Thoughts on the iPhones 6, and iOS 8

So I camped for an iPhone 6 Plus on Thursday night, as is now customary (since 2007).

What made this dispatch especially intriguing was that I needed to deal with Friday. Regularly I take that three day weekend, and use it resting from the camp, designing everything, and for the most part being a nerd. 

However this time I must be in Denver for work. Furthermore one heck of a work: I needed to talk at 9:30am on dispatch day. Furthermore the lodging was around 10-30 minutes from the Apple store. 

Add to that some shopping plaza sensation (the Apple store there is inside a strip mall, not unsupported) which had me at position 30 in line as opposed to sub-5 like standard. 

So I landed there at like midnight completely going ballistic in light of the fact that I didn't know whether I could get my phone before I required to get in a Uber and dash transversely over town to do my discourse. 

It was offensive. 

So at around 3:00am I get a thought. Shouldn't something be said about At&t stores? I look and there's one a couple of pieces from where I'm remaining in the Apple line (fortunately Denver climate was similar to 75 degrees, no wind, fundamentally great). 

So I have somebody go scout over at the At&t store and there are just six individuals there. I head that way and am currently seventh in line rather than 30th. 

Not surprisingly, I met some cool individuals in line. One gentleman I'm really in contact with now. Helped him with some web security stuff in return for a sack of Doritos. Trade framework FTW. 

At any rate, I wound up escaping from the store first. The At&t store being referred to had huge amounts of iphone 6's, however just like eight 6 Pluses. I was the toward the end in line to get one, and wound up running with the silver 128 GB model. 

I was out in 10 minutes, got to the inn where the meeting was (Appsec USA), and did my discussion with my co-moderator (Jason from my group). Went really well. Loads of great input. 

So that was my telephone's beginning story. Presently we should discuss the stuff.e 6 Plus

So as I talked about in a previous post, I sold myself before launch on the concept of a post-phone device. A “mobile device”, not a phone. So I was looking forward to seeing if I’d like the size, if it would be too big, etc.

Turns out, it’s not too big. I can hold it quite easily and it fits nicely in my front pocket. But it is definitely a two-handed phone for many tasks, whereas my previous phone (and maybe the iPhone 6 as well?) are one-handers.

I’m a few days in now, and the benefits of the larger screen are outweighing the handling issues for me. By a significant margin.

This thing is a joy to use. Typing with two hands on it feels better to me than typing with two hands on either the 6 or the 5s.

But my main use case is reading. Email. Documents. And most importantly, books. It’s now my Kindle, and it does the job brilliantly.

Feel

The thing is big. It’s not as elegant in my hands as the regular 6. That thing feels spectacular to hold. Especially in the Space Grey with the face all blacked out. It feels like something from the future.

The Plus, not so much. It feels a bit large. Not unmanageable, but just not perfect like the 6. This is probably the reason Jobs and others said no for so long. It’s just not perfect to manipulate in your hands.

Camera

The camera on this thing is remarkable. Check this shot I got through a plane window on the way back to SF.

Taking feature on it is simply absurd. So smooth with the adjustment. So smooth. Also fresh. 

At the same time the best peculiarity of the cam must be the new center framework. It's unnerving great. This is the thing that I think has dependably put the iphone cams in front of the Android offerings. They have like 75 megapixel telephones or whatever, however they take blurry pictures excessively regularly. 

It's harder to utilize the product. It's not as responsive. What's more the pictures are more terrible. Other than that, solid advertising. 

The cam on the Plus amplifies that lead extensively. I'm not certain how much of it is the adjustment, or the greater sensor, or the new center thing, or whatever. I envision its the concentrate, however I'm just speculating. 

I think the extra picture adjustment on the Plus (versus the standard 6) is really minor as a rule, and most surveys have concurred. There has all the earmarks of being minor playing point in low-light circumstances, and when shooting while moving. Other than that, really minor. 

6 Plus Downsides 

I have a couple of negatives to say in regards to the gadget. 

I have seen much more jumpiness on this telephone than whatever other iphone previously. That is disillusioning. That is Android domain. They're the ones with 8gb of memory installed who still has bounced when you do things. At the same time the Plus just has 1 GB of memory, and I can't resist the opportunity to think about whether that ought to have been 2. Anyway perhaps this is something they can settle in programming. I've generally seen it when scrolling through loads of pictures in Photos. 

I imagine that is it, really, however its a huge one. On the off chance that its not programming, and the telephone is really under-fueled for the size and such I'm going to be disillusioned. 

It's not a huge arrangement, however I anticipate that Apple's interfaces will never hiccup the way that Android does. They never have previously, so for them to begin now would be inappropriate behavior. 

ios 8 Must-see Features 

I've been running ios 8 all late spring, so its not new to me on the Plus, however I needed to call attention to a couple of peculiarities that you couldn't in case you're new to the overhaul. 

Voice writings. You can now send voice messages by means of the local messaging application, which is super cool. 

SMS on your Mac. This one is taking off soon, yet its a huge venture forward. 

Better Messages interface. You can now do different types of stuff right from inside Messages. When you're conversing with somebody you can click on points of interest and see where they are, impart your current area (point in time), or choose to impart your upgraded whereabouts for 60 minutes, whatever remains of the day, or forever. It's enormously helpful for getting together with individuals. 

Sending individuals stuff is much less demanding in Messages. Like I said, Messages is simply better all around, which is enormous on the grounds that its most likely the most utilized application. It's presently far less demanding to impart pictures and stuff to individuals. Highly progressed. 

Handoff. You can begin something on your cell phone and lift it move down on your portable computer or desktop, and the other way around. Dinner inventive, yet will appear evident once you utilize it several times. 

ios 8 Desired Feature 

I'd want to see ios 8's voice writings get the alternative to auto-play got voice messages. This would make it more like a walkie-talkie. At this moment you need to click the little bolt each one time, which doesn't feel like a genuine discussion the way Voxer (and comparative applications) does. 

General ios 8 is simply a strong development of ios 7, however its got a huge amount of convenience peculiarities (particularly for Messages) that simply make it simpler to do your primary undertakings. 

It's likewise much simpler to impart content all through ios 8 and 

Goodness, here's a tip for you in the event that you have ios 8 with one of the bigger iphones 6: You can swipe left and right to go regressive and forward in numerous applications, including: 

Mail 

Safari 

Feedly 

Others, I'm certain 

With the bigger telephones it can be tricky to achieve the upper left to hit a back catch (or possibly the base left). Simply have a go at swiping from the left or right. It's much simpler to do this than go to the top or base. 

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In any case, that is it for the time being. Recently needed to give a fast overhaul on the weekend's occasions. 

Anticipating other people groups' encounters with either the iphones or ios