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Star War Sex Parrot posted:Scaling is easy. It's the rendering at a higher internal resolution that will have performance implications. Yes, it might run slower. Well crap, now I'm questioning whether I want the + with under 2 hours to go before pre-orders open.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Do you want a phone that's going to be more easily operable with one hand and fit comfortably in your pocket? Then don't get the 6+, get the 6. Celot posted:Me too!
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Sep 12, 2014 06:28
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eames posted:iPhone 6 is the one to get this time around. I think the extruded camera is on the normal 6 as well?
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Sep 12, 2014 06:29
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Have any other phones done downsampling in the past? Could give some slight insight into how performance may be. So far the only reference I have found is Ars' comment about choppiness of the UI relative to the 6, with no other real comment on it.
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Sep 12, 2014 07:06
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DaNzA posted:Now some people are saying that the 6 Plus has 2GB of ram while the regular 6 only has 1GB. That page has been up for awhile, but it's just speculation.
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Sep 14, 2014 08:49
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TJChap2840 posted:I wholeheartedly agree that putting a phone in your back pocket and sitting on it all day is a bad idea, but front pocket?
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Sep 22, 2014 17:39
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So I have an appointment at an Applestore to (hopefully) get my iPhone 5 replaced under AppleCare+ due to the sleep/power button issue and what I think are reception issues due to a couple of drops it took. I bought a 6+ and already upgraded to it - my hope was to replace the 5 and then sell it. Is the fact I already upgraded going to have any impact on being able to replace the 5?
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Sep 27, 2014 23:12
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eddiewalker posted:Your warranty with Apple is separate from your cell carrier. Thanks! I'm with Verizon, so I think the 5 was unlocked already?
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Sep 27, 2014 23:35
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A tomato posted:And Gmail app hasn't even been updated for the new sizes. Stretched apps are bad. Email's a core phone function. Stop settling people you are all beautiful you all deserve better Pretty much all major apps will get updated eventually? The world isn't ending.
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Sep 28, 2014 01:09
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Trip report: They didn't care about the dings/dents/removed material along the material band and said that wouldn't have caused the signal issues I was seeing (?), but they did confirm that the power/sleep/lock button was suffering the recent issue, and gave me a replacement. I was expecting to have to pay $49 but they didn't charge me anything (guessing because of the button issue?), so hey, a new/refurb phone at $0 cost that I can potentially sell for $250-300 sounds good to me.
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Sep 28, 2014 02:31
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noirstronaut posted:Free Lightning cables through Verizon: I must be completely blind but I don't see a spot to put in a discount code? Trying to order the cable via my iPhone at work so not sure if it's an issue with Safari.
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Sep 30, 2014 17:53
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mattfl posted:The X also has OIS in both lenses vs just the one on the 8 and a better telephoto aperture OIS on the telephoto lens, while the 8+ doesn't have OIS on its telephoto?
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Sep 12, 2017 23:58
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Pivo posted:yes its the dumbest thing, they put OIS on the wrong loving lens Dammit, now I might have to go with the iPhone X... and its loving $199 AppleCare.
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Sep 13, 2017 00:01
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gently caress, I just saw that Apple raised the AppleCare + price for Plus devices to $149. This is getting ridiculous.
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Sep 13, 2017 15:15
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Is OIS on the telephoto lens a big enough deal to go to the X if I'm otherwise ok with the 8+? I use my camera for construction site photos for work at times and otherwise as a point-and-shoot for family events.
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Sep 15, 2017 01:07
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wicka posted:I guess some of us want technology to improve instead of just dragging around antiquated features indefinitely because idiot devs can’t learn new things about computers. I'm not sure MagSafe is an "antiquated" feature.
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Sep 15, 2017 01:59
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Could Apple ever go ahead and just add a virtual home button on the X? Or is that what was rumored/patented to occur for some future revision?
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I really wish there was a 128 GB tier. I have 25 GB available on my iPhone 6 Plus 64 GB so I'd think the 64 GB is sufficient, but we just had a baby in May and I feel as if there's going to be a lot of photos and videos in the coming years...
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Sep 15, 2017 11:29
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Yeah, I had analysis paralysis at 3:00-4:00 am PST about which size to get, but ended up with a space grey 64 GB 8+. Figure after 3 years I still had 25+ GB available and as others pointed out, I can simply use Google Photos or such to back up and manage picture and video storage. At that time only the 256 GB Space Grey was pushed back... and that still appears to be the case now. Either they've heavily produced these, or sales are going to be way down (initially).
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Sep 15, 2017 20:32
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Over There posted:Fiance works at an apple store and he says people are pouring into the store to see the 8 and X and getting furious. What are they getting furious at?
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Sep 15, 2017 20:37
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False Toaster posted:Not true. They opted to not include TouchID because they couldn't get a feasible production yield with the on-screen fingerprint sensor (like Samsung with the S8/Note 8) in time. It'll likely happen next year when they can mainstream production or whenever Apple is comfortable fully adopting the tech. Yeah, I still am holding out hope that they'll put some version of it into a future revision of the X, and I'd buy it on release.
