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eyes the specs eyes her 6s and the very nice earbuds that can still plug into it ponders other things she could do with $400 I miss the Actually Small form f

eyes the specs eyes her 6s and the very nice earbuds that can still plug into it ponders other things she could do with $400 I miss the Actually Small form factor but I've gotten used to the slightly larger 6s and I sure don't miss it four hundred bucks plus the cost of some bluetooth earbuds and having to hassle with keeping the bluetooth Square reader powered up the next time I sell stuff at a comics con. I think this is a fine day to buy a new case to replace the one that I got along with the phone. It's been slowly falling apart and I'm worried it might not save the phone the next time I drop it. Twenty bucks for a black Speck and ten bucks for a gold accent Popsocket. Sounds good.

rubatuga 7y ago
You also get tap payments with the Bluetooth square reader which is much more seamless of an experience for the customer.
- egypturnash 7y ago
  You are forgetting the seam where it goes to sleep after a while when it’s not being used every few minutes, and needs to be reconnected while the customer is waiting. In a crowded convention hall full of thousands of other vendors doing the same thing. Oh, and the seam where if you do get it to connect to your phone, you then have both your phone and the customer’s phone fighting to get a connection to a tower saturated by people sharing their con photos/videos, streaming, and trying to process credit card transactions. It’s bad enough with one phone trying to authorize the transaction. Also the seam where it’s one more damn thing to run out of power when you are at a table with nowhere to plug in because you are not gonna be moving enough stuff to be worth paying a couple hundred extra for the power fees unless you are a small press with the work of a dozen or so creators on your table.
  - elsonrodriguez 7y ago
    Please stop you're going to give me nightmares about waiting for the freight elevator parking to free up.
    - egypturnash 7y ago
      Ah, I see I am not the only person on this site who is familiar with these pleasures.
wbond 7y ago
I moved from a 6 to an 8 last fall. The newer processors, especially the jump with the 7, make HUGE performance improvements in every day tasks like loading emails, maps and web pages. I can imagine with this having a few generations newer than the 8 that you’d see even better performance. It may feel like we’ve reached the point where mobile CPU performance shouldn’t matter, but I notice quite a bit less time spent waiting with the newer phones, which helps in not spending as much time on them.
proverbialbunny 7y ago
You can still use your headphones, unfortunately you just need to get a $10 adapter.

rubatuga 7y ago

You also get tap payments with the Bluetooth square reader which is much more seamless of an experience for the customer.

egypturnash 7y ago
You are forgetting the seam where it goes to sleep after a while when it’s not being used every few minutes, and needs to be reconnected while the customer is waiting. In a crowded convention hall full of thousands of other vendors doing the same thing. Oh, and the seam where if you do get it to connect to your phone, you then have both your phone and the customer’s phone fighting to get a connection to a tower saturated by people sharing their con photos/videos, streaming, and trying to process credit card transactions. It’s bad enough with one phone trying to authorize the transaction. Also the seam where it’s one more damn thing to run out of power when you are at a table with nowhere to plug in because you are not gonna be moving enough stuff to be worth paying a couple hundred extra for the power fees unless you are a small press with the work of a dozen or so creators on your table.
- elsonrodriguez 7y ago
  Please stop you're going to give me nightmares about waiting for the freight elevator parking to free up.
  - egypturnash 7y ago
    Ah, I see I am not the only person on this site who is familiar with these pleasures.

wbond 7y ago

I moved from a 6 to an 8 last fall. The newer processors, especially the jump with the 7, make HUGE performance improvements in every day tasks like loading emails, maps and web pages. I can imagine with this having a few generations newer than the 8 that you’d see even better performance. It may feel like we’ve reached the point where mobile CPU performance shouldn’t matter, but I notice quite a bit less time spent waiting with the newer phones, which helps in not spending as much time on them.

proverbialbunny 7y ago

You can still use your headphones, unfortunately you just need to get a $10 adapter.