iPhone 2014: It's time.

[Eug]

I have it on my iMac.

 

[Childs]

I have it on my iMac.

For some reason 'Show iTunes in the Cloud purchases' was unchecked in the prefs. I never unchecked, but whatever.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Question: If you buy an unlocked version does it allow tethering on AT&T? Like if I stuck my SIM in, would it work, or does the SIM dictate which features are blocked? I realize even if they don't block it AT&T could potentially come down on me hard.

I'm just trying to figure out if the tethering restrictions are carrier model specific only or if they apply to unlocked models.

In the Android world, tethering has always been blocked via carrier bloatware whereas Nexus phones can tether all they want.

 

[purbeast0]

anyone have any cases they would recommend? i'm just looking for a thin rubber-ish type of case. the one i have now on my 4 i got on ebay for like $5 way back when. it is good enough. it has a little lip on the front so i can set it face down and it doesn't get scratched. it's all 1 piece too.

anyone know of any for the 6 yet like this? i was just searching ebay and the ones i'm interested in don't seem to be shipping until like october 20th.

i was looking at something like this:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Spigen-for-...Cell_Phone_PDA_Cases&var=&hash=item3a96adfbd8

 

[Childs]

Spigen makes good cases. I have the Tough Armor for the iPhone 5 and its great.

 

[purbeast0]

cool that's good to know. i like this one here but it's not available yet:

http://www.spigen.com/brands/apple/iphone/iphone-6/iphone-6-plus/iphone-6-plus-case-thin-fit.html

but they do have this one available on amazon in the gun metal:

http://www.spigen.com/brands/apple/iphone/iphone-6/iphone-6-plus/iphone-6-plus-case-thin-fit-a.html

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

Just had my assistant order me an iPhone 6 (AT&T, space gray, 64GB). She ordered it from AT&T because we are on an AT&T business plan. They are saying 21-28 days for delivery, but we shall see . . .

 

[Eug]

iPhone 6 GPU benchmarks

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/apple-iphone-6-gpu-benchmarks,27668.html

iPhone 5s holds its own overall. I'm not sure how this benchmark works, but I wonder if it's partially because the 5s has less pixels to push than the 6.

 

[Ichinisan]

In line for about 10 minutes now. 7:22 AM

I don't have a preorder.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

Here is a very nice hands-on review of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus camera by a seasoned nature photographer: http://austinmann.com/trek/iphone-6-plus-camera-review-iceland

 

[smackababy]

Here is a very nice hands-on review of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus camera by a seasoned nature photographer: http://austinmann.com/trek/iphone-6-plus-camera-review-iceland

But it doesn't have 1837.20 megapixels like <insert Android flavor of the month phone>!!!! It can't possibly be better!

 

[el-Capitan]

Here is a very nice hands-on review of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus camera by a seasoned nature photographer: http://austinmann.com/trek/iphone-6-plus-camera-review-iceland

It's been posted by Redstorm in another thread :

Just to make some things clear, the photographer is Austin Mann, who works for Teresa Brewer, who is an Apple employee, specifically the iPhone Senior PR Manager.

If that's true, it reads like a (clever) ad to me.

 

[smackababy]

It's been posted by Redstorm in another thread :



If that's true, it reads like a (clever) ad to me.

I don't know if that is true. It looks like he is a professional photographer. Now, he might have been commissioned to do an iPhone 6 / 6+ review, but he doesn't work for anyone at Apple. If so, his works wouldn't be published in a lot of professional places.

And, even then, it is only showcasing the improvements (with actual documentation and examples) of the 6's camera vs the 5s.

 

[Red Storm]

I don't know if that is true. It looks like he is a professional photographer. Now, he might have been commissioned to do an iPhone 6 / 6+ review, but he doesn't work for anyone at Apple. If so, his works wouldn't be published in a lot of professional places.

And, even then, it is only showcasing the improvements (with actual documentation and examples) of the 6's camera vs the 5s.

