13 ms·
Apple Introduces the iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus
- deleted 11y ago[deleted]
- nodivbyzero 11y ago3D Touch - what does it mean?
- bpicolo 11y agoHardware-accelerated click-and-hold.
- ihuman 11y agoIt is force touch, basically.
- pilif 11y agoCraig even used the term by accident
- snegu 11y agoSeems to me it allows something like hover states on mobile.
- inversionOf 11y agoTheoretically it means that the screen senses pressure in addition to location(s) (note that all capacitive screens do this already, where pressure is proxied by size of touch, which is useful with big meaty fingers but is arguably less precise. Android publishes this, since version 1.0, as "force"). The demos are a little odd, though, as all seem to be primarily about the difference between taps and long presses, being entirely defined by touch time rather than pressure.
- chx 11y agoIs http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/MotionEvent.html#getPressure(int) http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/MotionEv... this what you mean?
- inversionOf 11y agoYup you're correct: named pressure rather than force (the specific function you linked was not in 1, but pressure was in the legacy methods since version 1. Search the page for pressure). It is live on most devices, and reflects pressure quite accurately, and is doing it by measuring the touch area per contact on the screen, which with a human finger varies based upon the force of the press. Presumably on the Huawei they would just use the actual pressure sensor instead of the proxied size.
- xarjklo 11y agoFancy context menus.
- kosmic_k 11y agoUsing capacitive touch sensors the iPhone6s measures the tiny flexing of the front screen as you touch it. Pretty clever actually.
- bzudo 11y agoNo more home button in iPhone 7?
- masklinn 11y agoTactile feedback and touch force recognition, so Force Touch for iphones.
- carlosrg 11y agoRight click for touchscreens.
- jalcide 11y agoI'd love to see the lightest, regular swipe and tap act as a mouse on-rollover hover state and the slightly harder swipe scroll the page. The harder press would be the on-press and on-release states. I miss all of those interaction states, with multi-touch. Not only will Apple not do that, but we won't even have the options to do so. It'll be all about new, gimmicky peek and poke style gestures. I'm sure they'll be nice, though.
- xd1936 11y agoWhy are all of the top links to TechCrunch? They're the worst.
- seiji 11y agoHN just really really loves AOL.
- dang 11y agoIt's usually pretty random which particular versions of a story get traction here, especially when there's a media burst of roughly equivalent articles. If people suggest significantly better sources, we can edit the URLs.
- zxcvcxz 11y agoTechCrunch shills.
- Navarr 11y agoVery curious as to the intuitiveness of the variations in tapping. 3D Touch seems neat.. but I'd have to use it personally to know whether or not its a revolution, or an Amazon Fire Phone-esque gimmick.
- masklinn 11y agoThe shortcuts on the homescreen looked real useful (though they would depend on what the application developer decided to add as quick jumps), and I've done the "open message/back to list/open message/back to list" way too often
- Navarr 11y agoI have too but requiring my finger to be touched (over top of the message) doesn't seem like it'll benefit. The shortcuts are nice, though.
- masklinn 11y agoThe finger would obscure part of the display, but it would likely leave enough uncovered that you have the information you need to decide whether you want to actually open the resource, don't want to, or want to act (using the contextual gesture things)
- bane 11y agoI hate the name, but the 3d touch is a nice interaction model. I really like peaking as a UI metaphor. It helps slice through layers of information without committing to the next layer. edit and you have to be fucking kidding me with 16GB base models... edit2 oh, I get it, it's a push for iCloud storage, lame
- snegu 11y agoThat's what hover has done on desktop for a while now. This is not a new concept, just new tech allowing us to do it on touchscreens.
- vowelless 11y agoWhy not just call it force touch, like the macbook? Craig Federighi even had a slip and referred to 3d touch as force touch.
- steckerbrett 11y agoYeah that was definitely a late change.
