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Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

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How does the camera on these new phones with mirrorless cameras at less than $1000 price point? Dedicated cameras have around 20 Megapixels but much larger sensor size - but does it really matter if the most I would do is print them into a photobook?

If you don't fiddle with the phone camera photos much and are happy with them, there's not much difference. A $1k-ish mirrorless is a much more capable camera but it doesn't fit in your pocket and has about as many controls as a nuclear reactor control room.

Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

#612

Does anyone have any clue how long I have to wait for a replaceable battery? IIRC the EU has made it happen that tech giants need to conform to this.

The batteries are replaceable. If you are talking about having a second battery that you can lug around for when you need it, there are battery cases for this.

When people say replaceable battery they don't mean that a trained technician with specialty tools is able to replace the battery.

Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

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Sad at the cynical comments here regarding Apple's environmental commitments. Does Apple have a tendency to exaggerate? Sure. But this is also the most ambitious set of climate-related adaptations I've heard from a corporation at their scale, and it seems to be deeper than just marketing fluff. How can we expect to change things if even meaningful moves to make improvements are automatically cynically dismissed?

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Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

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post #11

Honestly for me the best part is the USB-C. Every year it's a new camera, new whatever, but USB-C is going to mean I can get rid of all these lightning cables. Not increasing the price is nice, I guess. Will have to buy more USB-C cables, though. (Technically the low highest end phone is higher, but higher spec, too). It comes with one USB-C to USB-C charging cable - not sure if it is a data cable, also. Pre-order Fr…

Welcome to 2018 or so!

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Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

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post #11

Honestly for me the best part is the USB-C. Every year it's a new camera, new whatever, but USB-C is going to mean I can get rid of all these lightning cables. Not increasing the price is nice, I guess. Will have to buy more USB-C cables, though. (Technically the low highest end phone is higher, but higher spec, too). It comes with one USB-C to USB-C charging cable - not sure if it is a data cable, also. Pre-order Fr…

We can thank the EU for that

Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

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post #264

Do yourself a favour and just buy a magnetic adapter + cable such as Baseus magnetic zinc [1] You will: - save money to buy new phone (cable costs just ~10$) - it's magnetic so even more convenient to use - magnetic adapter protects connector from dust getting inside or getting broken - you use the same cable with adapters for usb-c, lightning and micro-usb to charge different gadgets (even older airpods pro) - at le…

I wouldn't recommend this.

I bought into the 'Volta' ecosystem and the adapters started degrading within 6 months. I would only trust a product from a major electronics producer, not these random brands on Amazon. If none of the big players have this as a product, it smells of a reason why it isn't a thing. Otherwise, I really wanted it to be. I hate the damage plugging cables in and out of devices does to the phone's power sockets over time.

Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

#617

The entire announcement is an exercise in masking that they're running out of ideas. Excessive lectures on environmental footprint. Lots of cultural/humanitarian story telling, a pile of non-relatable tech info where they only briefly showed the embarrassing "up to 10% faster", dull/static presenters with their fake excitement. Even the Pro model, typically the only model where they might add some actual features of…

Thanks for this. I just bought a Watch Ultra two weeks ago, so wondered if I had missed out not waiting for this announcement. I can't see that the Ultra 2 offers anything new. Battery life, form factor, feature set - I'm at a loss to identify anything meaningful that has even changed let alone improved.

Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

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post #113

Gutted that the iPhone mini is essentially dead. I don't want a phone any bigger. I'll hang onto my 13 Mini for as long as I can, hopefully they will update the SE to basically be the new Mini.

Still using an SE 2016 because it has the perfect size and still works fine. I would happily buy a new version if it would come with usb C and have a similar size, but I don’t hold my breath. Small phones don’t seem that popular :(

I loved my SE 2016 and used it from launch to the SE 2020. Are you worried about patches at all?

Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

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post #11

Honestly for me the best part is the USB-C. Every year it's a new camera, new whatever, but USB-C is going to mean I can get rid of all these lightning cables. Not increasing the price is nice, I guess. Will have to buy more USB-C cables, though. (Technically the low highest end phone is higher, but higher spec, too). It comes with one USB-C to USB-C charging cable - not sure if it is a data cable, also. Pre-order Fr…

> It comes with one USB-C to USB-C charging cable

Why not a USB-A to USB-C cable? The vast majority of existing chargers and computer/console/car ports are USB-A.

Seems like this is forcing people to buy USB-C chargers.

Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

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post #11

Honestly for me the best part is the USB-C. Every year it's a new camera, new whatever, but USB-C is going to mean I can get rid of all these lightning cables. Not increasing the price is nice, I guess. Will have to buy more USB-C cables, though. (Technically the low highest end phone is higher, but higher spec, too). It comes with one USB-C to USB-C charging cable - not sure if it is a data cable, also. Pre-order Fr…

> It comes with one USB-C to USB-C charging cable Why not a USB-A to USB-C cable? The vast majority of existing chargers and computer/console/car ports are USB-A. Seems like this is forcing people to buy USB-C chargers.

Probably need usb-c to charge the phone at full speed?
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