A price hike is inevitable.
*** 'Let's Meet At Our Place' Event : 12th September 2017 ***
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A price hike is inevitable.
Oh I'm well prepared for the hike, just more the details about how we go about upgrading.
Caporegime
It turned out that way, and it is an accident !
I had forgotten I even had insurance, it's not dedicated, just through the bank, with my account.
Don't like the sound of this: http://bit.ly/2xR953H 
Soldato
Probably mostly down to only having Samsung as a supplier of the screens which had a reported 40% defect rate.
Hopefully they will be released in October.
Hopefully they will be released in October.
Caporegime
The current rumour is they will use facial recognition instead of TouchID.
Soldato
Phone and Watch for me please, looking forward to this.
Will be interesting to see more information about the HomePod. With the Google Home being £99 at the moment, i'm been holding off buying one until Apple do their thing
Will be interesting to see more information about the HomePod. With the Google Home being £99 at the moment, i'm been holding off buying one until Apple do their thing
Caporegime
Indeed, it would be pretty interesting having to peer into your phone while holding over a contactless reader. I can think go a few retailers where this would make you look like a nut job. McDonalds drive through would be amusing.
Soldato
I guess that's why they are releasing the 7s (or whatever it's called) at the same time then?
No idea. My 7 Plus is plenty fast enough on iOS11 (beta), the only reason I want to upgrade is the AMOLED screen as I'm a sucker for them. I think I'll be hard pushed to part with £900+ for an AMOLED phone if it doesn't support touch ID, so I can see me keeping hold of the 7 Plus if that is indeed the case.
Caporegime
If they do move to faceID (lol?) then I wonder if they will ever bring back touchID on the flag ship. They will need to present a strong case in the Apple Event as to why they are going with faceID instead of touchID, and by doing so they may not want to go "back" to touchID.
What they won't do is admit that putting touchID under the glass is difficult and so faceID is just an interim solution.
What they won't do is admit that putting touchID under the glass is difficult and so faceID is just an interim solution.
Soldato
Are there any rumours that the 7s screen is going to be OLED as well?
No, LCD only, the 8 (or X, depending which site you read) which is the flagship phone is the only one that is going to get OLED (AMOLED?).
Caporegime
From the rumours I've read, they've been able to make "FaceID" even faster at authenticating its user than TouchID can
I would think it'd need to be pretty damn good for it to replace TouchID.
Even if its instant, you would still need to do the awkward action of getting your face into frame while holding the phone over the payment terminal. Unless they allowed you to show your face and have 10s grace period to put it over a terminal.
There's also another rumour that the front camera will detect your face even when the phone isn't looking directly at you (I.e. if it's on a table), and even works in the dark.
With regards to Apple Pay using this technology, it'd actually probably be even better. Right now, you select your card, hold your thumb on the home button and then show your phone (or hold your thumb on the home button all whilst holding the phone over the reader). If the rumours are true, you'll be able to just select your card and then hold your phone over the reader.
Caporegime
For me, I just take my phone from my pocket with my thumb on the home button and place over the terminal. Pays using my default card.
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