Looks like it was cleared up by someone from The Verge:

1. This is absolutely not native advertising or advertising of any kind. This is pure Verge editorial content that we fully controlled from start to finish. We signed a contract and paid Austin for these photos, and many of them are exclusive to The Verge. Native advertising on Vox Media sites is clearly labeled and has "sponsored" in the URL.
2. Austin came to the Apple event as a guest of The Verge and received his phones early because we had contracted him to do this story. He also came to lunch with us after the event, and then drove directly to the airport to go to Iceland. It was pretty cool.
3. Austin is a pretty awesome dude.
4. We all know Teresa Brewer and many other Apple PR people, just as well all know many PR people at every company in the industry. We worked with her and her team to arrange the details of Austin getting the phones to do the story; it’s not surprising that Austin shared some photos with her (which is all that’s on that passworded page).
5. Austin is a freelance photographer; he makes his money selling photos. I can’t control the clients he’s had in the past, nor the clients he’ll have in the future. But I know that he sent us his photos and copy, and we edited it, created this layout, and had total editorial control over what we published. That’s how we do it.
6. I hope this story helps him get many more clients — he’s a great photographer!

For the record I don't think anybody doubts the photos or their quality and comparisons. Personally I was just wary of any type of review that involved potential special treatment from Apple because that means it would only focus on the positives, which would have made it more of an advert than a review.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

DXOMark (an independent French lab that tests cameras and lenses) has just rated the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus as the best-ever cell phone cameras - http://www.dxomark.com/Mobiles/Appl...et-gold-standard-for-smartphone-image-quality

A photographer, Lisa Bettany, took the same image (more or less) with all 8 iPhone cameras to date - http://snapsnapsnap.photos/how-does-the-iphone-6-camera-compare-to-previous-iphone-cameras/ The results, not surprisingly, flatter the 6, but I find some of the generational leaps really interesting, particularly the leap from 3G to 3Gs.

 

[Eug]

Tried the iPhone 6 Plus in person yesterday. Way, way too big for me. It is absolutely impossible for me to use it one-handed, not surprisingly. My thumb barely gets half-way across the screen horizontally.

Also not so surprisingly, the person who bought it is a woman, who said she felt comfortable carrying it around because she just puts it in her purse.

It's basically a tablet with some phone support. Yes, I know this is old news, but using the iPhone 6 Plus just re-iterates what I felt with the Note 2.

 

[Eug]

If you're like me and find the iPhone 6 Plus too big, you can now buy a thumb extender.

 

[smackababy]

Way, way too big for me.

First time anyone has ever said that about 5.5 inches. =3

 

[Childs]

Whats kinda funny about that is usually the people I see with the huge phones are tiny Asians. Usually women. A couple of days ago I was in line at Chipotle, and this Asian girl must have been 5' tall at most, and her phone was a big as her whole head. I think it was one of the Note variants.

It could also simply be that there are a lot of Asians around here.

 

[Ns1]

It could also simply be that there are a lot of Asians around here.

Location: SF Bay Area

yep!

 

[smackababy]

Whats kinda funny about that is usually the people I see with the huge phones are tiny Asians. Usually women. A couple of days ago I was in line at Chipotle, and this Asian girl must have been 5' tall at most, and her phone was a big as her whole head. I think it was one of the Note variants.

It could also simply be that there are a lot of Asians around here.

My GF's mom was admiring my 6 when it came out and she said "I think I'll get the bigger one". I asked her why and her explanation was "It costs more, so it has to be better." It is all about that status.

 

[Eug]

The bigger iPhone 6 plus not surprisingly does noticeably worse in native-rez 3D graphics than its little brother, the iPhone 6. However, in some tests it also does significantly worse than the iPhone 5s.

http://appleinsider.com/articles/14...-of-iphone-6-plus-drives-lower-fps-benchmarks

I wonder if that means that some game creators will simply make their games render at a lower resolution, to keep performance more constant across the same generation devices.

 

[vi edit]

RAM constraints driving that bigger screen?

 

[Ichinisan]

RAM constraints driving that bigger screen?

Just GPU power per-pixel, I would assume.