Poll: iPhone 6s & 6s Plus Thread

[Flukester]

It's the Huawei Mate S, hands on reviews were available over a week before the Apple event.

EDIT: Beat by Radeon123

Yes and I bet the end user experience with a Huawei is utterly fantastic!

If you were stuck on a desert island and had one call to make to save your life... would you choose to attempt it on a Huawei handset or a iPhone ?, answer with your head and not to look cool on interwebs

 

[Rich_L]

Depend if I was holding it wrong or not

 

[ebilcake]

Yes and I bet the end user experience with a Huawei is utterly fantastic!

If you were stuck on a desert island and had one call to make to save your life... would you choose to attempt it on a Huawei handset or a iPhone ?, answer with your head and not to look cool on interwebs

If you were stuck on a desert island it wouldn't make any difference which phone you had. Not sure I understand your question.

Huawei devices are decent enough, they're one of the more premium Chinese manufactures. Have you ever used one?

 

[MichaelAwkward]

Hope the 2GB RAM reports are true, I think it will offer the best balance (if battery life is a concern).

I thought the effect of RAM on battery life was negligible?

The 6's screen looks fantastic, don't see what the issue is? The Plus also looks fantastic, that's 400dpi and someone was complaining that wasn't enough earlier in this thread.

It's not that there's an issue. It's all about expectations. You can get £100 phones with 400dpi screens these days. Apple are offering a premium product and for the price, consumers are going to start to want something more for their money.

 

[MrMoonX]

This thread is lol worthy. All the crying about nothing new, apple don't invest in r&d, apple don't do this, didn't invent that.... I suspect Apple have more in r&d than most phone manufacturers put together.

It's a S release, it's not meant to reinvent the iPhone from scratch...

What we do have is a new OS, almost twice as fast, nicer cameras, 3d touch (which actually sounds amazing), taptic feedback, faster touch ID .....not bad for a 'refresh' model.

Am I gonna buy one, nope... I have a 6 and will await the 7.

Up until now the iPhone 6 from my point of view (a business user) was the best phone out there for 'getting the job done'.... now it's the 6S.

Apple know what they do well, and these days succeed at pretty much everything they do... hats off to them!

+1 just wait until Samsung copy the 6s like they did the 6 right down to the marketing, Apple innovates Korea/China copies

 

[Tunney]

An Android phone was announced with force touch before the iPhone 6s so they can't claim to be first with that either.

They can because it's an evolution of the same technology seen in the Apple Watch that was released some months ago.

 

[chef-borjan]

Force touch is great with the Apple Watch, the moment I got one and started using it, I knew it had to come to the phone.

 

[squerble]

O2 have just text me with a service that they'll ring me when the pre-orders open, rather than me having to deal with the website.

 

[-Mike-]

The link above also suggests 2GB RAM.



Moved from a 1080p Android phone to an iPhone 6 and I if anything, the display looks better. More pixels don't mean a better screen, but they do mean a bigger hit on the battery.

Again, my 1080p screen based phone lasts over two days..... and has 3gb of ram to feed all its power into.

 

[pioneer2000]

I also like the idea of using Siri to pause Netflix etc. The mic on remote idea is very good. I get pretty annoyed telling my Xbox One Kinect to pause only for it to never hear me from across the room.

Is this a joke? The reason that kinect is good is that it works purely with voice / motion (which it does do probably 80-90% of the time).

With having a remote to speak into on the ATV you gain nothing over actually pressing pause on a normal remote.

 

[pioneer2000]

The battery is crap on the 6 as it is. Doesn't last a full day with only moderate use.

They needed to make the 6S even thicker so the camera sits flush and the battery is larger.

 

[MagicBoy]

Bit of a sweeping generalisation, so I'll add an opposite view.

Battery life is very dependent on signal strength in my experience. At home with a full 4G signal I regularly get 2 days, sometimes 3 with light use.

Go to my Mum's with a 1 blob 3G signal and it'll eat 8% an hour.

 

[Destination]

I have a battered and bruised iPhone 5... thought I would hold out until the 7 but my camera has some imperfections in it now, and my battery life is struggling.

Given that I'm loving Force Touch on the Apple Watch, 3D touch is exactly what I wanted in the next version of the phone I purchase.

This is the issue my wife has, and several otheriphone five people I know have.
Failing batteries, and camera throwing purple artefacts in videos and pictures, but only inconsistently.
Phone looks perfect, not a scratch.
Just seems to have been weakness in design.

 

[Drollic]

Bit of a sweeping generalisation, so I'll add an opposite view.

Battery life is very dependent on signal strength in my experience. At home with a full 4G signal I regularly get 2 days, sometimes 3 with light use.

Go to my Mum's with a 1 blob 3G signal and it'll eat 8% an hour.

It's dependant on so many variables it's almost pointless to compare.

The 6s looks good and I'll be tempted to move away from Android for the first time (Nexus 5).

 

[Nismo]

The battery is crap on the 6 as it is. Doesn't last a full day with only moderate use.

Mine does and it's a release day phone :shrugs:

Constant notifications from my home security camera, pushed work and home email, constant Bluetooth connection to Apple Watch plus the usual web/social media/video usage. Usually goes back on charge at around 25-30% left at 10pm and is in use from 5am.

 

[MagicBoy]

It's dependant on so many variables it's almost pointless to compare.

Between different users and device, yes.

In the information I've provided the device, usage and the application loads are all identical or very similar. The only variable was the location and therefore signal strength.

 

[OCZxFTW]

I noticed how in the keynote yesterday that nothing was mentioned about battery life for the 6s and 6s plus

 

[MagicBoy]

There's no change, hence no mention.

 

[ebilcake]

They can because it's an evolution of the same technology seen in the Apple Watch that was released some months ago.

It's a watch, not a phone.

Huawei were the first to bring the feature to mobile phones.

I still think it's a gimmick though, only reason Apple need it is because they try to do everything with one button.

 

[NooBish AbbZ]

Like the live photos idea, especially if it can be used as a wallpaper, so whenever you press your lock button, it moves, however, not enough for me to upgrade directly to a 6s+. Will upgrade to a 6+ when current sim-only contract ends in March