Most people won’t upgrade every year. I generally upgrade every two years. But I’m still glad to see an annual update. Manufacturers of TVs and cars bring out new models most years, but not many individuals upgrade that frequently.
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iPhone 15 Camera Upgrades Will Be 'Star of the Show' at Apple Event
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I've always found these types of reviews to be... interesting. Not necessarily for the content, but the revenue model. They test and discuss the speed and ease at which they can use hardware to edit videos. The videos they're editing are the very videos about better / newer hardware for editing videos. It's a fascinating revenue loop.
Same phone...got it.
As I said, doesn't matter what Apple releases, people are going to complain that it wasn't "enough" or its the "same phone"
Imagine a regular Iphone, no notch and no camera mountain on the back - just flat. 120hz display. Few pretty colors to choose from. Perfect speakers. 256 or 512GB. Mini or plus size...
Well, it sells to me as well. There are quite some improvements I’d like to see as an amateur photographer who doesn’t have his big system camera with him all the time. Zoom, low light performance, and better macro zoom that I can easily trigger myself (yes I know about third party apps, still…). And why would you NOT want to improve the camera’s? Together with a TB3 connection to quickly download images to my Mac… yes please!
I think all these companys have forgottong what a Molbile Phone actually is, each year now its been all about the camera, at this point its just a Smart Camara with phone cabilities at this point.
And thats the case then its seriously behing in the camera market, escpailly at the price point.
I also hate the way they push new features in a world where most places they wont work correctly due to poor mobile infrostructure thats in place.
Great if you live in a city thats spent no expense with their 5G network. But in the real world its still lacking badly.
One thing we keep wanting more and more as time goes by...... Better Battery life, I think many would agree if they paused all research on other features for a year and threw all that into battery tech, we would greatly buy it, imaging a phone that actually lasts a few days.
So when you go hyking and get stuck.... wanting to use the SOS feature you know your battery on your phone is there to actually use this feature?
Just food for thought.
Abit like they put the feature in the watch to monitor your sleeping, but how many poeples apple watch can make it a day and be able to stay on to monitor your sleeping? or do you take it off to charge it over night becasue the battery sucks, just another feature on something that no one can use correctly unless under the most ideal situtations.
And thats the case then its seriously behing in the camera market, escpailly at the price point.
I also hate the way they push new features in a world where most places they wont work correctly due to poor mobile infrostructure thats in place.
Great if you live in a city thats spent no expense with their 5G network. But in the real world its still lacking badly.
One thing we keep wanting more and more as time goes by...... Better Battery life, I think many would agree if they paused all research on other features for a year and threw all that into battery tech, we would greatly buy it, imaging a phone that actually lasts a few days.
So when you go hyking and get stuck.... wanting to use the SOS feature you know your battery on your phone is there to actually use this feature?
Just food for thought.
Abit like they put the feature in the watch to monitor your sleeping, but how many poeples apple watch can make it a day and be able to stay on to monitor your sleeping? or do you take it off to charge it over night becasue the battery sucks, just another feature on something that no one can use correctly unless under the most ideal situtations.
I love to travel and I love to take photos, so I have a DSLR with a range of lenses. But increasingly I find that the majority of my photos are taken on my IP12 Pro, especially on active skiing / cycling trips. The problem with 'real' cameras is they are just too bulky to be practical. On a recent trip to Borneo just about the only DSLR photos I ended up using were of orang-utans, where the telephoto lens did come into its own. Personally, I'm OK with a slightly bigger camera bump - which tends to get mostly covered by the protective case anyway.
Considering the number of laptops, tablets, cameras and not to mention Android phones that have been sold with USB C ports over the years that statement is pretty hard to support.
I am not really sure what peoples complaints are about the battery. I am a heavy user and get through the the whole day. Not hard to plug it in when I go to sleep at night...
It really isn’t. Stop this myth. As goofy as the branding is, Samsung’s zoom camera on their flagship is an excellent tool to have. I’m speaking from first hand experience.
I would love to see what Apple could do here.
Yay, finally I can take a picture of that thing 400 feet away like most people do.
Wait……
Can we get leather cases back?
Wait……
Can we get leather cases back?
Smart phones are a very mature product category. There's really nowhere to go at this point beyond obvious hardware improvements like camera upgrades and UI gimmicks like the dynamic island.
If USB-C is the reason to upgrade, I think that's more about being addicted to shiny new baubles than anything else. My 11 Pro is going strong and I don't plan to upgrade. There's nothing exciting about smart phones in general these days. It's a mature product category. If you took the past five models and put them in the same housing so no one could tell which is which, I doubt most people could tell the difference between them.
Holy crap I thought this was a problem with my phone only. Like I thought the lens was just damaged inside. But this is a problem others are seeing to???
I dont know how Apple can brag about their cameras if this low-light orb problem is widespread. What causes it?
I’m sure consumers will enjoy having the same cable used everywhere (which they will likely find out about when they first try to plug it in - if ever), but that doesn’t mean they have any idea what it is. For most people it’s simply: the cable.
I understand the excitement. But I have the opinion that an iPhone is not necessary. What someone needs is an iPad with an Apple pencil or,if he/she is a heavier user an iMac. iPhones are popular but exists out there Android phones with better cameras or dedicated cameras for that purpose. In computers and tablets on the other hand Apple is unique in its own way.
I'm only upgrading from 14 Pro because of titanium and the new lighter grey color.
Oh, the newer cameras are significantly improved over the Xs. It is nice, but I don’t really take photos (other than objects, usually for serial numbers or other things), so it doesn’t do much for me.
Some people don't enjoy using Android's OS and prefer iOS. Simple as that. Ignoring the hardware completely. I am one of those people. I loathe Android.
If your talking about the apple watch that I was talking about and the sleep monitoring feature, think you missed the point..... yes plug it but then the feature is mute.
As for the phone. I was getting at the sos feature that you would use when hyking or long walks in the wilderness, maybe a whole weekend thing, be nice not to worry about having to carry a battery bank all the time or if you have a accident so cant reach in bag to charge, know your battery is fine to use said SOS feature.
Thats what I was getting at, they are fixated on features that only work in the most ideal situtations or areas that have rock solid network connection. Well the world doesnt revolve around the few cities in the US that has this.
Many have poor implimentation, I would say 95% of the world as crap 5g connection if at all.
They spend so much time adding stuff that cant really be used to push sales till you get it and relise ohhh i cant use this.
Or they show of features that in a Keynote to the whole world but dont work in the whole world. In fact on release Only work in 1. And sometimes never come to a country near you period.
*Apple Card* being just one of them, SOS feature being another, the list goes on.