- bane 11y agoSide note along with this thought, I feel like Apple is going through some kind of naming transition in its lineup: Mac<thing>: e.g. Macbook, MacBook Pro, Mac Pro i<thing>: iPod, iPhone, iPad, iSight Apple <thing>: Apple watch, Apple pencil I think the Apple one is the worst, because <thing> seems to be common non-trademarked words and has a weird marketing exec "let's get the branding out there!" strategy. And now it kind of smells like they might be thinking about going to a "Smart <thing>" naming scheme. It makes calling things kind of hard and schizophrenic, most people just default to i<thing> when they don't know what to call it. I hear iWatch at least once a week.
- c54 11y agoThey're copying the facebook-esque thing of grabbing the base word and making that the brand. IE facebook messenger is "messenger", compared to google messenger which is "gchat". Calendar vs "gcal", and so on. Facebook effectively owns the word "like" at this point, has "internet.com", and so on. Apple wants people to be calling the "Apple Watch" just "the Watch".
- ultimoo 11y agoI think once app developers fully adopt 3D touch and Apple refines the iOS UX in future iterations to take complete advantage of the tech, it's going to be a huge improvement in how we interact with smartphones.
- venomsnake 11y agoWith the app ecosystem stagnating (really - are you doing more things on your phone than in 2010) and the only new things that crop are differently flavored messenger apps - we are at the moment that we have to answer - what more can we do with the phones, not how to do it.
- JustSomeNobody 11y agoNot trying to offend you, but have you had your hands on one yet? I don't think you can say this until you do. It may be crap. Well, it's Apple, so it's probably not crap, but maybe it actually won't make a <i>huge</i> difference.
- masklinn 11y agoThey already have it implemented in their watch and latest-gen trackpads, so there's that.
- zyb09 11y agoIt's the first time we get a new interaction idiom since 2007 really. I think it will bring great changes and improvements to mobile app UIs. Adaption gonna take a while though, 2-3 years for it to be considered standard on iOS, another 1-2 years on Android, I'd guess. Also given it's from Apple the implementation will probably be rather solid.
- zkidd 11y agoHas apple ever called out a future product like they just did with the Apple Car reference. That's pretty bold-- as in different and fun.
- roymurdock 11y agoInterested to hear whether people think the fragmentation/differentiation of the iPhone line is a good strategy or not. Where there used to be 1 flagship phone, there are now 4 different models, possibly 5 if they make a (c) version. > iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6S, iPhone 6S Plus, iPhone 6c What made the iPhone iconic was that there was one powerful and curated model, and that you trusted Apple to make design choices for you. You paid extra because you knew you were getting a quality phone, not the low-tier/hard to compare versions of the multitude of Android-based phone. Why move away from simplicity and curation?
- drinchev 11y agoiPhones, marked with "S" are successors of the previous model and doesn't include any changes in their case.
- roymurdock 11y agoYeah, I understand the naming conventions (S = same case, different internals, C = cheap case, Plus = large) but my point is: why? Apple is supposed to think these design choices through and give the user whatever is best. That's what they've done in the past, and that's why they have such a strong brand.
- mhurron 11y agoTurns out one size does not fit all. Personally I'm sticking with my 5s until it dies at this point, the 6 is too damn big.
- drinchev 11y agoBecause people around the world are different. Mainly as far as I read Apple created "+" version for Asian market, where people really like the big display screen.
- Touche 11y ago> but my point is: why? If you keep doing the same thing your market price will start to fall. Smartphones are old and boring. They can't capture more users simply by being Apple any more, they have to offer the variety users want in order to increase their piece of the pie.
- atorralb 11y agobut... does it bend?
- Breefield 11y agoStill no SD card slot? So fucking irritating that more/less the primary way Apple does price differentiation for their product models is by locking you in at storage capacity sizes. My life is a hell of iCloud + Dropbox backups & constantly deleting all media so I can keep all of 40 apps on my 16GB iPhone.
- kylec 11y agoApple will never put an SD card slot in the iPhone. If you're waiting for it, you'll be waiting a long time.
- masklinn 11y agoHell they're barely putting SD slots on laptops anymore.
- xutopia 11y agoIs your time worth more that the cost of an upgrade? I'm not happy with the price but I upgraded to avoid wasting hours doing that juggling.
