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Re: iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max

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I've been hoping for something like this for a long while now: https://ibb.co/yF5FSbp Is there any use case where WiFi + Bluetooth hotspot makes more sense than enabling each separately. Bluetooth is a huge battery drain. To avoid this as it is now, I have to select Wifi + Bluetooh, wait for my device to connect via WiFi then go back to settings and disable bluetooth. If I forgot to do so, my battery is gone in a few…

In the general population, enabling bluetooth is not a battery drain. Quite the contrary; having it turned off tends to result in worse battery life. If you are reliably experiencing something you can clearly pin on Bluetooth, you either have very unusual usage patterns, or are experiencing a severe bug.

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iPhones at this stage feel like cameras first and the rest is standard. I’m also on a 7 Plus. This iteration feels far enough ahead of mine to be worth considering. The only other update I want is more battery life. They’re thin enough; make them a third thicker with all of that used for battery. Or just thicker so the new camera is flush against the back casing.

> Or just thicker so the new camera is flush against the back casing. SERIOUSLY! Why does the <1mm thinner matter so much to them to have the fugly camera bump instead? That space surely could be used by a slightly bigger battery if nothing else.

I think they designed it to be used with a case. It feels badly designed without one because it can’t even lie flat on a table without wobbling, but with a case everything is flush.

Re: iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max

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I'm disappointed that Apple has succumbed to dark patterns in its advertised pricing over the past year or so:

> iPhone 11 is coming.

> From $16.62/mo. per month or $399 with trade-in* Pre-order yours starting at 5:00 a.m. PDT on 9.13.

Re: iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max

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I've been hoping for something like this for a long while now: https://ibb.co/yF5FSbp Is there any use case where WiFi + Bluetooth hotspot makes more sense than enabling each separately. Bluetooth is a huge battery drain. To avoid this as it is now, I have to select Wifi + Bluetooh, wait for my device to connect via WiFi then go back to settings and disable bluetooth. If I forgot to do so, my battery is gone in a few…

In the general population, enabling bluetooth is not a battery drain. Quite the contrary; having it turned off tends to result in worse battery life. If you are reliably experiencing something you can clearly pin on Bluetooth, you either have very unusual usage patterns, or are experiencing a severe bug.

I'm genuinely curious how WiFi + Bluetooth enabled could consume less power than WiFi alone?

The only time I use Bluetooth is for AirDrop. And that requires turning personal hotspot off.

Re: iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max

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I can't believe we don't have higher refresh rates on iPhones yet. Apple got user experience with touch screens better then anyone else when the iPhone originally launched. Apple brought it to iPad, i'd like to see it in iPhone.

It's absurd Apple is selling "Pro" phones without refresh rates over 60. What year is it? 2016? A whole bunch of phone manufacturers are making 90+ hz screens.

They're saving that for next year :^)

Re: iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max

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This thread needs to lighten up. The 11 is an incremental improvement - is that so wrong? Who still upgrades their phone every year anyway? I bought my iPhone 8 two years ago thinking of it as a 5 year investment.

It didn't help that the event tag was "By Innovation only"

Re: iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max

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For the first time ever I feel like I just wasted my time watching an Apple product announcement. I'm not saying those products are bad or are poorly engineered or anything like that. I'm just saying the products they showed off today aren't anything I would want. I have an iPhone 7 Plus and comparing it to the iPhone 11 versions I don't see anything in the latter that I'd upgrade for. The best I could come up with w…

This is a very routine reply around here to every new iPhone announcement. Would you perhaps be able to elaborate on the features or improvements you did want to see but didn't? I mean I have an iPhone 8 and what I see are: - An edge-to-edge screen - Longer battery life - Faster processors - Improved cameras (don't care much myself but it is still improved) - FaceID - Updated Wifi and LTE technologies (not sure how m…

The thing I was 100% hoping for but did not expect at all was a new haptic feedback engine. I think the next big thing Apple could improve would be localized feedback. I want to be able to feel a button when I drag a finger across the screen, for example.

There were zero rumors of this, it was just wishful thinking, but man if I didn't dream...

Re: iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max

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This is a very routine reply around here to every new iPhone announcement. Would you perhaps be able to elaborate on the features or improvements you did want to see but didn't? I mean I have an iPhone 8 and what I see are: - An edge-to-edge screen - Longer battery life - Faster processors - Improved cameras (don't care much myself but it is still improved) - FaceID - Updated Wifi and LTE technologies (not sure how m…

I honestly can't put my finger on it. All those features you listed are great but none of them make me WANT that device. I used to want the new product they announced as soon as they showed it off. Maybe when I hold one in my hands that will change.

> I used to want the new product they announced as soon as they showed it off.

Maybe you’ve grown up some since then? New phones are fun gadgets, but in the end, it’s just a phone.

Re: iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max

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For the first time ever I feel like I just wasted my time watching an Apple product announcement. I'm not saying those products are bad or are poorly engineered or anything like that. I'm just saying the products they showed off today aren't anything I would want. I have an iPhone 7 Plus and comparing it to the iPhone 11 versions I don't see anything in the latter that I'd upgrade for. The best I could come up with w…

This is a very routine reply around here to every new iPhone announcement. Would you perhaps be able to elaborate on the features or improvements you did want to see but didn't? I mean I have an iPhone 8 and what I see are: - An edge-to-edge screen - Longer battery life - Faster processors - Improved cameras (don't care much myself but it is still improved) - FaceID - Updated Wifi and LTE technologies (not sure how m…

> enabling an unprecedented leap in battery life to easily get through the day

Sic.. they don’t even really try to sell a longer battery life, they just are content of getting through the day

Re: iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max

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I'm still on my iPhone 6, and I am not going to get the 11 either, in fact I have been dabbling with LineageOS on a Xiaomi Pocophone F1 as a second travel phone. What would make me "upgrade" (not sure if I can really call that an upgrade in the absence of a headphone port). Must-haves: 1. USB-C 2. 5G support using a single-chip like the Qualcomm Snapdragon X55 baseband chipset (not a separate 4g and 5G chip as with t…

For me, the must haves are: 1. Headphone jack. Absolute MUST for any sort of music recording (lag, quality) and long distance running (battery life). 2. TouchID. My wife has FaceId and I hate it so much. Everything else I can live with or without. I’m still on my 6s+ for those reasons, and it’s sad. Nobody would NOT buy the latest iPhone if it had those things. But a non-zero population doesn’t buy it bc it lacks the…

Same phone here, for the same reasons. It still does everything I want, as quickly as I want. It’s actually a little mind boggling to me that they have nearly doubled the version number without adding anything at all that I find compelling.
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