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the realist iphone 7 launch
not at all - but its the certainty with which he assures us his phone will work for another year ......
Could trash a new phone too...
I say this after my wife put her iPhone 5 through a full spin cycle a couple of months ago and this morning poured a coffee over her MacBook....
yep mine dropped hers from her back pocket down the lavvy.
Banjo'd
We jumped off the apple bandwagon about 6 months ago - and you know what the only thing i really miss is how th ephone integrates with itunes from my desktop so i can change music from around the house.....
Im sure theres an android/windows app for that but tbh - ive never been that arsed about it .
jambalaya - MemberP-Jay curious as to how exactly is your 6S dying ? My 6 is fine and will go till Sep 2017 no problem I think. My wife's5S needs a new battery but otherwise still going strong
It's a standard 6, the 's' was plural rather than model.
Mine's dying because it's had 5 screens, I'm not kidding, including the original one and the current one, 5 in total - it's sort of my own fault.
The original screen failed, no external damage, just half the screen turned into a sea of rainbow pixels - warranty job, but Apple store wanted a week to get a Genius bar appointment to sort it and I didn't have the time so I had an after-market screen fitted by a guy we use in work - I dropped it 2 days later, that one was my fault so it went in for screen number 3. Screen number 3 was faulty - it caused the thing to run very hot and burn through the battery in an hour, took it back for screen number 4, whilst fitting screen number 4 our guy wanted to change the battery "to be sure" in doing so (I should have resisted because he's been awake for 48 hours at this point) he destroyed the home button ribbon wire that's stuck the battery and couldn't get one for a week - he fitted the 5th and current screen whilst it was fixing that.
Ours are works phones, we use covers but we hammer them all day every day and they get dropped a lot. My Boss is worse than me for it, but pretty much all of us are 2 full charges as day users.
Mine will be for sale in a few weeks, wearing screen number 6 as mine is scratched and has weird blotches on it - because of that and the fact it's always had a robber cover it will look pretty much like new, but I wouldn't recommend buying it. I'll shoot it off to Mazuma or someone.
The original screen failed, no external damage, just half the screen turned into a sea of rainbow pixels - warranty job
A variant of "Touch Disease" maybe?
http://ifixit.org/blog/8309/iphone-6-plus-gray-flicker-touch-death/
EE website offering me £213 for my 64Gb 6+.... Hmmm! 😀
It does seem very odd that the Mirror Black finishes scratches so easily and they have even put a disclaimer on their website saying so. The iPhone Colour from a few years back had a very tough and shinny finish so not sure why they didn't just down that route. I can see a massive class action that they have made a phone finish that is not fit for purpose.
Seriously? A class action for people who were stupid enough to buy something that they were told would scratch and it gets scratched?
While I agree it's lame to be even thinking of selling something that you know is crap and faulty, buying it and being shocked worse.
I think Apple are trying to head off the inevitable class action with the statement that it will probably scratch. Yanks will sue for anything.
I just had my 64gb 6s Plus replaced at the Apple store this morning, was contemplating flogging it and replacing it with a 7. Then I saw what it offered. No chance. The prices are insane. [b]Plus, in a cloud storage and streaming world, who really needs 256gb on a phone?[/b] I struggle to fill half of my 64gb.
Well, in the real world of shonky cellular network connections, anyone who actually wants to listen to their own music would have to be bloody daft to rely on shovelling all their stuff into the cloud and expect it to work consistently.
Seeing as how I'm currently spending anywhere up to or over sixty hours a week travelling all around the country in cars, often trying to get a network connection that will allow data usage, and failing spectacularly, I'd have to be out of my mind putting my music into the cloud, or relying on streaming services like Spotify.
I can't even get google maps to work in many places, it's possible to drive for fifteen-twenty miles along the A30 through Devon and Cornwall and have no 3G coverage, only E or GPRS showing; dammit, 4G isn't even really available in the centre of Bath!