- slg 11y agoSometimes the mere existence of the base model causes some problems that can't be fixed with the existence of an upgraded option. This is a consistent problem in an enterprise environment. The base model is always the one purchased more frequently whether through BYOD or enterprise owned devices. This means that support staff has to spend a lot of time working with users to manage space.
- kelseydh 11y agoExactly, almost certainly every kid now will need to teach grandma how to manage storage on her device because Apple wanted to make more money.
- dasp 11y ago
- josteink 11y agoSo nothing new on the iPad, ATV and from what I can tell from this incomplete TC garbage, nothing new on the Iphone either. Is that what we call a complete dud? Even worse than last year's event?
- rimantas 11y agowell, yes, not counting new iPad, new Apple TV with tvOS, not counting 3D Touch, there is nothing new. I just wonder, do people making these complaint even imagine, what new could there be?
- josteink 11y agoAll this has already been delivered in the form of a Samsung, Google or Microsoft product. It's not new, except in the sense that now also Apple delivers it, a few years later than everyone else.
- matthewmacleod 11y agoYes, just like the original iPhone wasn't new. /s I think you need to take a step back and look at what Apple usually deliver - not the latest and greatest technology, but well thought-out features with impressive vertical integration. It's compelling for some people - just like the Samsung "all the features" approach is for others. They're both valid; use what suits you best.
- oldmanjay 11y agoIs there any irony in the fact that variations of your comment get posted on any Apple-related article, or is that just poetic, or is it just boring?
- aantix 11y agoIt's nice to hear that the screen is becoming more durable. I've already broken one screen on my 6+ because I had it in my pocket and my jeans were a bit too tight and put a lot of stress on the phone.
- seiji 11y agoYeah, I was terrified of super-thin phone in super-tight pants and went with this last year: http://www.urbanarmorgear.com/collections/apple-iphone-6-plus-cases http://www.urbanarmorgear.com/collections/apple-iphone-6-plu... It doesn't add unusable thickness to the phone and as a bonus it gives you more friction so if your hands are sweaty you're less likely to drop your $1,000 magic pocket supercomputer (completely smooth rounded corners look nice, but sure are slippery and drop prone).
- kiddz 11y agotldr: My mom has no idea what force touch is. She'd not going to get 3d touch. I love all of this, but it seems to me that there is really becoming a divide in the type of people who can fully appreciate/employ the UI nuances? I'm not a photographer, and basically only use photoshop to crop and do bullish things. But I know there's a whole universe of things I could do, if I appreciated the power set tools. I think that's where many "smart" products are going, but because they are distributed to the masses (unlike PS for instance), that divide means something else. For some people this is going to make their "daily lives" more enjoyable. For another set of folks, perhaps equal in size even, I think a lot of this stuff will just go over their heads.
- artursapek 11y agoI'm sure your mom will figure it out
- HiYaBarbie 11y ago> My mom has no idea what force touch is. She'd not going to get 3d touch. She'll get it if she uses it. It's not any more difficult than using the current touch gestures.
- untog 11y agoShe'll get it if she uses it. If she means to use it. Not difficult to imagine people triggering this by accident.
- salgernon 11y agoAnd like most discoverable UIs, the feedback (in the form of the haptic thingy) will clue you in and either reinforce your behavior if you like the feature, or allow you to remain with the previous behavior without destroying your state.
- thatswrong0 11y agoIs that necessarily a problem? Things still work as they always have in iOS, and now users have more interaction options without compromising the old simplicity.
- DuskStar 11y ago>and all iPhone models are made with a brand new Apple custom alloy, the same alloys used in the aerospace industry. "Brand New" and "Same as used in X" - choose one. (I think this is just standard TechCrunch, not from Apple, but still rather irritating)
- sbarre 11y agoNo, that's how they said it in the keynote.. I think they meant brand new as in "not the same as on previous phones".
- porsupah 11y agoIt would indeed appear, by metallurgical analysis, that it does qualify as a 7000 series alloy, but one of Apple's own devising. http://leancrew.com/all-this/2015/08/aluminum-and-strength/ http://leancrew.com/all-this/2015/08/aluminum-and-strength/
- aroch 11y ago7xxx series alloys are used in aerospace, Apple's alloying mix is apparently unique...making it a brand new alloy in the 7xxx series...
