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Re: iPhone 15 Pro facts and estimates

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Post by keyle »

baz00 wrote: post #56
keyle wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've never dropped my phone. But my wife has dropped hers many times. After the 2nd screen repair the phone has never worked properly, and the face ID stuff stopped working. All in all repairers couldn't do anything about it. That's why I think it's worth putting a cover on it. I also hide my ID in mine (between cover and phone) so that I do not have to wear a wallet... And my kids occasionally handle my phone, I don…

Put a case on it with a lip around the edge. The JETech TPU clear ones are good. I dropped my 13 Pro down a mountain in central asia and it went ping pong ping pong like Homer Simpson falling off a cliff for about 20 seconds. There wasn't a scratch on it! I've dropped it face down a hundred times at least. Still looks like the day I bought it! Also take it to Apple to get repaired, not some independent repairer that…

ooooh trust me that didn't solve it, the surface finds a way ;)

Re: iPhone 15 Pro facts and estimates

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Post by FieryTransition »

drcongo wrote: post #60

The most salient part of the entire article for me is this line: "[...] it’s also used in medical implants, so you know that skin contact won’t be a problem." - if I hold my iPhone 12 Pro for too long I get blisters on my palm.

You might be allergic, I would get that tested, but it's nothing to worry about, just nice to know. AFAIK most people shouldn't react badly to prolonged skin contact with aluminum in the range that is holding a phone.

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Post by 0wis »

On the contrary to many other comments, I think this article is quite interesting. As a mechanical engineer, I know moment of inertia is very important for many designs, albeit often for more functional reasons than the user’s feelings.

It is a short and quickly written article with back of the napkin maths but its good enough (and what most engineers are doing at work anyway). And it reminds us that the spec sheet is not everything. It’s nice to have a lighter phone, but is it really what matters ?

It shows once again how Apple design teams are focused on user experience. I know they aren’t perfect and Apple gets a lot of criticism on HN (mostly deserved), but at least they are great on pushing the extra mile on this kind of things.

It reminds me of how much people were surprised about EV acceleration capability because they compared vehicles on HP, overlooking sometimes torque and often jerk curves.

Re: iPhone 15 Pro facts and estimates

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Post by FieryTransition »

sidkshatriya wrote: post #47
TheSpiceIsLife wrote: post #32

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My daily driver weights nearly half a kilogram and has a 13,200 mAh battery that literally actually truly lasts for four days of mixed use on a charge. I also have an iPhone, but be fucked if I can keep hold of it, it's so light I can seem to actually get a grip on it for longer than about two minutes at a time. I've had my eufges phone for over a year and still haven't broken the screen. I mate dropped his, same bra…

> My daily driver weights nearly half a kilogram and has a 13,200 mAh battery that literally actually truly lasts for four days of mixed use on a charge. > I also have an iPhone, but be fucked if I can keep hold of it, it's so light I can seem to actually get a grip on it for longer than about two minutes at a time. Your half-kg phone has trained your motor neurons in such a way that they are not prepared when you ho…

Mixed interval training for phone holding, I sincerely hope that was a joke, but judging by the last paragraph, I'm not sure :-D

Re: iPhone 15 Pro facts and estimates

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Post by ReptileMan »

addaon wrote: post #8
sbrother wrote: post #5

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Be careful with the satellite SOS feature. I accidentally left my 14 pro on the roof of my car when way outside of cell reception in rural Utah; it fell off and triggered the crash-triggered SOS feature. Wasted a bunch of emergency responder's time, which I felt awful about. Manually triggered SOS is great but I think enabling the crash triggered one is irresponsible.

It's a trade-off. I'll probably have the feature on when I'm in the small plane (although the chance of it getting a signal post-incident is nearly zero, I imagine), but yeah, I don't think it's the appropriate trade-off for me on regularly-trafficked roads. It sounds like the emergency features enable two-way communication, which is great, but I wonder if the procedures around that lead to more false positives. If t…

>although the chance of it getting a signal post-incident is nearly zero, I imagine

Not at all. The phone probably will be mostly intact - it has your soft squishy body to absorb the sudden deceleration.

