Apple new product rumours and general news

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Assuming you can pre-order the new one on the Apple website then those will be the prices for the next year. If they will find the blood oxygen and ecg stuff useful I would seriously consider the 6 as well.

ETA: don’t look like you can pre order the 7 yet so I would hold off just in case. I suspect there will be no price changes though and the 6 will just be discontinued. If you can be arsed to set up alerts on hotukdeals you might get lucky down the line with places trying to get rid of their series 6 stock at a lower price. Depends how much you’re willing to wait.

Ah, I looked into the 6, and basically the blood oxygen and ECG stuff is bollocks and doesn't really work. Better to buy a finger tester for a couple of quid if you are really concerned. Don't really need the screen on all the time either so just going for the SE version. Don't care about the 7.
I assume then that it's doubtful the SE will drop in price between now and November.
I could go for a series 3, but even though it offers pretty much the same at a better value, my wife might think I'm being a cheap skate for the sake of £70 (not that I'm made of money).

 

[cybershot]

I’d suspect the SE will continue to get watchOS updates beyond the series 3. I’m surprised they still sell it. It’s a bit long in the tooth now.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

This has prompted me to look at the Apple watch specs. I'm amazed by them only having 18hour battery life.

 

[cybershot]

Mine can easily last 24 hours (series 4) Maybe it’s because the newer ones screen is always on. I assume you can change it so it isn’t to save battery. I forgot to charge before bed the other night and had 27% when I woke up. Quick 30 min charge at work and back at full power.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

This has prompted me to look at the Apple watch specs. I'm amazed by them only having 18hour battery life.

Yeah, they are most certainly not for me. I'm looking at getting a new watch to monitor my running and general fitness and apple is NOT no my list. My current watch does far more than a month on an charge. . . Mind you my phone does the bulk of work .

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Mine can easily last 24 hours (series 4) Maybe it’s because the newer ones screen is always on. I assume you can change it so it isn’t to save battery. I forgot to charge before bed the other night and had 27% when I woke up. Quick 30 min charge at work and back at full power.

I'd forget to charge every day. I wouldn't want to have to remember that either.
I've had Samsung, Mi and Amazfit watches and they all offer days, weeks in some cases and all can do pretty much the same as the SE.

I'm an Android phone user, though, so the Apple watches don't appeal to me.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I'd forget to charge every day. I wouldn't want to have to remember that either.
I've had Samsung, Mi and Amazfit watches and they all offer days, weeks in some cases and all can do pretty much the same as the SE.

I'm and Android phone user, though, so the Apple watches don't appeal to me.

Well yes. I have a mi which is actually super great for the money, (probably worth it just as a watch and step counter) however it's not quite as in depth as I want anymore, (and I want something to properly integrate with Strava).

The wife is all about the apple phones and pads, (which I hate) so will want the matching watch.
Oddly she doesn't want or use apple computers, whereas I love mine iMac and MacBook Pro.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Yeah, they are most certainly not for me. I'm looking at getting a new watch to monitor my running and general fitness and apple is NOT no my list. My current watch does far more than a month on an charge. . . Mind you my phone does the bulk of work .

Yes. They look shiny, but they are smart watches with some fitness features as opposed to Garmins which do fitness really well and have some smart watch features. Mine does 11 days just as a watch and almost 12 hours if your actually using it in full fitness mode. And I'm considering a Coras for next year if I get my arse in gear and do this 100km I'm booked in for.

 

[cybershot]

Security updates for iPhone 5 and 6. Phones 7 to 8 years old. Any android devices of such age still getting updates?

Apple Releases iOS 12.5.5 Update for Older iPhones With Fix for Zero-Day Exploit - MacRumors

www.macrumors.com

 

[skyscraper101]

Looks like there's an event next Monday 18th Oct for some new products

 

[pesh]

about time, my 2015 MBP has been doing that occasional split second screen glitch that means a logic board failure is in your near future for the last 2 months and i've been keeping my fingers crossed it would last till the new ones came out.

 

[Orang Utan]

It’s quite fiddly, the 13. i need to learn some new gestures - so many keyboard shortcuts that I know I’ll never learn

 

[skyscraper101]

And I for one, managed to lose my airpods case last night on the train. Although, they are definitely on their last legs after a solid three and a half years of service. They just about make half an hour of listening time, and barely 15 of talktime now. Bring on the new airpods basically.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

about time, my 2015 MBP has been doing that occasional split second screen glitch that means a logic board failure is in your near future for the last 2 months and i've been keeping my fingers crossed it would last till the new ones came out.

