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iPhone 17 and 'iPhone 17 Air' Again Rumored to Feature 120Hz ProMotion Displays
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The average consumer will put up with all sorts of junk because they don’t know any better. The fact that people are more willing to defend or rationalize companies that deliver the subpar out of some weird brand loyalty is exactly why *gestures broadly at everything*
Then Apple should be the one to make it not fragile rather than wait for someone to prefect it
I compared the 16 to the 16 Pro and goddammit, I can see the difference. Was considering the 16 but might hold off for the 17.
Yes
so you dont have to keep pressing redial when the phone rings out. Like when you are trying to call your doctor or a taxi thats engaged. It will keep calling until it’s answered. Having to continuously press redial every 30 seconds for 30 minutes can be a real bummer.
Loads of people complain its too heavy. The iphone is a beast. I keep saying this but they are heavier than the old school nokia 5110 for example that phone is literally an inch thick.
Good point well made. I just want a lighter phone and the glass back is dumb. Alu back would be fine i agree. Also can we have some nice colours that arent a different shade of grey.
Have they really? Apple's rule used to be to use the same processor on every current iPhone model including the SE. Then they broke that by not only making the non Pro models have a year old chip last year but they started the Pro models only having Pro chips. I think this now established they will never have the same processors again.
Somehow people on here will defend it too ! I remember people on here saying when we were on 1080p and didn’t need 4K lol
Because we have seen their past 10 yrs of track record.
On hardware side (excluding chips), they are just copycats
Even prosumers don’t know what’s available. Some of the most cutting edge technology is only seen by a fraction of people in R&D labs in industry and the military, and some in university research labs.
For whatever reason, be it economic, practical or political, the rest of world would never know of its existence or that a certain technology was possible until it became public or commercialized. A tonne of research ends up being shelved for a variety of the above reasons and never sees the light of day.
So yeah, your iPhone with ultra high screen refresh may be appealing, but you didn’t know that x, y and z was possible but never persued and therefore your phone is actually yesterdays tech. You’d never know, so even a pro user will put up with what could be considered junk from a technological advancement aspect because you have no idea what’s actually possible.
120 is noticeably better than 60. 240 will also be a noticeable improvement but has diminishing returns. I suspect we'll see it in a few years.
Unlikely. I think Apple finally found a screen supplier that could make the 120 to 1 Hz VRR display on a really large scale and at a lower price.
Perhaps a display with a fixed 120Hz rate with the corresponding hit to battery life. That would keep the promotion variable rate displays on the Pro phones, a useful premium item
No. I'm just saying if a $400 phone can have adaptive refresh rates faster than 60Hz, a $799 phone that's twice as expensive should have too, at the very least.
Right I got that, but to reiterate, my question was what should the price of the current base iPhone be to make it a fair deal since it doesn't have 120hz? If someone is able to judge that it's too expensive to not have 120hz, then it's logical that they should be able to say what a fair price would be for it since it doesn't have 120hz. No?