- masklinn 11y agoIt's basically what they said in during the presentation: it's a 7000 alloy as used in aerospace industries[0], and it's a new alloy (proprietary, not a standard spec). The apple watch also uses a proprietary 7000 alloy (whether it's the same alloy is unknown at this point) [0] not solely, they're also used in bike frames. Basically 7000 is zinc alloys, and have the highest available tensile strength, rivalling low-level steels at a third the density.
- devindotcom 11y agoAn auspicious name, the "iPhone Success"
- seiji 11y agohttp://www.6smarketing.com/blog/weare6s/ http://www.6smarketing.com/blog/weare6s/
- slg 11y agoHigher resolution photos and video and somehow Apple is still going to have the 16 GB base model.
- switch007 11y agoThe 16GB is only there to make you buy the more expensive model
- kid0m4n 11y agoOr possibly, stats showed that a significant percentage of users don't even come close to filling up the 16 GB.
- unfamiliar 11y agoIf that was truly the reason, there is no reason to not make 32GB the base option. A few people would be saved hassle and it would cost Apple pennies and do their reputation good. It makes a whole lot more likely that the base model is just to get you to upgrade to the 64GB at this point.
- hugh4 11y agoAnd then they charge an extra hundred bucks for an extra few bucks' worth of memory. Which is why I have the base model. It's the same with the European cars. BMW or whatever will sell you (in this country) a tiny underpowered four-cylinder engine for $N. If you want the four-cylinder engine with more power it will be $N+10K, if you want a six-cylinder engine that doesn't feel sluggish it will be $N+20K, and if you want something that actually feels as fast as the car looks it'll cost you $N+30K. Meanwhile you can buy a fast engine in a crate for about $5K.
- slg 11y agoI wrote this elsewhere in this thread, but might as well copy and paste it here. >Sometimes the mere existence of the base model causes some problems that can't be fixed with the existence of an upgraded option. This is a consistent problem in an enterprise environment. The base model is always the one purchased more frequently whether through BYOD or enterprise owned devices. This means that support staff has to spend a lot of time working with users to manage space.
- chrisBob 11y ago"Live Photos" They must really want more people to start paying for iCloud Drive every month. That sounds like a big data hog compared to a single photo every time I hit the shutter button.
- chrisBob 11y agoWow. They actually helped out and increased the storage on each plan along with that. Now I get 50GB for the same $.99 I used to pay for 20GB.
- zuppy 11y ago... and kept the 16 GB base model.
- xarjklo 11y agohttps://youtu.be/H64jrtP8Cbk?t=2m1s https://youtu.be/H64jrtP8Cbk?t=2m1s Live photos are not really "completely new technology", but I think Apple does it better, since most likely every Apple device plays the live photo.
- devindotcom 11y agoThis rebranding of video as "live photos" ("they can have sound!") is cracking me up.
- JustSomeNobody 11y agoI think they should have left the name as Zoe.
- ryandvm 11y agoI know - we can call them "motion pictures"!
- kid0m4n 11y agoYep. 1.5s 12 MP videos (0.75s before and after) as "live photos".
- superuser2 11y agoFor the same price, a video (or a still from a video) doesn't look nearly as good as a photo. The development here is packaging a high-quality still inside a video and doing compression in a way that doesn't kill the photo. Think about it - why do professional photographers bother with shutters or try to time the perfect shots? Why not just constantly shoot video and pull frames out of it later? Because it would look like crap. This wouldn't be hard to imitate. Record the live preview into a 3 second buffer. When the user presses the shutter, switch into still mode, take a real photo, wait 1.5 seconds, and then write both the buffer and the photo into the same archive. On playback, by default show the normal photo, but on whatever UI gesture, play the first 1.5 seconds of the video, then the photo for one frame, then the next 1.5 seconds of the video. Only barrier I could see to re-implementing this on other phones is long wait times while the camera switches modes, during which information is lost.
