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iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max

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Post by abluecloud »

pants2 wrote: post #265
llm_nerd wrote: post #216

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"- camera adds events to calendar!" I'm on iOS 18.0 on my iPhone 15 Pro, rather that the 18.1 with the "AI". Recently had an eye doctor appt for one of my children and they scheduled a follow-up, giving me a little card with the details. I was in a hurry so took a picture of it intending to enter the calendar event later, and it immediately pulled up a fully-filled in, completely accurate new calendar event. Little a…

I have a hilarious list of animals that my cat has been misclassified as by my iPhone. Everything from a beetle to a nematode. It doesn't give me a lot of confidence in these features!

Chihuahua or Muffin?

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Post by benhurmarcel »

cmcaleer wrote: post #376

Phishing email operators rejoice: Apple still are not showing emails in the Mail app, and will even scan your phishing email and rephrase it while recognising and pushing it as a priority notification. I actually like the idea, but I worry a lot that it will lead to non tech-savvy (and tech-savvy-but-hurried) people to getting rekt. It’s still obscene to me that they don’t show the sender’s email before clicking in.…

> they don’t show the sender’s email before clicking in

Even after clicking, you have to tap twice on the sender's to open his details and see his address.

And if he's in your contacts and has more than 1 address, there's no way to know which one sent the email.

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Post by MyFirstSass »

conductr wrote: post #373
arcticbull wrote: post #274

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> If the iPhone would have true user-swappable batteries, their business would collapse. Battery replacement costs at Apple are $69-99 and offered all the way back to the iPhone SE 1st Generation. That's the all-in cost where you bring it in, they open it up, swap it out, and give your phone back to you. An OEM battery for an Android phone is like $50. Budgeting $69-99 once every 3-4 years hardly seems like it's goin…

My thing is the battery timeline matches pretty closely to when I’m just ready for something new. I go bare, no case, so by 3-4 years my screen is scratched and scuffed enough to just do full replacement. I usually notice the speed leap too and how certain apps were severely unoptimized for my older device. So that’s nice too. But it’s not ever felt like a “upgrade” in a very long time because I don’t have any new fe…

Interestingly i felt like my last replacement was actually a downgrade.

Had the X (10) for years and it was great and compact but the face-id broke, upgraded to the 13 (because i didn't need anything in the 14/15) and now i have a phone that's too bulky, and not as comfortable to hold.

The X was simply thinner, more rounded and a way better experience, also i feel almost no difference doing day to day stuff.

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Post by Hendrikto »

paxys wrote: post #82

Smaller notch? Touch ID? Better battery life? Faster charging? Larger default storage? Nope, let's skip all that and spend most of the event talking about video recording. Is anyone here actually excited about the features they just announced? Or are people simply upgrading because they get the latest iPhone every year or two by default?

What are you talking about?

The new models do have better battery life and faster charging.

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Post by Refusing23 »

i feel like android phones have become boring too

there's just not much new going on. small improvements here and there..

i have a ton of options for my phone, special settings, options to download other apps, to further add new features

and i will probably never bother. i wanna use my phone as little as possible

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Post by johnisgood »

ashconnor wrote: post #5

Shocked they are still using 128GB as the starting storage size.

Why would a storage capacity exceeding 128 GB be necessary? If more than 128 GB of storage is required, why not utilize an SD card or other storage solutions (e.g. HDD / SSD used for your desktop) for storing large files? Is there a practical use case where data needs to be stored and actively accessed on a device with such large storage? For instance, I have a collection of videos totaling approximately 30 GB in size. I should consider transferring these files to my HDD or SSD rather than seeking a device with higher internal storage capacity.

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Post by wmoxam »

iteratethis wrote: post #258

I'm conflicted. It's absolutely stunning what smartphones can do these days and Apple makes an excellent product. It feels ungrateful and cynical to keep calling new models "boring". The reality though is that normie needs were accomplished several generations ago. I'll use my girlfriend as a sample of such user. She can't tell the difference between LCD and OLED nor would she notice Pro-motion. You can add a million…

I’m a software developer and I barely care about the new features. I’m on a 13 and the only ‘recent’ change I’m interested in upgrading for is usb-c.

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Post by abhinavk »

usaphp wrote: post #285

I love how ridiculous the scene to showcase Apple's Intelligence ability to tell you what bread the dog was. Instead of simply asking a women what breed her dog was - he had to open a camera app on his iPhone, ask a women a permission to take a photo of the dog, wait until the AI gives him an answer...

In reality, you will have to ask the owner anyway if the AI got it right.

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Post by whatjadat2 »

iteratethis wrote: post #258

I'm conflicted. It's absolutely stunning what smartphones can do these days and Apple makes an excellent product. It feels ungrateful and cynical to keep calling new models "boring". The reality though is that normie needs were accomplished several generations ago. I'll use my girlfriend as a sample of such user. She can't tell the difference between LCD and OLED nor would she notice Pro-motion. You can add a million…

"that normie"? Are you 5 years old? You are not in some exclusive elite club, you are just as normal as anyone else.
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