iPhone 6s unlocked buying options

Eugene Norman

jimmynokia wrote: »

In general Apples iPhone battery life is Sh1te,this is not exactly a hidden secret

I'm at 70%.

Eugene Norman

Sad Professor wrote: »

The last time I heard iPhone 6 battery life was comparable to similarly sized Android phones, no? The issue people have is that Apple is refusing to make the iPhone thicker or use the gains from CPU optimisation and smaller components to include a larger battery, instead using it to include a taptic engine etc for 3D Touch.

Yeah.

Also the battery saver -- the one that turns on at 20% if you agree -- saves a huge amount of energy. In general I don't need app updates or background refresh, or whatever it's doing.

Sad Professor

Background refresh is actually quite efficient in my experience, as are all of iOS's background activities. The problem is crappy, poorly developed apps which even with all notifications, location services and refresh turned off, will still find a way to rape your battery, either by using VOIP or abusing the post-exit grace period. If you don’t trust an app not to abuse its background permissions, you should delete it altogether. I’ve zero tolerance for sh**ty, inefficient apps and I’ve have never experienced the rapid battery drain problems people on here are always having.

Eugene Norman

Sad Professor wrote: »

Background refresh is actually quite efficient in my experience, as are all of iOS's background activities. The problem is crappy, poorly developed apps which even with all notifications, location services and refresh turned off, will still find a way to rape your battery, either by using VOIP or abusing the post-exit grace period. If you don’t trust an app not to abuse its background permissions, you should delete it altogether. I’ve zero tolerance for sh**ty, inefficient apps and I’ve have never experienced the rapid battery drain problems people on here are always having.

I agree but I do look at usage stats and turn off background refresh for busy apps and even then the energy saver helped.

deadanonymau5

What colour iPhones are ye going for?

Anyone for the gold or rose gold?

The Ayatolla

I got the gold 6S.

Deep Thought

when is the Irish Release Date for the 6s

FourFourRED

deadanonymau5 wrote: »

What colour iPhones are ye going for?

Anyone for the gold or rose gold?

Went for the 6s 64gb, Space Grey. I like the look of the Rose Gold but I would need to see one in person to decide on it.

stoksyXL

Sad Professor wrote: »

Joanna Stern was moaning about battery life but said it's the same.

https://www.macstories.net/linked/joanna-stern-on-the-iphone-6s-battery-life/

The battery in the 6s is actually smaller and lower capacity the the one in the 6. A lot of the sites have reported this.

It actually gets the same amount of use as the 6, due to the new processor in the 6s which saves a bit of power. Really bad move on apple's part.

Sad Professor

stoksyXL wrote: »

The battery in the 6s is actually smaller and lower capacity the the one in the 6. A lot of the sites have reported this.

It actually gets the same amount of use as the 6, due to the new processor in the 6s which saves a bit of power. Really bad move on apple's part.

They needed that space for the 3D Touch sensors.

stoksyXL

Sad Professor wrote: »

They needed that space for the 3D Touch sensors.

I know, that was in the article. F**k the 3D touch, is it really needed? It's more battery life that we all crave.

FourFourRED

stoksyXL wrote: »

I know, that was in the article. F**k the 3D touch, is it really needed? It's more battery life that we all crave.

It's welcome innovation.

Better battery life would be great but when the phone charges so fast anyway, I don't ever find running out of battery a problem.

Zcott

Apple are laying the groundwork for more efficient batteries, meaning an increase in battery size is actually a bigger increase in battery life than Samsung's approach of just making the battery bigger. I'm ok with this.

MadeUReadThis

Any nice Aer Lingus/BA/ Delta Airline staff that want a nice new unlocked 6S this weekend heading home from America just give me a shout, we can trade, family and friends discounted ticket for going home at Xmas and you can have your 6S Friday :P no? no? Suppose I'm asking for waaaaay too much lol

symbolic

Zcott wrote: »

Apple are laying the groundwork for more efficient batteries.

