It seemed like smartphone has reached its peak
iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max
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Re: iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max
#62Shocked they are still using 128GB as the starting storage size.
For people who want 256GB, they might as well just buy iphone pro max. It will be just $100 more compared to iphone pro.
I still prefer the smaller form factor. Easier one-handed use, and less bulk in my pocket. I wasn’t going to upgrade this cycle anyway, but the larger size of both pro models has removed any inkling of the “well maaaaaybe” feeling that I usually get.
Re: iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max
#63The more I watch, the sadder I get. It seems they've gone in the wrong direction. They have nothing to offer regular phone users, so they're targeting "creative professionals" with fancy features.
Lots of people have creative hobbies that involve their phone in some capacity—music and photography are common—and basically everyone takes family photos and videos with them, so new photo capabilities are always welcome even for non-hobbyist users. Personally, I think it’s awesome that my kids could borrow my phone and make their backyard movies a hell of a lot more “cinematic” than mine on the family camcorder ever could have been, even if I’d had some idea of what I was doing.
Several of the “AI” features looked like the kind of thing any phone will feel incomplete without as soon as I use them the first time, for normal-user use cases.
Plus, you’re on HN: your complaint about iPhones is supposed to be that they’re just “mindless consumption devices” for sheeple who want to drool at YouTube shorts, wildly worse for any conceivable creative or practical, serious endeavor than Linux phones or a Thinkpad, because you can’t get a root shell. You’ve gone entirely the wrong direction for this site, with your post :-)
Re: iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max
#64Ehh. Lacklustre.
Just curious, what specifically were you hoping for - from a product that is 17-years old?
There is lots of things were competition is ahead of them or things they could improve:
- 90W fast wired charging, 80W wireless charging - many android phone have it
- reverse charging - so that in emergency when you forgot to charge airpods and you already outside you could charge a little bit enough for a run - again some androids have it
- stylus support - still would be nice to get apple pencil for some signatures etc
- fingerprint reader either under display or on side button like on ipad air - sometimes when phone is sitting on the table it's easier to unlock with finger than pick it up and point at your face then put it back (especially annoying for iOS devs)
- irda led for controlling air con in hotel - they have already IR blaster on front and maybe even on lidar that they could potentially hack it similar like they hacked screen for flash.
- temperature sensor and humidity sensor
- IR temperature sensor for checking your body temperature or stuff you baking in the oven
- tiny thermal camera sensor for inspecting leaks in house for the winter
- microsd support (yes can dream can I?)
- any improvements for lidar quality or truedepth
- another programmable button on the left side for lefties
- 250GB storage by default
- 12GB RAM
- bluetooth 5.4
- thread protocol support like HomePod
Re: iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max
#65The Pro variant is unusually poorly differentiated from the base model this cycle: https://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/ The 13 Pro had ProMotion, 14 Pro had Dynamic Island and Always On display, the 15 Pro had USB-C and the Action Button, the 16 Pro...has maybe slightly faster AI? 4k120fps video? USB-C w/ USB 3? Not things most people would care about. ProMotion/Always On is still limited to the Pro models which is…
The 5x (vs 2x) optical zoom will also convince a few to go for the Pro. Isn’t the price difference smaller than previous models too?
Re: iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max
#66Do we know what's the RAM in those phones?
Looks like 8GB.
Re: iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max
#67So did they just give up on Blood-Oxygen sensing on the Watch? Thought it might be a good time to update my Watch 6 (black titanium) to a 10, since they brought back the black titanium, but they just have no answer for the blood-oxygen lawsuit?
Maybe they are just not reporting it. Sleep apnea detection is probably using blood oxygen levels.
As the other commenter said it does seem like Apple might have either straight up removed it or is disabling it in software entirely for now.
Comparison page lists the "Blood Oxygen app" for the S6 through S8, but S9 and S10 both just have "-" for that comparison section like the S5 has.
https://www.apple.com/watch/compare/?modelList=watch-series-...
EDIT: Another difference between them is the Vitals App description removing the blood oxygen reference.
S10: "Vitals app featuring heart rate, respiratory rate, wrist temperature, and sleep duration"
S08: "Vitals app featuring heart rate, respiratory rate, wrist temperature, blood oxygen, and sleep duration"
Re: iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max
#68Good updates to the video recording, event was okay...kinda boring. Airpods Max got no updates just color, why even mention them?
USB-C ?
Re: iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max
#69I am disappointed.
The 16 Pro is larger and heavier than the 15 pro which is already heavy.
I have small hands, I want a smaller and lighter phone.
Not going to buy the 16 because of lack of ProMotion.
Re: iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max
#70Shocked they are still using 128GB as the starting storage size.
I guess they have more information about usage patterns than we do. Anecdotally, I have a 256GB iPhone, and I use it consistently for a whole variety of things, and my usage is just under 94GB. I'd bet that my 'normal' family members use a good bit less than that.
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