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Will you be buying the new Iphone?

Yes
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13%
No
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Total votes : 94

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Postby Trollgaard » Tue Sep 09, 2014 5:33 pm

Alcase wrote:
Trollgaard wrote:Wow, that is very uninspiring.

I'll keep my 7ish year old dumb phone that I've been using for 5ish years.

5ish years?!?!?!

I can't even maintain having a functioning phone last for more than a year.


Yup. Its a beast. Its been dropped so many times, stepped on, had light rain fall in it. And it just keeps on going. The battery can last for about 3ish days with light use, and about two days with my regular use.

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Postby Alcase » Tue Sep 09, 2014 5:36 pm

Trollgaard wrote:
Alcase wrote:5ish years?!?!?!

I can't even maintain having a functioning phone last for more than a year.


Yup. Its a beast. Its been dropped so many times, stepped on, had light rain fall in it. And it just keeps on going. The battery can last for about 3ish days with light use, and about two days with my regular use.

What phone is it? I must research it and maybe, just maybe, reverse engineer it.
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Postby Anollasia » Tue Sep 09, 2014 5:36 pm

I find the Apple Watch to be pointless.

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Postby Trollgaard » Tue Sep 09, 2014 5:37 pm

Alcase wrote:
Trollgaard wrote:
Yup. Its a beast. Its been dropped so many times, stepped on, had light rain fall in it. And it just keeps on going. The battery can last for about 3ish days with light use, and about two days with my regular use.

What phone is it? I must research it and maybe, just maybe, reverse engineer it.


Some old motorola. Don't know what type.

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Postby The Serbian Empire » Tue Sep 09, 2014 6:15 pm

I'm not interested in an Apple product as I'm not willing to pay the premium for the brand name.
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Postby Condunum » Tue Sep 09, 2014 6:18 pm

Pandeeria wrote:Should I get an iPhone 6 or Nexus 5?

That depends. Do you want your twattery with a side of pretentiousness or self-entitlement?
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Postby Infected Mushroom » Tue Sep 09, 2014 6:42 pm

No, my existing phone is just fine.

Mass consumerist culture will not get me. I am immune to advertising and Apple's tricks.

I buy things based on whether I really need/want them, not because everyone else will buy them or because I think I need/want them.

My existing phone is just fine.

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Postby Jachaelter » Tue Sep 09, 2014 6:54 pm

The iphone 6+ is like mini ipad

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Postby The Black Forrest » Tue Sep 09, 2014 7:05 pm

My wife works for apple. She was there and had a blast.

Will I buy? No. I am not a nimrod who has to have the latest and greatest.
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Postby Geilinor » Tue Sep 09, 2014 7:06 pm

Jachaelter wrote:The iphone 6+ is like mini ipad

The technical term is phablet. :p
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Postby The Two Jerseys » Tue Sep 09, 2014 8:19 pm

Geilinor wrote:
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The technical term is phablet. :p

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Postby Bombadil » Tue Sep 09, 2014 9:04 pm

The Two Jerseys wrote:
Geilinor wrote:The technical term is phablet. :p

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Alas, technology and screen size are two different things, when a mobile phone screen essentially just handled calls or SMS then the trend went small.. or at least effectively handheld.. smartphones are basically screens for a whole load of information and content. The technology inside is getting smaller but not the screen outside.
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Postby Tekania » Tue Sep 09, 2014 9:07 pm

Stormwind-City wrote:Apple finally trying to catch up with android and windows phones, eh?


Yes, and 10 years from now people will say they invented this stuff.
Such heroic nonsense!

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Postby Rabotnikisoyedinennyye » Tue Sep 09, 2014 10:03 pm

Why don't we just go back to the 80's and use brick-phones?
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Postby Tekania » Tue Sep 09, 2014 10:12 pm

Rabotnikisoyedinennyye wrote:Why don't we just go back to the 80's and use brick-phones?


I AM TRYING TO MAKE A CONFERENCE CALL

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Postby Rabotnikisoyedinennyye » Tue Sep 09, 2014 10:15 pm

Tekania wrote:
Rabotnikisoyedinennyye wrote:Why don't we just go back to the 80's and use brick-phones?


I AM TRYING TO MAKE A CONFERENCE CALL

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Postby Frisbeeteria » Tue Sep 09, 2014 11:32 pm

As an Apple shareholder, I encourage all of you to purchase these new items. I'm sure they're all important fashion statements and status symbols.

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Postby Lalaki » Tue Sep 09, 2014 11:33 pm

I'll stick with the 20 dollar pay as you go tracfone. It works wonders.
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Postby Ainin » Wed Sep 10, 2014 12:05 am

Stormwind-City wrote:Apple finally trying to catch up with android and windows phones, eh?

Well they're doing a goddamn awful job at it.
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Postby The Republic of Merrimont » Wed Sep 10, 2014 12:12 am

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Postby Ifreann » Wed Sep 10, 2014 3:08 am

Tekania wrote:
Stormwind-City wrote:Apple finally trying to catch up with android and windows phones, eh?


Yes, and 10 years from now people will say they invented this stuff.

Like how they invented mp3 players and the internet!
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Postby Republic of Coldwater » Wed Sep 10, 2014 3:30 am

Apple is a terrible company with terrible overpriced products that are inferior in terms of both hardware and software to the vastly superior Android phones from HTC, Google, and Xiaomi

Smartwatches in their current state are in their infancy, and Apple would probably fail in making a profitable product, whilst the iPhone 6 is really a smaller iPad Mini with an A8 Processor and phone capabilities.

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Postby Destiny Island » Wed Sep 10, 2014 4:58 am

Australian Republic wrote:I do not buy CRAPple products

Found the android fanboy.

Still not going to buy this. Apple products are meh for me. To fragile.
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Postby Ainin » Wed Sep 10, 2014 5:01 am

Ainin wrote:
Stormwind-City wrote:Apple finally trying to catch up with android and windows phones, eh?

Well they're doing a goddamn awful job at it.

That said, I think that the iPhone 6 looks awful (especially the gold one) and, like iOS 7, iOS 8 is just blatant stealing UI features from Android and WP and calling it a new product.

I'll stick with my Nokia Lumia 1520, thank you very much.
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