I tend to trade in my iPhone Pro Max every year and upgrade to the new model, but with the 15 Pro Max, with the 8 GB RAM and USB-C, I don’t know if I’m going to upgrade this year… first time in years. I really don’t see a reason to wake up early on pre-order day and get the 16. Perhaps I can be convinced but I just can’t see it this year at all…
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The new arrangement of the cameras for spatial video is already outdated.
The new version of Enhance-X App soon available not only for Galaxy S24 series but also for all recent Samsung Galaxy flagships allows you to shift the position of the camera of any arbitrary picture. I expect Samsung to introduce this also for videos together with their headset around the end of the year. Samsung just need to apply the same algorithm to every single frame of a video and shift the camera twice to left and right. This way, they could basically produce the two streams needed for 3D video for any ever-captured video.
While Apple was working on the introduction of 3D video recording in the traditional way, Samsung was improving their AI technology and preparing something nobody was seeing it would become reality.
Something similar happened to Apple’s “Next Generation Portrait Mode” which turned out to be outdated at the time it arrived.
The new version of Enhance-X App soon available not only for Galaxy S24 series but also for all recent Samsung Galaxy flagships allows you to shift the position of the camera of any arbitrary picture. I expect Samsung to introduce this also for videos together with their headset around the end of the year. Samsung just need to apply the same algorithm to every single frame of a video and shift the camera twice to left and right. This way, they could basically produce the two streams needed for 3D video for any ever-captured video.
While Apple was working on the introduction of 3D video recording in the traditional way, Samsung was improving their AI technology and preparing something nobody was seeing it would become reality.
Something similar happened to Apple’s “Next Generation Portrait Mode” which turned out to be outdated at the time it arrived.
If they un-muck-up the cameras, that could be useful. The focal lengths leave us with none of the three cameras being good at close up photography (unlike pretty much every iPhone of the last decade until recently) and none being suitable for portraits due to the distortion around the edges. Having to tolerate the quirks that would otherwise make photos often worse than the SE2 I had is frustrating.
Laugh if you will (and you will) but I want 2 TB so I can keep all of my photos and videos local.
Photos app can be pretty laggy when browsing.
Ok, AND I want a holographic emitter to play Star Wars chess and let the Wookie win 🤓
Photos app can be pretty laggy when browsing.
Ok, AND I want a holographic emitter to play Star Wars chess and let the Wookie win 🤓
Hmph. iPhone 15 Pro Max takes worse picture of texts than iPhone 14 or even iPhone 15 Plus. What kind of ***** results would they produce if in the end it’s just blurry mess anyways? I will not trust Apple producing good photos unless they can stop producing grainy photos in good lighting conditions.
Btw, the test is done on several demo iPhone in multiple stores and my friends ones. All blurry mess.
For me using telco upgrade program, I am happy to upgrade further when time comes and would not mind much.
Which Apple has done a terrible job with in recent years.
Is there any information available as to the source of the Wi-Fi 7 chips in in the upcoming iPhone 16 Pro devices? In particular, is it from an external supplier (like Broadcom), or from Apple in house?
On a slightly different but related note, is there any informed speculation as to when we can expect Wi-Fi upgrades for the Apple Watch? The series 0 was introduced in 2015 with 802.11n (Wi-Fi 4), and still this is what the Series 9 and Ultra 2 today.
On a slightly different but related note, is there any informed speculation as to when we can expect Wi-Fi upgrades for the Apple Watch? The series 0 was introduced in 2015 with 802.11n (Wi-Fi 4), and still this is what the Series 9 and Ultra 2 today.
Yawn. Guess I will be skipping the iPhone 16 as well and continue using my 11 Pro until something exciting appears...
When I get one of those new iPhones with an action button the first thing I’m going to do is assign it to play / pause, I am so sick and tired of asking Siri to pause or play and it starts playing some other music selection. 
AirPods Pro 2 connect very reliably. And car Bluetooth always sucks. I got a 3.5mm to Lightning adapter and use the aux jack and it is way better than Bluetooth ever was.
