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iPhone 6 fever hits Beijing
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Re: iPhone 6 has a defect!
Don't think it's made of titanium!!
Don't think it's made of titanium!!
Re: iPhone 6 has a defect!
Should have David Beckham as Apple's ambassador for iPhone 6.
Remember the movie "Bend it like Beckham" ?
Should have David Beckham as Apple's ambassador for iPhone 6.
Remember the movie "Bend it like Beckham" ?
Re: iPhone 6 has a defect!
OMGGGG SERIOUSSS OR NOTTTT !! I was plannin to buy it :(
OMGGGG SERIOUSSS OR NOTTTT !! I was plannin to buy it :(
Re: iPhone 6 has a defect!
that is the built-in secret feature of Apple called iBend..very functional which can follow the contour of your pocket.. very ingenious!!!!
that is the built-in secret feature of Apple called iBend..very functional which can follow the contour of your pocket.. very ingenious!!!!
Re: iPhone 6 has a defect!
try bending down in front of a bayi in the shower stall. the iphone bend will not be on your mind.
try bending down in front of a bayi in the shower stall. the iphone bend will not be on your mind.
iPhone 6 resellers lose out as Hong Kong supplies flood mainland markets
PUBLISHED : Thursday, 25 September, 2014, 5:42am
UPDATED : Thursday, 25 September, 2014, 5:42am
He Huifeng and Nectar Gan
The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus models hit shop shelves in Hong Kong last week. Photo: Sam Tsang
Dealers in the mainland's grey market for smartphones say they have lost heavily by betting on Apple's new iPhone 6. They blame an abundant supply from Hong Kong and other overseas sources for bringing down prices.
In Beijing's Zhongguancun district, a 16GB iPhone 6 sold for between 6,000 yuan (HK$7,570) and 6,500 yuan yesterday, while the bigger iPhone 6 Plus model was selling for around 9,000 yuan, according to vendors.
The iPhone models hit shop shelves in Hong Kong last week but a date is still to be set for sales on the mainland.
A worker at a shop in Zhongguancun said her store bought more than 100 iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus models from Hong Kong, only to lose thousands of yuan on the deal.
"In the [Zhongguancun] market, if you have stocked the [iPhone 6], you are losing money," she told the South China Morning Post.
"The prices are dropping way too fast. Some sellers lost money while their phones were on the plane [to Beijing]."
She said the price of an iPhone 6 Plus fell 2,000 yuan on Saturday.
The grey market price for a 16GB iPhone 6 also dropped from more than 8,000 yuan on Monday to over 7,000 yuan on Tuesday, and to above 6,000 yuan on Wednesday, she said. The 16GB version is retailing for HK$5,588 in Hong Kong through the Apple store.
But another Beijing vendor said there were also scalpers who had made big money from reselling iPhone 6 models.
"Some of the ones who sold their goods quickly earned more than a million yuan," the vendor said.
Another vendor said: "These days, making or losing money all depends on the time [of the handsets' arrival]. [We are] racing against time."
Sellers said that supplies of the iPhone 6 were much greater than releases in previous years, pushing the price down.
In Shenzhen, vendors at the Huaqiangbei commercial area said an influx of individual sellers from Hong Kong exacerbated the price drop.
"Many mainland speculators at Huaqiangbei bought up large stocks of the phones at high prices on Friday and Saturday from Hong Kong. We were all shocked … on Sunday night when we saw a number of Hong Kong people come to sell the phones in the streets in front of our shops," said Chen Chouquan, a trader in Nokia and Apple products at Manha Digital City.
"We all lost big money because of these Hong Kong people. Many of them came on their own with only one or two phones and hawked them on the street. The prices they asked are more competitive than most shops here, as our costs are higher."
Chen said many phones were being smuggled from other offshore markets as well, which had also driven the grey market prices down.
