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iPhone 2014: It's time.

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Question: If you buy an unlocked version does it allow tethering on AT&T? Like if I stuck my SIM in, would it work, or does the SIM dictate which features are blocked? I realize even if they don't block it AT&T could potentially come down on me hard.

I'm just trying to figure out if the tethering restrictions are carrier model specific only or if they apply to unlocked models.

In the Android world, tethering has always been blocked via carrier bloatware whereas Nexus phones can tether all they want.
 
anyone have any cases they would recommend? i'm just looking for a thin rubber-ish type of case. the one i have now on my 4 i got on ebay for like $5 way back when. it is good enough. it has a little lip on the front so i can set it face down and it doesn't get scratched. it's all 1 piece too.

anyone know of any for the 6 yet like this? i was just searching ebay and the ones i'm interested in don't seem to be shipping until like october 20th.

i was looking at something like this:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Spigen-for-...Cell_Phone_PDA_Cases&var=&hash=item3a96adfbd8
 
Just had my assistant order me an iPhone 6 (AT&T, space gray, 64GB). She ordered it from AT&T because we are on an AT&T business plan. They are saying 21-28 days for delivery, but we shall see . . .
 
iPhone 6 GPU benchmarks

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/apple-iphone-6-gpu-benchmarks,27668.html

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iPhone 5s holds its own overall. I'm not sure how this benchmark works, but I wonder if it's partially because the 5s has less pixels to push than the 6.
 
el-Capitan said:
It's been posted by Redstorm in another thread :



If that's true, it reads like a (clever) ad to me.
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I don't know if that is true. It looks like he is a professional photographer. Now, he might have been commissioned to do an iPhone 6 / 6+ review, but he doesn't work for anyone at Apple. If so, his works wouldn't be published in a lot of professional places.

And, even then, it is only showcasing the improvements (with actual documentation and examples) of the 6's camera vs the 5s.
 
smackababy said:
I don't know if that is true. It looks like he is a professional photographer. Now, he might have been commissioned to do an iPhone 6 / 6+ review, but he doesn't work for anyone at Apple. If so, his works wouldn't be published in a lot of professional places.

And, even then, it is only showcasing the improvements (with actual documentation and examples) of the 6's camera vs the 5s.
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Looks like it was cleared up by someone from The Verge:

1. This is absolutely not native advertising or advertising of any kind. This is pure Verge editorial content that we fully controlled from start to finish. We signed a contract and paid Austin for these photos, and many of them are exclusive to The Verge. Native advertising on Vox Media sites is clearly labeled and has "sponsored" in the URL.
2. Austin came to the Apple event as a guest of The Verge and received his phones early because we had contracted him to do this story. He also came to lunch with us after the event, and then drove directly to the airport to go to Iceland. It was pretty cool.
3. Austin is a pretty awesome dude.
4. We all know Teresa Brewer and many other Apple PR people, just as well all know many PR people at every company in the industry. We worked with her and her team to arrange the details of Austin getting the phones to do the story; it’s not surprising that Austin shared some photos with her (which is all that’s on that passworded page).
5. Austin is a freelance photographer; he makes his money selling photos. I can’t control the clients he’s had in the past, nor the clients he’ll have in the future. But I know that he sent us his photos and copy, and we edited it, created this layout, and had total editorial control over what we published. That’s how we do it.
6. I hope this story helps him get many more clients — he’s a great photographer!
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For the record I don't think anybody doubts the photos or their quality and comparisons. Personally I was just wary of any type of review that involved potential special treatment from Apple because that means it would only focus on the positives, which would have made it more of an advert than a review.
 
DXOMark (an independent French lab that tests cameras and lenses) has just rated the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus as the best-ever cell phone cameras - http://www.dxomark.com/Mobiles/Appl...et-gold-standard-for-smartphone-image-quality

A photographer, Lisa Bettany, took the same image (more or less) with all 8 iPhone cameras to date - http://snapsnapsnap.photos/how-does-the-iphone-6-camera-compare-to-previous-iphone-cameras/ The results, not surprisingly, flatter the 6, but I find some of the generational leaps really interesting, particularly the leap from 3G to 3Gs.
 
Tried the iPhone 6 Plus in person yesterday. Way, way too big for me. It is absolutely impossible for me to use it one-handed, not surprisingly. My thumb barely gets half-way across the screen horizontally.

Also not so surprisingly, the person who bought it is a woman, who said she felt comfortable carrying it around because she just puts it in her purse.

It's basically a tablet with some phone support. Yes, I know this is old news, but using the iPhone 6 Plus just re-iterates what I felt with the Note 2.
 
Whats kinda funny about that is usually the people I see with the huge phones are tiny Asians. Usually women. A couple of days ago I was in line at Chipotle, and this Asian girl must have been 5' tall at most, and her phone was a big as her whole head. I think it was one of the Note variants.

It could also simply be that there are a lot of Asians around here.
 
Childs said:
Whats kinda funny about that is usually the people I see with the huge phones are tiny Asians. Usually women. A couple of days ago I was in line at Chipotle, and this Asian girl must have been 5' tall at most, and her phone was a big as her whole head. I think it was one of the Note variants.

It could also simply be that there are a lot of Asians around here.
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My GF's mom was admiring my 6 when it came out and she said "I think I'll get the bigger one". I asked her why and her explanation was "It costs more, so it has to be better." It is all about that status.
 
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