Apple iPhone and related items (cont.)

[cybershot]

Who wants to look like they've got two straws in their ears? Comically bad design.

And just 5 hours before you run out of battery? Fuck that.

I've just been given an iPhone 8 by work (to replace my desk phone, seems my dept is going all facebook/google esque with us moving office and having laptop lockers, roaming hotdesks and all this overly American type crap) I asked for a bluetooth headset and a pair of Airpods have arrived! (I have no idea where all this money is coming from suddenly, I'd prefer a payrise!)

I haven't used them yet, for fear of looking a knob, but will report back on quality when I do.

So now I'm proper target for muggers walking with 2 iPhones and bloody airpods!

 

[sim667]

The WWDC in 6 minutes.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Will be interesting to see how well the anti Facebook/others tracking stuff works.

 

[Virtual Blue]

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Didnt realised how much i hated apple.

 

[cybershot]

Since the introduction of iMessages into iCloud I'm sure Apple must be getting thousands if not millions of people suddenly subscribing to the 79p ($1) 50GB iCloud option, that could potentially bring in a huge income alone.

It's about time they upped the pathetic 5GB free to match Google and Microsoft's offerings.

 

[Winot]

iPhone 8 keeps dropping connection to home Internet. Wifi is fine but no internet connection. However iPad mini in same room has stable fast connection. So it’s the phone not the internet/wifi.

Any ideas?

 

[Lazy Llama]

Do you have 2.4GHz and 5GHz Wi-fi? On separate SSIDs? Does the Mini do 5GHz?

I’ve found that I generally get poor connections on 5GHz but the 2.4GHz works more reliably.

 

[Winot]

Do you have 2.4GHz and 5GHz Wi-fi? On separate SSIDs? Does the Mini do 5GHz?

I’ve found that I generally get poor connections on 5GHz but the 2.4GHz works more reliably.

Just checked and I don't think 5GHz was turned on. Have now done so although it sounds like it's unlikely to make a difference.

IS it best to have separate SSIDs then?

 

[Lazy Llama]

I’m not sure there’s a “best”.
Just that if I used the same SSID then I had less control over which devices tried to use the flakey 5GHz, so I separated them.

 

[cybershot]

I'd separate them. To make life easier for your existing products, choose whichever one is the most compatible with your existing kit to have the existing SSID.

E.g. in my house, most kit supports 5GHz, So I made that SSID the same as what was already stored in my devices, with the same password.

The 2.4GHz network is renamed to VirginXXXXXX-2G.

Any devices that didn't support the 5GHz then dropped off the network, and had to be re-added to the new -2G SSID, whilst all the other kit, just happily carried on working.

 

[cybershot]

Apple Reports 3Q 2018 Results: $11.5B Profit on $53.3B Revenue and 41.3M iPhones

 

[8ball]

Apple Reports 3Q 2018 Results: $11.5B Profit on $53.3B Revenue and 41.3M iPhones

That's looking pretty good considering the saturation of smartphones in the richer economies.

 

[paolo]

The iPhone X is a flop. Riiiiiiiigght.

(jeez it's enormo expensive... but not really a flop. Apple are now worth more than a tiny micrometer of your London flat. Weep now, buy more phones.)

Apple's £999 iPhone X deemed a FLOP by experts – is it just too expensive?

 

[Lazy Llama]

All flagships are flops.
Is Samsung's Galaxy S9 flagship a flop?

Absurd analyst says Google’s unannounced Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL are already a flop

 

[paolo]

All flagships are flops.
Is Samsung's Galaxy S9 flagship a flop?

Absurd analyst says Google’s unannounced Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL are already a flop

Oh that’s too good.

It’s “a flop.”

 

[Mr Retro]

The most interesting part of yesterday’s announcement was the new watch. I think it’s the start of Apples first serious move into the health industry. 2 billion dollar company by 2025??

 

[mwgdrwg]

You mean Trillion.

 

[skyscraper101]

I see they’ve finally embraced dual sim, many years too late.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

I'd be tempted by the Xr, except it's bloody huge, about the size of an 8plus.

And face ID is shit. Touch ID was (is) just about perfect, losing it is stupid. No force touch either.

So, I'm gonna wait till they're released and get a cheap(er) 8 I think, to replace my now ageing 6s.

 

[mwgdrwg]

I'd be tempted by the Xr, except it's bloody huge, about the size of an 8plus.

And face ID is shit. Touch ID was (is) just about perfect, losing it is stupid. No force touch either.

So, I'm gonna wait till they're released and get a cheap(er) 8 I think, to replace my now ageing 6s.

Why not just get an 8 at it's reduced price now?

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Why not just get an 8 at it's now reduced price?

I'm assuming once the new ones are actually out the price will drop? Or has that already happened? I've not looked...

 

[Lazy Llama]

Was hoping they'd have something to replace the SE, but nope, all much larger and no Touch ID.
Guess I'll stick with the SE for the time being. There's not much that it doesn't do.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Was hoping they'd have something to replace the SE, but nope, all much larger and no Touch ID.
Guess I'll stick with the SE for the time being. There's not much that it doesn't do.

I don't really want to get rid of my 6s as it's basically the perfect phone for me. But I'm aware it's now getting on a bit so feel I should trade it in while I can still get a decent amount for it...

 

[mwgdrwg]

I'm assuming once the new ones are actually out the price will drop? Or has that already happened? I've not looked...

I think it's happened. The 8 is £599 now.

 

[cybershot]

I'd be tempted by the Xr, except it's bloody huge, about the size of an 8plus.

And face ID is shit. Touch ID was (is) just about perfect, losing it is stupid. No force touch either.

So, I'm gonna wait till they're released and get a cheap(er) 8 I think, to replace my now ageing 6s.

The xr is smaller than the XS Max, and the XS max is smaller than an 8 plus. *shrugs shoulders*

In terms of the always controversial topic of no headphone socket that's always popular on here, I see the new phones also do away with the lightning to jack converter, you'll now have to buy one if you don't already have one.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

The xr is smaller than the XS Max, and the XS max is smaller than an 8 plus. *shrugs shoulders*

That's it next to an 8. Way too big.

 

[Mrs D]

Was hoping they'd have something to replace the SE, but nope, all much larger and no Touch ID.
Guess I'll stick with the SE for the time being. There's not much that it doesn't do.

Maybe they want small-loving people to buy their watch instead of wait for a small phone.

 

[Lazy Llama]

Maybe they want small-loving people to buy their watch instead of wait for a small phone.

Tried the watch. Didn't like it, took it back. And it's not a phone replacement so I'd still need to carry a phat-slab phone anyway.

 

[editor]

That notch remains extra-fugly. And if this is progress, I'm out.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Wired headphones? Get into the 21st century Grandad!

As for the notch Really, who cares?