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Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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Post by kimseungyong »

I was waiting for the standard iPhone, so it’s a shame it’s coming out next year.

Unless you’re using photos or videos like an expert, there doesn’t seem to be any reason to go for a heavy Pro anymore.

Since last year’s promotional display came equipped with the standard model, I just can’t find it appealing.

Ah, of course, since it has AI features, we’ll have to see how much the RAM difference matters, but

Could it be that Apple is going to put so little RAM in the standard model that they can’t really use AI well?

I hope you won’t go that far.

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Post by Gigachad »

whimsicalism wrote: post #278
Gigachad wrote: post #231

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The iphone image pipeline is mostly just playing with exposure and color, things that we widely regard as fair game in editing. Where the line was crossed was magic eraser and reframe where the iphone is straight up making objects in the image.

there is definitely some generative pixel stuff in the iOS pipeline as i've noticed garbled deepdream-esque letters when zooming before

That could be a result of a failed exposure stack. Phone sensors and lenses suck for light gathering so they have to take multiple photos and merge them together to create one that's less noisy. Occasionally you get artifacts where the merge failed.

It's still distinct from actual AI generation imo.

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Post by unlikelytomato »

josephg wrote: post #197
dgellow wrote: post #186

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You want a 96GB RAM phone and only plan to keep it 3 years? I cannot fathom the way some of you live. I have an iPhone SE from 2022 that I don’t expect to get rid of before at least 2-3 more years, meaning it would have been in use for 6-7y at minimum. And it’s perfectly comfortable to use, I’m not forcing myself in any way to keep it longer. And you’re talking about wanting a ridiculously expensive phone and only ha…

I couldn’t agree more. I’m typing this on an iPhone 12, bought new 6 years ago. My phone still feels snappy. And it gets me through a whole day with 60%+ battery remaining. The only real complaint I have is that I only have the 64gb model. I need to delete things every time a software update comes out because of how bloated modern software has become. But the hardware is fantastic. I have no idea how much ram my phon…

It's about multitasking. RAM is the upgrade trigger for me. I'm so exhausted by developer introduced bloat in software such that almost every app fully reloads when switching. Devs ruin multitasking every few years until another RAM upgrade.

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Post by tclancy »

quinncom wrote: post #66

I love that it has a feature to prove images came from the real world: > Users can now prove the authenticity of a photo taken on iPhone 18 Pro models with Apple Reference Image, powered by the new sensor in the Main camera that can sign every pixel it sees. When a photo is taken in the new Reference mode, the camera captures signed sensor data that Private Cloud Compute develops into an unalterable reference image.5…

That smells like "show don't tell", but who knows.

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Post by edgarvaldes »

dylan604 wrote: post #251
Lucasoato wrote: post #221

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There’s this MacOS native application called Image Capture, use it to backup 100GB of photos. I then partitioned the photo by year and 7zipped them with encryption.

You missed the salient details: "I dont have a mac" Everything you stated to is useless to the person you replied.

Maybe he interpreted the "how do you backup" as a particular question directed to him, not a general one.

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Post by Havoc »

WarmWash wrote: post #274
qsbuilder wrote: post #272

From an Android perspective we have the new upcoming Snapdragon which is going to be more powerful and more efficient. Just for anyone thinking of switching though I share that :)

I have been out of the phone tech loop for a while... When did Qualcomm start eclipsing apple?

They’re not. They’re both playing the same ARM mobile chip game though and recent Qualcomm chips have been decent. Just a pity about their weak software support

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Post by spartanatreyu »

cedilla wrote: post #271
michaelt wrote: post #217

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People have constructed video walls so high resolution they can film TV series in front of them and to an audience it's indistinguishable from a real set. It's extremely cost-effective for things like space fantasy that needs lots of exotic-looking backdrops, apparently. It may not be in reach for you and I - but within reach of anyone with the budget to run a 'bot farm'

The high resolution video wall is quite simple. The hard part and why this has not been done earlier is that for filming, they had to synchronize the rendered background with the movement of the camera.

Movement is solved by tracking the camera's position and projecting the background from there.

Proof of captured image with hardware-based-attestation can be increased by adding extra information besides the RGB channels, like depth mapping (which a projected screen wouldn't be able to fake), and eventually light field recording (plenoptic imaging, e.g. Lytro).

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Post by renecito »

dgellow wrote: post #111
millipede wrote: post #102

The things we need to know most, RAM and Memory Bandwidth, are unfortunately missing from the release. Their absence doesn't bode well.

What do you do with your phone that requires you to know the memory details? Genuine question, I have absolutely no idea how much memory my iPad or phone have and don’t see why I would need to know

sell another phone with "more than iPhone" and claim is better because "more X" right ?

Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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Post by apetresc »

cortesoft wrote: post #220
apetresc wrote: post #173

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What on earth would you do with an iOS device that has 96GB of RAM? You realize the last generation (i.e, the most powerful consumer phone in the world today) had 12 GB of RAM? You feel the need for eight times that amount?

They obviously want to run AI models on their phone.

Very obviously you get a Mac Studio for that, not a phone. (Oh, the 96GB Studio is almost $6000, you counter? Imagine how much it would cost in a phone form factor).

You can't possibly expect Apple to take that market segment seriously.

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