I've still got 19Gb available on my 128Gb 6+, but only because I'm being stingy with what music I put on it; having 256Gb would allow me to put a significant chunk of my entire music library onto the phone, while still allowing loads for all my OS maps, books and satnav stuff, without ever having to be at the mercy of the networks.
I'll be going on holiday in two-three weeks time, camping where there isn't even a phone signal, so relying on cloud storage and access would be madness.
And I'm not talking a remote area, I'm talking South Devon, where I can see Dartmouth across the bay.
Somerset, Devon and Cornwall have huge holes in network coverage, and that's unlikely to change anytime soon.
Wonder if it will have the same sporadic screen unresponsivnes issue that my work issue iPhone 6 has.
Total pain in the backside.
It's like it stores up every desperate screen touch then flies through carrying them all out once it unlocks itself.
IT were a bit sceptical until it emailed half the company address book last week.
Apologies for digging this up again, but my 6 did this - faulty screen, swapped for a new phone by Apple with minimal fuss (after Vodafone did nothing apart from what I'd done i.e. wipe and start again, 3 times).
Phone is waterproof to 1m for upto 30 mins. Video below would suggest thats it's more than waterpfoof enough for a drop down the loo or dampness in a pocket.
Have to agree with Countzero.
I filled my iPhone 6S 128gb with apps, pictures and 4K video interviews.
My iCloud account didn't work properly while I was away for 3 months and I had to delete apps, pictures and videos.
Ended up buying a spare hard drive and borrowing a laptop for the transfer.
I filled my iPhone 6S 128gb with apps, pictures and 4K video interviews.My iCloud account didn't work properly while I was away for 3 months and I had to delete apps, pictures and videos.
Ended up buying a spare hard drive and borrowing a laptop for the transfer.
If only there was a way you could conveniently increase the memory of the phone. Maybe a little card in a little slot.....
My 64gb iP6 half full. As / when I upgrade it will be an interesting choice between 32 / 128. Even the iPad (also 64gb) which has many films on it has never got close to being full
Maybe a little card in a little slot...
They seem to be phasing those out on a lot of Androids too now.
I suppose it might be quite tricky to keep that bit waterproof.
I have a little waterproof handicam that does it but it has big clips and rubber gaskets.
How much do they cost?
Oh
Is it 6 times better than my g3?
I'll not be paying the poser/gulliblility tax then
And it even has this pointless feature
At least they are catching up with the competition
Mine should be here tomorrow...
I'll not be paying the poser/gulliblility tax then
move on grandad
For bass lovers.
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Really feel the beat
Beaten to it!! 😆
A way to reproduce the brown note?
Because you know I'm all about that b[b]ass[/b],
'Bout that b[b]ass[/b], no treble
I'm all 'bout that b[b]ass[/b], 'bout that b[b]ass[/b], no treble
I'm all 'bout that b[b]ass[/b], 'bout that b[b]ass[/b], no treble
I'm all 'bout that b[b]ass[/b], 'bout that b[b]ass[/b]
£919 for the 256GB 7 Plus...nearly £1000 for a Phone...
^^^ 'kin 'ell
£1000 quid plus a contract of say £250pa for something (smartphone) that didn't exist 20 years ago
£919 for the 256GB 7 Plus...nearly £1000 for a Phone...
Same processing power* as a £1000 desktop from 5 years ago.
*probably.
£1000 quid plus a contract of say £250pa for something a lot of far, far cheaper options have been doing for ages
Waterproof? Sony, Motorola et al.
Wireless headphones? Well, apart from a general meh from the world, bluetooth headphones have been around ages.
Etc.
Still, it's iNew and iShiny so let's overlook the iExpense and iBuy the iShinynewthing.
Our XP 'outer died years ago. Our 2009 MacBook is hanging on by a thread, just able to cope with running the OS. So over breakfast Mrs K has decided we "need" an IMac 27". Not least cause kjo1 at 7yo is using a 'puter at school and needs to google for homework. Only £1850, a bargain :-/
£919 for the 256GB 7 Plus...nearly £1000 for a Phone...
Not setting on fire, priceless.