Sounds interesting, Could you link me to details?

og2k7

Elessar wrote: »

The Verge are going on about getting the 6S Plus instead of the 6S. I don't really think that's a fair comment. I've seen the 6+ and it's huge, too big a phone for me. Regular one will be perfect. But then again we all said that years ago...

Anyone else just getting the 6S?

yup, I was contemplating getting the Plus version (for a split second), but because I cycle everyday and do a lot of outdoor stuff with kids it wouldnt be the best option I think. I would definitely get a 5 inch option (so 0.3 more), but that extra bit is too much with Plus. Also it is even more expensive.

Only ordered it 3 days ago and delivery supposed to be between 30 and 7th of October, so soon enough.

Regards

eeloe

stoksyXL wrote: »

I know, that was in the article. F**k the 3D touch, is it really needed? It's more battery life that we all crave.

I'm looking forward to 3d touch to be honest, the one thing that's always bothered me, was there was no "quick" way to add a new contact, say you meet someone on the street and you wanna grab their number....you've to unlock the phone, open up the phone app, type in the number, select create new contact bla bla bla...

now, 3d touch, create new contact...bang...done...1 and a half presses of the screen, compared to 7! I'm looking forward to it.

Zcott

symbolic wrote: »

Sounds interesting, Could you link me to details?

Sorry, on re-reading my post it's a bit unclear. What I meant was that Apple's approach is to use the battery more efficiently than other handset manufacturers, who just keep putting in bigger batteries.

symbolic

Zcott wrote: »

Sorry, on re-reading my post it's a bit unclear. What I meant was that Apple's approach is to use the battery more efficiently than other handset manufacturers, who just keep putting in bigger batteries.

Ah I don't think apple are on their own there unfortunately. For whatever reason they do it. spose it's all space saving.

Elessar

Still no movement on these? For a Friday delivery?!

The Ayatolla

Last time i bought direct from Apple for release, I got the dispatch email at around 6pm on the Wednesday.

FourFourRED

Elessar wrote: »

Still no movement on these? For a Friday delivery?!

They're more than likely already in the UK now being sorted for dispatch. Don't worry.

eeloe

I'm just wondering, when we get the UPS tracking numbers, would we be able to contact UPS, and get them to change the delivery address to our own addresses instead of PM?

Elessar

Dispatched

EDIT: Carrier UK Mail - how can I track this one? Tried their website and no joy...

FourFourRED

Elessar wrote: »

Dispatched

EDIT: Carrier UK Mail - how can I track this one? Tried their website and no joy...

They can be very slow to update things. I wouldn't worry too much, just gonna sit back and wait for the email from Parcel Motel.

Frankmagnet

Just got an email from parcel motel Dublin to say my package has arrived there. Photo looks like an iPhone box :eek: can't think of anything else I ordered

The Ayatolla

Here comes the six million posts for the next week with updates galore.

"MINE HAS BEEN SCANNED AT CARRIER DESTINATION!!!!!!!111one"

FourFourRED

Frankmagnet wrote: »

Just got an email from parcel motel Dublin to say my package has arrived there. Photo looks like an iPhone box :eek: can't think of anything else I ordered

Case with your order or anything?

Heisenberg1

Frankmagnet wrote: »

Just got an email from parcel motel Dublin to say my package has arrived there. Photo looks like an iPhone box :eek: can't think of anything else I ordered

You should have it tomorrow so.

Elessar

Stupid question but I haven't used Parcel Motel in a while - I've €4 in my account, do I need do do anything with that or do they collect once I've received the package?

Frankmagnet

FourFourFM wrote: »

Case with your order or anything?

No bud, only other thing I ordered recently are headphone and I'm not expecting those yet. Must be the phone. Looks like it anyway.

FourFourRED

Frankmagnet wrote: »

No bud, only other thing I ordered recently are headphone and I'm not expecting those yet. Must be the phone. Looks like it anyway.

Hopefully it's the phone very jealous! What time did you order out of interest?

Frankmagnet

FourFourFM wrote: »

Hopefully it's the phone very jealous! What time did you order out of interest?

