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.
I am - I have an extremely sensitive nickel allergy. The iPhone 12 Pro is a stainless steel body but I think with such a low nickel content that it could be classed as surgical grade, it takes holding for a long time for it to cause blisters. Coins on the other hand (no pun intended) can cause my skin to start bubbling like a burn in no time at all. As far as I'm aware, titanium is almost never mixed with nickel, it'…
Watch out for “golden” titanium. It could be a titanium nitride coating.
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?
If you want to drive you are. And much of America there's nowhere to go without driving.
I am - I have an extremely sensitive nickel allergy. The iPhone 12 Pro is a stainless steel body but I think with such a low nickel content that it could be classed as surgical grade, it takes holding for a long time for it to cause blisters. Coins on the other hand (no pun intended) can cause my skin to start bubbling like a burn in no time at all. As far as I'm aware, titanium is almost never mixed with nickel, it'…
Wow that's truly unfortunate. I hope one day health science can solve that problem for you. Have you travelled to Europe where there's a lot more usage of coins (eg euros/franc)? Do you just have to wear gloves?
Technically I'm in Europe (the continent, but no longer the economic zone) in the UK. It's been years since I've really had to handle coins, but even so, it takes holding it in my hand for maybe 30 minutes to cause the blistering and that's not something I've needed to do very often. Nickel allergy is fairly common but I understand mine is a fair bit more sensitive than most. The main inconvenience from it is having to be very careful about what I buy if I'm going to need to touch it - no metal framed glasses, my wedding ring is zirconium, and the rivets on most jeans will burn me even through my underwear. When a few years ago I found a pair that I liked the fit of, and also had nickel-free rivets, I bought 10 pairs.
Wow that's truly unfortunate. I hope one day health science can solve that problem for you. Have you travelled to Europe where there's a lot more usage of coins (eg euros/franc)? Do you just have to wear gloves?
Technically I'm in Europe (the continent, but no longer the economic zone) in the UK. It's been years since I've really had to handle coins, but even so, it takes holding it in my hand for maybe 30 minutes to cause the blistering and that's not something I've needed to do very often. Nickel allergy is fairly common but I understand mine is a fair bit more sensitive than most. The main inconvenience from it is having…
I live en Europe too (northern countries) and we almost never handle coins anymore, but nickel itself is in so many things as an alloy. So I can imagine it must be very annoying to buy something and suddenly realise you can't use it due to a rash, that does indeed suck.
I'd love to see first week sales numbers of the iPhone 14 Pro vs the iPhone 15 Pro.
N=1, the missus wanted a new phone last year and opted to wait for the iPhone 14 Pro. We had to wait to get it as it was out of stock in the larger Los Angeles Metro.
Now, iPhone 15 Pro, 4 days before launch, I can still buy it today and get it delivered on 9/22.
As far as I remember humans can tell a 0.5g difference between two objects. Obviously this is when holding each object in one hand, but I am still not that surprised that we can tell that a phone is 19g lighter than the other.
Titanium is good, very good. If you ever had titanium based glasses, you never want to go back. I lost count how many times I sat on my glasses and just bent everything back in place.
> 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?
If you want to drive you are. And much of America there's nowhere to go without driving.
Ah OK that makes sense, we have a similar requirement in the UK.
A difference would be if you don't have your licence, insurance, etc. on you at the time you were stopped you can be issued with a "producer" document which requires you to produce your documents at a local police station within seven days.