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All I can say my Apple kit works far better and lasts far longer than anything I have had from Nokia/Samsung/running windows. Now I appreciat that G3 looks great value but like millions of other users Iam fully signed up for the Apple ecosystem, my iPhone 6 will have cost me £25 a month if I change it now and assume its worthless or more like £15 if I sell it. I will keep it till 8 comes out so probably it will have cost me £10 a month. I can afford that.
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my iPhone 6 will have cost me £25 a month if I change it now and assume its worthless or more like £15 if I sell it. I will keep it till 8 comes out so probably it will have cost me £10 a month. I can afford that.
In reality you could get anywhere up to £350, maybe even more for a 6+:
The resale value of an iPhone tends to stay pretty high, so assuming you could get £350 for a 6/6+ in top-notch condition, a new 250Gb iP7 is going to cost roughly £600, about what a Galaxy Note 7 would cost, possibly not including optional TPF&T insurance...
All I can say my Apple kit works far better and lasts far longer than anything I have had from Nokia/Samsung/running windows.
How much of that stuff had you had in the last 3 years?
Again windows machines lasting 5+ years, mobiles doing a job for the cost invested.
Here is a quick finance lesson...
If you're paying £300 more for something to get a £300 increase on resale value it's deposit not a saving.
Also if the answer is I need a 256gb Iphone to keep all my music with me at all times perhaps rethink the question and find a nice music player that will hold everything and keep that for multiple years and replace the phone with a smaller model that doesn't charge you 4x the storage cost 😉
who dares say that apple havent innovated anything since thethe clickwheel ?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/20/apple-patent-recycled-paper-bag?CMP=fb_gu
If any PC manufacturer actually manages to make a computer that runs as well as and is such a joy to use as an Apple product I will gladly switch back.
was tempted, then i saw the price, then was tempted by the 6S, and again, way too much money. i was out of contract, and liked my 5S, for size and functionality, other than the crappy 16gb storage, and its recently poor performance, so upgraded free to a 64gb SE, and reduced monthly payments by a tenner.
sorted.
If you're paying £300 more for something to get a £300 increase on resale value it's deposit not a saving.
Also if the answer is I need a 256gb Iphone to keep all my music with me at all times perhaps rethink the question and find a nice music player that will hold everything and keep that for multiple years and replace the phone with a smaller model that doesn't charge you 4x the storage cost
But you're not buying it to get the increase in resale value, that's a fringe benefit that you won't get with other makes, even an iP5 can still fetch £150, so it's just worth factoring in the fact that you could knock £350 off the price of a SIM-free iP7 just by looking after a device you would probably bought anyway.
And a decent, high capacity music player isn't going to be cheap: the Fiio X7, which only has 27Gb native capacity, and a space for a 128Gb card, giving you about the same capacity as the now defunct iPod Classic 180Gb, which was £180, will cost £459!
Then you're carrying two devices around, to do the job of one that will do everything, the total cost of which will be more than the cost of the one device, once you've factored in the money obtained from selling an older model.
This is something that people have been doing, quite successfully, I might add, with their cars, so why can't you accept that the same model applies in this case?
It's really quite simple, people buy a high-quality product that's much in demand, that demand dictates there's a good-sized market for said devices that are pre-owned, in good condition, people who wish to upgrade, for whatever reason can sell their older device and get a good deal on it, allowing them to get a hefty discount on the newer device.
This is quite simple to understand, people have been doing it for many years with all sorts of commodities, so I shouldn't have to explain how it works.
@mike Top level Samsung's are pretty much the same price as an iPhone and don't hold their value as well. Just bought an android phone for the FIL he won't entertain an Apple replacement for his 4S so we got an £85 job. He only needs calls, whatsap and a few news apps. Pretty flimsy construction but screen seems pretty good.
I buy my phones for flexibility, pay £18pm for three unlimited 4g and Europe is included free too. Add on phone cost/resale and I think its pretty affordable.
Just saying, randomly but a friend of mine just bought the latest Samsung - S7?
The photo's are outstanding, knocking my 6s into the shade a lot.