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Post by xnx »

adolph wrote: post #504
tpmx wrote: post #272

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I quite like the return of the iPhone 4 exterior design style.

Me too, although it has two fails: 0. Oval buttons instead of round. In terms of usability a larger target is better, but in terms of design style a loss. 1. It has buttons on both sides so it doesn't have a totally flat side for setting on its edge. Also, the camera sticks out. Otherwise I appreciate the return to the classic look even if "mini" is still larger than the oversized model 5 body.

The phone would be thicker, but they'd be able to stick a lot of battery in there if they made the back flush with the camera bump.

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Post by pmarreck »

tpmx wrote: post #43
ehsankia wrote: post #22

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

The one last month was a bit slow/boring. This one is keeping my attention so far; I agree, it's impressive.

I will say that the Apple Watch Series 6 has been a massive upgrade over my Series 3 though

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Post by pmarreck »

Still no transparent TouchID? Boooooo.

(Am I the only one who hates FaceID and feels like it was mostly a neat engineering problem to work on that doesn't actually suit the task as well as simple fingerprinting?)

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Post by Gengar »

dylan604 wrote: post #561
cgh wrote: post #418

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I just bought an SE about a month ago too. Damn.

Why? It's been leaked for ages that the iPhone announcement were coming this month. I'm only asking because you added Damn as if you were disappointed in your timing. I've been holding off waiting to see if the 12 was going to be something I'd be interested in, or just waiting for the 11 series prices to drop. My 6S+ works fine, but the capacity is too small.

Yeah, I read rumors about the iPhone Mini when the SE 2 launched. Glad I waited!

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Post by curiouser2 »

cmckn wrote: post #581

Let’s talk about the return of MagSafe! It seems...kinda dumb. Instead of plugging in a lightning cable, I can now stick a hockey puck to the back of my phone? The “safe” in MagSafe came from its “yankability” without sending your device flying. But if my phone is laying on top of a hockey puck...it’s gonna go flying if I trip on the cable. Why couldn’t we fill in the lightning port and use flush surface contacts, li…

It's likely solve the gap of "I can't use my phone while it's wirelessly charging". With the magsafe thing you can just clunk the charger to the back of your phone and keep using it. While battery life is still crap on these (side note - I didn't hear a single thing in the presentation about battery life... yikes) people are going to be charging their phones while they use them.

I hate to be a pessimist but with them not including a charger or headphones, they're slowly moving toward no data port whatsoever

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Post by FoomFries »

cmckn wrote: post #581

Let’s talk about the return of MagSafe! It seems...kinda dumb. Instead of plugging in a lightning cable, I can now stick a hockey puck to the back of my phone? The “safe” in MagSafe came from its “yankability” without sending your device flying. But if my phone is laying on top of a hockey puck...it’s gonna go flying if I trip on the cable. Why couldn’t we fill in the lightning port and use flush surface contacts, li…

Magnetic force falls off pretty quickly - a phone case can cause enough of a difference to make that force lackluster. Apparently, it seems, enough to put magnets in the case itself to better maintain that force.

Additionally, it looks like the goal is to let your phone be held vertically, while attached only to the magnet. This makes sense for car mounts, where you may want to mount your GPS via magnet and charge it simultaneously.

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Post by pantelisk »

leokennis wrote: post #579
jefftk wrote: post #485

Why is this considered an exemplary shot? https://www.apple.com/v/iphone-12/a/images/overview/camera/s... (first picture under "Automatic magic") The pants look artificial, the hands and feet are really dark, you can't see the detail on the trees. Is this just a really hard angle to shoot, against the summer sky?

Apart from that, it’s just not an aesthetically pleasing photo. Some dude in crocs?

sandals and socks. high fashion uses multiple sources. Sometimes its inspired by nature, sometimes scifi, sometimes its inspired by traditional internet cringe!

Interesting pic. I think it tries to show the hdr, dynamic rage of shadows + cleanliness even though the person is in motion.

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Post by iso947 »

cmrdporcupine wrote: post #560
odiroot wrote: post #545

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> It's interesting that a reasonably sized phone is now a selling point in itself. Sony was the last one in Android world to offer it to us. Now, even they chickened out.

Looks about the same as Pixel 3 screen (5.5" I believe). That's what I'm carrying now and it's the only reasonably sized phone I have had in years. I would love a 4.5" or 4" phone.

I don’t care about the size of the screen. I care about the width, and to a lesser extent the height.

The 12 mini looks just about reasonable, will find out next month if it actually is.

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Post by mensetmanusman »

vagrantJin wrote: post #327
tpmx wrote: post #272

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I quite like the return of the iPhone 4 exterior design style.

I'd say that's regressing yes? When you can't find the road to the future, retreat to the past. Re-live the glory days so to speak.

It’s cyclic fashion.

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Post by glandium »

cmrdporcupine wrote: post #558
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'm blown away that 5.4" is "mini". I'd pay decent money for a 4" phone.

My wife has an iPhone 8 plus. Back then it was huge (cue the plus). Its screen is 5.5". (but sure, it had huge borders)
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