2017 Apple iPhone 8 & iPhone X

[Steptronic]

It was bit lagging before 11.2.6. After 11.2.6, it is faster as before.

Any iPhone X users feel that their phones are laggy?

 

[Fcw75]

Any iPhone X users feel that their phones are laggy?

It’s a symptom bro.

 

Symptom of....Time to change phone.

[Mustank]

Itâs a symptom bro.

 

Symptom of....Time to change phone.

:xd:

[Theoldjaffa]

Itâs a symptom bro.

 

Symptom of....Time to change phone.

No phones worth the change leh

[DACH]

No phones worth the change leh

 

Wait for the 2018 range new iPhones if you want to stick to Apple. 

[SwirL]

No phones worth the change leh

If considering Android.. Pixel 2 XL is great...

[zipping]

https://www.hardwarezone.com.sg/tech-news-apple-offers-trade-program-iphone-and-ipad-singapore

 

 

 

 

Apple offers trade-up program for the iPhone and iPad in Singapore

 By Cookie Monster - on 1 Apr 2018, 6:29am

Image source: Apple

 

Apple just launched a trade-up program for the iPhone and iPad in Singapore. 

In partnership with Brightstar, Apple is offering credit to buy a new iPhone or iPad when you trade in an eligible device. The trade-up program offers up to S$560 back in credit (via bank transfer) for the iPhone and up to S$415 back in credit (via bank transfer) for the iPad.

Below are the estimated trade-in values for the different iPhone and iPad models: 

 

Image source: Apple

 

Image source: Apple

 

You are also allowed to trade in other eligible smartphones to get between S$40 to S$470 credit back when purchasing a new iPhone. 

If you're interested to trade in your current iPhone or iPad, you can get an instant estimate of the device's value from the online form. The trade-in value is determined by Brightstar and may vary based on the condition and model of the phone. 

Image source: Apple

 

Source: Apple (1) (2)

 

 

 

 

 

[Fcw75]

April’s fool joke?

[Mustank]

Aprilâs fool joke?

Real one :

 

https://www.apple.com/sg/iphone/trade-up/

[RH1667]

 

https://www.hardwarezone.com.sg/tech-news-apple-offers-trade-program-iphone-and-ipad-singapore

 

 

 

 

Apple offers trade-up program for the iPhone and iPad in Singapore

 By Cookie Monster - on 1 Apr 2018, 6:29am

Image source: Apple

 

Apple just launched a trade-up program for the iPhone and iPad in Singapore. 

In partnership with Brightstar, Apple is offering credit to buy a new iPhone or iPad when you trade in an eligible device. The trade-up program offers up to S$560 back in credit (via bank transfer) for the iPhone and up to S$415 back in credit (via bank transfer) for the iPad.

Below are the estimated trade-in values for the different iPhone and iPad models: 

 

Image source: Apple

 

Image source: Apple

 

You are also allowed to trade in other eligible smartphones to get between S$40 to S$470 credit back when purchasing a new iPhone. 

If you're interested to trade in your current iPhone or iPad, you can get an instant estimate of the device's value from the online form. The trade-in value is determined by Brightstar and may vary based on the condition and model of the phone. 

Image source: Apple

 

Source: Apple (1) (2)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is this trade-in price higher , lower or same as market price?

market price meaning the price i can get if i sell to those phone shop / stall. 

[Mustank]

Is this trade-in price higher , lower or same as market price?

market price meaning the price i can get if i sell to those phone shop / stall.

Ah beng shop will be more stringent

But Apple trade in price is quite low

[Rayleigh]

Ah beng shop will be more stringent

But Apple trade in price is quite low

 

Sell at Carousell and peg the price to Ah Beng shop selling price or slightly lower. 

Edited April 2, 2018 by Rayleigh

[Mustank]

Sell at Carousell and peg the price to Ah Beng shop selling price or slightly lower.

I can’t

My phone is going to spoil type

[inlinesix]

Charging iPhone X with USB C is really fast especially Anker 30w charger

Edited April 2, 2018 by Davidtch

[Rayleigh]

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Edited April 2, 2018 by Rayleigh

[DACH]

Foldable iPhone, anyone?

 

Forget Samsung Galaxy X. Apple Is Developing A Foldable iPhone For 2020, Analyst Says

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidphelan/2018/03/24/forget-samsung-galaxy-x-apple-is-developing-a-foldable-iphone-for-2020-analyst-says/#6d3fccec1085

 

Apple has a folding iPhone up its sleeve, says Wamsi Mohan, an analyst at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, as reported by CNBC Friday.

