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[wecpcs]

All this talk of phones has made me itchy , I've done a bit of research and opted for the Xperia Z3.  Next step will be to decide what to do about the iPad later this year, it's a version 4 running 8.0.2 and Safari is not happy, it keeps freezing accessing webpages, altogether a tad tedious.

I bought the Z2 when it first came out 6 months ago along with the magnetic charging dock and I cannot fault in any way at all and the battery life is brilliant lasts me 2-3 days on a charge, so I think you will be very pleased with your Z3.

Colin

[Steve]

I am very pleased so far , just bloody RM can't deliver a memory card by the next day. Never mind last time I complained to Amazon it wasn't without benefit

[Simon]

Maybe we should have an Android board? 

I'm getting more used to my HTC One M8 now, but the operating system isn't a patch on iOS, and I haven't found anything worth having in the Play Store which isn't infested with ads. 

[Steve]

Perhaps we should  iOS is great for it's simplicity but the downside is it's rigidity, as opposed to Android which is extremely flexible in function and layout

[Simon]

Except when you want to set a task with fortnightly repeats. 

[Steve]

You can't win now iOS 8.02 has bluetooth issues.

http://www.hallels.com/articles/7661/20140929/iphone-6-latest-news-car-bluetooth-problems-surface.htm

[Simon]

:aarrgh:

[Simon]

I wonder if they'll get to the point of recalling the lot of them?  I'm sure this wouldn't have happened under Jobs.

[Gary]

I wonder if they'll get to the point of recalling the lot of them?  I'm sure this wouldn't have happened under Jobs.

That's a firmware issue not a phone one I think. The 6 is a nice phone, shame the screen scratches so easily though, my old 5S my 5 my 4s etc were all great screen wise. Reports on that are growing about and display uniformity issues as well. I think next years phone will have more ram a better reinforcement and I think the screen scratching issue will be sorted out. Always avoid version one of a new design. I like the Z3 but it has to much glass again and is to big for me, its a smash waiting to happen. I like small phones that I can use one handed tbh. My 5s will do me another year hopefully.

[Steve]

At least one manufacturer has realised you can use a larger phone with one hand by placing the power, volume buttons and camera button within reach of the holding hands thumb. You mention the ram issue again but various bench tests are showing that the 6 still beats the S5 and HTC for performance with similar apps. Apple's advantage of course has to be down to fixed hardware OS setup whereas Android is akin to windows having to provide for a multitude of hardware setups and to perform needs CPU power and extra RAM.

[Gary]

At least one manufacturer has realised you can use a larger phone with one hand by placing the power, volume buttons and camera button within reach of the holding hands thumb. You mention the ram issue again but various bench tests are showing that the 6 still beats the S5 and HTC for performance with similar apps. Apple's advantage of course has to be down to fixed hardware OS setup whereas Android is akin to windows having to provide for a multitude of hardware setups and to perform needs CPU power and extra RAM.

I mention ram as its really needed in the iPad comapred with the iPhone, no matter what though 1GB is just being cheap/stingy in the iPhone 6 at its price point no matter how optimised it may be, 2GB would have given it an edge.It may beat those phones in tests but those tests are not real world 'how many tabs on my screen are open and refreshing all the time with low memory problems' The iPad air threads on teh Apple forums were full of people wanting better memory management and more ram for that very reason. It would be good to see a 64 bit CPU using more than 1GB ram tbh too...

I bet the iPad air thingy comes out with 2GB this year, meaning the iPhone 6S will next year, It's the only way Apple will get people to update from a 6. The Z3 is gorgeous and a fair price to, very tempted by one, but I don't want an all glass phone. If only they made one with a polycarbonate back like the Nokia Lumia's then I would be sold. The iPhone 5C felt nicer to hold than the 5S really in that respect, and was less prone to damage. Aluminium gets scuffed and dented, the 3GS was gorgeous and that was plastic. Apple used to be at the top of their game, and with materials that can heal themselves (hell there is a case coming out for the iPhone that can heal scratches in itself) some genuine innovation in build wouldn't go amiss from some companies. A self healing back panel and the dust and water resistance aspect would make it perfect. Sadly perfect does not sell upgrades

[Lance]

All I can say is that the ram has not been an issue for me. I use my iphone extensively and have never found it an issue.

[Steve]

http://www.uswitch.com/mobiles/news/2014/10/ios_8_0_2_the_key_problems_with_apple_s_latest_update/

But do we believe it, I know competition is heathly but it seems to me that Apple struggle to bring out a new phone and new iOS at the same time perhaps if they were less ambitious users would have less issues.

Although part of me thinks there's an anti Apple element to  the news releases which I understand from the arrogance of the hard earned Job's era. I ask myself why I have a stuttering default browser on an iPad that's less than two years old.

