simply squashing the screen.

The wobble caused by the camera is also an issue if you want to use it on a table. I suppose most people use a case which removes this issue. The whole thing just screams rushed or... not very Steve Jobs.
 
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I'm going to pre order a iPhone 6 64gb I think, Plus s just too big.

wingman44115 said:
Is there any speed difference between the two models?
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Might be but it won't be much. Basically the L has more room to get rid of heat so it might have a higher ceiling of 100mhz or so, it will make almost no difference at all in real life thou. Will wait for Anand as always for real facts but thats my guess.
 
Chris1712 said:
Size comparison is up here:
http://www.phonearena.com/phones/size#/phones/size/Apple-iPhone-6-Plus,LG-G3/phones/8908,8347

Be sure to recalibrate for your monitor. Shame they couldn't ditch the top bezel.
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Good they have it up. Here's an image for lazy people to compare relative sizes.

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Raymond Lin said:
I agree that you will get used to the size when using it.

My clothes and pockets however won't...it either fits in my jeans or it doesn't. That unfortauntely is what it comes down to, how convenient it is to carry around.
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Yeah I asked them about that too and they said no probs and I tried the G3 myself quickly and it was ok but I was stood up at the time. Your mileage may vary though.

Also consider where your phone actually spends most of its time. I tend to have my phone out on the desk at work and at home it's either on my desk, sofa, bedside table, kitchen worktop, etc i.e. not in my pocket much. The only time I tend to sit down with it still in my pocket is in my car and when I'm out at a public place.

Kemik said:
Having to double tap every time you want to select something on the screen
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Not every time, just when you can't reach something e.g. a button in the far top corner of the screen. It's not a phone for small hands though.
 
Raymond Lin said:
I hate that they only just scale up the phone, not adding another row of icons at least.
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That's kind of an odd choice too isn't it? I mean you still use the phone the same distance away from your face so it should be acceptable to keep the icons a similar size and just allow for way more of them on the same screen. Right now it's just a blown up regular iphone homescreen. :o
 
Imy said:
Yeah I asked them about that too and they said no probs and I tried the G3 myself quickly and it was ok but I was stood up at the time. Your mileage may vary though.

Also consider where your phone actually spends most of its time. I tend to have my phone out on the desk at work and at home it's either on my desk, sofa, bedside table, kitchen worktop, etc i.e. not in my pocket much. The only time I tend to sit down with it still in my pocket is in my car and when I'm out at a public place.
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My phone is in my pocket a lot, now in actual fact, at my desk at work.

It'll be in my pocket sitting down on the train, it won't be in the pocket in the car though, it'll be in my pocket when out taking pictures.

I'll borrow my brother in law's Note and test it out, should be apparent whether it even fits in my jeans or not.
 
Every year the new iPhone comes around and every year I watch with interest as do many other people. I tell myself maybe I'll switch from android as I really have no rabid affiliation to either platform. Every year however I see Apple not only do the absolute bare minimum they have to, but actually force it down my throat that they're doing it, knowing that their target audience is going to buy the phone anyway.

Well there must be plenty of people out there like me who would have jumped in with both feet if (say) the base model this year was 32gb. Everyone's mileage varies, but 16gb unexpandable isn't enough these days. Apple probably save a couple of quid per device by shipping with 16gb instead of 32gb, but the whole point is that they're saying "we're going to price this phone at the very top end, deliberately underspec it and also make it so you have to pay vastly over the odds for the memory you need/want". There's no need for this behaviour. If the iPhone 6 has only 1gb ram, it's not enough (sorry apologists, it isn't) and again its forcing it down my throat that I'm expected to pay top whack for a deliberately underspecced device.

I can't help but feel that Apple are getting it wrong. They are the lead player but their market share isn't increasing. They are a business to ruthlessly extract as much profit from their customers, but surely if they released an incontrovertibly full-fat device, all of those buyers of top end android would take another look.
 
m4rk84 said:
It's not. It's just some sensationalist people getting carried away. Although personally I do feel The Verge have an American company bias.
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Some of their "journalism" is shocking to say the least. Misreporting, poor reviews, and their bias towards certain products was what led me to stop bothering to read their site. The only thing they do well is presentation. They're plenty of better ones out there.

EDIT: ^Gotta disagree about the 1GB of ram. You don't know whether it's enough or not yet. It certainly hasn't been a limitation on the 5 models.
 
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MichaelAwkward said:
Some of their "journalism" is shocking to say the least. Misreporting, poor reviews, and their bias towards certain products was what led me to stop bothering to read their site. They're plenty of better ones out there.

EDIT: ^Gotta disagree about the 1GB of ram. You don't know whether it's enough or not yet. It certainly hasn't been a limitation on the 5 models.
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Out of interest what did you switch too? I recently ditched The Verge too, currently looking at Ars Technica, seems ok so far.
 
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