A foldable phone is one of those treasured ideas of science fiction, like time travel and flying cars. Those haven’t happened yet, either.

The closest to reality, so far, is the Samsung Galaxy X, and that’s nowhere near here. In fact, as Jay McGregor reported on Forbes, technological hurdles may mean that such a phone will remain only a concept for a while yet.

So, the prospect of an iPhone with a big, iPad-like display which folds in half to become a sleek, phone-sized gadget is certainly appealing. The phablet will vanish as we embrace the fold phone. What shudder-worthy name can we come up for such a category? Pholder, perhaps?

But according to Qualcomm’s product manager of display technology, Salman Saeed, quoted in Jay’s post, transistors in the display are the weakest link. Which means that the phone would not be durable.

 

If Qualcomm is right about Samsung, would Apple really be likely to have got nearer to the prospect of a phone that you can fold? Not that it’s unthinkable. An Apple patent was spotted last November by Patently Apple which sought to deal with ‘an electronic device…’ which ‘may have a flexible portion that allows the device to be folded.’

Interestingly, this includes talk of displays using MicroLEDs, something which is cropping up in current news, too.

Even before that, there was talk of a folding OLED display in an iPhone, perhaps made by LG instead of current OLED supplier Samsung.

What’s new here is that this comes from an analyst of note.

Let’s be clear, flexible displays are not science fiction. Samsung has been making them and using them for years, putting them in its Edge and more recent Galaxy S and Galaxy Note handsets. OLED screens, at which Samsung is a master, have a natural bendable quality.

In fact, the iPhone X display uses a flexible OLED. Sure, it appears flat, but in order to reach all the way to the bottom of the phone and have that attractive curve to the edge of the display that so evenly creeps around the edges, Apple had to do something with the display controllers which usually sit where the screen ends. Finding a place for the display controllers is what creates the bottom bezel found on nearly every handset.

To achieve the effect it was after, Apple used a flexible display panel which it folded back on itself, putting the controllers behind the screen and allowing the display to go all the way down.

But that’s not the problem with making a folding phone. Current flexible OLEDs are encased in solid glass which keeps them immobile. It’s when you want them to flex that the issues arise.

The Bank of America Merrill Lynch analyst is clear that this autumn’s expected phones will not have radically different designs from the current iPhone X, though different sizes may be happening, as other analysts have predicted, because size changes have proved a catalyst in the past, such as when the iPhone 5s was succeeded by the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus.

In a sense, a folding phone is just the next step on from a phone like the iPhone X, where screen-to-body ratio is crucial to create a handset with maximum screen at minimum phone size.

But for me, there are other issues to be addressed, along with the challenge of a display that looks great folded and unfolded with no annoying seam or crease marks that grow over time.

For a start, the screen-to-body ratio that has led to phones that are nearly all display has been accomplished by opting for a longer, thinner screen shape. LG has switched from 16:9 to 18:9, Samsung has opted for 18.5:9 and Apple around 19.5:9. In other words, the screen shape is roughly 2:1. Which means that a folding screen will be roughly square when opened up. Fine for reading documents, ebooks, websites, but not much help when you’re watching a movie or playing games where a 16:9 image would appear with huge black bars above and below. Concepts of fold-out displays have so far fudged the effect as though two phone-widths equals a tablet.

And initial suggestions were that the phone would be narrow with a rolled-up display inside, so the screen that would slide out like those projector screens in Geography class. And remember how tatty and rubbish those were.

And while I can see the advantage of not having a big chin and forehead on a phone, do I really need a big, squarish display in my pocket, especially when it will make for a thicker piece of hardware, at least at first?

One thing’s for sure Apple won’t release an iPhone Fold without it looking stunning and working sublimely.

Which makes me think two years’ time is highly optimistic. First, because Apple may be edging towards doing it with MicroLEDs and second, well, things take time when you’re working with perfectionists.

[Fcw75]

X-fold?

[shawncjh]

Highly doubt Apple will go into the folding phone tech. But hey I'm no analyst.

It's just that Apple has always gone for the simplistic, hassle-free design.

And nothing says simple like a candy-bar phone.

 

Folding your phone is just ugly and too much of a gimmick that will probably bore consumers after awhile.

 

I know I'll probably look at it and be like, "hah, cool", and carry on with my life.

 

I pray that Apple won't go there. A fold-able phone is just unnecessary for an everyday use.