Another trader at Mingtong Digital City said: "A regular customer of mine from Guangzhou just cancelled a deal. He wanted a 128GB iPhone 6 Plus. I told him it's about 10,500 yuan today. He said no because he just saw a Hong Kong man … put a post online at [popular iPhone trading website] 51apple.com asking only 8,500 yuan for it."
The price of a 64GB iPhone 6 in Huaqiangbei was close to 10,000 yuan on Saturday but dropped to 7,000 on Sunday and 6,600 yuan on Tuesday at the shops there.
Chen said the grey market prices of the iPhone 6 would continue to drop if more customers in the delta and Hong Kong residents decided to trade with each other on the street and not go through agents.
iPhone 6 screen too large? Try an extendable thumb
iPhone 6 screen too large? Try an extendable thumb
PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 24 September, 2014, 5:48pm
UPDATED : Wednesday, 24 September, 2014, 9:31pm
James Griffiths [email protected]
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Smaller-handed gadget fans rejoice! A Japanese inventor has come up with a way to use Apple’s new 5.5-inch iPhone display without straining your thumb.
Tokyo-based gadget maker Thanko is selling its “Yubi Nobiiru” for around US$13 to customers who love large-screen devices but baulk at using them with one hand.
The “extending finger” is a thumb-shaped stylus which adds an extra 15 millimetres to a user’s own digit, allowing easy access to the whole screen.
“This wasn’t specifically designed for the new iPhone but for overall smartphones because screen sizes are getting larger and difficult to handle,” a Thanko spokesman told the Wall Street Journal.
Though Apple’s new larger screen models have attracted a great deal of attention, “phablets” have been around for many years. Samsung’s Galaxy Note, released in 2011, is largely credited with pioneering the larger-screen market now worth an estimated US$46 billion according to market research firm Visiongain.
Despite the market’s explosive growth in recent years, many consumers struggle to use larger screens. A widely shared image created by designer Scott Hurf based on research into the “Thumb Zone” by mobile expert Steve Hoober found that almost two-thirds of the new iPhone 6 Plus screen are comfortably within reach of most people’s thumbs.
While the “Yubi Nobiiru” may fix that particular problem, some angry customers have reported that the phone’s larger size also means it is more susceptible to getting bent.
According to Techcrunch, “reports suggest that the phone will bend when left in a pocket, seated, for a prolonged period of time.”
Picture showing how an iPhone 6 bent when left in its owner's pocket. Photo: Social media
iPhone 6 screen too large? Try an extendable thumb
PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 24 September, 2014, 5:48pm
UPDATED : Wednesday, 24 September, 2014, 9:31pm
James Griffiths [email protected]
<iframe width="853" height="480" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/H1ebWLlzsdQ?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Smaller-handed gadget fans rejoice! A Japanese inventor has come up with a way to use Apple’s new 5.5-inch iPhone display without straining your thumb.
Tokyo-based gadget maker Thanko is selling its “Yubi Nobiiru” for around US$13 to customers who love large-screen devices but baulk at using them with one hand.
The “extending finger” is a thumb-shaped stylus which adds an extra 15 millimetres to a user’s own digit, allowing easy access to the whole screen.
“This wasn’t specifically designed for the new iPhone but for overall smartphones because screen sizes are getting larger and difficult to handle,” a Thanko spokesman told the Wall Street Journal.
Though Apple’s new larger screen models have attracted a great deal of attention, “phablets” have been around for many years. Samsung’s Galaxy Note, released in 2011, is largely credited with pioneering the larger-screen market now worth an estimated US$46 billion according to market research firm Visiongain.
Despite the market’s explosive growth in recent years, many consumers struggle to use larger screens. A widely shared image created by designer Scott Hurf based on research into the “Thumb Zone” by mobile expert Steve Hoober found that almost two-thirds of the new iPhone 6 Plus screen are comfortably within reach of most people’s thumbs.
