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Lord, I'll be jumping from an A5 to an A9. I think I can milk three years out of that easy.
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Originally Posted by The Final Dakar
Lord, I'll be jumping from an A5 to an A9. I think I can milk three years out of that easy.
I'll also be jumping from 8 GB to 16 GB. God dammit
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^yes, it will be sweet
Live Photos: very Minority Report cool, but won't it eat up the space on the phone, or the battery?.... nice of them to show us how to turn it off.
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Is it me or is $32 a month not a bad deal?
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That upgrade program has potential.
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Live photos are very Harry Potter-esque
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The thing is, the iPhone camera, which I like, is sloooooow. I'm afraid half your live photo will be the autofocus pumping.
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I went to the VZW store last week and talked plan options. Since the prices stay the same applying my bonus as a down payment my monthly would be about $14 off contract for the 128GB 6S plus. It will bea Merry Christmas indeed! If I go with 6GB ( the wife will use little or no data) I will pay about what I am now for 2GB a month. As I mentioned before, I have to unbundle fro CentruyLink.
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Originally Posted by The Final Dakar
I'll also be jumping from 8 GB to 16 GB. God dammit
Only 8GB? Good Lord, how the **** do you manage? <Looks over at his 128GB iPhone 6 Plus>
Originally Posted by Subego
The thing is, the iPhone camera, which I like, is sloooooow. I'm afraid half your live photo will be the autofocus pumping.
I can't speak for the 5s camera but I wouldn't describe the 6 Plus camera as slow. I'm sure the 6s is even faster.
Also - No love for the price drop in iCloud storage? 1TB dropped from $20/month to $10/month.
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Originally Posted by Stogieman
Only 8GB? Good Lord, how the **** do you manage? <Looks over at his 128GB iPhone 6 Plus>
I don't need it for music.
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Originally Posted by andi*pandi
^yes, it will be sweet
Live Photos: very Minority Report cool, but won't it eat up the space on the phone, or the battery?.... nice of them to show us how to turn it off.
I'm sure it uses more battery than other photos, but running the sensor isn't the big part of taking photos. Lighting up the screen and - if you use it - the flash are much bigger energy hogs, so I don't think the effect will be significant. As for space, it seems to me that there is ample room for some clever compression here, as the multiple images ought to be very similar. Store the main image as a regular JPEG, and then use that as a keyframe with the surrounding frames stored as their differences from the main image.
Originally Posted by subego
The thing is, the iPhone camera, which I like, is sloooooow. I'm afraid half your live photo will be the autofocus pumping.
In my limited experience with the iPhone 6, the phase-detect auto focus ("focus pixels") pretty much fixed that, and that is the sort of thing I'd expect them to iterate on in a new sensor.
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Is the camera widescreen yet? Was shocked when I discovered my 6+ wasn't. Tired of taking short Panoramic photos to simulate a widescreen photo.
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I'm really glad I'm due for an upgrade
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Originally Posted by OreoCookie
I'm really glad I'm due for an upgrade
Has you carrier ended contracts? It might be less expensive to go "off contract" It will be for us to. We have an old 700 minute family plan, no text or data with a smart phone add on. Adding another smart phone would cost $30 a month. If we switch to the new everthing plan off contract w/6GB we will pay $10 a month less than what we pay now for one iPhone/2GB and a feature phone/0GB and per text pricing.
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Originally Posted by Chongo
Has you carrier ended contracts? It might be less expensive to go "off contract" It will be for us to. We have an old 700 minute family plan, no text or data with a smart phone add on. Adding another smart phone would cost $30 a month. If we switch to the new everthing plan off contract w/6GB we will pay $10 a month less than what we pay now for one iPhone/2GB and a feature phone/0GB and per text pricing.
I've moved back to Japan last month, and all of the phones are locked to a carrier. With no possibility to unlock them. That means I cannot use my iPhone 5, because otherwise it'd be locked forever to that one carrier. (This was also the reason I replaced a Japanese 4S with a used 5 when moving to Canada: I couldn't unlock it for less than $170.) So instead, I'm planning to give myself a treat (I got my first professorship) and get a new phone.
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Originally Posted by P
In my limited experience with the iPhone 6, the phase-detect auto focus ("focus pixels") pretty much fixed that, and that is the sort of thing I'd expect them to iterate on in a new sensor.
Now that I think about it, this is more of a "macro" problem. Say, I need to take a pic of something post-it note sized.
I open the Camera, subject is more or less in focus.
AF starts pumping like crazy.
After a couple seconds, it will settle, but it's out of focus.
I'll slowly back the camera away to move the focal plane to what I'm taking a picture of.
I've now spent 30 seconds just to file away a post-it.
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Originally Posted by OreoCookie
I've moved back to Japan last month, and all of the phones are locked to a carrier. With no possibility to unlock them. That means I cannot use my iPhone 5, because otherwise it'd be locked forever to that one carrier. (This was also the reason I replaced a Japanese 4S with a used 5 when moving to Canada: I couldn't unlock it for less than $170.) So instead, I'm planning to give myself a treat (I got my first professorship) and get a new phone.