- firloop 11y ago>[W]hy do professional photographers bother with shutters or try to time the perfect shots? Why not just constantly shoot video and pull frames out of it later? Photographers are doing this. https://news.creativecow.net/story/879117 https://news.creativecow.net/story/879117 >"RED cameras allow Inez and Vinoodh to simultaneously capture high-resolution images for their photographs along with their artistic videos"
- pazrul 11y agoI'm curious what exactly they mean when they say Live Photos are 'not a movie, it's a photo!' So what's the file format? How does one encode sound to a moving photo and not call it a movie?
- seiji 11y agoYou probably aren't cut out for marketing then.
- mxfh 11y agoThis, but they missed the opportunity to call it a single I-Frame with only P-frames in each direction, if they actually did some effort in terms of compression efficiency. Another thing is that any 4k capable codec is also probably magnitudes more space efficient than baseline jpeg for stills, with or without added temporal information.
- seiji 11y agoI wonder how long they tried to negotiate the rights to calling it "harry potter photos" but just couldn't swing it.
- cpr 11y agoSound as metadata, multiple frames in a single file pointed to by metadata? First "snapshot" frame the first, so works with normal software? Lotsa ways to play games.
- interpol_p 11y agoYeah I had that same confusion initially. I guess they differentiate it as follows: - It's the full photo data (12 MP) for each frame - It captures 1.5 seconds before and after you press the capture button - (Speculation based on a dot-point in the keynote) It's stored using some frame-to-frame compression thing, probably similar to a movie but with the option to recover any individual frame as a full size, full quality image I reckon much of their photo technology comes from their acquisition of the SnappyCam app and that developer's custom JPEG encoding.
- ohitsdom 11y agoI'm worried about what the 3D Touch does to the ruggedness of the phone. With two toddlers, I don't think this phone would last 3 months in my house, even with a case. Or is 3D Touch somehow achieved with passive sensors?
- antsar 11y agoMy interpretation of the keynote: The screen flexes a tiny bit when you press on it (which my iPhone 6 does as well, so this doesn't necessarily imply new materials). They now have sensors behind the screen to quantify the flexing, and translate that into "force".
- ohitsdom 11y agoInteresting, didn't realize Gorilla Glass was designed to flex, but it seems that was an advertised feature of Gorilla Glass 3.
- chrisBob 11y agoWhy can't they just list the prices? Does anyone still get their phone under a 2 year contract anymore? I have no clue what "From $199" means.
- DarkTree 11y agoum.. yes? I can't imagine getting an iphone every year when you can just get one every 2 years for a third of the price.
- smeyer 11y agoI'm not the sort of person to update phones every year (I've had my current phone for almost two years and the one before that for six years), but it's often cheaper to pay the flat price when upgrading every two years than to pay the reduced price with the contract. It all depends on how your carrier structures their plans.
- seiji 11y agowith the contract. It all depends on how your carrier structures their plans. Historically, US carriers don't change plan pricing based on having a contract. So, you can be month-to-month for $100 per month, or get a two year contract for $100/month plus they give you $500 up front towards the purchase of a $1,000 phone (as received by just discounting the phone up front).
- smeyer 11y agoI know this was the case historically, but I think it stopped being the case for my carrier (ATT) a couple of years ago. I believe our plan is cheaper by not taking the phone subsidy, and sufficiently cheaper to justify paying for the phone up front.
- robflynn 11y agoYou can take the "estimated monthly cost" that they showed and multiply by 24. i.e. $36/mo = $864. $32/mo = $768. It may not be exact but it should be close.
- JustSomeNobody 11y agoWhat is the iPhone 6 going to do with iOS 9 w/out the, cough, 3D touch? How will that be handled? For instance, app switching, will it stay the same (double click the home button)?
- solidr53 11y agoIt's in-depth. So developers will have to design and implement a middle step, hence nothing is lost. You'll see all details on press, snapshot on semi-press
- tdaltonc 11y agoThe lack of discoverability in these new interfaces is alarming. Maybe they're just for super-users, but still.
- deleted 11y ago[deleted]
- edgall 11y agoHow much RAM does it have? I thought 16GB was bad in 2014 but it's just comical now considering the 4k and 12MP camera.
- reiichiroh 11y ago2GB RAM.
- the_mitsuhiko 11y agoSource?
