I knew it HAD to be available! I hear the larger sizes are more popular!
The 6+ screen is harder to fabricate, so there isn't as much availability.
Agreed, but I am questioning the practicality of carrying a device that size day in and day out for non-aviation use.
The 6 has digital image stabilization, the 6+ has optical image stabilization.If I wanted an mini iPad mini as a phone, i'd use google voice with my ipad mini . . . .
Instead, I got the straight 6 to use as a phone, and thats prob the outside max size I'd be willing to use as a phone -
image stab has never really worked - esp when its 'electronic' image stab which simply reads the electronic pixel jitter. . . .
the thing is a slight wide angle camera - jitter is usually not a major problem. You want a camera, use a camera! you want snapshots use a phone . ..
The 6 has digital image stabilization, the 6+ has optical image stabilization.
The tech nerds on the TWIT Network put this forth as a deciding factor for several of them in choosing the 6+.
That fact hasn't been lost on me, either....another factor pushing me to swap the 6 for the 6+. I think I've got 30 days with Verizon to decide whether to keep it.
For those who missed my pirep on the 6, it's here:
http://www.pilotsofamerica.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1561133&postcount=5
So, if you're getting one of them, what are your thoughts?
Although I'd like the battery life of the 6+, it's just so damn big!
I think I'll go for the 6.
I had a chance to spend about a half hour in an Apple Store Thursday.
Impressions:
1) If anything, leaning back towards an iPhone 6. The 6+ is awfully large in the hand and a case would only make it even more cumbersome. Regardless, I'm under contract on my 5s until next October, by which time there could easily be a "6s".
2) The new 5K iMac is gorgeous. May have found my next computer - but only if my Late-2008 MacBook Pro ever craps out or gets left behind feature-wise, which may be coming close to happening with Yosemite.
3) I still don't get the quest for thinness in iPads. The iPad Air 2 is a marvelous device if one needed a new iPad. Otherwise I don't see the huge benefit of the thinness, the gold color option nor the fingerprint reader over an existing iPad Air.
4) Finally, the Apple Store in Knoxville is still packing them in! Its really quite amazing.
Just committed to an iPhone 6+, 64gb.
Kept my "unlimited" data plan, and the phone payments will space out over 24 months (had to pay GA sales tax up front on the full retail price of the phone).
Karen will inherit my 5s and her 5c will get sold via Gazelle or eBay.
Will give first impressions when I've played with it a little.
Who is your carrier?
AT&T. Decent coverage out here in the boonies.
Thanks.
Now agonizing over an Otterbox Defender or Commuter case.
Nothing but Defenders up to now, but damn that adds to the bulk!
I think you'll like it. I was skeptical about the plus and almost went with the 6, but now I'm used to it and wouldn't want the smaller screen.
One nifty thing on the 6 is that iOS will now rotate sideways or even upside down. (Upside down is nice if you have a charger cable connected to keep it out of the way when typing.) I think it's both 6 models anyway... Could just be the 6 plus.