agreed. I ditched the insurance plan sprint offered and just went with applecare.
Best phone I’ve ever owned. I was worried about it’s giant size a little when I first got it but other than having to retire one pair of shorts that had really shallow pockets that the phone wouldn’t fit into the phablet size hasn’t bothered me at all. I was using a regular 6 the other day and was really glad I went with the 6+.
I might reboot it once every few weeks and everything just works. I leave location services, wifi and BT on 24/7/365 and have no issues with battery performance. Today I’ve had 1 hour 26 minutes of usage and 7 hours 8 minutes of standby and I’m at 87% charged. The screen is fully readable in bright sunlight even with my polarized sunglasses. I thought the finger print scanner was kind of dumb when I got it but since turning it on to play with I found I really like keeping my phone locked. I’m going to press the home button to bring up the swipe to unlock anyway so by using TouchID I just hold my finger on the button for about 1 second and the phone unlocks. The camera is great and the 240 frames/s thing is fun for doing slow motion stuff. I’ve just started playing with healthkit and it’s pretty cool that the M8 chip captures steps 24/7 without needing an extra app running, gps eating your battery or stupid 3rd party wristband.
The only problem I’ve had is it seems a little sensitive to extreme cold. I use my phone a lot for GPS on the snowmobile and I’ve found when it’s -5 degrees with a -20 windchill I can’t leave the phone in my snowmobile jacket pocket. After a while it gets so cold it just shuts off. I’ve had a similar problem skiing in temperatures under 10 degrees but my ski coat pocket has just the shell protection the phone since the insulation layer is on the wrong side of the pocket. My Galaxy S3 would get sluggish when you got it really cold but it wouldn’t shut down completely. Move it to an inside pocket and it’s fine though.
I’m not a fanboy. Several buddies are android regulars and I gave droid life a shot for 2 years with the Galaxy S3. All I hear from my droid fanboy friends is how this latest droid phone they’ve gotten fixes all the issues they’ve had with their last droid and how the last one was a piece of crap but this one is awesome. A year later they repeat this cycle with their next droid. Say what you want about Apple’s closed development environment but it makes for far more stable products that get regular updates. Now that I’m writing apps for iOS and Android I can completely see why so many droid apps suck balls. Unlike iOS where you have a handful of devices and can be pretty confident they’re all on an up to date OS Android has thousands of different devices and an absolute shitshow of outdated OS’s that every manufacturer has corrupted with their own special sauce. The iOS home banking app I tested on every current Apple device. The Android version? We tested on what we had in the office and pushed it into the play store with a “good luck little buddy”.
And that was the kinda of review I was looking for with the 6 vs 6 plus 
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perhaps I am the only one but fuck the Pandora app. it literally will drain my battery 20% if I listen to Pandora for 45 min.
Spotify doesn’t seem to hurt my battery much at all. I used it pretty much exclusively for all my trips to Holiday Valley and don’t even bother hooking the phone to my car charger. And that’s with using the SkiTracks app the whole time I’m skiing to track runs, speed and vertical.
I like the plus. I am a big guy and dont wear skinny jeans so i have no problem with bending or putting it in my pocket. I dont have a case on it and it is pretty durable.
Only complaints I have are the speakers are now fuzzy which I guess is on warranty so I gotta go into Apple and have them check it out. The worst part is the iOS8 IMO. It was buggy as hell and getting better but the rotation locking has just annoying the fuck out of me from day one as it seems supersensitive to rotate and apps get stuck so I am walking around looking like I’m taking creepy photos of the people in front of me trying to get it to go back vertical.
Battery on it is sick tho and IMO has been a big selling point for iPhones for me. I charge it occasionally in my car which is very slow and never had an issue with heavy use getting through a day or having to be glued to a charger.
That last update made the rotation stuff a lot more reliable, especially when taking the phone out of your pocket and having it unlock upside down and taking 1/2 seconds or so to flip back. I never see it do that anymore.
Should we talk Spotify vs. Pandora right now, or table it?
Never really gave Spotify a chance. Pandora keeps me happy. Talk to me.
My only problem with Pandora was it seemed like after a few weeks of :tup: and :tdown: I’d narrow my station down to just a handful of songs.
:tup: Ordered a 6 plus and the apple leather case
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ive seen entirely too many bent 6 and 6+, however the 6+ is more prone to bending
no issues at all with my old 6 64gb except horrible battery life
my lady has a 64 gig 6 and has had no issues at all. this is the first I’ve heard of it
This was one of my biggest issues with iOS 8 on the phone but I agree, the latest software seems to have fixed a lot of issues with it.
I signed up for 3 months for $0.99 of Spotify. It is cool for playlists and music on demand but I am not sold on paying $9.99 a month or it when the trial ends. Pandora is good for just on background music IMO but it can be spot on with a play list or it can suck so its hit or miss.
I have had a 6+ since launch day and is always in my front pocket (non skinny jeans) and the phone has no bending issues. I did see a hipster in skinny jeans the other day at Spot with theirs in the back pocket while sitting down who I am sure is one of the people who complain about this.
Had the 6+ for little while now love it and the battery life is amazing
Same here, launch day 6+, always in my pocket, still as straight as an arrow. I personally haven’t seen a single bent iphone but I don’t hang out with the tight jeans crowd either. In fact this thread is the first time I’ve seen it brought up since the whole “bendgate” thing got over-hyped by the media during launch week.
I’ve bent my iPhone 6 multiple times… Just pop the case off and bend her back:tup:
Even my Android humping buddy is impressed by how much battery my 6+ has left after a day out snowmobiling and using it for our GPS. Meanwhile he’s putting his phone in airplane mode most of the day because Android still hasn’t figured out how to be out of cell coverage without hammering the battery as the OS desperately retries to connect to a tower.
As much as the first version of iOS8 annoyed me, the battery life is what keeps me in the iPhone. I am on it all day and can go from full charge at 7am and into the night easily. Hell, last weekend I had it on at work from 7am-5pm. Charged it from 5-6pm in my car and then was able to get up the next morning at 35%. I am not glued to Snapchat and Facebook all day but the screen is on a lot and I am using data all day so I consider it one of the best batteries out there and can’t wait to see what iOS 9 does with the power saving mode that seemed to be a big help for Android.
I have a 6, and it’s fucking bent. I didn’t notice it until my co worker called me out on it by saying “dude, your phone is fucking bent”