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It's a 12mp crop of a 48mp sensor, so it's not digital zoom but it is a crop. It's just that that crop is still of good resolution.
> It's a 12mp crop of a 48mp sensor, so it's not digital zoom but it is a crop. I'm curious what you think digital zoom is if not cropping.
Looks more and more that Apple is pushing AI inference to the edges, with this and the Mac Mini and it's very suspiciously placed power button which says "No, you don't need to shut this computer off. It has important work to do! (For everyone else)" Will be interesting to see how Apple and Nvidia's approaches to AI compare and contrast over the coming months/years.
At this point there’s only really one thing I want from an iPhone and that’s an option for a 12/13 mini sized device again. Surely those phones didn’t sell so few that it’s not worth doing at all?
At this point there’s only really one thing I want from an iPhone and that’s an option for a 12/13 mini sized device again. Surely those phones didn’t sell so few that it’s not worth doing at all?
The best part about my 12 mini is that it's such a pain to use sometimes on the modern web that it discourages unnecessary browsing. Alas, the battery was already subpar on it and now is quite bad, so I'll probably pick up this SE.
Apple leans its weight heavily on controversial smartphone changes and defines trends for the rest of the industry, even when it's not the first company to do so. When it removed the headphone jack, introduced the screen notch, or added a camera bump, everyone followed afterward despite the grumbling. So keeping that in mind, regarding the modem, I remember prior comments about it being near-impossible or extremely d…
> extremely difficult for Apple to cut out Qualcomm it was extremely difficult, they have been working on this since at least ~6 years, maybe longer and involved buying intel 5G modem business it also is lacking UWB which either Apple has given up on or is bringing back with future revisions of their modem
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Hopefully these new cellular, wifi and bluetooth basebands can avoid the zero-day fame of their predecessors.
I would assume that Apple's new firmware would have been written in a memory safe language. They did make some noise about enabling Swift for embedded development at last years WWDC. Although Qualcomm's big zero day last year was related to the DSP and not the baseband, I believe.
Memory safe languages don't protect from human programmer complacency and stupidity, or from incidental alphabet agency backdoors.
At this point there’s only really one thing I want from an iPhone and that’s an option for a 12/13 mini sized device again. Surely those phones didn’t sell so few that it’s not worth doing at all?
The best part about my 12 mini is that it's such a pain to use sometimes on the modern web that it discourages unnecessary browsing. Alas, the battery was already subpar on it and now is quite bad, so I'll probably pick up this SE.
I consider this a feature
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> I am guessing that's the end of the small phone line at Apple. That really ended with the 13 mini on which I'm typing this comment and that I'll hold onto till it's no longer supported.
Same here. I'm hoping there will be a 19 mini
Does anyone else long for a new personal device (phone) maker/leader? A real AI phone where if you want you can have a full human like conversation (text, voice & video chat it recognizes gestures & emotions (facial expressions)) with your AI assistant from your lock screen. I use chatGPT while driving in the car to get things done & as a knowledge base, but I have to open the app to use it (not safe when driving). I…