While the “Yubi Nobiiru” may fix that particular problem, some angry customers have reported that the phone’s larger size also means it is more susceptible to getting bent.
According to Techcrunch, “reports suggest that the phone will bend when left in a pocket, seated, for a prolonged period of time.”
Picture showing how an iPhone 6 bent when left in its owner's pocket. Photo: Social media
u know all of a sudden i feel like buying some apple stock,idiots will always be idiots......i realise theres really nothing special about iphones.....maybe the first one was special and steve jobs was a genius the first time,but when u see these idiots queuing up again and again and again for the same shit wrapped in a slightly different package u start to realise.........most people in the world are born to be idiots.....all they want is to be part of the herd and chase stupid fads........they want to be fed garbage over and over again like oppa gunnam style and kpop.
iPhone 6 craze sweeps Metro Vancouver
By Yuliya Talmazan Global News
A crowd of 1,200 lined up to get the latest iPhone in Burnaby overnight, but excitement quickly turned into chaos when police officers arrived to help with crowd control.
The line-up stretching for meters outside Metropolist at Metrotown became hectic when some people tried to cut in and started pushing.
The RCMP told Global News they had to step in and the situation was resolved peacefully.
#iphone line is crazy. 200 ppl just rushed the front of the line, & started pushing; police here now. #metrotown
“I want to buy an iPhone 6,” one woman in the line-up told Global News.
When asked what the new iPhone has that the previous version did not have, she replied, “I have no idea, I get to find out.” Another woman says she is lining up to buy the new iPhone for her family in China.
Many told Global News they have been lining up since Wednesday and camping out at the mall overnight.
Once the Apple store doors opened this morning, customers flooded in to the applause and high fives from staff, who were giving out free donuts to the people still waiting in line.
Metrotown at 5:30 am. I still haven't figured out how to deal with people with reservations. #iphone6
Other retail locations around Metro Vancouver saw no shortage of line-ups this morning as well.
Triumph of marketing over good sense & reason. 410 camped overnight for iPhone 6 Oakridge Mall Vancouver
Overnight lineup around Pacific Centre for iphone 6 goes down the block. Seriously? C'mon nerds.
Oh me? I'm just taking photos of the iPhone 6 line up with my five year old blackberry. #Vancouver
By Yuliya Talmazan Global News
A crowd of 1,200 lined up to get the latest iPhone in Burnaby overnight, but excitement quickly turned into chaos when police officers arrived to help with crowd control.
The line-up stretching for meters outside Metropolist at Metrotown became hectic when some people tried to cut in and started pushing.
The RCMP told Global News they had to step in and the situation was resolved peacefully.
#iphone line is crazy. 200 ppl just rushed the front of the line, & started pushing; police here now. #metrotown
“I want to buy an iPhone 6,” one woman in the line-up told Global News.
When asked what the new iPhone has that the previous version did not have, she replied, “I have no idea, I get to find out.” Another woman says she is lining up to buy the new iPhone for her family in China.
Many told Global News they have been lining up since Wednesday and camping out at the mall overnight.
Once the Apple store doors opened this morning, customers flooded in to the applause and high fives from staff, who were giving out free donuts to the people still waiting in line.
Metrotown at 5:30 am. I still haven't figured out how to deal with people with reservations. #iphone6
Other retail locations around Metro Vancouver saw no shortage of line-ups this morning as well.
Triumph of marketing over good sense & reason. 410 camped overnight for iPhone 6 Oakridge Mall Vancouver
Overnight lineup around Pacific Centre for iphone 6 goes down the block. Seriously? C'mon nerds.
Oh me? I'm just taking photos of the iPhone 6 line up with my five year old blackberry. #Vancouver
The triumph of marketing.