- joshschreuder 11y agoI don't think Apple release RAM specs, so probably just a rumour until someone does a teardown.
- hutattedonmyarm 11y agoI think you're mixing up RAM with storage.
- edgall 11y agoI was referring to the 16GB storage. The RAM should hopefully be at least 2GB.
- colmvp 11y agoSurprised no one here mentioned A9 and the updated camera. As a person upgrading from an iPhone 5, I'm pretty excited.
- Nib 11y agoIDK, but really the Force touch adaptation, renamed 3D touch(surprise surprise) is a nice touch, but really, I wonder if it's worth buying a new iPhone. I guess, at least with me, it's a somewhat privacy issue. Imagine your favorite apps revealing 25% of what you do on an app simply by holding your phone's home screen. Moreover, I often hold/touch my phone in different manners, like, asleep, just-got-up, really angry, running-to-some-place. It'll be really irritating if this kind of a feature got in my way while working. Most of us do NOT always use our phone's the way the advertisements expect us to.
- dantillberg 11y agoAccording to [0], these "phones" are 5.4 and 6.2 inches tall (not diagonally). 5.4 inches should not be the "small" size phone. That's huge. I have reasonably large hands and I really hate this about my phone (I have a Nexus 5, which is around the same size as the iPhone 6S). Please, let's make us some smartphones that are nice and compact and small. Or at least medium. [0]: http://www.apple.com/iphone-6s/specs/ http://www.apple.com/iphone-6s/specs/
- rsynnott 11y agoI was quite disappointed there was not iPhone 5S sized device. Will hold off on upgrading for a bit, then...
- droidist2 11y agoSame here, but will next year be any better?
- jfoutz 11y agoThey must have needed a bigger battery to drive the faster A9 and the always on coprocessor. (M something?)
- masklinn 11y agoThe dimensions are almost exactly the same as the current gen 6/6+, the only big difference is weight which is a good 10% higher according to the tech spec pages[0][1] iPhone 6: 5.44" x 2.64" x 0.27"; 4.55 ounces iPhone 6S: 5.44" x 2.64" x 0.28"; 5.05 ounces iPhone 6+: 6.22" x 3.06" x 0.28"; 6.07 ounces iPhone 6S+: 6.23" x 3.07" x 0.29"; 6.77 ounces [0] http://www.apple.com/iphone-6/specs/ http://www.apple.com/iphone-6/specs/ [1] http://www.apple.com/iphone-6s/specs/ http://www.apple.com/iphone-6s/specs/
- jfoutz 11y agoI completely misunderstood this graphic: https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/0342.jpg https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/0342.jp... It looks like 6+ and 6s are the same size, with 6s+ being huge.
- mrfusion 11y agoAny improvements to Siri?
- amazon_not 11y agoApple is going to make bank by turning into a bank. The installment plan with free upgrades each year is brilliant. The user lock-in is going to be unsurpassed and no competing phone maker has the mountains of cash required to match it.
- deleted 11y ago[deleted]
- kozukumi 11y agoYeah that was the biggest thing for me too. We knew what was coming with the iPhone, Apple TV and iPad Pro. That upgrade program is going to be a big thing in my opinion. One thing I wasn't sure about though was do you own the phone or are you just leasing it? When you upgrade after a year do you have to return your old phone?
- amazon_not 11y agoI can't image them letting you keep the old phone, as you haven't paid full price for it in a year. EDIT: "Just trade in your current iPhone for a new one, and your new program begins." Source: http://www.apple.com/shop/iphone/iphone-upgrade-program http://www.apple.com/shop/iphone/iphone-upgrade-program
- eastbayjake 11y agoI'm sure it will be turned back in, refurbished, and resold in developing markets
- knd775 11y agoIf you upgrade after a year, that seems probable. After the full 24 months, I believe that it would be yours. Don't quote me on this, though.
- jonhohle 11y agoAt a $120 premium over a carrier's installment plan.
- reiichiroh 11y agoNo USB 3.0 data transfer speeds?
- mewwts 11y agoThey probably want us to use iCloud.
