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Pivo posted:The 5 is still good. I was using mine until late last year and other than a sticky home button, it was perfectly good. Everything worked just fine. It was RAM-constrained, app switching sucked because everything had to reload, but it was never... terrible. Considering how cheap you can pick one up, if you're like totally destitute and need an iOS phone, it's a better option than the SE or whatever will be. The 5 is bad because it's 32 bit.. no ad blockers.
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Tab8715 posted:It's rumored to have the same internals as the iPhone 6S. That's just a standard phone but in the typical 4" Form Factor. I'm pretty sure the internals will rival the 6, not the 6S.
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Mar 21, 2016 02:01
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Yeah, if you buy a 32-bit iPhone in 2016 I feel bad for you, son.
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TraderStav posted:poo poo. There's an announcement tomorrow? I just ordered an iPod touch off of amazon for my kids birthday. Expecting a refresh on that also? They just updated the ipod touch last year iirc so I wouldn't be worried. It normally takes them 2-4 years to refresh.
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LODGE NORTH posted:I'm pretty sure the internals will rival the 6, not the 6S.
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Mar 21, 2016 02:18
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babydonthurtme posted:If that turns out to be true, then it'll loving suck. If that's the only way they feel they can keep to that price point + form factor, I might as well just give up and spring for a 6S+ or a 7+ that, while it definitely won't fit in my pocket, will comfortably last me for the next three years.
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babydonthurtme posted:If that turns out to be true, then it'll loving suck. If that's the only way they feel they can keep to that price point + form factor, I might as well just give up and spring for a 6S+ or a 7+ that, while it definitely won't fit in my pocket, will comfortably last me for the next three years. Apple has been standardizing on the A8 for awhile, you'll get support even if it is iPhone 6 internals. Chill.
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Pivo posted:Not a chance. That's in the fall. I'd be surprised if they finalized the design, much less started mass production. But I thought iPhone 7 was shipping in the fall, in September? When are they going to announce it?
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Michael Scott posted:But I thought iPhone 7 was shipping in the fall, in September? When are they going to announce it? Are you new to ipgones? christ.
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Mar 21, 2016 02:47
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Josh Lyman posted:Why not get a regular 7 that will fit in your pocket? Also, I've just never liked the in-between-y size of the 6  . We couldn't afford new phones up until very recently anyway, since I prefer buying it outright vs the payment plan/contract route, so I decided that when I could afford to drop $700+ on a new phone, it might as well be on a massive hugephone. Naturally Apple then announced a cute smaller phone to tempt my heart  carry on then posted:Apple has been standardizing on the A8 for awhile, you'll get support even if it is iPhone 6 internals. Chill. babydonthurtme fucked around with this message at 03:20 on Mar 21, 2016 |
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Mar 21, 2016 03:10
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Pivo posted:The 5 is still good. I was using mine until late last year and other than a sticky home button, it was perfectly good. Everything worked just fine. It was RAM-constrained, app switching sucked because everything had to reload, but it was never... terrible. Considering how cheap you can pick one up, if you're like totally destitute and need an iOS phone, it's a better option than the SE or whatever will be. Doesn't the 5 have the same RAM (i.e. 1GB) as the 5S and 6? It shouldn't be constrained especially with the lower-res screen.
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carry on then posted:Apple has been standardizing on the A8 for awhile, you'll get support even if it is iPhone 6 internals. Chill. Putting an A8 in the SE would be disappointing because the A8 is not appreciably faster than the A7. (At the clock speeds they run it at in the iPhone 6, anyway.)
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~Coxy posted:Doesn't the 5 have the same RAM (i.e. 1GB) as the 5S and 6? It shouldn't be constrained especially with the lower-res screen. Probably. Can't be assed to look it up but I trust you. But I had the 5, and then the 6S, so I didn't experience those other models. With the new versions of iOS, and apps growing in size, the RAM felt constrained. In Safari for example tabs would always reload. App switching would in a lot of cases reload. I'm just saying it still felt OK to use even with all the modern software, and I don't know that there was anything I desperately desired other than a nicer camera and TouchID. If you can get a 5 for a steal and you're broke as gently caress, it's not a bad solution IMO. But with new phones coming out, the 5S and 6 will be good on a budget, too.
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I just need a modern, up-to-date iPhone that will survive the blighted hellscape that is my back pocket.
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I feel like, if you don't love "My Fair Lady" and you eat sushi but only vegetarian sushi (never any fish!) then we could never ever truly get along, see eye-to-eye. I am adding "carry your phone in your back pocket" to that list. I know you're out there, and you're all hosed up, and totally wrong. About that thing, and probably a great many other things.
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Mar 21, 2016 05:16
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Michael Scott posted:But I thought iPhone 7 was shipping in the fall, in September? When are they going to announce it? They usually announce the new phone around September
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Mar 21, 2016 05:33
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I'm totally comfortable giving whichever telecom another $300 w/ a 2-year Contract for a non-constrained phone that fits in my hand and pocket.
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Pivo posted:It's a cheap entry-level small smartphone for people who want to run iOS. If you're in this thread, you've probably drank the Kool-Aid to a sufficient degree that you don't need the cheapo entry level one, nothing but the latest flagship will do if you're shopping. Maybe you'll get one for your kid so he can send dick pics to little Susie. it's the size more than anything for me. i already have an ipad for anything i want a large screen for.
