As an iphone 4 user that had the phone for almost a week now, I can share that having the 6 is already a huge upgrade for the screen, by itself.


You get decent screen space for reading what you type while the keyboard is active now, but the full wow comes when you turn the phone sideways and it becomes a 16:9 display and it really feels puas enough already.

Already when I use my dad's iphone 5 screen it feels small.

Ouch, then that would mean it is a bit of a downgrade in screen size.

I would have gone for the 6+ but ability to type with 1 hand is important to me. Plus I'd imagine the 6 would fit better on an armband. I like to run.

This is a valid concern, but personally I am guessing that the app store approval process would have some policies that state apps must be at least support a few generations back. Personally, I feel they would at least keep every generation usable for at least 3 years.

At the very least, with the lesson I learnt with my iphone 4, the strategy that I am adopting is to never update to the next revision of iOS until I do not hear complaints of slowness. Apps that take advantage of the bigger RAM, tends to require the same iOS version as the same gen iphone that will be released in THAT year. So iOS 9 will be released for the iPhone 6s.

So, apps that are optimized for iOS 9 will likely face slowdown if they run on iOS 8.

iOS 4 - iPhone 4
iOS 5 - iPhone 4s
iOS 6 - iPhone 5


Just take a look at your own experience with your past iPhones. When was the first point that you started feeling some degradation is speed? Is it when the next major OS comes?

My personal experience is things started getting decidedly slower when I jumped from iOS 4 to iOS 5. It wasn't enough to make you hate the phone, but when the phone reaches it's 4th year of service for me, It's whatsapp and spotify slowness that pushed me over.

The solution ? Don't upgrade to the next major iOS ? Really ? But then you start worrying about the security implications. Outdated iOS are more vulnerable. So tech users have to upgrade in fear of their phone systems being exploited. This is the reality. Pick your poison : Vulnerable phone, or just take a slight hit in performance?


Further reading :

http://www.imore.com/iphone-slow-explained...out-ios-updates

This post has been edited by slickz: Oct 24 2014, 07:54 PM

Well said!

Holy shiat .... dat benchmark..... I heard A8x was fast but I didn't expect it to be THAT fast.



It's hard to say la these kinds of things, solid experience, value for money are all different ideas to different people. If your current situation is a student from a middle income family, you have different priorities on where you spend your money so cheaper phone = value for money.

So value for money means something else compared to the working class single gentleman who needs a phone with a robust system that can handle multiple whatsapp group conversations discussing on work related issues, while juggling his online relationship with a potential gf. The value you get from a good phone handling complicated tasks can bring different returns, tangible or intangible.

For me, mobility + pocketability wins over battery life. Screen size is already a massive upgrade for me, coming from iphone 4. This will be different from person to person.

I gave the phone a serious workout by running a 1080p bluray quality AVC file. No lags. At all! Framerate smooth as butter.

The hardware is a beast. Real racing 3 was also played smooth like running on a PS3.

Whole day? I reckon so. It stopped breastfeeding from the power plug at about 6:45 AM today. I took it to the gym and listened to music for an hour plus, used GPS while charged into my car ( I feel like it sucks more power than what my cheapo fm transmitter cum charger can give it. Battery is lower after I drove for half an hour).

Brightness set to full while driving so I can see during this hot day.

This is the battery so far




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Battery life after a day squeezing the battery life. My cheapo car charger doesn't really have enough to charge this beast if it's running waze.

But there you have it, 6:45AM to 6PM With gps, music and web browsing and a bit of gaming.


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yeap. iphone 6. I chose portability over 2 days battery life. This is already good enough for me. Benefits of 6 over 6+ :

1. Does not scream to people "hey look I got a bloody big iphone!!" when you answer calls in public.

2. Fits pants and other traditional malaysian clothes better.

3. Less afraid of bending phone.

4. Can type with one hand for the moments when you only have one hand free but need to respond fast!

I started charging using ipad charger and original cable from 6PM. Reached 98% charged in 2 hours sharp.

Will continue testing tomorrow with standard charger.

well if you see the link it shows australia set does support 2600Mhz frequency band.

Is your digi account including LTE in its service?

True. We also must consider other sillier possibilities. Like she mistaking the ipad mini for a 6+, not realizing that hole in the side is the sim card tray, bought an imitation brand, etc

The fact that it uses GPS now is very customizable. I used to turn off but now apps are tightly controlled when they are allowed to use GPS in iOS 8. So I never set any policy to turn off for all apps as they are not used all the time anyway already.

model lain ada? speck candyshell ke

I see the first wave of butthurt has reached the malaysian shores. My heartfelt condolences. May you get what you wish for!

Ah... The "System Glitch" maneuver. Classic, timeless. The blame goes to the machine, not the person managing it.

This is the first time telcos are trying to implement an online shopping method, no one gets it perfect the first time.

Even your own company will likely face issues to do a totally unfamiliar project, this gets more complicated when you're doing it on a massive scale.

Don't be surprised when preorder night rolls by and a lot of people can't even log in, while some can. All systems have their capacity limits, and the servers will likely be under heavy load to meet user login requests.

http://www.iphonehacks.com/2014/10/iphone-...outh-korea.html

Eh kesian la Samsung... some go buy some Note 4 la instead


On an unrelated note : Reached 2k posts. Ummm seven stars? I um, wow.

I'm not a very huge / tall person, so the 6 fits my hands and clothes just fine. If I'm like 6 foot tall basketball player then 6+ would be fine.

😛

Already a week in and I already feel my dad's iphone 5 looks cute and small. It used to be big to me.

India's market is probably a lot bigger than malaysia. I think we can set a stopwatch to see how fast it will sell out in malaysia