Just to clarify. I was refering to sudsidised pricing (two year contract) versus full price/instalment payments (no contract). Since you are now in the Land of The Rising Sun, that may not be an option.
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So, the yearly plan is about $500 for a 128GB, non-plus model.
I'm torn. I don't like the idea of paying for something which doesn't exist yet, and not being able to give the old phone away makes the cost savings question less simple. I know I'd be paying less overall, but that isn't necessarily the be all, end all.
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Originally Posted by Chongo
Just to clarify. I was refering to sudsidised pricing (two year contract) versus full price/instalment payments (no contract). Since you are now in the Land of The Rising Sun, that may not be an option.
You have two options here: (1) Pay for the phone outright or (2) you divide the price by 24 (= the duration of most contracts) and add x/24 to your phone bill each month. No interest, no nothing. That part is pleasantly straight-forward.
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Originally Posted by subego
So, the yearly plan is about $500 for a 128GB, non-plus model.
I'm torn. I don't like the idea of paying for something which doesn't exist yet, and not being able to give the old phone away makes the cost savings question less simple. I know I'd be paying less overall, but that isn't necessarily the be all, end all.
Apple's yearly upgrade thing includes AppleCare+, too.
I wish it were available here.
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Originally Posted by Spheric Harlot
Apple's yearly upgrade thing includes AppleCare+, too.
I wish it were available here.
As I said, it's tempting.
I'm cool with waiting a year on it though.
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Originally Posted by subego
6s ordered!
Me too. It took about 5 minutes, totally effortless via the iPad after setting the alarm to wake at midnight. I first tried from the 5s but could not read the display well enough; perhaps I actually will like the bigger 6s size, we will see. Pickup of the 6s is scheduled for September 25 at a local Apple Store.
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Originally Posted by Chongo
Just to clarify. I was refering to sudsidised pricing (two year contract) versus full price/instalment payments (no contract). Since you are now in the Land of The Rising Sun, that may not be an option.
Originally Posted by OreoCookie
You have two options here: (1) Pay for the phone outright or (2) you divide the price by 24 (= the duration of most contracts) and add x/24 to your phone bill each month. No interest, no nothing. That part is pleasantly straight-forward.
I'm still under contract with Verizon so I can still get a new contract phone. As I mentioned before, I have to unbunde to get the lower per phone rate. I'll save $40 a month.
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Originally Posted by OreoCookie
You have two options here: (1) Pay for the phone outright or (2) you divide the price by 24 (= the duration of most contracts) and add x/24 to your phone bill each month. No interest, no nothing. That part is pleasantly straight-forward.
While we're waiting for our phones, let's have a Canada vs. Japan grudge match. Where's the better place to live?
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I have no contract, no strings on me. Last time I bought my phone outright and went with Virgin Mobile $30/mo plan. Which has worked out well except travelling to places VM doesn't cover.
Verizon may earn me back.... but $70/mo? is cheapest option? seems steep.
http://buyiphone6.apple.com/compare-iphone-plans/
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Originally Posted by subego
While we're waiting for our phones, let's have a Canada vs. Japan grudge match. Where's the better place to live?
Well, I'm getting twice the salary here in Japan than in Canada, so that's a healthy start. I wouldn't have minded staying in Canada, but career-wise it would have been much harder to get a professorship there (unless I go to a place where I only have to teach). Here in Japan I'm at one of the top research institutions in the country with lots of support from colleagues. (I have an unusually japanophile cv, so I don't have to pretend to be interested in Japan just because the academic job market in Europe and North America are horrible at the moment.)
In both countries, people are impossibly polite (although Japan is more extreme to a fault), Canada has more space (evidently). Comparing cities, that one is easy, Toronto wins here when compared to Sendai, but if you take Fukuoka as a point of comparison, it gets more difficult.
Weather-wise, I think it's a wash: Canada has harsh winters (which I can handle and actually sort of like) much more easily than the humidity and the torrential rains in the summer. Nevertheless, there is something to be said to live in a place where the ocean temperature in early fall is 28 degrees celsius and you can have BBQs at the beach.
Food: Well, that's easy, Japan wins hands down.
Internet-wise, there is no contest: when I was in Japan for the first time, I got stuck with slow internet, a symmetrical (!) 22 MBit/s connection. Now slow internet means 50 MBit/s here and fast is 1 GBit/s (which is what I'm aiming for at my next apartment). Ditto for data allowances on phones, standard contracts give you 5-7 GB per month, but most providers have wireless all over the city, meaning that you use up your allowance much more slowly. In Toronto I had 1 GB per month which was eaten up really quickly by these horrible websites.
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I suppose that Apple's thinking is that 3D Touch would be much more practical on the iPhone than the iPod given all the apps that take advantage of the gyroscope+GPS+features not available to the iPod Touch. But... for those of us who refuse to pay $1000 a year to have an extra phone line, I would like to have all of these features on the iPod. It seems rather shortsighted of Apple to refresh their iPods only a month ago without 3D Touch when such technology goes to the iPhone 6s only the one month later.