10 MILLION UNITS SOLD…IN A WEEKEND!
Thousands waited Friday outside the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan to buy the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. Sales stayed strong all weekend. Credit Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times
Posted: September 23, 2014 at 12:34 pm / by Maurice Kay / comments (0)
First-Weekend Sales of Apple’s iPhone 6 Models Top 10 Million. Now that’s the difference between big shots and small players. The iPhone 6 Plus and iPhone 6 rival the competition in sheer size. But when it comes to taking advantage of those bigger screens, Molly Wood says, Apple’s new phones don’t always measure up. But did this stop Apple from breaking its own record?
Apple’s investors obsess over early iPhone sales like Hollywood producers tracking opening ticket sales for a blockbuster movie.
A big weekend is usually a healthy predictor of consumer demand for the holiday season — not just for Apple, but for the entire consumer electronics industry.
Those Apple watchers can rest easy because the company’s new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus are no bust. Apple said on Monday that it had sold 10 million units of its new and bigger iPhones over the weekend, up from the nine million iPhones it sold last year in the first weekend of sales for the previous generation of iPhones.
The iPhone is still Apple’s biggest cash cow, accounting for about 70 percent of its profit. So early sales can help predict quarterly or even annual results for the company, based in Cupertino, Calif.
Now the momentum from the new iPhones’ strong opening weekend is expected to help carry Apple to record sales this holiday quarter. Maynard Um, a senior research analyst for Wells Fargo, predicts Apple will sell about 58 million iPhones in the holiday quarter, up from 51 million in that period a year ago. Toni Sacconaghi, a financial analyst for Sanford C. Bernstein, estimates Apple will sell 55 million to 60 million iPhones in the holiday season.
The weekend iPhone sales, which were a record for Apple, were on the upper end of financial analysts’ predictions, which ranged from 6.5 million to the “low teens” of millions of units.
The early results also reflect consumer demand for bigger phone screens. Both new iPhones have much larger screens than the 4 inches of earlier versions: the iPhone 6’s screen is 4.7 inches diagonal and the 6 Plus is 5.5 inches diagonal.
The only real surprise to some analysts is that Apple held out so long before releasing smartphones that kept pace with large-screen competitors from companies like Samsung Electronics, HTC and Nokia, which have been offering so-called phablets — a blurring of the line between a phone and a tablet computing device — for several years.
“It’s really unusual that a company avoids a hot product category as long as Apple has been avoiding phablets,” said Tero Kuittinen, a managing director for Frank N. Magid Associates, a technology research company. “Every other vendor jumped on the phablet train.”
As is typical with Apple product introductions, some customers stayed up late to order the new iPhones online while others slept in garbage bags outside Apple Stores. But notably, none of them were in China. Apple has delayed the release of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus there, apparently because the devices have not received approval from Chinese regulators.
Timothy Cook and customers
Jamael Ahmed celebrated on Friday after being the first to buy an iPhone 6 at the Apple Store at Covent Garden in London. Credit Ben A. Pruchnie/Getty Images
IDC, a research company, estimated that at least 20 percent of all smartphones shipped last year in China, the largest smartphone market, were five inches or larger.
“Even without China, Apple was able to move $6.5 billion of product in three days, which would be impressive for any industry,” said Walter Piecyk, managing director at BTIG Research.
Apple’s share price rose slightly Monday, ending the day up 0.1 percent to $101.06.
Still, some analysts, like Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray, wondered whether first-weekend sales were still a reliable measure of consumer demand. The iPhone is already immensely popular in many countries, he noted before Apple’s weekend results, so early sales may be more of a sign of how many iPhones can initially be produced by Apple and its manufacturing partners.
“The first-weekend iPhone sales number continues to be more about how much Apple can supply than what the demand is in the market,” Mr. Piecyk said.
Timothy D. Cook, chief executive of Apple, said as much on Monday.
“We could have sold many more iPhones with greater supply, and we are working hard to fill orders as quickly as possible,” he said in a statement.
The introduction of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus was the second time Apple released two new iPhones at the same time. Last year, it introduced the iPhone 5S with the iPhone 5C, a colorful plastic model sold at a lower price.
