Poll: ** The Official iPhone 8 Thread **

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What iPhone 8 will you be buying?

  • iPhone 8 64Gb

    Votes: 36 14.9%

  • iPhone 8 256Gb

    Votes: 6 2.5%

  • iPhone 8 Plus 64Gb

    Votes: 31 12.9%

  • iPhone 8 Plus 256Gb

    Votes: 18 7.5%

  • No, I won't be buying it

    Votes: 150 62.2%
  • Total voters
    241
WSJ reporting that Apple will be holding the iPhone keynote at their new Steve Jobs auditorium on the Apple campus on 12th September #excited :D
 
Luckily for me this year is contract upgrade year too as I wouldn't want to sink over a grand. Have always gone for the mid tier storage too so if £999 is the starting price then I might be out of this round.
 
I've been using iPhones for around 2 years now, previously Android since around the Galaxy S2 and Palm Pre previous to that.

I had a galaxy s8 for a week or so and it was nice, but a few things didn't work out for me. Eventually I went back to my iPhone 7.

So now we have a slightly larger iPhone with an OLED screen, something I've been waiting a good while for. Simply put, ill be buying this new expensive phone regardless of the price.
 
https://www.macrumors.com/2017/08/30/dock-gestures-home-button-iphone-8/

Across the bottom of the screen there's a thin, software bar in lieu of the home button. A user can drag it up to the middle of the screen to open the phone. When inside an app, a similar gesture starts multitasking. From here, users can continue to flick upwards to close the app and go back to the home screen. An animation in testing sucks the app back into its icon. The multitasking interface has been redesigned to appear like a series of standalone cards that can be swiped through, versus the stack of cards on current iPhones, the images show.
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Was hoping for a force touch software home button like the S8. Embedded TouchID is obviously gone aswell :(.
 
TouchID is just so reliable, fast and pretty much flawless, why would they get rid of it!

Unless big strides have been made, face recognition won't be reliable and it means you have to be looking directly at your phone to unlock it... which is madness. Then there's operating it in the dark...

To be fair, knowing Apple I suppose whatever they do will work well, the home button interaction is one of the most fundamental parts of the phone.

OLED is fantastic though so that's good.
 
Robbo said:
TouchID is just so reliable, fast and pretty much flawless, why would they get rid of it!

Unless big strides have been made, face recognition won't be reliable and it means you have to be looking directly at your phone to unlock it... which is madness. Then there's operating it in the dark...

To be fair, knowing Apple I suppose whatever they do will work well, the home button interaction is one of the most fundamental parts of the phone.

OLED is fantastic though so that's good.
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It will be infra red so will work in the dark.
 
I would hope if the new models have wireless charging that they use the current standards rather than their own one, making all the large amount of wireless charging tech useless on their phone.

That said I still have a 6S+ and really have no need to upgrade it yet
 
went from 4s to 5s to 6s (ie upgrades every two years). I'm afraid this year I won't be doing so. Partly as I've spent money on other things, but partly also because the 6s is still such a damn good phone! Happy where i am at the moment! :)
 
Think I'll be going for the new iPhone this month - But I will miss TouchID if they're definitely removing it completely - I can only think that "FaceID" is as good, or potentially even better than TouchID. I've heard rumours over the past couple of months that it's even faster than TouchID...

Also really looking forward to the OLED display - I hope they have software features that take advantage of this!
 
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