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Originally Posted by And.reg
I suppose that Apple's thinking is that 3D Touch would be much more practical on the iPhone than the iPod given all the apps that take advantage of the gyroscope+GPS+features not available to the iPod Touch. But... for those of us who refuse to pay $1000 a year to have an extra phone line, I would like to have all of these features on the iPod. It seems rather shortsighted of Apple to refresh their iPods only a month ago without 3D Touch when such technology goes to the iPhone 6s only the one month later.
I think it makes sense to introduce new flagship features on flagship products first, with fanfare.
BTW, I don't know where you live, but here in Germany, a contract over 1 GB LTE data with 100 minutes of voice included is about US$200 per year. Adding an extra 3GB to that brings you up to about $350 per year. (This is on congstar, which is the budget brand of our best cellular provider, Deutsche Telekom, unsubsidised, so bring-your-own-phone.)
It can't be *too* different in the US — Germany has among the highest rates for cellular service in Europe.
You might want to reconsider.
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Anyone gotten an update to their order notification? Mine's still in processing...
Also Japan's the best place to live, as long as work environment's tolerable (i.e. relaxed, for me).
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Originally Posted by OreoCookie
Well, I'm getting twice the salary here in Japan than in Canada, so that's a healthy start. I wouldn't have minded staying in Canada, but career-wise it would have been much harder to get a professorship there (unless I go to a place where I only have to teach). Here in Japan I'm at one of the top research institutions in the country with lots of support from colleagues. (I have an unusually japanophile cv, so I don't have to pretend to be interested in Japan just because the academic job market in Europe and North America are horrible at the moment.)
In both countries, people are impossibly polite (although Japan is more extreme to a fault), Canada has more space (evidently). Comparing cities, that one is easy, Toronto wins here when compared to Sendai, but if you take Fukuoka as a point of comparison, it gets more difficult.
Weather-wise, I think it's a wash: Canada has harsh winters (which I can handle and actually sort of like) much more easily than the humidity and the torrential rains in the summer. Nevertheless, there is something to be said to live in a place where the ocean temperature in early fall is 28 degrees celsius and you can have BBQs at the beach.
Food: Well, that's easy, Japan wins hands down.
Internet-wise, there is no contest: when I was in Japan for the first time, I got stuck with slow internet, a symmetrical (!) 22 MBit/s connection. Now slow internet means 50 MBit/s here and fast is 1 GBit/s (which is what I'm aiming for at my next apartment). Ditto for data allowances on phones, standard contracts give you 5-7 GB per month, but most providers have wireless all over the city, meaning that you use up your allowance much more slowly. In Toronto I had 1 GB per month which was eaten up really quickly by these horrible websites.
All very interesting... thank you!
How would you compare Toronto and Fukuowa? Even though that would be a tough call, I imagine what makes each of these urban centers appeal is radically different.
Also, aren't you a physicist? Is there a japanophile angle to this or are you talking about outside disciplines? What does "colleague support" mean?
(I have no intent of moving to either Canada or Japan, that you could authoritatively compare them piqued my curiosity)
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Originally Posted by poocat
Anyone gotten an update to their order notification? Mine's still in processing...
Also Japan's the best place to live, as long as work environment's tolerable (i.e. relaxed, for me).
Nothing yet...
Any trouble "fitting in" in Japan, or are you Japanese?
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He's an octopus, he'll be fine.
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Not Japanese, haven't lived there since 2003 (but am there roughly 1x per year and have friends still).
In terms of fitting in, well, won't ever "fit in" but feel very comfortable in environments where I don't have to talk to many people, and Japan is built for that. Restaurants that have automated ordering systems, kaiten sushi, and general politeness/privacy means that even though I don't fit in I feel very relaxed when there, because there's little social pressure on me and interruptions are rare.
Definitely not for everyone, but combining that with the incredible infrastructure investment and overall focus on cleanliness, it's a great place for me.
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Sounds legit. That would actually appeal to me. I've often said if good art didn't require putting myself in uncomfortable situations, I'd be a hermit.
Might as well have good internet at the hermitage.
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No movement yet. I'd have expected things to be stuck in customs by now.
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I get to wait a month before it becomes available on straightalk, but I'm ok with this.
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How long of a window do you think you'll have between the straighttalk release and them running out?
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AppleCare just activated, so I guess that's something. Seems like they're trying to cheese me out of three days worth of coverage, though.
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Originally Posted by subego
How long of a window do you think you'll have between the straighttalk release and them running out?
No idea. I'll roll with the punches as they come.
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Are they going to warn you before they launch or does it happen when it happens?
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That sounds like a no. I was thinking there may be a "click here, and we'll send you an email alert when it becomes available" type dealie.
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Originally Posted by subego
Are they going to warn you before they launch or does it happen when it happens?
Originally Posted by subego
That sounds like a no.
I don't think you answered your own question correctly.
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That sounds like a no [they will not warn you].
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I know what you mean, I'm busting your balls.
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Joke's on you. Those are tentacles.
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Shipping! Was getting worried there for a second.
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