[Simon]

Funnily enough, my cousin has a 4S, and hasn't had any problems with the upgrades, although, she did skip 8.0.0 and upgraded from 7 to 8.0.1.  I guess the older hardware doesn't support a lot of the problematic functions anyway.

[Gary]

http://www.uswitch.com/mobiles/news/2014/10/ios_8_0_2_the_key_problems_with_apple_s_latest_update/

But do we believe it, I know competition is heathly but it seems to me that Apple struggle to bring out a new phone and new iOS at the same time perhaps if they were less ambitious users would have less issues.

Although part of me thinks there's an anti Apple element to  the news releases which I understand from the arrogance of the hard earned Job's era. I ask myself why I have a stuttering default browser on an iPad that's less than two years old.

That sums it up nicely, Steve. It seems they don't have enough staff to work on OS X releases and iOS at the same time. I'll be avoiding Yosemite like the plague when that comes out. Apple used to get it right, iOS 7 was less buggy than this release tbh. Also Apples design team just don't think. A lot of people have complained of micro scratches on the curved corners of the iPhone 6, hardly surprising, considering before this model the glass was flat with a tiny chamfered edge, having a slightly raised and curved screen means the glass gets rubbed going in and out of pocket etc and even gorilla grass scratches.

My ipad 4 is hating iOS 8, but iOS 8 was a huge big bug fix so if you don't update, your device is left vulnerable to a bunch of nasty bugs. Safari is struggling, diagnostics is filled with 'jetsam' very low memory events, along with stacks-backboardd ones. Even the air isn't that happy for some it seems. Manufactures have reached stagnation point with what phones can do, so now we get all this extra cr@p and bloat to sell it each year. I wish they would just make phones that are designed for every day use, take some knocks and have good battery life. Do we really want a phone that can be mistaken for an after eight mint thickness wise? Then people wonder why the screen pops out of the corners as the aluminium body flexes 

[Glenn]

TI wish they would just make phones that are designed for every day use, take some knocks and have good battery life.

You can have a Nokia 106 for £5 in Asda http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/nokia-106-5-asda-2014514

[Gary]

You can have a Nokia 106 for £5 in Asda http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/nokia-106-5-asda-2014514

Yeah...no! 

[Steve]

To be honest I think we've got the phones that we asked for, we wanted them thinner, we wanted them shatter proof with a quality build. So now we have thin aluminium frames, light weight screens and therefore is it any surprise that no matter who makes them that they bend given sufficient provication.

[Gary]

To be honest I think we've got the phones that we asked for, we wanted them thinner, we wanted them shatter proof with a quality build. So now we have thin aluminium frames, light weight screens and therefore is it any surprise that no matter who makes them that they bend given sufficient provication.

Shame as I never wanted thin phones or aluminium ones, just robust ones. My 3GS was still the most comfortable to hold with its nice slightly curved plastic back. What we have now are high price form over function status symbols it appears.

[Simon]

My One M8 sits nicely in the hand in portrait mode, but is a little wide to use one handed in landscape mode.  I'd prefer a little less height and a little more width, so I tbink the 6 would have been ideal, size wise.  By comparison, my 4S now seems tiny!

[Gary]

My One M8 sits nicely in the hand in portrait mode, but is a little wide to use one handed in landscape mode.  I'd prefer a little less height and a little more width, so I tbink the 6 would have been ideal, size wise.  By comparison, my 4S now seems tiny!

The 6 is a nice size but to many bent phone screen popping out issues for my liking. A slight twist causes the screen to click in one the corners, not great. My friend has one now, gorgeous screen, shame its not 1080, but there you go. His headphone socket is uber tight and crackles and the screen pops in the top left hand corner. He awaiting a replacement, if this one does it he is keeping his 5 for now. Also he has a shadow and some yellowing from top to bottom. The phone is a perfect size though.

[Glenn]

How to stop your iPhone 6 from bending http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYo72E7ZMHM 

[Gary]

How to stop your iPhone 6 from bending http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYo72E7ZMHM 

[pctech]

Perhaps Apple is losing it's way again.

Quality does appear to be slipping somewhat or maybe they've just been bolting new features/hardware drivers onto code that hasn't been rewritten since the initial product was launched which is now exposing some bugs?

Maybe they need to wait a couple of years before pushing out iPhone 7 and start from scratch?

[Steve]

I don't think they're losing their way, also they can't afford to wait a couple of years otherwise they'll lose market share. We expect a new version every year no matter who the manufacturer is, I think for Apple unless it's perfect they're fair game for criticism for a variety of reasons including fanboy expectations let's not forget the competition with Google Andorid is pretty fierce , if you don't try to innovate on both the hardware side and the software side you end up as a bit player akin to the once almighty Blackberry.