Posted on 09/09/2014 10:58:38 AM PDT by Red Badger
Streaming problems here too, Safari kept locking up...and the Chinese translation was confusious?
I will get the large one to assist with my senior citizen vision.
That 6 Plus is definitely a sexy looking phone, but I prefer Android, because I like to ‘get under the hood’ and make alterations and ‘hack’ the stuff I use. I’ll wait and see what Samsung does to counter Apple.
A year ago, I never thought I’d be saying this, but the new Blackberry phones are pretty nice.
I have an iphone 5 and an original ipad. The ipad is just so outdated that I was thinking of buying a new one. Now I’ll just get the larger iphone 6 and not buy the new ipad.
It’s about time they upped the size. Samsung has been killing them on that.
Now I might actually consider the iPhone next time around ... but I sure won’t camp out or stand in line for one. That’s just craziness.
Cool Dick Tracy watch they got there, but again ... nothing I’m going to kick down a door to get. Seems too thick, IMO, and I’m sure the price is going to be more than I’d be willing to pay. No thanks.
I am pleased to hear that Amazon's Fire phone price dropped. I may get one now. But 99 cents is still lot of money to risk on a flashy geegaw. My old Nokia dumb phone still works even though it looks like it barely survived a nuclear strike.
BUT I love my Kindle Fire so if the Fire phone is anything like it I know it will do the job I need it to do.
No such thing exists as "Samsong Galexay".
If you can't spell it, you probably don't know much about it.
I expect the watch will be an iFlop, except for the Apple loyalists that would buy Apple Dish-washing Detergent, if they started selling it.
I don’t think many people under the age of 40 wears a watch. Virtually everything we look at has the time one it, including the phone we keep on us at all times. Why WEAR something that displays the time?
The Apple Pay has the potential to bring in some big bucks. I noticed eBay on the stock market took a hit over its introduction ... back to back with PayPal.
Love those phones. The cellphone version of the VW - takes a beating, lasts forever, and costs nothing.
I love it because the battery lasts for days. I charge it maybe 3 times a month if that. But of course it isn’t constantly churning like a smartphone is with updates and such.
I’m a low-tech guy, so Nokia works for me. I’m starting to like the camera feature on the smartphone. That’s about the only thing I miss on the Nokia.
It always looks good in the presentations.
Then I go to the store and usually change my mind.
For me, getting one is mute. I have no plans to upgrade my phone, and it will not run with a 4S phone, I’d still love to see it at my local Apple store next year.
Hey, hey, Obunga has to keeps tabs on you, and that takes battery power!
I think a lot of people will do that. I actually bought an IPad mini about 6 months ago (just before this was announced, alas!) because I wanted to reduce the size and weight involved in carrying my early generation IPad. It turned out to be almost as heavy and pretty fragile, for some reason, and there’s now a crack in the glass although I don’t recall ever having dropped it.
So go for the new phone! I’m going to get the smaller of the phones (I think, because I haven’t seen either one) because I have small hands and, being a woman, don’t generally have big pockets or any other place to easily carry a larger phone. My bag is FULL!
Not funny. I have a recurring nightmare inwhich an Obamadrone hones in on my Kindle Fire and releases a Hellfire missile at me because I am reading the latest Matt Bracken novel on it...
Apple fan boys must be in ecstasy today, their dead god just drop new mana from heaven!
The reality is, apple is over priced and underpowered. It’s the product for form over function!
But I will admit, it’s really pretty!
Phones keep getting bigger and bigger and thinner and thinner, they're approaching the antithesis of that 80's Moto phone that carriage_hill posted (which while clunky, at least fit the aspect ratio of your hand correctly). The new ones are like holding a sheet of paper to the side of your head. Guess they assume everyone's going to use a Bluetooth earpiece or something.
My Daughter also uses hers to send me pics of her art projects. I put them on my Kindle Fire so this proud papa can show them around. I figure the Fire phone will be able to do that. But I still like having my Nokia dumb phone. It works and it takes a beating.
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