£1000 for the new top of the range iPhone let the Apple fans rejoice I can see them lining up now at the Apple stores

 

The new Note 8 is also a grand. If I was ready for a new phone I know which one I'd go for..........

 

 

Edited 13 September, 20178 yr by Auric Goldfinger

Yeah, me too.

 

a £99 lenovo or motorola...

I got fed up with these rising prices and moved to brands such as Xiamoi and OnePlus.

Even had an Elephone....

But fundamentally, any phone on the market could make the tea but the overall call quality is still poor compared to a good 'ol BT land line!

 

Surely manufacturers should be concentrating on this side?

24 minutes ago, Coops said:

Surely manufacturers should be concentrating on this side?

 

I'd prefer to see manufacturers concentrate on extending the battery life of their handsets so that they can go for more than 24 hours (under general usage) without falling over. I guess that's where the next big leaps will come from.

 

Fair play to Apple for not using a propriety wireless charging system - it'll hopefully become a lot more popular to have Qi wireless charging pads in more places going forwards (although be ready for the "I left my phone wirelessly charging on the table in McDonald's and someone swiped it!" stories appearing soon).

Think I'll stick with my £40 Alcatel and vanilla Android thanks...

2 hours ago, Yetiherts said:

£1000 for the new top of the range iPhone let the Apple fans rejoice I can see them lining up now at the Apple stores

 

 

https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3017172/australian-man-is-already-queuing-up-for-the-iphone-x

 

Plenty people will cough up for the X and the 8.

 

I've got an iPhone SE having moved over from a Windows Phone Nokia 920.

I like how the iPhone just works with everything. The few apps I need are all there.

 

But everything else, absolutely everything, the Windows Phone was much better.

 

Google's relentless data slurping is what keeps me away from Android. I've a Samsung tablet at home but I use a limited set of apps on that as well, have a dummy Gmail account and no credit or payment options in Google.

 

 

 

3 hours ago, Yetiherts said:

£1000 for the new top of the range iPhone let the Apple fans rejoice I can see them lining up now at the Apple stores

 

One of my mates pointed out that this is effectively a high end desktop Mac shoehorned into a "smart" phone case. Put in those terms the price isn't so bad, but when I'm using a computer I want a decent monitor, a real keyboard and a mouse, and when I'm using a phone I want several days standby battery and hours of talk time.

BTW he won't be buying one either, because of the price.

I'm a big Apple fan, before the slating it's personal choice. To me Apple products cannot be beaten. My Mac book Pro is 8 years old and still runs the same as it did when new and no dout will run for the next 10 years, will the average window computor do the same, I think not as I think Microsoft keep altering there OS system which make them out of date in 6 months,  Apple OS is the same as it was from Day one ( almost the same ) with updates not a new system every year like windows. I run no anti virus software, never had the need to use it. I have a Ipad Mini and an Iphone and they all talk to each other. Mrs G has an Ipad and a iPhone 

 

Because the Os for the Macs/ipad and Os for the phones are stable and work well will I need a new Mac Book Soon, No, will I need a new ipad soon, No, Will I need a new iphone, No,  ( well maybe a new phone. )

 

 

Awkward.............. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/09/12/apple-suffers-embarrassing-demo-faceid-fail-iphone-x-launch/

Edited 13 September, 20178 yr by Gizmo

5 hours ago, KenONeill said:

One of my mates pointed out that this is effectively a high end desktop Mac shoehorned into a "smart" phone case. Put in those terms the price isn't so bad, but when I'm using a computer I want a decent monitor, a real keyboard and a mouse, and when I'm using a phone I want several days standby battery and hours of talk time.

BTW he won't be buying one either, because of the price.

 

If it expanded to be useful as a desktop like the Note 8 or even MS Continuum that might be a valid argument.

Microsoft product longevity isn't that bad.. for instance XP was a supported platform for over 12 years.

 

Even Apple have not claimed virus immunity since 2012.

 

Some fanboys forget that others need to cut their cloth more cheaply, indeed we equipped 4 members of the family with laptops for the price of one MacBook.