Apple is not treating the iPhone 5C like past iPhones. Traditionally, Apple has upgraded each iPhone once a year, with improvements like faster chips and better cameras. However, this month, instead of announcing an upgrade for the iPhone 5C, Apple said it would continue to sell the exact same iPhone, but for less: free with a contract.
Analysts say that it appears Apple’s strategy all along for the iPhone 5C was to sell an older, plastic iPhone over a longer period to allow the costs of production and components to drop. That lets Apple decrease the price of the plastic iPhone and increase market share in less affluent markets.
Although Apple is late to the party with bigger phones, Samsung of South Korea could suffer the most. Samsung, the largest handset maker, has relied heavily on larger screens as a selling point for its popular Galaxy smartphones.
Mr. Kuittinen of Magid Associates said that Samsung’s smartphone sales were already slowing before Apple introduced larger iPhones. So this holiday season could look grim for Samsung and other handset makers.
“It’s going to be a very scary Christmas for HTC, Samsung and LG,” he said
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10 MILLION UNITS SOLD…IN A WEEKEND!
Thousands waited Friday outside the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan to buy the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. Sales stayed strong all weekend. Credit Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times
First-Weekend Sales of Apple’s iPhone 6 Models Top 10 Million. Now that’s the difference between big shots and small players. The iPhone 6 Plus and iPhone 6 rival the competition in sheer size. But when it comes to taking advantage of those bigger screens, Molly Wood says, Apple’s new phones don’t always measure up. But did this stop Apple from breaking its own record?
Apple’s investors obsess over early iPhone sales like Hollywood producers tracking opening ticket sales for a blockbuster movie.
A big weekend is usually a healthy predictor of consumer demand for the holiday season — not just for Apple, but for the entire consumer electronics industry.
Those Apple watchers can rest easy because the company’s new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus are no bust. Apple said on Monday that it had sold 10 million units of its new and bigger iPhones over the weekend, up from the nine million iPhones it sold last year in the first weekend of sales for the previous generation of iPhones.
The iPhone is still Apple’s biggest cash cow, accounting for about 70 percent of its profit. So early sales can help predict quarterly or even annual results for the company, based in Cupertino, Calif.
Now the momentum from the new iPhones’ strong opening weekend is expected to help carry Apple to record sales this holiday quarter. Maynard Um, a senior research analyst for Wells Fargo, predicts Apple will sell about 58 million iPhones in the holiday quarter, up from 51 million in that period a year ago. Toni Sacconaghi, a financial analyst for Sanford C. Bernstein, estimates Apple will sell 55 million to 60 million iPhones in the holiday season.
The weekend iPhone sales, which were a record for Apple, were on the upper end of financial analysts’ predictions, which ranged from 6.5 million to the “low teens” of millions of units.
The early results also reflect consumer demand for bigger phone screens. Both new iPhones have much larger screens than the 4 inches of earlier versions: the iPhone 6’s screen is 4.7 inches diagonal and the 6 Plus is 5.5 inches diagonal.
The only real surprise to some analysts is that Apple held out so long before releasing smartphones that kept pace with large-screen competitors from companies like Samsung Electronics, HTC and Nokia, which have been offering so-called phablets — a blurring of the line between a phone and a tablet computing device — for several years.
“It’s really unusual that a company avoids a hot product category as long as Apple has been avoiding phablets,” said Tero Kuittinen, a managing director for Frank N. Magid Associates, a technology research company. “Every other vendor jumped on the phablet train.”
As is typical with Apple product introductions, some customers stayed up late to order the new iPhones online while others slept in garbage bags outside Apple Stores. But notably, none of them were in China. Apple has delayed the release of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus there, apparently because the devices have not received approval from Chinese regulators.
