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I dropped mine a couple times already. Unless it lands on the screen or you forcibly throw it down, it's relatively safe, the leather is about 1 mm thick..
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So basically who the gently caress knows, right? Depends on how your iPhone lands when your butterfingers drop it.
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Dec 15, 2014 13:27
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Pretty much.
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Dec 15, 2014 13:36
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Duckman2008 posted:This will probably switch everyone from case chat to screen protector chat, but the biggest thing is won't protect is the screen, so the leather case and a glass screen protector would do pretty well. People have different opinions, but I don't notice the screen protector personally. It'll protect against falls onto flat surfaces; that's what the slight lip on the front of the case extending past the glass is for. That was the whole of the protection offered by the iPhone 4's bumper case.
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Dec 15, 2014 13:48
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Here's my white silicone case that I got on launch day. Still white as hell. I don't know what they're using to prevent it from staining but it works. 
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Dec 15, 2014 15:14
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:Here's my white silicone case that I got on launch day. Still white as hell. I don't know what they're using to prevent it from staining but it works.
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Dec 15, 2014 15:18
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Josh Lyman posted:Silicone doesn't stain. Everyone else's are leather. Everyone that had Apple's first generation cases like this had staining. Including me. Denim especially likes to stain silicone.
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Dec 15, 2014 15:19
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FishBulb posted:It's barely there. It doesn't protect. Sure as hell protected my phone. You can see the gouges in the corners where I dropped the phone a couple feet onto rough concrete - that would have scratched up or dented the phone for sure.
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Dec 15, 2014 16:26
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Yeah. Same with mine, though one unfortunate drop landed right on the edge of the case where the bottom of the phone is exposed and scuffed it there a bit.
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Dec 15, 2014 16:54
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I some some scuffs on the corners of my leather case where it's hit the pavement on a drop. The biggest benefit is extra grip the case provides on the edges.
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Dec 15, 2014 17:38
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nickutz posted:I some some scuffs on the corners of my leather case where it's hit the pavement on a drop. The biggest benefit is extra grip the case provides on the edges. Yeah, I would prefer to go caseless but the edges of the 6 are just way too slick for my likes. The Apple leather case is the perfect compromise of something that's really thin, yet keeps the thing from sliding out of my hands like a bar of soap.
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Dec 15, 2014 17:41
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Does anyone know of any iPhone arm bands that work with a phone in a case? I'm looking at a few on Amazon and Best Buy and nearly all these reviews say that you need to take the case off. My wife has a slim case that goes on tight that would be a major pain to remove every run.
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Dec 15, 2014 19:33
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How many years is it going to take before Apple fixes the iMessage bug that causes group chats to splinter into different threads
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Dec 16, 2014 00:13
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The Born Approx. posted:How many years is it going to take before Apple fixes the iMessage bug that causes group chats to splinter into different threads Or the one where if a person in an iMessage group turns off iMessage there is no feedback given to anyone else in the group that that person is no longer receiving the group's messages? That burned me earlier this week.
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Dec 16, 2014 01:07
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iMessage in general seems deprecated. Apple started it to give everyone effectively free texts, but all phone plans everywhere now have free texting. I contemplate turning it off sometimes.
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Dec 16, 2014 01:44
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bobfather posted:iMessage in general seems deprecated. Apple started it to give everyone effectively free texts, but all phone plans everywhere now have free texting. Read receipts alone are worth it for me.
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Dec 16, 2014 01:48
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bobfather posted:iMessage in general seems deprecated. Apple started it to give everyone effectively free texts, but all phone plans everywhere now have free texting. The idea is to create a draw to buying into the whole Apple ecosystem, since you can message people from any Apple device. And Yosemite/iOS 8's forwarding of SMS messages to other devices now means if your chat partners don't use iMessage, it doesn't limit its utility to you. It's actually quite nice to be able to receive all my messages on my iPad or my laptop.
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Dec 16, 2014 02:33
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Group chats are worth it for me. I'm surprised carriers haven't hacked group chats onto SMSes.