Re: iPhone 15 Pro facts and estimates

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Post by mkroman »

One thing I haven't seen discussed is the thermal properties of this expected Ti-6Al-4V alloy.

According to these specs, the alloys thermal conductivity is 6.7 W/m-K: https://asm.matweb.com/search/SpecificMaterial.asp?bassnum=m...

Whereas 6063-T6 aluminium has a thermal conductivity of 200 W/m-K: https://asm.matweb.com/search/SpecificMaterial.asp?bassnum=M...

Even if the alloy in the iPhone is a bit more of an exotic blend, won't it still impact the cooling ability of the phone quite significantly?

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Post by pvinis »

teaearlgraycold wrote: post #49
sbrother wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Be careful with the satellite SOS feature. I accidentally left my 14 pro on the roof of my car when way outside of cell reception in rural Utah; it fell off and triggered the crash-triggered SOS feature. Wasted a bunch of emergency responder's time, which I felt awful about. Manually triggered SOS is great but I think enabling the crash triggered one is irresponsible.

I sometimes feel like the only person that never drops or misplaces their phone in these ways.

That doesn't say much. People use their phones in many ways. Some are clumsy, some are more risky.

I've been on a bicycle with a loose pocket or used it to check the map while biking. Great idea? Probably not. Happens to everyone? Absolutely not. Happens? Very much yes.

Re: iPhone 15 Pro facts and estimates

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Post by TheSpiceIsLife »

sidkshatriya wrote: post #47
TheSpiceIsLife wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My daily driver weights nearly half a kilogram and has a 13,200 mAh battery that literally actually truly lasts for four days of mixed use on a charge. I also have an iPhone, but be fucked if I can keep hold of it, it's so light I can seem to actually get a grip on it for longer than about two minutes at a time. I've had my eufges phone for over a year and still haven't broken the screen. I mate dropped his, same bra…

> My daily driver weights nearly half a kilogram and has a 13,200 mAh battery that literally actually truly lasts for four days of mixed use on a charge. > I also have an iPhone, but be fucked if I can keep hold of it, it's so light I can seem to actually get a grip on it for longer than about two minutes at a time. Your half-kg phone has trained your motor neurons in such a way that they are not prepared when you ho…

You're wrong.

I had exclusively iPhone's for ten years prior, I couldn't keep hold of any of them. A pop socket help a lot.

And I'd argue I'm not alone, how many phone screen replacements do you reckon repair shops across the globe perform every day?

They're too fragile, and too difficult to take care of.

Re: iPhone 15 Pro facts and estimates

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Post by Lio »

keyle wrote: post #21
Gigachad wrote: post #6

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I used to do this, but then I realised I only ever drop my phone because it has a case on it. Now I have it bare and never drop it.

I've never dropped my phone. But my wife has dropped hers many times. After the 2nd screen repair the phone has never worked properly, and the face ID stuff stopped working. All in all repairers couldn't do anything about it. That's why I think it's worth putting a cover on it. I also hide my ID in mine (between cover and phone) so that I do not have to wear a wallet... And my kids occasionally handle my phone, I don…

> I also hide my ID in mine (between cover and phone) so that I do not have to wear a wallet...

That's interesting, are you legally required to carry ID where you live?

Re: iPhone 15 Pro facts and estimates

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Post by TheSpiceIsLife »

Brigand wrote: post #35
TheSpiceIsLife wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My daily driver weights nearly half a kilogram and has a 13,200 mAh battery that literally actually truly lasts for four days of mixed use on a charge. I also have an iPhone, but be fucked if I can keep hold of it, it's so light I can seem to actually get a grip on it for longer than about two minutes at a time. I've had my eufges phone for over a year and still haven't broken the screen. I mate dropped his, same bra…

This is easily solved with a tough protection case.

Right.

So there’s a proven market for a rugged iPhone.

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