Timothy Cook and customers
Jamael Ahmed celebrated on Friday after being the first to buy an iPhone 6 at the Apple Store at Covent Garden in London. Credit Ben A. Pruchnie/Getty Images
IDC, a research company, estimated that at least 20 percent of all smartphones shipped last year in China, the largest smartphone market, were five inches or larger.
“Even without China, Apple was able to move $6.5 billion of product in three days, which would be impressive for any industry,” said Walter Piecyk, managing director at BTIG Research.
Apple’s share price rose slightly Monday, ending the day up 0.1 percent to $101.06.
Still, some analysts, like Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray, wondered whether first-weekend sales were still a reliable measure of consumer demand. The iPhone is already immensely popular in many countries, he noted before Apple’s weekend results, so early sales may be more of a sign of how many iPhones can initially be produced by Apple and its manufacturing partners.
“The first-weekend iPhone sales number continues to be more about how much Apple can supply than what the demand is in the market,” Mr. Piecyk said.
Timothy D. Cook, chief executive of Apple, said as much on Monday.
“We could have sold many more iPhones with greater supply, and we are working hard to fill orders as quickly as possible,” he said in a statement.
The introduction of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus was the second time Apple released two new iPhones at the same time. Last year, it introduced the iPhone 5S with the iPhone 5C, a colorful plastic model sold at a lower price.
Apple is not treating the iPhone 5C like past iPhones. Traditionally, Apple has upgraded each iPhone once a year, with improvements like faster chips and better cameras. However, this month, instead of announcing an upgrade for the iPhone 5C, Apple said it would continue to sell the exact same iPhone, but for less: free with a contract.
Analysts say that it appears Apple’s strategy all along for the iPhone 5C was to sell an older, plastic iPhone over a longer period to allow the costs of production and components to drop. That lets Apple decrease the price of the plastic iPhone and increase market share in less affluent markets.
Although Apple is late to the party with bigger phones, Samsung of South Korea could suffer the most. Samsung, the largest handset maker, has relied heavily on larger screens as a selling point for its popular Galaxy smartphones.
Mr. Kuittinen of Magid Associates said that Samsung’s smartphone sales were already slowing before Apple introduced larger iPhones. So this holiday season could look grim for Samsung and other handset makers.
“It’s going to be a very scary Christmas for HTC, Samsung and LG,” he said
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Apple pioneers revolutionary bendable screen
The tech of bendable screen has been much talked about but Apple is the first co to incorporate it into its smartphone and bring it to us consumers.
You can customise the viewing angle by bending the handset to your desired angle. Imagine having your own unique handset, none others have!
Quick, purchase the IPhone 6 Plus Flex in bulk in case stocks run dry. Place the extra sets in your cupboard while you enjoy your very own IPhone Plus Flex!
The tech of bendable screen has been much talked about but Apple is the first co to incorporate it into its smartphone and bring it to us consumers.
You can customise the viewing angle by bending the handset to your desired angle. Imagine having your own unique handset, none others have!
Quick, purchase the IPhone 6 Plus Flex in bulk in case stocks run dry. Place the extra sets in your cupboard while you enjoy your very own IPhone Plus Flex!
Re: Apple pioneers revolutionary bendable screen
another flame bait thread for the pap ib.......
another flame bait thread for the pap ib.......
Apple can easily maximise their profit if they had launched the I phones in china AnD sell it at double the price and sell it at other markets at normally retail later.
On the surface, yes. But when you analyse deeper, no.
Remember, Apple is supply-constrained. They pretty much sold out all their initial supply of 10 million iPhone 6s worldwide over the first weekend.
China accounted for 22 million iPhones in 2013. This figure is expected to grow to 30 million in 2014, with China Mobile coming on board. Releasing your first 10 million iPhones in China first is not only going to cause frustration in the rest of the world, but also among the 20 million Chinese who can't get their hands on the new iPhone. You end up pissing off everyone. That's the last thing you want when you're trying grab back market share from your Android competitors like Samsung, Huawei and Lenovo.
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