iPhone 6 - September 9, 2014 Event

[Antithesis]

The new camera features on the 6+ do seem pretty cool. It is a humongous phone, though.

[chemgear]

Hmmm, 10 million in 3 days eh?

http://business.financialpost.com/20...ys/?__lsa=null

[Flabbibulin]

Anyone else reserve their 6 or 6+ with Rogers? When I made my res, I was around 3000 in line (for the 6, 64 Space Grey anyway). After launch day I moved up to 1000 and have more or less been there since. I am guessing this means I will have to wait until the second wave.

[photon]

After a few days some thoughts.

Battery life is fine, about the same if not a bit more than my Nexus 4; about a day and a half on a full charge. I REALLY miss the inductive charging, but I guess that'd be hard to do in a metal case. Apple isn't making a dock either (or hasn't yet), though there'll be lots of 3rd party docks I'm sure.

I find the add-on keyboards a bit wonky, they seem to randomly change from my downloaded one.. or maybe new apps or uses need to choose the new keyboard and it remembers it? Either it's wonky or I haven't figured out the pattern of the feature. It also switches to the Apple keyboard for password fields, which I guess makes sense in case the keyboard maker decides to steal passwords.

Had some issues with the Gmail app not sending notifications, and Chrome scrolling (the amount it moves from a flick and how long it takes to come to rest from a flick) seems far lower than Chrome on Android or any other app in iOS. Insert Google conspiracy to get people to go to Android here, shades of "DOS ain't done till Lotus won't run"?

But getting everything else back up and syncing (Google calendars and contacts etc) was nice and easy.

Back to iOS from Android

As expected there are some things that I'm glad of and some things that Android does better (and some things that are simply different and take time to get used to). The notifications on iOS are better than before but I think I still prefer Android's, the row of icons at the top to show me unread mail, apps pending updates, alarms slept, was more informative at a glance.

# of actions (swipes, taps, etc) in iOS is generally higher than Android which is what I recalled going the other way.

Overall happy with the phone

[Regular_John]

Photon, did you go for the 6 or the 6+?

Coworker of mine said she had a chance to play with a 6 this weekend and it was huge. I'm still of the opinion that the original 3.5" screen was perfect, so I'm hesitant to move up much.

[photon]

I got the 6, the 6+ was way too massive. The 6 was almost exactly the same as my Nexus 4 (slightly taller, slightly narrower, and a lot thinner).

I used to think that about the 3.5" screens as well, but going back to a 4S or even a 5S (same width as 4S) now the screens seem too small to use well. I think anyone will get used to it and appreciate it.

[darklord700]

Are the Iphone 6 from Apple Store unlocked by default?

[Barnes]

Originally Posted by Flabbibulin

Anyone else reserve their 6 or 6+ with Rogers? When I made my res, I was around 3000 in line (for the 6, 64 Space Grey anyway). After launch day I moved up to 1000 and have more or less been there since. I am guessing this means I will have to wait until the second wave.

For those that are stuck in Big 3 reservation limbo, keep an eye on this site:

https://reserve.cdn-apple.com/CA/en_...e/availability

The page is updated regularly throughout the day and new stock is updated every night at midnight local time so go there @midnight to see if your model is available and schedule a pickup for the next day.

I haven't seen any 6+ yet in Calgary but the usually have most of the 6's show up at midnight. The Space Grey models are usually available.

[pylon]

Photon, does the 6 give you home screen landscape orientation, or is that only a 6+ feature?

[photon]

I think that's a 6+ only feature.

[photon]

Anandtech has preliminary benchmarking results up. Not sure what they did to the architecture but the performance improvement is better than what the clock speed bump would give.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8559/i...minary-results

[ken0042]

Originally Posted by darklord700

Are the Iphone 6 from Apple Store unlocked by default?

Yes, they are. If you get one from the Apple Store on an upgrade, they will then lock the device to your carrier. So rather than them having 4 sets of each phone (or 24 variations of the 6 and 6+), they only need one set of each. (So 6 in total; 3 for each size of the 6 and 6+)

Basically if you are getting a contract phone, getting it from the Apple store will not circumvent the lock.

[calgarygeologist]

This has to be one of the worst commercials I have ever seen Apple put out. I get the feeling that all the creativity has been sucked out of the company.

[photon]

That's Fallon and Timberlake, they're pretty creative guys IMO.

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by photon

That's Fallon and Timberlake, they're pretty creative guys IMO.

Fallon and JT are great but that commercial stinks.

[Jbo]

Telus at Chinook has a ton of iPhone 6s available, no plus though. Just walked in and grabbed a black 64gb

[Russic]

Originally Posted by calgarygeologist

This has to be one of the worst commercials I have ever seen Apple put out. I get the feeling that all the creativity has been sucked out of the company.

I hated that ad. The other Fallon/Timberlake one is better imo.

[Barnes]

Originally Posted by Barnes

Question…

I have a fido reservation for a 6+ but it looks like I won't get one for awhile. I am currently month to month and negotiated a new 2 year deal to qualify for a full subsidy for the same $/mo. I have the interaction ID for the plan negotiated.

Can I reserve through Apple store and have them start the new contract at the store if I give the Apple store employee my Fido interaction #? Does the cost of the phone go on my Fido bill or do I have to pay the subsidized price in store?

The answer to all of this is yes.

[TorqueDog]

iPhone 6 targeted by virus... but don't go buying an iPhone antivirus app just yet...

21,200 Confirmed Cases Since Friday Release. Apple’s iPhone 6 was bought up by over 8 million eager purchaser’s over the weekend. On a report Friday evening on Fox News, it was confirmed that several iPhones sold contained the Ebola virus, with over 1,000 confirmed cases of Ebola contamination, but since then it has risen to over 21,000.

http://dailybuzzlive.com/iphone-6-ph...riday-release/

Why don't we have a trollface smiley on this board? I shall supply my own.

[BlackWallStreet]

Originally Posted by calgarygeologist

This has to be one of the worst commercials I have ever seen Apple put out. I get the feeling that all the creativity has been sucked out of the company.

Wow that's brutal, probably the most annoying commercial of all time