Newer iPhones

I have a iPhone 6+ and went to the store yesterday looking at the newer models, the 8+ and X. The X looks pretty good but doesn’t come in the + size I favor. However the salesman told me a new iPhone will be out in September so I am electing to wait until then as the 6+, which I bought in November 2014, still works okay but is getting slow.

I know some of you guys and are in the tech industry and have been leaked info on the new iPhone. If someone leaked the info to you anonymously, it’s OK for you to now re-leak the information here on MERB anonymously. So please spill the beans on what you know. Other than that it’s being offered in + size which has already been leaked to me.

If you go into settings and switch to low power mode, the battery doesn’t need to be charged as much. But out of low power mode, the iPhone battery sucks juice like a vampire and does run down quickly.

Patron,

I knew someone who was fairly high up the food chain at Blackberry's CT office, who told me around 5 years ago the company was hurtling towards oblivion in the tech world. That person go out at just the right time- was in a dead end job at Blackberry.

I had hoped this thread would take a different direction, towards speculation and leaks on the new iPhone which comes out in September. I heard there was + size coming - this info was leaked to me by someone in the industry. I was interested in hearing further leaks. What advantages will the next iPhone - whatever they call it - have over the 8+ that will justify me shelling out another $1000 on a phone? Surely there will be some upgrades/new features to justify and prop up sales?

Rinzler,

Thanks for posting that! That article says an X+ is coming out in September which is interesting because I could not understand why they previously did not release one. If they had, I would have bought it. I was told the X did not come out with a plus size simply because it was an "anniversary edition." But now it seems like Apple must have realized a lot of people were pissed at no + size so now they release it but better late than never.

It’s hard to believe that my 6+, purchased in November 2014, fully paid, still working and giving me my money’s worth, is nevertheless now a technological dinosaur in just 3.5 years. It’s amazing at how fast technology is moving and how quickly all our electronics purchases, phones and TVs in particular, become dated and technologically inferior.

The new iPhone X plus is said to feature an OLED display. Does anyone have a phone with this feature? Is it superior?

Patron,

A couple of years ago at the Fairfield, CT train station, a young guy waiting on the platform for a northbound train dropped his cellphone on the tracks. He jumped off the platform and onto the tracks and successfully collected his phone. At that moment a northbound Amtrak train approached at high speed. I know the layout of that train station pretty well and the move to have made was to run towards the opposite, southbound tracks, presuming no train was stopped there (and it was not clear if there was). Instead however, according to witnesses, the dude tried to scramble back up on the platform. This requires grabbing the platform with one’s hands and pulling one’s weight up and over. According to witnesses the guy tried to pull himself up and couldn’t get onto the platform and the train crushed him at around 70 mph. He must have thought he could make it up but I really believe the safer play in that situation is to run onto the southbound tracks. He made a rushed decision but it was the wrong one.

Patron said:

The trend at funerals is to put lots of pictures up, either of the deceased and/or ones the deceased took. Funeral homes go all out for this, sometimes temporarily replacing the funeral homes art with paintings or enlarged photography done by the deceased.

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I recently went to the funeral of the mother of one of my high school friends, who died at age 83. I had known this woman for many years. When I got to the funeral home, I was started by the pictorial history they had put together of her life- in a slide show on a big screen TV mounted on the wall of the funeral home. She was only ever married to the father of my friend, who died very young in the late 1960s, leaving her a widow for most of her life. I was started to see many photos of her late husband, who was never spoken of by my friend, or his family, almost ever. I saw my friend's two parents on their wedding day, and at various apparently happy moments in their lives before he passed away suddenly and rather tragically. There was a photo of my friend's Mom on her youngest daughter's wedding day, watchfully picking up the tails of her daughter's wedding gown. I was extremely impressed. I thought it was just a wonderful way to remember her life. I was later told by my friend that he and his siblings had assembled photos which, they believed, showed their mother at the happiest moments of her life.

Interestingly, I had never seen any photos of the late husband/father and was shocked to see so many of them at the funeral. He was a remarkably handsome man, and I mentioned this to my friend, whose only comment to me was, "it was his only good quality." It was the only time he had ever said anything to me about his father, good or bad. I had heard of the man's tragic demise through a mutual friend, and was told not to bring it up with the family, so I literally had zero info on the guy until I saw his pics at the funeral.