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Tab8715 posted:I'm totally comfortable giving whichever telecom another $300 w/ a 2-year Contract for a non-constrained phone that fits in my hand and pocket. In the US at least, carriers don't do this anymore. You have to either buy the phone or rent it.
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Pivo posted:I feel like, if you don't love "My Fair Lady" and you eat sushi but only vegetarian sushi (never any fish!) then we could never ever truly get along, see eye-to-eye. That's ridiculous. Where else would it even go? 
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Mar 21, 2016 07:27
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Lazyhound posted:That's ridiculous. Where else would it even go? Front-left pocket is the phone pocket I feel weird without its weight there
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Mar 21, 2016 07:32
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Bass Bottles posted:Front-left pocket is the phone pocket Front right. Carrying a phone in your back pocket seems like the dumbest poo poo to me. What happens when you sit down? Do you just sit on your phone? Why the gently caress would you do that?
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Your butt is the fleshiest of all areas unless you don't have an rear end at all.
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A good thing to do with your phone is to avoid putting the entire weight of your human body on it
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Back pocket is prime pickpocket positioning.
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Vince MechMahon posted:Front right. Carrying a phone in your back pocket seems like the dumbest poo poo to me. What happens when you sit down? Do you just sit on your phone? Why the gently caress would you do that? Well, 90% of the time my phone is going to be in my hand if I'm sitting down anyway, but yeah, I sat on my iPhone 5 for years without a care in the world and it was flat as a board when I traded it in.
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Lazyhound posted:Well, 90% of the time my phone is going to be in my hand if I'm sitting down anyway, but yeah, I sat on my iPhone 5 for years without a care in the world and it was flat as a board when I traded it in. Bendgate aside I don't think that's really the concern. First - it's uncomfortable as gently caress! Why would you sit on your phone?! I don't understand people who keep their wallets in their back pocket too. What, so like one side of your rear end is slightly higher? I feel like that'd be really bad for your back. I tried it once and it simply hurt. Second - What if you want to use your phone while sitting? Gotta stand up a bit to take it out, or like, lean forward and reach into your rear end awkwardly. Third - You COULD potentially break the phone. Know what I keep in my back pockets? Receipts. That's it. Phone goes front-right, unless I have my coat & I'm using my headphones, then it's front-left in the coat pocket. You back-pocket people are weird as hell. edit: Although for ladies it does make sense. You often don't even have pockets and your pants are really tight. All the girls I know 1- carry it in their purse 2- carry it in their hands if they want quick access to it 3- flop it down on any surface next to anywhere they're sitting 4- and subsequently every few weeks I see a Facebook post "Lost my phone, text me your numbers please!" Gyal dem need pockets :P Pivo fucked around with this message at 14:00 on Mar 21, 2016 |
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Bass Bottles posted:A good thing to do with your phone is to avoid putting the entire weight of your human body on it Good thing no one has pockets in the soles of their shoes.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Back pocket is prime pickpocket positioning. Where do you recommend a fellow Victorian gentleman living in Dickensian times keep his valuables?
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The time I dropped my iPhone 4 onto concrete was the last time I put a phone in my back pocket and ran up stairs
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tuyop posted:Where do you recommend a fellow Victorian gentleman living in Dickensian times keep his valuables? If you're in a North American city, pickpockets aren't usually a thing unless you're at Times Square or something, but in Central and Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia, South America, they're everywhere.
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There isn't a point of the day I'm not wasting my life playing freemium anime games on my phone so I don't really need pockets. I do have a sexy Brown Leather Case I get to show off all the time, though.
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Pivo posted:If you're in a North American city, pickpockets aren't usually a thing unless you're at Times Square or something, but in Central and Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia, South America, they're everywhere. I've had an iPhone (not mine) stolen from my back pocket in a non-lovely Dublin nightclub. Would never keep a phone there.
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Someone should probably post an event thread.
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Pivo posted:Bendgate aside I don't think that's really the concern. First - it's uncomfortable as gently caress! Why would you sit on your phone?! I don't understand people who keep their wallets in their back pocket too. What, so like one side of your rear end is slightly higher? I feel like that'd be really bad for your back. I tried it once and it simply hurt. Second - What if you want to use your phone while sitting? Gotta stand up a bit to take it out, or like, lean forward and reach into your rear end awkwardly. Third - You COULD potentially break the phone. Most receipts are printed on thermal paper, Good job heating them up and fading all the print away. The only things that belong in a back pocket are street game accessories, like pogs, marbles, jacks, and basketballs. But for real who gives a poo poo what you keep in which pocket; it's more important that the user keeps it somewhere they can be aware of its presence if need be than some universal best spot.
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Kaizoku posted:Most receipts are printed on thermal paper, Good job heating them up and fading all the print away. Ha, they survive the trip home, at least. And actually even if I leave them for a while, they still don't get faded. Maybe my rear end just isn't as hot as yours. ;-)
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If your body heat is clearing thermal paper then I can recommend only that you put the iPhone in the nearest pocket to hand, and run to the ER.
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Is it that time again where we post our Every Day Carry ™ ©?
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Dr. Tim Whatley posted:Are you new to ipgones? christ. Thanks for the worthless post. spongeworthy posted:They usually announce the new phone around September Then when will it ship?
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Michael Scott posted:Thanks for the worthless post. September, you racist.
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