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Really? I have to pay 1k for embedded photoshop filters for that? They have just enhanced the camera and... that's all? Really? I missed something? Yep - new CPU is good. But... Anything else? The expectations were much more.
Wireless charging if thats something you want.
I'm totally underwhelmed by the AR demos. What the hell was that RTS thing? Walking around an empty table? That's not "augmented". There was nothing to augment!
Its superimposing cgi from the phone onto a video from the camera in real time. Is that not augmented reality?
But it isn't very interesting, now is it?
What's the point over a rendered plane? Gameplay would be identical.
This seems to be the tiniest spec bump for a full iPhone release. No huge new killer features over the 7. Undoubtedly, all the new stuff and innovation is being saved for the iPhone X.
True-tone display is great too (previously on iPad Pro), but I doubt the average user will be very aware, even if they love it.
Remains to be seen how much the processor and camera calibration help with AR.
Wireless charging is baffling to me. Instead of carrying a small plug and cable around, you carry a... giant disc - and it still has the plug? It would be one thing if it was magic charging that worked anywhere within a few meters of the charger, but I gather that's impossible. You still have to put it on the disc! I get that it's optional.
This seems to be the tiniest spec bump for a full iPhone release. No huge new killer features over the 7. Undoubtedly, all the new stuff and innovation is being saved for the iPhone X.
Apples gone real weird lately.
Wireless charging is baffling to me. Instead of carrying a small plug and cable around, you carry a... giant disc - and it still has the plug? It would be one thing if it was magic charging that worked anywhere within a few meters of the charger, but I gather that's impossible. You still have to put it on the disc! I get that it's optional.
It was so confusing I thought the introduction video was showing old 7 and expected them to be shattered or replaced by the 8.
Phil Schiller spent probably 5 full minutes without an audience reaction (until the sky star map AR thing).
hold on: one more thinging
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Considering this is really the iPhone 7s, that's not surprising.
I've always hated the naming of Apple phones, Samsung and the others do it too. Just call it an iPhone. What iPhone do you have? I have the 2017 model. Or early/late 2017 model like people do with their laptops if two are released in the same year.
"I have the iPhone 2017 LE."
"I have the iPhone 2016 SE."
you get two logical identifiers - the year it was released (basically the same thing as the "version") and the "trim" of the phone.
Right now it's a mess - you've got the iPhone SE that describes the trim but not the year and you've got the iPhone 8 that tells you the version but not the "trim" and then you've got something like the iPhone 5S that seems like it's describing the trim and the version but really just describes the version.