[nabs-l] iPhone 6 or iPhone 6+

Mon Dec 1 03:15:28 UTC 2014

Hi all,

What I typically do for powering my IPhone is just carry around an
extra cord (I leave my wall outlet adapter and my usual chord in my
house).  As long as I have my laptop with me, which is most of the
time, I can just feed off of my computer battery.  I typically carry
my computer charger with me as well since there are some days when I
use my computer a lot, so I never have to worry about bringing the
wall adapter anyway.  However, I do love my external battery charger
for when I'm really busy with stuff that isn't school related.  E.G, I
do a bunch of things with my fraternity on a Saturday, then decide to
go out to dinner or somewhere with a friend.  The external battery I
have charges via a USB to mini USB connection or USB to USB
connection, and then stores the charge for several days before you
have to charge it again if you don't use it during that time.  Another
reason why I just carry the charger chord for my IPhone around is that
the USB end of the charger chord plugs right into the external
battery.  I've heard that there are cases which can serve as externals
as well, though I've seen a wide range of opinions on those.

I will provide the disclaimer, like Cindy, that I consider myself to
be a super-user.  I use my IPhone for emailing, recording, accessing
Dropbox, and reading articles and making phone calls on a daily basis.
I'm also still using an IPhone4, and the battery life of that has
deteriorated with time as well  If you're not on your phone all the
time whenever you're not sitting in class and it's up-to-date, I think
you would probably be fine without an external charge.

On 11/30/14, Cindy Bennett via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently purchased an iPhone 6. It is my personal opinion that if
> you do not use vision and if you are not a photographer, the iPhone 6
> will serve you just fine. The 6+ is great if you have functional
> vision and if you can use your phone with vision successfully. The
> camera is also slightly better. I think this problem is unique to
> mostly women who prefer to carry their phone in their pockets, but the
> iPhone 6 barely fits in mine; I could never fit the 6+ into my
> pockets. I tend to leave my things around, so having a phone that fits
> into my pocket is very important to me; this may not be important for
> everyone. Plus, I don't use vision to access my phone, so it was
> pretty much a no brainer.
>
> iOS 8 has some annoying bugs, but I think the iPhone 6 or 6+ allows
> the most access to the most features of iOS8 just as any latest phone
> would lend access to the latest features.
>
> I especially like the Health app; I had contemplated buying an
> external exercise tracker, but find the iPhone Health app is
> sufficient for what I want to track.
>
> I am not sure what you mean by viewing 2 emails at the same time. I
> view one email at a time and am not sure how you would do this. I can
> view several email subjects at once, and I suppose you can view more
> at once if your screen is bigger, but that is not a new feature in
> iOS8 that I have heard about.
>
> Unless you are a super power user or if you don't have access to power
> regularly, I don't think you need an external battery pack. For
> perspective, I typically run my phone's charge down to 10% if I am out
> for 15 hours; this happens a couple times a week when I do things
> after school before going home. But I am a power user. I am constantly
> on my phone. I check my email, read NPR, school papers, or stream
> music on the bus. I use my GPS when I walk around sometimes, and I use
> a plethora of other apps. I am constantly texting and checking one
> email account on my phone while I have another open on my computer. I
> think that I tend to use my phone a lot, and there have been very few
> days when I wish I had a battery. Most of the time this happens is if
> I forgot to charge my phone the night before. I sometimes forget to
> charge my phone if it is still at a high percentage when I go to bed.
> If you have regular access to a computer or wall outlet, it would be
> less bulky to just buy an extra charge.
>
> So, those are my opinions on the new iPhones and the necessity of an
> external battery.
>
> Cindy
>
>
>
> On 11/30/14, Joseph Hudson via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> Hi Helga, I do not have either one of the phone that you're looking into
>> getting, but the battery question I can definitely answer that for you.
>> These are called external batteries and pretty much it say  battery
>> charger.
>> So you unplug one end of the cord into the USB port on the phone, and
>> then
>> plug another in the battery pack that will charge your phone.
>> Joseph Hudson
>> jhud7789 at outlook.com
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Nov 30, 2014, at 12:59 AM, Helga via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all! how are you all? These questions might sound silly, but I'm just
>>> curious! How many of you here by the iPhone 6 or iPhone 6+? Do you like
>>> it? What kind of features they have? I'm just wondering since I'm
>>> thinking
>>> some day buying one of them! Some of my friends told me that they are
>>> bigger and that they have many cool things!, like that you can see two
>>> emails at the same time! I just would like to hear your opinion about
>>> them, since I would not like to to make the wrong decision in buying one
>>> of them. I actually have an iPhone 5 and I would like to have one of
>>> them.
>>> And also, I just wanted to ask you, do you know about some kind of
>>> battery
>>> that work with the iPhones in order not to bring a charger to places?
>>> Someone told me that yu can have some kind of battery that you can
>>> charge
>>> at home, and then you can take it to different places, and when your
>>> iPhone dies, you can put this battery as a replacement! Do you know
>>> about
>>> anything about this kind of battery? I'm just wondering. Hope to hear
>>> from
>>> you soon. Thanks so much for all your time and have a nice day. God
>>> bless!
>>> Helga Schreiber
>>>
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>
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