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Apple Announces iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus
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#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have they even dropped the price? They're £649 for the base model in the UK but I'm not sure how much they were yesterday. I was expecting around £100 off last year but apparently not.
In NZ, the 13 Mini (which I'm tempted to get this week, upgrading from a 6S) is reduced by $50. $1,449 -> $1,399 for the 256 GB model.
I was thinking of getting a mini but this all feels a bit weak sauce, I might just wait until next year and squeeze the final year out of my 8 plus even though its battery life is absolutely dire.
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#84The difference between the iPhone 13 and iPhone 14 seems to be nothing at all? If you were planning on getting a 14, just grab 13 on discount.
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#85People who travel frequently, does the lack of physical SIM card concern you? I'm not sure how widespread eSIMs across countries.
I'm in the USA and on AT&T and use their "$10 a day international plans" when I travel. It's a little expensive, but it just works. My wife and I were in canada recently during the Rogers network issues and I called up AT&T support and then enabled an option to select the carrier for both our phones. Two reboots and we were back on a known good network. We've traveled to Italy, Serbia, France, Spain, Hungary and haven't run into issues with this setup.
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#86People who travel frequently, does the lack of physical SIM card concern you? I'm not sure how widespread eSIMs across countries.
My carrier/plan has service anywhere I go, so I'm not particularly concerned about it. I'm using my US sim card in Europe right now to post this comment.
Roaming is fine for short trips, but you are typically pretty badly de-prioritized and your connection is usually routed through US servers giving you a bad ping. Eventually the carrier is going to boot you off if you stay too long.
Grabbing a local sim card is a must for me since I rely on the data plan for work. It also tends to be much cheaper to get 20 or 30 gigs of 5g data. eSim is making this much more convenient to pick up a secondary plan, but sometimes your best option is a SIM card.
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
I believe T-mobile and SpaceX is free for all Tmobile customers.
Yup, same year as tesla FSD ships and can actually avoid small kids and stationary objects, I hear.
You do know that over 100K people have the beta?
If people want it now in the US, they can just sign up for the beta. I know several people who did that and got it. It isn't a high bar.
In heavily tested locations (West Coast), it has gotten to the point that it seems to pretty much work.
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#88It's weird, while Google struggles to make basic Emergency Services calling to work reliably[1], Apple keeps adding life saving features from detecting falls and car crashes to ability to call Emergency Services via satellite. Just shows you how companies are different in focus, quality control and attention to detail. [1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32713375
Google's still struggling with baseline hardware issues.
Google has never shown competency in building hardware.
I loved my Nexus 5 phone. It’s still my favorite phone as far as aesthetics goes. It was a great value and much cheaper than comparable phones at the time. It bricked itself with a boot loop issue 2 weeks out of warranty. Google was nice enough to replace it with another one that promptly ended up boot looping as well.
I also loved my Nexus 7 tablet. Beautiful device that was so far ahead of its time in terms of looks. It had an issue with absolutely terrible storage that made it so sluggish past its initial release (I believe the issue was the chip itself was degrading and it was a widespread issue). Updating to a higher version of Android made it completely unusable.
I’ve not owned any, but I keep hearing about issues of reliability in both software and hardware with Pixel phones as well.
My best phone for Android has been the Samsung Galaxy S6. Every iPhone i’ve had has been almost entirely problem-free. At this point, I don’t see any reason to buy Google anything.
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#89The SOS and location tracking via satellite is a pretty neat feature. Free for the first 2 years - no details on pricing after that.
I really hope they still allow you to use it even if you haven't paid the subscription. It's a tool for emergencies so by definition you need it only when you don't expect to need it. It would be a shame to lock people out from something that could have saved their life just because they haven't paid the $x.99 per year service. In theory they could always back-charge users who are not subscribed but even then that could discourage people from using it in a dangerous situation.
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#90What are the benefits over iPhone 13 for people outside the US who can’t use the satellite feature ? Think I’ll just get a 13 on sale
Crash detection, maybe?
Check list for a car crash in 2022:
- have the latest and greatest iPhone
- crash only in apple approved countries, because apparently car crashes are specific to countries.
- improve your crash experience by buying an Apple Watch ultra for better detection.
— pray to Tim Apple that the algorithm detects your crash.