Ordered about 8:30 on the Friday. Fingers crossed I'll know when I wake up.

symbolic

Zcott wrote: »

Sorry, on re-reading my post it's a bit unclear. What I meant was that Apple's approach is to use the battery more efficiently than other handset manufacturers, who just keep putting in bigger batteries.

also if you could link me to some of these approach docs, that would be great. Involved in dev and think these docs would be very useful for the team. thanks.

Heisenberg1

Elessar wrote: »

Stupid question but I haven't used Parcel Motel in a while - I've €4 in my account, do I need do do anything with that or do they collect once I've received the package?

3.95e is the PM delivery charge, I assume you increased the standard liability with PM from 100e to 1000e which is an extra 7e?

Heisenberg1

symbolic wrote: »

also if you could link me to some of these approach docs, that would be great. Involved in dev and think these docs would be very useful for the team. thanks.

Not sure if this is what you are after.....

https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documentation/Performance/Conceptual/EnergyGuide-iOS/

Elessar

Heisenberg1 wrote: »

3.95e is the PM delivery charge, I assume you increased the standard liability with PM from 100e to 1000e which is an extra 7e?

I did, just in case

Still no sign of the tracking number working for UKMail...

Frankmagnet

Frankmagnet wrote: »

Ordered about 8:30 on the Friday. Fingers crossed I'll know when I wake up.

Well false alarm :mad:

Was the headphones I wasn't expecting for about another week! In an iPhone sized box.

Roll on Saturday morning. Fingers crossed.

dan786

Elessar wrote: »

I did, just in case

Still no sign of the tracking number working for UKMail...

Same here. Tracking not working.

The Ayatolla

https://www.ukmail.com/manage-my-delivery/manage-my-delivery

Track here.

Use Customer Reference number and postcode.

eeloe

Frankmagnet wrote: »

Well false alarm :mad:

Was the headphones I wasn't expecting for about another week! In an iPhone sized box.

Roll on Saturday morning. Fingers crossed.

I would have got sick

Asmooh

Nice to find this, I was thinking of going to Belfast next weekend to get an 6s plus, carphonewarehouse says they have it in stock starting the 25th for the 128GB gold version.. but idn.. would be nicer if i can buy it from the official apple store?

jasonhn

My tracking has just started to work! awaiting collection apparently.

Frankmagnet

eeloe wrote: »

I would have got sick

Haha I was a bit pissed alright. Ah well, waiting is half the fun.

Wouldn't mind but the headphones weren't even for me :P

Frankmagnet

jasonhn wrote: »

My tracking has just started to work! awaiting collection apparently.

Just checked mine and it says collected. Hopefully a Saturday delivery

The Ayatolla

Reckon the chances of it arriving at PM in Newtownabbey by tomorrow are slim.

UKMail don't have a depot in Northern Ireland either according to a map on their site. Monday/Tuesday is looking most likely.

FourFourRED

The Ayatolla wrote: »

Reckon the chances of it arriving at PM in Newtownabbey by tomorrow are slim.

UKMail don't have a depot in Northern Ireland either according to a map on their site. Monday/Tuesday is looking most likely.

I would say the chances of it arriving tomorrow are good. My last UK Apple order arrived there on time.

Hopefully Saturday morning picking up from the local motel.

The Ayatolla

FourFourFM wrote: »

I would say the chances of it arriving tomorrow are good. My last UK Apple order arrived there on time.

Hopefully Saturday morning picking up from the local motel.

Hope you're right sir!

Was UKMail used last time can ya remember?

eeloe

Frankmagnet wrote: »

Haha I was a bit pissed alright. Ah well, waiting is half the fun.

Wouldn't mind but the headphones weren't even for me :P

That makes it even worse.

Yeah i'm really hoping for the Saturday delivery at the local PM, her in doors, her 5 finally bit the bullet last night, home button not working and the sleep wake is gone too...and she's breathing down my neck for my current 6 plus.

smurfjed

and she's breathing down my neck for my current 6 plus.

Whatever you do, dont agree to toss a coin to see who becomes the owner of the new phone.... Did that with the missus and lost a new 5S