Uh oh. I'm on a 2015 PBP. I LOVE IT. I never want it to die. It has all the connections I need that don't feature in any models that come after it. I dock it into a Thunderbolt Monitor for work. . . again, nothing this good appears to be on offer after this utterly brilliant set up.
I can take my laptop wherever, with external thunderbolt drives, then dock it onto a massive screen and plug it straight into Lan for stable internet.
Fucking apple. If any one of these discontinued items dies, I'm screwed. I'll be forced to buy a new iMac or something and get bloody thunderbolt 3 adaptors hanging out of everything.

 

[editor]

And I for one, managed to lose my airpods case last night on the train. Although, they are definitely on their last legs after a solid three and a half years of service. They just about make half an hour of listening time, and barely 15 of talktime now. Bring on the new airpods basically.

But when you think about it, it is fucking terrible that a product just three years old only has a battery life of half an hour and can practically only be thrown away.

 

[skyscraper101]

But when you think about it, it is fucking terrible that a product just three years old only has a battery life of half an hour and can practically only be thrown away.

I'll give you that. The fact a perfectly able product is effectively rendered useless because the battery is irreplaceable is my biggest gripe with airpods. Although I'd already accepted this when I first got them, it is shameful that I can't just get an updated battery because they work absolutely fine otherwise.

 

[editor]

I'll give you that. The fact a perfectly able product is effectively rendered useless because the battery is irreplaceable is my biggest gripe with airpods. Although I'd already accepted this when I first got them, it is shameful that I can't just get an updated battery because they work absolutely fine otherwise.

Apple aren't the only offenders of course, but in the midst of a climate emergency it's bordering on criminal behaviour for companies to be selling high value products as essentially unrepairable throwaway items.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

I'll give you that. The fact a perfectly able product is effectively rendered useless because the battery is irreplaceable is my biggest gripe with airpods. Although I'd already accepted this when I first got them, it is shameful that I can't just get an updated battery because they work absolutely fine otherwise.

This is what stops me buying a pair.

 

[editor]

This is what stops me buying a pair.

And Apple - with all their incredible expertise and vast pots of near unlimited wealth - have absolutely no fucking excuse not to make the batteries replaceable. Instead they'd rather go for more profit stream and fuck up the environment even more.

Bunch of cunts, just like the rest of those mega companies taking the piss with their self proclaimed green credentials.

 

[platinumsage]

Apple offer battery replacement for AirPods and AirPods Pro, it's on their website.

 

[editor]

Apple offer battery replacement for AirPods and AirPods Pro, it's on their website.

For how much?

And of course by the time they come up for renewal they'll be spending millions to tell you how much more essential the new latest version is.

 

[Crispy]

£45 per earbud

AirPods Repair & Service – Apple Support (UK)

support.apple.com

 

[editor]

£45 per earbud

AirPods Repair & Service – Apple Support (UK)

support.apple.com

So £90 a pair, not including postage.

I imagine most Apple customers would just get the new ones.

 

[platinumsage]

Do other manufacturers of Bluetooth earphones offer battery replacement?

At least expensive earphones less likely to be thrown away as regularly as shitty wired ones which typically lasted a few months before ending up in landfill.

 

[Saul Goodman]

This is what stops me buying a pair.

The fact that they're ridiculously overpriced and sound shit is what stops me.

 

[Orang Utan]

So so loseable. Just buy a massive pair of unwieldy headphones instead

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

The fact that they're ridiculously overpriced and sound shit is what stops me.

For what they are - small, non moulded in ear buds, they actually sound pretty decent. A lot will come down to the shape of your ear canal and how far in and how well sealed you can get them.

For anyone that's serious about a set of in ear headphones, get a custom moulded pair. Prices from fairly reasonable to how fucking much...

 

[elbows]

So so loseable. Just buy a massive pair of unwieldy headphones instead

They have added a feature where if you have an iphone and airpods and leave the airpods behind, it will alert you at that moment, and can also use the standard apple 'find my bloody device' network of other users to help locate them later.

Not that I've tried the above for myself or am aware of exactly what models it applies to.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

The fact that they're ridiculously overpriced and sound shit is what stops me.

This. Lil'Angel and I found one on the floor at Manchester Oxford Rd Station at the weekend.

I have similar buds but they were £30 - I'd only be miffed rather than apoplectic if I lost one/them. And they sound great.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

For what they are - small, non moulded in ear buds, they actually sound pretty decent. A lot will come down to the shape of your ear canal and how far in and how well sealed you can get them.

For anyone that's serious about a set of in ear headphones, get a custom moulded pair. Prices from fairly reasonable to how fucking much...

They sound pretty good, but they definitely don't sound £100 better than the ones I use for running. I could also NEVER trust them to stay in. At least my runners are connected by a cable I can thread through my backpack.