Azimuth

So first day in and I must say, I'm enjoying my 6 tremendously. I didn't even hesitate about not getting a 6 Plus. The 6 is right for me. My right thumb just reaches the top corners of the screen so the golden one-hand theorem still applies.

I'd have thought I'd be more accurate with typing off the bat but it's not the case. I guess my brain is learning all over again with the slight key offset.

My wife still has a 5S, of course, and has asked when she's getting her upgrade. Using a 5S now feels slow - I don't know how - which doesn't make sense as the A7 professor was a dragon slayer.

I'm of course using the camera many times a day and enjoying it. I can't tell the difference just yet but my wife thinks the images are sharper. The big thing for me, which leaves me feeling giddy, is the fact that I didn't go for the 64GB but the 128GB titanic. Super awesome. I upgraded my iCloud storage plan to 200GB when the new plans launched some time ago, so no issue there.

Edit: the LTE modem also appears to be more adept than the 5S. On my carrier, the 5S would go into limp mode if LTE was turned on. Essentially my carrier isn't approved by Apple yet. On the 6, while LTE still isn't officially approved, everything is working well and I'm getting some awesome speeds.

#InLoveWithMy6

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I'll need a pretty good macro lens which I don't own in my DSLR kit. I think it's going to be tough to show this.

Regards B41, I'm from South Africa so no joining in the fun on that.

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Yesterday my iPhone 5S got damaged, and with the warranty swapout taking 7 days, I got a new iPhone 6 128GB.

Pretty quickly I noticed the quality control on the phone wasn't great? Where the aluminium band meets the glass it isn't seamless. It's as if the aluminium chipped while being cut. Pretty disappointed to see this. Anyone else?

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Had this weird thing happen. I guess when I turned on iCloud photos beta on myiphone, it decided to delete my iCloud backup...so I turned it off and checked my back up from last night and it was only 1.6 gb, which obviously doesnt make sense because I have like 7 gb of photos.

 

So I turned it on and off and I think? its now backing up my photos...that's pretty annoying because I would be very irritated if I had lost those since I don't regularly sync to iPhoto. Anyways, we will see.

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/Resurrect!

So far I have this:

And this:

As for what's going on the Weber grill, it'll be beef fillet steak (marinaded) and what we call boerewors (sausage of sorts). Then also BBQ toasted sandwiches.

Edit: coming along nicely...

Edit2: #ChowDown

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Ugh. So the SIM tool changed. It's now smaller and round. I used the old "standard" one not having any idea it had changed and graunched the metal.

 

 

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Just sold my iPad 4 and when putting everything together, I checked for the SIM pin tool. Imagine my surprise when I saw the "newer" rounded one was already sold with the iPad 4. Oops.

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5 Weeks and no Smart Cover stock yet. I'm using a tech21 Impactology cover for how which only provides back protection, not front.

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What should I be looking for in terms of RRUs? Same look? Bigger? Hopefully I can look back at older photos after time and can spot the new radios.

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Very recently our baby carrier pipped the big guns and pushed out LTE-A on some of their towers. The media spec says 150Mbps capability (but of course we know this to be 1Gbps on paper).

The only issue for now is that our carriers are concentrating heavily on profitability. This comes to the detriment of users living in the ordinary burbs, not Beverley Hills equivalent. The short of it: my area is not getting the LTE-A upgrade.

In doing some digging, our largest carrier has live LTE-A results from as early as September 2014 but is not making a huge media hype about their capability yet. I saw screenshots of 312Mbps. Holy bat balls!

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Don't you wonder though why the need for a new charger when they could have used the old 12W?

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Luckily it really is just the little pin hole that got damaged. I'd like to order a new SIM tray to restore order.

Here's the two SIM tools side by side. The old square pin damages the pin hole in the SIM tray.

Another thing I've just noticed. The new charger is 10W compared to 12W on my iPad 4. Anyone able to explain this, as well as implications of using 12W?

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Ugh. So the SIM tool changed. It's now smaller and round. I used the old "standard" one not having any idea it had changed and graunched the metal.

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Picked up my white Air 2 64GB LTE+Wi-Fi at 2pm today. Got a 10% discount off the iStore price through my company. Sweet.

Now to camp till midnight so I can switch to my unused "midnight" mobile data to do an iCloud restore.

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Beam me up to Premier, Scotty...erm...Robert!

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Ooh, that N1 looks nice but I can't finish reading. Safari keeps reloading the page. The rest of my sites are fine though.

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Yes! Launched in South Africa yesterday. No announcement. Our carriers didn't even know it was out and have no plans for it. Rather than wait for the carrier plans to be published, I'm gonna buy cash and do a trade-in deal on my iPad 4 64GB LTE+Wi-Fi.

Whoop.

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I've noticed a real slowdown with my iPad 4 which is hard to imagine as it hasn't been that long...has it? I used an iPad Air recently and could tell it was hugely faster. I cannot wait for my Air 2. I also just upgraded to a 200GB iCloud storage plan so I'm locked and loaded...

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I just wanted to drop an apology here due to my hiatus...I never intended to be a "one post wonder". My other love has always been wireless and I'm currently involved in quite a few Ubiquiti projects; as such, I'm on a bit of a break from cellular.

"I'll be baaaack."

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What? You guys have these already?

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Raises hand. I'll be in line for one of these too.

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I'll have to do some digging for you. My gut feel is that it's going to be hellish expensive. I haven't heard of a single good roaming experience to date. Vodacom are also (in)famous for out-of-bundle charges.

Regards obtaining the SIM card, our country clamped down on untraceable crime and cellphones. This resulted in RICA (Regulation of Interception of Communications and Provision of Communication-related information Act) being born. An ID (or passport) and proof of address have to be submitted. I'm not sure how this is handled for anyone outside of our country.

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Why wouldn't Sprint offer limited availability MIMO devices to customers in this situation? With traffic shaping and a little QoS for various services, why wouldn't it be a sustainable business opportunity considering LTE is more spectrally efficient.

 

Perhaps team up with Ubiquity or Mikrotik to come up with some inexpensive home base stations for these types of use scenarios. Though I'm not sure how well the MIMO setup would work if you were in a situation that required an external antenna on a pole to get service.

 

We can dream, right?

I'm not sure about the companies in the US but the big name here and in Europe is Poynting. I know they have resellers in the US too.

This is my game and I have lots to share on this.

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Isn't this a perfect case for a WISP operator? WiMAX has also been decommissioned in my country but WISPs are thriving. Uncapped data on 2,4 and 10Mbps plans.

What's the story with WISP operators in the US?

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I don't have that issue. You do know Tapatalk HD is discontinued right? The free version always did work better. I say this having paid for the HD version myself!

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Erm...*cough*...I think I deleted them from an album but this just returned them to the "unsorted" bucket. They were never deleted from my account.  Now to remove all the duplicates from my account since I re-uploaded them all.