- BinaryIdiot 11y agoIt's 2015, they just added 4K recording and a higher megapixel camera and the base model is STILL 16GB? Is this a joke? I just can't understand that at all. That space is going to get used up so fast. Android manufacturers have the same issue so it's not like it's an Apple only problem. The minimum at this point should be 32GB.
- ralmeida 11y agoThey've lowered the prices for iCloud storage, so you _could_ argue that keeping the base size at 16GB is a means to get more people to sign up for iCloud.
- jandrese 11y agoThat would be great if they also announced an end to data caps and high prices for cell service...
- stumpf 11y agoI believe this is a push to get users to use iCloud, for which they also announced pricing updates.
- mozumder 11y ago16GB is fine. Lots of people don't even download apps.
- chadgeidel 11y agoA close friend has a 16gb iPhone 5 with no available storage. Where is all the storage used? Message history. I'm not kidding - zero non-default apps, very few photos, message history for presumably the entire time she has had an iOS device which consumes (according to iTunes) over 14gb. The real kicker is Apple has provided no first-party way to extract images from message history. (EDIT: I am aware of the "keep entire message history"/"keep 1 year message history" setting - we are trying to extract photos from backup using 3rd party software so we can flip that switch. This is very non-intuitive and requires the use of an external device)
- zw123456 11y agoClaims 23 LTE bands with up to 300Mbps, that means it is a category 6 LTE UE which means you will only get that if the carrier you are using has deployed Carrier Aggregation and you have a really really good signal and the you Carrier deployed backhaul that can handle that speed. So, don't hold your breath !
- rebootthesystem 11y agoI think a lot of this is going to boild down to whether people give a shit. A nicer way to put it is: Are these solutions for non-existing problems? Yes, yes, we teck-heads can geek-out at the idea of a force sensing screen. We are not the market. The maket is the average Joe or Jane. And it is my impression Joe and Jane, for the most part, won't give a shit. I know plenty of people with 4s's who have not updated the OS in a while, no longer get any apps --free or otherwise-- and feel perfectly served with what they have. When we ask them if they'd be interested in spending several hundred dollars to upgrade, the answer is often monosyllabic: "Why."
- Detrus 11y agoFor a better camera I use an iPhone 4. Battery life went to hell at one point now it's back to being decent. It was a software problem. Wouldn't mind it being slightly thinner, lighter, bigger with better screen and far better camera. But now the screens got too big.
- nickpp 11y agoIs the 6s plus screen still 1080p down sampled from the native resolution?!
- redditmigrant 11y agoTo everyone here whose response to the 16GB model is that they are trying to push icloud, how do you transparently and painlessly free up storage on your device for photos/videos that are already backed up on icloud?
- meesterdude 11y agoAll I wanted was more storage and longer battery life. Looks like I have another year to wait for those. Not to knock the other improvements, but storage and battery life are the two that bug me the most.
- hmate9 11y agoThese Harry Potter images have already been done by Nokie: http://lumiaconversations.microsoft.com/2014/04/15/relive-those-moving-moments-with-nokia-living-images/ http://lumiaconversations.microsoft.com/2014/04/15/relive-th...
- hitekker 11y agoUnrelated to the tech: a Warhammer 40k spin-off as a launch game? Here's hoping that this excellent, science fantasy franchise will hit the mainstream!
- chiph 11y agoForce Touch - I've had that feature for years - it's what I do when I get angry that the phone isn't responding fast enough.
- IkmoIkmo 11y agoWho had to laugh when the guy was like 'live photos .... and they're not videos guys, really, believe me, repeat after me NOT videos, photos!' Or when he was like 'this is based on revolutionary technology never seen before, and it's totally not half-a-vine, either, it's a new breakthrough, 3 second videos'. I mean I don't even grin anymore when they say 'the iPhone 6 was the most popular iPhone.... EVER' or when they say 'the iPhone 6S is the best iphone... EVER' (no shit). I've gotten used to that level of hyperbole, but the rhetoric around the live photos was pretty ridiculous. (and I like it, too, I think it's a neat little feature that fits nicely in between photos and vines - the original massively-popular 7 second videos - the way it was presented was just way over the top.)