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Sep 16, 2017 06:05
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Endless Mike posted:No, Gruber says that it was decided to get rid of it over a year ago, though it is true they never actually got it working, but it's because they stopped bothering well before production yields would be an issue. But at this point Gruber is just an Apple spokesman so...
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Sep 16, 2017 17:21
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One of my questions is, what if the screen/home bar isn't responsive when an app freezes? Whenever Safari has locked up on me the home button was a nice reset option to get out of the lockup. I'm guessing the home bar is similarly triggered but it's been on my mind.
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Sep 18, 2017 21:01
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And then we find out that Apple was behind the Shake Weights creation all along.
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doingitwrong posted:I chose to get the 8 because it’s the swan song of a tried and tested industrial design with the guts of the new hotness. Same chip as the X, same specs in general aside from screen and camera. I’m treating these phones like laptops now, tending to keep them for 3-4 years. I upgraded from a 5S so the 8 feels like a huge jump to me. I chose the 8 over the 7 because contact charging and the faster chip seemed like good bets on the future. I expect to have the 8 until 2020 or later by which time the notch will have settled in or been replaced. Same for me (except an 8 Plus). My wife and I have a baby now so I expect the next few years to be photo/video-heavy. While the slightly better camera on the X would have been nice, I honestly like TouchID and didn’t want to pay the Early Adopter Tax and also worry about how reliable the first gen will be. Like you said, it’s really refined, has the same processor, has wireless charging, and just a slight downgrade at camera. I used the cost difference between the two to justify getting the 256 GB so we’ll see how long I can get out of it. (Plus a friend who is privy to early feedback reports has said there’s been a lot of issues with FaceID amongst a larger test base so for the moment at least I feel somewhat vindicated).
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So this might be a stupid question and I’m not quite sure where to ask it, but at work today a coworker brought some 3rd party crap lightning cable by and asked if I could see if it works, because he’s had it awhile and it seemed to have stopped working. I plugged it in to my PC before unlocking it, expecting to see the notification about needing to approve or disapprove for my PC to access it, but before I unlocked my phone I saw something about a new USB device or such, but I was in a hurry so I didn’t write down the exact message. I proceeded to tell him his cable seemed to still be working, but now I’m worried that maybe it’s a compromised cable or something, so before my paranoia goes too crazy, I wanted to see whether that’s something to even be worried about (malware or such loaded onto a lightning-to-usb cable). It’s not a jail broken iPhone but I was traveling so I still need to upgrade to 12.1 (I’m on 12.0.1, otherwise fully updated before 12.1).
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MarcusSA posted:No. xilni posted:If your first action was to come to SA instead of your security officer when you suspect a breach like that, you’re likely not the type of target that that kind of tech is used on. Thanks guys. For reference, it’s my personal device, so our corporate security wouldn’t/doesn’t get involved. And it was the coworkers personal Lightning-to-USB cable too, but he tends to go extra cheap and buy the cheapest possible cables and charges off Amazon/eBay/wherever that he possibly can. So instead of paying $8 or $10 for even an Anker PowerLine or such, he’d rather spend $5 to get 5 knockoff cables. And I (again) told him to just buy a reputable brand if he’s not willing to pay for an official Apple cable.
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So if my iPhone 8+’s battery is at 92% capacity, do I try and get it replaced for $29 before the end of the year? I do have AppleCare Plus so not sure how that impacts anything.
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As a soon-to-be new iPhone 11 Pro owner, for someone who goes in the field at construction sites and does site visits/inspections (engineering), I use my phone a lot for photos and such. I also have a 2 1/2 year old who likes to take and run with it. Besides getting either AppleCare + or Verizon's TEC (currently heavily leaning toward AppleCare), what's a good case to use for it in this situation? I had originally been looking at folio-type so I can close it when I put in my pocket or such to protect the screen, but it seems like there really aren't any great folio cases out there? I don't care about storing cards in it, etc., and really just want a screen cover essentially. Alternatively, I've typically been happy with Otterbox's Commuter line in the past, so I was thinking I could just install a glass screen protector and then use a more normal case?
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Binary Badger posted:Apple Store open.. it's like they read my post :/ The 4th gen iPad Air is still unavailable. WTF Apple.
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FCKGW posted:They're not making a "COVID edition" iPhone with touch ID you idiots I think it's more that they literally just announced the 4th gen iPad Air with TouchID built into the power button, so why not roll that into the next iPhones?
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Craptacular! posted:COVID likely isn't going anywhere, and privacy people who hate facial recognition are basically being pushed into the cheapest of phones (for now) which is kind of weird when Apple pushes so hard for privacy. FaceID is great and I'm a firm believer now after having been skeptical, but there are times (such as wearing masks) where the power button-based TouchID that the iPad Air now has, would also be great, including what you said. Here's hoping the iPhone
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