So the biggest change to the non-Pro models is a new button? Incredibly underwhelming.
Really? I sure hope not. The market is limited, point and shoot are a dying breed and the big ones like Canon, Nikon, Sony, Panasonic and a few others are setting the pace, and, without optics you don’t really have a solution…
Besides, the billion or 2 social media folks (instagram, fb, TikTok etc) would vehemently disagree, only the ability to instantly post has made those platforms…
We want larger screen sizes, obviously. Only a very small proportion (i.e. 0.1%) of the population who somehow wants smaller screen sizes keep yapping all the time and I hope Apple will keep increasing screen sizes
Same. I think I'll end up replacing the battery in my 13PM and go another 2-3 years with it.
Then after that, I'll start buying iPhones in new condition but they'll be 1-2 year old models. Gone are the days when I cared about cutting-edge features... The 13 series onward's been "good enough" for me. I could easily afford new releases, but I can't justify that amount of cash on a phone anymore. I'd rather use it for other things.
Since is appear my XR will be compatible with iOS 18, I’ve lost interest in iPhone 16, well at least this season.
Actually, dedicated cameras are starting to experience a comeback. I know you don’t believe it but they are.
Regardless, if Apple is serious about photography, they should make a stand alone camera. There’s a limit to what anyone can do with a camera that’s built into a phone. Apple has already reached it and exceeded it in a negative way by applying too much processing to the images. This suggests to me that Apple is NOT serious about photography at all. They just want to have a phone that makes pictures with bright colors so people will buy more of them.
PS: TikTok made the Fuji X-100v into a MASSIVE success. People do use dedicated cameras for social media. You’re working off of outdated talking points regarding photography and social media content creators.
Comeback? Will have to look at actual numbers over the past 30 years, but that’s besides the point. Smartphones have enabled billions to actually have a camera at all.
As for Apple, they are kinda redefining “photography”, they’ve done tremendously for low light for example. I don’t care for the over processing either but there are plenty who do. And those who are “into photography” have the option to shoot RAW with iPhone. And yes, Apple has turned away from “traditional” photography and that was very clear when they abandoned Aperture.
I’ve owned (D)SLRs for almost 50 years, I’m part of a “dying breed” but I’m loving it.
But this all started with the upcoming iPhone 16, IF Apple is going to offer true optical 1-5x zoom, not 3 different cameras with static focal length (and digitally zooming, and the calling it optical zoom), I’ll likely get the 16PM, but we’ll see
I used to upgrade every 2 years without fail. 3G, 4, 5, 6 Plus, 7, XR, 12 Pro.
But I’m still rocking the 12 Pro and even these rumours don’t have me wanting for an upgrade like I used to. It really feels like since the 11/12 generations things have slowed down tremendously.
But I’m still rocking the 12 Pro and even these rumours don’t have me wanting for an upgrade like I used to. It really feels like since the 11/12 generations things have slowed down tremendously.
I am sorry I need to say this and to all those of you who are looking forward to the iPhone 16, great, but for me it will be a miss, presumably because I am not in the target demographic (12 to 35 years old). I still want a lighter phone with a better battery life. I know, I am never going to get one, certainly not in my lifetime and I have not got that much left. Functionality, speed, cameras and screen size are more than adequate in the 15 Pro Max, but the weight and battery life are terrible. Where is that ultra thin sheet of glass with a battery that lasts forever? That would be technically advanced. Oh well, I suppose I should shut up and fade away.
iPhone is a not used by photography enthusiasts. That’s Apple marketing.
And if you replaced your DSLR rig with an iPhone I’d suggest that you are not a photography enthusiast anymore yourself.
Finally, to reiterate, high profile online content creators are not using iPhones to shoot video. Photography enthusiasts and professionals are not shooting with iPhone. Apple dearly wants you to believe that they are, but they aren’t.
I really don’t know why you appear to dislike dedicated cameras so much and it seems weird that you’re inclined to deny that a growing market continues to exist for dedicated enthusiast cameras. The entire Fuji product lineup and the Nikon Zfc take serious issue with that.