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
Atlas23 said:
I'm gonna risk it in Carphone Warehouse tomorrow morning as they have been the only store in the past that actually had stock around release, although it may be the less popular models (128GB Gold etc)
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I used to work for Voda & O2 @ head offices and there was definitely stock allocation for walk-in sales back then but may have changed especially given the pre-order volumes :(

Will give the Vodafone store a try tomorrow mind - would love to say I'll avoid them after my horrific pre-order experience, but price rules all in this game and the large discount I can get is just too compelling.
 
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Well O2 have finally got around to thanking me for staying with them haha.

"Order date :18th"
"Delivery option: not applicable"

Well I'm screwed lol.


Oooo yay I get a free sun+ and Barclay football subscription :rolleyes:.
 
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Xire said:
They maybe a business but it just seems totally unfair. A 16GB fablet with near 6Gb used up as OS storage will leave very little room for anything. Yeah they are apple and can do this because people will buy it but what is the actual point in the 16gb version. Why not release the 32gb version at a higher price than the current 16gb.
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Well I guess we have different views on this. I see it is a business, and understand what they're doing. Anyway, if they were to stick to last years pricings, I wouldn't be getting 64GB but 32GB for my money's worth.

Also, 6GB for iOS? I think not.
 
WuMyster said:
Well I guess we have different views on this. I see it is a business, and understand what they're doing. Anyway, if they were to stick to last years pricings, I wouldn't be getting 64GB but 32GB for my money's worth.

Also, 6GB for iOS? I think not.
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I'm guessing the 6GB quote may be due iOS8 requiring 6.9GB of free space to install? Well, it did on my iPad. Possibly a little less on my iPhone.
 
I think people are confusing standard hard drive marketing practice with an Apple marketing practice. If you buy a 1TB drive, you dont get 1TB, you get ~930GB.

Its just easier to tell everyone you multiply/divide by 1000, than by 1024.

EDIT: I.E. A 16GB phone, is actually 14.9GB, then the OS takes up a bit of space, leaving you 12.8GB.
 
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Think I will wait till I see some reviews before opening mine, if you only end up with like 7gig left over I will sell it on and wait for a 64gb model, I was expecting them to have a good 10gb left.
 
All the reports I have seen say that iOS asks for 6GB free at the start of installation to use for storage of temporary files, but the OS size is nowhere near that. But we shall see, I'm keen to find out too :)
 
I updated to iOS8 this afternoon over WiFi. The download was 900MB-1GB (don't quite remember) and that will be compressed. Once downloaded it will need even more space to uncompress itself, and then even more space to install hence why it's reported the update requires 5.8GB. Once it's done though the downloaded and uncompressed files should be deleted and you'll get most of that space back.

The iPhone 6 ships with iOS8 so won't have that free space issue.
 
chanjy said:
All the reports I have seen say that iOS asks for 6GB free at the start of installation to use for storage of temporary files, but the OS size is nowhere near that. But we shall see, I'm keen to find out too :)
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Yeah, although you can get around that by updating from iTunes, as it keeps all the temp files on your PC.
 
My phone is also at Tamworth. Woop!

If I wasn't getting a new phone, I'd stay well away from iOS 8 on my iPhone 4S!
 
MoRT489 said:
so 16 GB = 16,000,000,000B ?? so how is it fair to say 16GB phone = 13.70GB useable space?
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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?" :p
 
EVH said:
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?" :p
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But, but, Apple are ripping us off?? :confused:

Seriously, though - I was about to frustratingly type a response but you saved me the effort. Bravo. :p
 
Soootylad said:
Why would tracking through Quidco ever be bad?

They've chucked me £70 for signing up to a £19.99 sim-only contract with EE, why wouldn't you?
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Because I get 30% discount from an ex-colleague there, which can only be applied if the contract didn't come about via a third party ie CPW/Quidco etc :)

Irony being if I'd have just taken the £70 cashback (instead of £2-300 over the lifetime of the contract) I'd have my iPhone delivered tomorrow heh :D
 
EVH said:
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?" :p
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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,

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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!
 
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