iPhone 6S

[pr1]

Have we reached peak phone ?

they said that with the nokia 3310! (probably)

[tomtomagain]

I will be ordering mine within the next week or so.

No I don't need it. My 5S is perfectly good.

But I want one. So there.

[d000hg]

Have we reached peak phone ?

I haven't seen any compelling reason to upgrade until my phone becomes too slow to run the latest apps

Other than gaming and a few niche areas (music for instance) modern phones are already vastly over-powered for most uses. But then so are desktops really.

[pr1]

Other than gaming and a few niche areas (music for instance) modern phones are already vastly over-powered for most uses. But then so are desktops really.

multiple profiles (it'd be nice if iphone could have a thing where if your kid puts their thumb on it it unlocks the phone for just child-friendly (/parent approved) apps, but when you put your thumb on it's standard profile, so you're not worried they'll accidentally delete something or phone someone)

there's still a long way to go on battery life/battery technology

wireless charging

[sal]

I ordered one for the mrs, to replace hers iphone 4 which is giving up the ghost after suffering the abuse of an 18 month old.

[d000hg]

multiple profiles (it'd be nice if iphone could have a thing where if your kid puts their thumb on it it unlocks the phone for just child-friendly (/parent approved) apps, but when you put your thumb on it's standard profile, so you're not worried they'll accidentally delete something or phone someone)

there's still a long way to go on battery life/battery technology

wireless charging

Doesn't Android support multiple profiles already - and besides this is a software issue not a hardware one. A new OS on current phones could fix it.

Battery technology mostly suffers BECAUSE they keep making the phones more powerful. If they kept performance constant using new technology, power usage would drop each iteration.

Wireless charging is already here. It's just not proving very popular, so hasn't become a standard feature.

[NickFitz]

If this is a normal use case, and something other phones can withstand, then it's reasonable to expect the 6 can do something the 5 could.

He was an American. Those people think MF is svelte.

Also, it wasn't the 6 that was (in a tiny number of cases and only when considerable force was applied) prone to bending, it was the 6 Plus. Larger size => more leverage when you apply torsion.

[NickFitz]

Other than gaming and a few niche areas (music for instance) modern phones are already vastly over-powered for most uses. But then so are desktops really.

Luckily there are lots of software developers who are lazy, incompetent, or both. They keep writing software that is so inefficient that it can barely run even on the latest hardware, thereby justifying the upgrade

[minestrone]

He was an American. Those people think MF is svelte.

Also, it wasn't the 6 that was (in a tiny number of cases and only when considerable force was applied) prone to bending, it was the 6 Plus. Larger size => more leverage when you apply torsion.

Bending moments.

[pr1]

Bending moments.

torsion is also correct (twisting the ends in opposite clockwise/anticlockwise directions)