iPhone 6 - BFD
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*Don't sit with your IPhone 6 Plus in your front pocket.jayhoz said:
http://gizmodo.com/iphone-plus-owners-are-bending-their-phones-by-just-sit-1638115760
People claimed that the 5 and 5S bent in their pockets too. Call me a fanboy if you will, but I'm willing to bet those people either sat on the phones in their back pockets, leaned over some kind of hard edge putting their weight on the phones, or crushed them against the steering wheel getting into a car or something. After the same stories at the release of the 5, bending iPhones was never a significant issue and was limited to those who were careless.
You have had 7 cellular phones since your LG and are concerned about the environmental impact of wired v. Wireless charging.mt8thsw9th said:
BrazilianSoxFan said:
Is it really surprising that a metal phone deforms when you bend it, and a plastic one mostly bounces back (though it was a bit warped)? Pretty sure you can bend any metal smartphone or tablet if you really want to try hard enough or if you do something careless enough with it.
Are you asking me what the negative environmental impact of unnecessary consumer culture is?derekson said:
I am not an environmentalist, but calling out M89th for a stupid fucking argument.
I lost the Tour at the airport in Budapest; the Droid died. All of the other phones not named the Storm (which has a broken screen) are still in use. The 4 by a SoSHer, the 4S by my best friend, and the 5 by whoever bought it via Gazelle. So the environmental impact is a net zero more phones in circulation, and at the very least two of them getting over three years of use (not counting the two newer ones which likely will as well).
Now that's out of the way, can we talk about how wasted energy from wireless charging without non sequiturs from the peanut gallery?
Now that's out of the way, can we talk about how wasted energy from wireless charging without non sequiturs from the peanut gallery?
Yeah, to me it's pretty no brainer that there are far more used phones than ever get purchased, and keeping an old phone an extra 6 months will benefit the environment far more than the small amount of energy lost from wireless charging over a long period would.Drocca said:
crow216 said:
My point was in part that the early adopter on apple hasn't got much, so before you rush for a apple watch, just remember the second generation was a pretty big improvement in many apple products and wasn't that long in coming.
They have rushed the release and improved it rapidly before (eg if I had an ipad 2 and a camera etc I might still use it for face time / skype etc). It's a sad but inevitable part of buying new tech, but that was the quickest an item that expensive had been no longer supported for me, but more that the first iphone was pretty crappy at being a phone among other things, the frist ipod was eh, the first ipad was quickly significantly improved etc.
Though to be fair I would think that would be a more compelling argument if they were trying to get it out for christmas, then I'd be very wary.
weeba said:
Some nice options there. I was originally intending to go sans case this time around but I think with the protruding camera lens and since its already really slim I'll do it.
The Spigen Aluminum Fit case is pretty sweet and hits my key features. Very slim, exposed physical buttons with just enough front bezel to lay it face down. Only thing don't like is the large "Spigen" logo but I can deal.
Mildly inane question - how do I use Swiftkey for iOS without picking up my finger between words? People seem to claim it will recognize discrete words, but so far, it's not even trying?
I've had an OtterBox Defender on the 4S for a while. Not sure if I'm going with that again for the 6, or like bohous, get that Spigen Aluminium one.
http://www.otterbox.com/apple-iphone-6-cases/apple-iphone-6-cases,default,sc.html
http://www.otterbox.com/apple-iphone-6-cases/apple-iphone-6-cases,default,sc.html
DO NOT UPDATE TO 8.0.1 on the 6 or 6+
http://gizmodo.com/ios-8-0-1-is-breaking-cell-connections-on-the-iphone-6-1638669641/all
http://gizmodo.com/ios-8-0-1-is-breaking-cell-connections-on-the-iphone-6-1638669641/all
iOS updates the past two years have been really awful, haven't they? I mean, I don't recall iOS 4, 5 or 6 having nearly as many bugs as 7 and 8 have had - especially the 8 bugs that have made phones useless essentially.
I'll rock 7.2.x on my 5 until I upgrade in a year or so maybe.
I'll rock 7.2.x on my 5 until I upgrade in a year or so maybe.
bohous said:
Some nice options there. I was originally intending to go sans case this time around but I think with the protruding camera lens and since its already really slim I'll do it.
The Spigen Aluminum Fit case is pretty sweet and hits my key features. Very slim, exposed physical buttons with just enough front bezel to lay it face down. Only thing don't like is the large "Spigen" logo but I can deal.
I've never had a case before because I didn't want to add bulk to an already thin phone. But with the 6, I feel like I have to. Maybe it's the thinness of the 6 or the additional width, or both, but I've never been more afraid that I'm going to drop a phone that I am with the 6. I ordered the case above, except in "smooth black" (which also helps to somewhat to conceal the name/logo).
i saw someone with one of these and thought it looked awfully handy:
http://lombres.com/products/mujjo-iphone-5-5s-wallet-case-tan?gclid=CIC4mMvg-sACFbPJtAodGjQAag
Think I'll get something like that as, I agree, the 6 seems much more case-needy than previous Iphones.
http://lombres.com/products/mujjo-iphone-5-5s-wallet-case-tan?gclid=CIC4mMvg-sACFbPJtAodGjQAag
Think I'll get something like that as, I agree, the 6 seems much more case-needy than previous Iphones.
canderson said:
7.1 was massively better than 7.0.x, just in terms of responsiveness and speed alone.
In general the x.0 releases have always been kinda buggy, especially on the new phones released with the new S/W until they release x.0.1 with some fixes.
8 has been very buggy on my iPad. The LinkedIn app in particular is all kinds of fucked up. Obviously that's a third party issue though.
canderson said:
Probably a bad idea with the 53 vulnerabilities Apple disclosed that are fixed in iOS 8, that still exist in 7.1.x....
jayhoz said:
Ah, that's why I've gotten away with it here in Washington state. No sand, just mud.
wade boggs chicken dinner said:
He was too busy selling phones that you can't hold and get a signal.
Do not take it out of the box. The cellophane wrapping blocks the signal from Apple HQ that could trigger the auto update, even when the phone is off (see previous discussion about Apple's new NSA-resistant encryption). Instead, store it in cool, dark place -- like next to where you keep your Cabernet -- until after the November mid-term congressional elections.
8.0.2 came out last night, fixing the issue with the 8.0.1 release. 8.0.0 was fine too, just had a few random bugs they were trying to fix with the 8.0.1 release that ended up breaking shit.
edit: I put 8.0.2 on both my iPhone 6 and iPad Air, and both seem to be running fine.
edit: I put 8.0.2 on both my iPhone 6 and iPad Air, and both seem to be running fine.