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Dec 16, 2014 02:50
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~Coxy posted:Group chats are worth it for me. You can do a group MMS, which is what iOS falls back to if one or more of the parties in the group don't have iMessage. It's just been only relatively recently that other phone manufacturers treated group MMS the same way as Apple has.
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Dec 16, 2014 02:53
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eddiewalker posted:Read receipts alone are worth it for me. That requires the other people to actually have it on though, which most don't in my experience.
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Dec 16, 2014 07:15
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Is there something that I can buy to make my iPhone into a tripod without it being "obnoxious"? I really want to use the lapse timer, but I can't seem to find anything to prop up the phone somewhere nice, without it being like some sort of case / stand hybrid.
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Dec 16, 2014 08:55
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Photography is a pretty obnoxious hobby in general, so just embrace it and go with the flow. A Gorillapod would probably be a really easy option to set up and lug around.
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Dec 16, 2014 14:48
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I used to have one that looked like anal beads and it just snuggly held my phone from the bottom of one side.
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Dec 16, 2014 14:52
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Is it actually physically possible for a screen surface to feel rougher after applying glass screen protection then taking it off? It's either that or an incredibly weird placebo effect because other phones I've tried felt smoother.
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Dec 16, 2014 15:04
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What the gently caress happened to my 5s? For the last week or so about every 48 hours I lose all network connectivity. WiFi doesn't work (says its connected), switching to LTE doesn't work. The only way to get things working again is to reboot  Anyone else having these issues?
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Dec 16, 2014 16:21
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obi_ant posted:Is there something that I can buy to make my iPhone into a tripod without it being "obnoxious"? I really want to use the lapse timer, but I can't seem to find anything to prop up the phone somewhere nice, without it being like some sort of case / stand hybrid. I have a RetiCAM phone mount which works well if you're just looking for a tripod mount. It'll actually stand the phone up by itself on a flat surface if that's good enough for you.
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Dec 16, 2014 16:57
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kitten smoothie posted:You can do a group MMS, which is what iOS falls back to if one or more of the parties in the group don't have iMessage. It's just been only relatively recently that other phone manufacturers treated group MMS the same way as Apple has. Can you do this without sending a pic or something? I'm surprised it's not automatic. (Case study: I sent a message to three of my green bubble "friends" and found out that I had three separate one-on-one conversations going after that.) obi_ant posted:Is there something that I can buy to make my iPhone into a tripod without it being "obnoxious"? I really want to use the lapse timer, but I can't seem to find anything to prop up the phone somewhere nice, without it being like some sort of case / stand hybrid. GPS mount comes to mind. When you unclip the phone clasp from the gooseneck it's not much larger than a bumper case.
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~Coxy posted:Can you do this without sending a pic or something? I'm surprised it's not automatic. Do you have MMS group messaging turned off in Settings > Messages > Group Messaging?
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Dec 17, 2014 02:58
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kitten smoothie posted:Yep, you don't need to send a pic to use group MMS. Out of the box, if you send a group message to all green people, or a combination of blue/green, it'll send an MMS. That started with iOS 5, IIRC. Interesting, this is exactly what I'm struggling with right now. I switched from iphone to android recently, and all of the group messages I'm in with iPhone users have since refused to text me at all in group texts. Everyones iPhones can text me individually in not iMessage, but as soon as a group starts the phones attempt to only send in IMessage, even though MMS is turned on. Any idea what else might be going on?
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Quandary posted:Interesting, this is exactly what I'm struggling with right now. I switched from iphone to android recently, and all of the group messages I'm in with iPhone users have since refused to text me at all in group texts. Everyones iPhones can text me individually in not iMessage, but as soon as a group starts the phones attempt to only send in IMessage, even though MMS is turned on. Any idea what else might be going on? Have you tried this? https://selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage Use the 2nd option, obviously.
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Quandary posted:Interesting, this is exactly what I'm struggling with right now. I switched from iphone to android recently, and all of the group messages I'm in with iPhone users have since refused to text me at all in group texts. Everyones iPhones can text me individually in not iMessage, but as soon as a group starts the phones attempt to only send in IMessage, even though MMS is turned on. Any idea what else might be going on? Everyone in the group using an iPhone needs to delete the group conversation from their iPhone. Then when someone restarts the group it will detect you as MMS instead of iMessage. Good luck!
