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Re: iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro

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Post by chki »

arcticbull wrote: post #80
chki wrote: post #49

Very impressive technology: With those 4GB per second download speeds I can use up my entire month of data in 250 milliseconds. On a more serious note: what technology advancements will there be in the next 10-20 years that actually make 5G technology useful?

5G is for the cell carriers not the customers. Towers can simultaneously transmit to a certain number of clients at a time, so if you can get latency down and bandwidth up, you can service effectively more clients in the same period of time. With that said clients benefit too since they can shut down their power-sucking radios sooner. Think of it like turbo boost for CPUs: it's all about racing to get the link to sle…

Thanks, that sounds very useful indeed! I had only heard about impressive download and upload speeds so far but this makes a lot of sense.

Re: iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro

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Post by allenu »

kossTKR wrote: post #85

"The iPhone mini fits in the palm of you hand" lol. It's interesting that a reasonably sized phone is now a selling point in itself. In general i like keeping my devices for as long as possible - so when i jumped from the iPhone 6 to the iPhone 10, i was surprised to learn that the phone was hard to use with one hand now, extremely slippery and way, way heavier than my iphone 6. The mini seems like a good size for me…

I was genuinely confused when it was in her hand. It looked like a regular-sized phone or even slightly bigger than one.

Re: iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro

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Post by hobofan »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #67

Actually, that MagSafe is really cool. The fact that you can basically stick your iPhone anywhere magnetically is awesome.

Even though "Android had it X years ago" is mostly a meme by now, I can't resist: The Nexus 5 had magnets that automatically aligned it on a Qi charging dock 7 years ago.

Re: iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro

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Post by falcolas »

jorge-d wrote: post #77

They just announced that the iPhone 12 will ship only with a lightning to USB-C cable. I don't understand why they don't switch from lightning to USB-C despite already using it on the iPads.

Gods yes. Lightning isn’t bad, but it certainly complicates charging.

I guess they’re really relying on wireless -everything-

Re: iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro

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Post by olah_1 »

prvc wrote: post #86

I wonder what the environmental impact of all the new adaptors that customers will need to buy is.

"And here's the best part. We are able to decentralize and distribute both the cost and impact evenly across the entire consumer base, making Apple itself much more environmentally friendly."

smiles

Re: iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro

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Post by seanmcdirmid »

fma wrote: post #27
seanmcdirmid wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They are playing up 5G to get people to buy a 5G phone, it isn't an attempt to get people to think Apple just invented 5G; its called marketing.

Their marketing works...Apple markets their fancy screens and people think they're better. But Samsung makes their screens and Samsung keeps the best screens for their own phones. https://www.macrumors.com/2020/05/26/samsung-iphone-12-displ...

LG also makes their screens. Apple almost never goes with just one supplier unless they don't have a choice.

Re: iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro

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Post by tpmx »

frankjr wrote: post #54
ehsankia wrote: post #22

These transitions are insane. The production quality is honestly fantastic. Apple has perfected the art of virtual keynotes.

Agreed. I only wish they streamed in a higher quality. 1080p looks pretty bad on a 27" 4K monitor.

I'm getting what looks like roughly a 6000 kbps stream (quick calculation from fragment size/m3u8 fragment duration). It looks very good for 1080p.

As a comparison I'm typically getting like 1500 kbps from Netflix on a 1 gigabit per second connection on their "HD" plan.

Re: iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro

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Post by auggierose »

frankjr wrote: post #54
ehsankia wrote: post #22

These transitions are insane. The production quality is honestly fantastic. Apple has perfected the art of virtual keynotes.

Agreed. I only wish they streamed in a higher quality. 1080p looks pretty bad on a 27" 4K monitor.

It is 4K on an Apple TV. At least it looks like it :-D
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