 

This latest news means I could buy phones for everyone in my street for the launch price of an iPhone X.

Edited 13 September, 20178 yr by camelspyyder

9 hours ago, Yetiherts said:

£1000 for the new top of the range iPhone let the Apple fans rejoice I can see them lining up now at the Apple stores

 

 

$1000 or £1000.

 

At least Apple recognise that approximate parity of the US Dollar and UK Pound is probable about right by the time of the launch !   

They have said that the dollar price (before tax) is roughly the same price as in pounds (including tax)

@Auric Goldfinger - You have an original Apple Macintosh running OSX!?

That being Mac OS 10 from 2001.  

 

Microsoft have only reached their 10th version in the last couple of years!

13 hours ago, camelspyyder said:

This latest news means I could buy phones for everyone in my street for the launch price of an iPhone X.

 

No one who gets an iPhone (never mind an X) is buying a 'phone'.

I'd contend I didn't pay an "Apple Tax" rather I paid the "Google avoidance" tax.

 

https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/opinion/3017276/the-pricing-of-the-iphone-x-is-a-threat-to-the-mobile-industry

 

Interesting take on it. But it assumes the X will sell well. Personally I hope it bombs and it'll cut off a ludicrous race to be the most expensive. Vertu must be kicking themselves for folding just before this nonsense.

 

I've more truck with Samsung making an expensive phone which doubles as a tool. you're paying for functionality. But the X, nope that's just gouging the vain.

1 minute ago, Aspman said:

Personally I hope it bombs and it'll cut off a ludicrous race to be the most expensive. Vertu must be kicking themselves for folding just before this nonsense.

 

It won't bomb. Clever strategy from Apple in selling both the 8 and the X simultaneously - people who buy an 8 are buying a phone that is already inferior to the X.

 

The extra ~£300 for an X over an 8 equates to an extra £12.50 per month on a typical 24 month term. Given that's how most people are going to be financing the phone, it's not a psychologically huge difference.

Our office which has a fair few Apple fans aren't that enthused with the latest releases in the 8 or X models, where as previously they would be clamouring to have the latest handset. They see it basically copying Samsung and nothing new.

Not a ifone fan or a Samsung / Sony etc android fan as these devices come laden with tone of useless apps that take up storage that you cannot remove to free up space that you can use for something more useful.  Some of them you cant even disable so clog up memory usage.

 

So when android released their phones with the minimum apps, I switched to these, and now on a 1+. 

 

Why would anyone want to pay £1000 for a phone that uses old tech ( Hardware) ?  Just look around at the people who dismantle tech to see what the real value of the components are each time they have found that the Ifone components are over 12 months behind. - so what they are paying for is the Logo, The Name, and software development costs   .

 

Thank you to all those that buy the ifone as you are paying for software development for my Mac. ( OS upgrades have been free since 2012)  

 

Personally, and with due respect,  I think anyone sitting outside a shop to pay £1000 + for any kind of mobile phone has more money than sense. 

I'm not impressed by Apple 'snobphones'. Just another fashion accessory is all they are to 90% of such fatuous people. 

Edited 19 September, 20178 yr by FurryFriend

Just now, FurryFriend said:

Personally, and with due respect,  I think anyone paying £1000 + for any kind of mobile phone has more money than sense. 

I'm not impressed by 'snobphones'. 

That's a view. Others may hold similar views about people paying more than £20k (as an example), for a car.

We are all individuals.

It is an opinion, that's all. Take it or leave it. As I said....  with due respect. 

 

 

I'm sensing a bit of a press backlash on the X. Have seen very little positive about it.

 

The 8 seems to have gotten a generally positive reception. Maybe the X was just there to deflect any comments from the £800 price of the 8. which after all is still a bloody expensive phone.

 

I'm much more interested in the prospect of Samsung's folding screen. But I hope they use it to make a 3" screen expand to 6" not a 6" to 12". I like a smallish phone but need a bigger keyboard coz my hands are quite big. http://www.techradar.com/news/samsung-galaxy-x-the-story-of-samsungs-foldable-phone-so-far