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gypsyshred posted:This is likely a dumb question, but I'll ask anyway. I have an iPhone 6+ and a pair of bt headphones, the JBL E40BT. They are comfy and the fidelity is nice, but I feel the volume could be louder. Is there a way to make this happen, or are these just abnormally quite headphones? (Well there's also the BT headset/speakerphone profile that has a shared volume setting...and in devices that have both, well volume is annoying  )obi_ant posted:Is there something that I can buy to make my iPhone into a tripod without it being "obnoxious"? I really want to use the lapse timer, but I can't seem to find anything to prop up the phone somewhere nice, without it being like some sort of case / stand hybrid. I got that tripod recently for  on Amazon (well it was $9 a few days ago), and for the tripod mount I got this Square Jellyfish one, not big...but not all that small either, and doesn't fold all flat together with the tripod like Joby's thing. If you separate them you can kinda jam them flat together though v v. It's got a bigger phone size range than the Joby ones though and seems pretty solid. There's also a shitload of cheaper and different ones out there of course.Mest0r posted:I have a RetiCAM phone mount which works well if you're just looking for a tripod mount. It'll actually stand the phone up by itself on a flat surface if that's good enough for you.  (well all of it x3 since I got them for my brothers for Christmas too).Back to obi_ant, the RetiCAM is more secure since it locks in the phone vs the Jellyfish's spring loaded mount. Like the latter is fine for static usage and light movement from what I can tell, but for heavier movement mounted on whatever else the RetiCAM would be a better choice. Unless you want to do portrait video for some reason, I don't think it's possible with the RetiCAM without some fancier tripod that pivots sideways 90˚.
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Avocados posted:For those with the leather cases, how do they handle drops? I'm still on Otterboxes as I'm absolutely horrified of screen breakage, but I'd like to enjoy sleekness again. I managed to get my 6 airborne after accidentally flinging it out of my pocket and having it perform perform 5 360s before landing on concrete corner first. Not a single dent/chip, had the leather case on. I do have Applecare+ though, so if I do shatter my timbphone, it's only $59 to replace anyway.
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awesome-express posted:I do have Applecare+ though, so if I do shatter my timbphone, it's only $59 to replace anyway. $79 now, but yeah.
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Dec 18, 2014 16:02
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I used to be one of those "16GB of storage is good enough for me" people. Then I swapped my 16GB 6 with a 64GB 6+. Not having to juggle storage for apps, games and photos around makes the phone so much more useful.
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Dec 19, 2014 00:15
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shodanjr_gr posted:I used to be one of those "16GB of storage is good enough for me" people. Then I swapped my 16GB 6 with a 64GB 6+. Not having to juggle storage for apps, games and photos around makes the phone so much more useful. Yep I ended up eating crow on that one as well, and I was very vocal about "the cloud!" and "workflows!"
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Dec 19, 2014 01:32
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shodanjr_gr posted:I used to be one of those "16GB of storage is good enough for me" people. Then I swapped my 16GB 6 with a 64GB 6+. Not having to juggle storage for apps, games and photos around makes the phone so much more useful. Agreed. For some reason Apple pushes 16GB super hard though. That is all every store had in stock here for the most popular color, steel gray, including ATT. I had to special order a 64GB one from Apple and they shipped it from China directly to me.
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Michael Scott posted:Agreed. For some reason Apple pushes 16GB super hard though. That is all every store had in stock here for the most popular color, steel gray, including ATT. I had to special order a 64GB one from Apple and they shipped it from China directly to me. I think they're pushing it is because no one wants it. So for a company that prides itself on a extremely lean and best in class JIT supply chain, that poo poo is clogging the tubes. Far be it from me to lionize they guy, but this 16GB poo poo would probably not have happened with Steve at the helm.
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flosofl posted:I think they're pushing it is because no one wants it. So for a company that prides itself on a extremely lean and best in class JIT supply chain, that poo poo is clogging the tubes. Yep. There was a looooong wait here if you wanted a 6/6+, "unless you want a 16 gig, we could give you one of those today." I think people woke up and realized poo poo is just too small and no one wants it.
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