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Other What will be the first complaint with the new 12 and 12 Pro lineup?
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The complaints will be the very same ones that we see all the time:
- yellow screen tint.
- dust specks under the screen or under the camera lens.
- “my iPhone is bent out of the box!”
- “my iPhone just bent on its own! I swear I didn’t keep it in my back pocket. I have no idea how it happened!”
- screen scratches, too many claimed reasons to list.
- “my iPhone 11 gets a much better signal than my 12!”
- “I hear strange clicks and pops”
- “my battery health is at 99% already!”
- and the hundreds of posts about all sorts of imagined, nonexistent problems with the question, “is it normal?”
- and the most entertaining of all; the people that exchange 12 iPhones in their never ending quest to find their perfect iPhone. They’ll demand that employees at the Apple store open all iPhones in stock so they can inspect them and choose the one they want. They’ll purposely scratch or try to bend the iPhones on display to see how easily they can be damaged. They’ll use 1000-lumen lights on their phones to find microscopic scratches. Then they’ll make 20 posts asking what screen protector they should use. It will always be capped off with the admission that “I’m just OCD with my phone.”
- yellow screen tint.
- dust specks under the screen or under the camera lens.
- “my iPhone is bent out of the box!”
- “my iPhone just bent on its own! I swear I didn’t keep it in my back pocket. I have no idea how it happened!”
- screen scratches, too many claimed reasons to list.
- “my iPhone 11 gets a much better signal than my 12!”
- “I hear strange clicks and pops”
- “my battery health is at 99% already!”
- and the hundreds of posts about all sorts of imagined, nonexistent problems with the question, “is it normal?”
- and the most entertaining of all; the people that exchange 12 iPhones in their never ending quest to find their perfect iPhone. They’ll demand that employees at the Apple store open all iPhones in stock so they can inspect them and choose the one they want. They’ll purposely scratch or try to bend the iPhones on display to see how easily they can be damaged. They’ll use 1000-lumen lights on their phones to find microscopic scratches. Then they’ll make 20 posts asking what screen protector they should use. It will always be capped off with the admission that “I’m just OCD with my phone.”
HERE'S WHY I RETURNED MY IPHONE 12 PRO MAX PACIFIC BLUE
“The MagSafe magnet wiped the magnetic strip on my credit card and now I can’t buy any food for my family”
“I attached my phone by the magnet to the Fridge (or other metallic surface) and its now fallen off and the screen has cracked”
“I attached my phone by the magnet to the Fridge (or other metallic surface) and its now fallen off and the screen has cracked”
I don’t understand your question. People have been complaining about the iPhone 12 for months. Started long before it was introduced.
I’m thinking Antennagate 2.0 but I really hope not. That 5G antenna may prove to be problematic but we’ll have to see.
Let me add in my personal favorite; dust in the camera lens.
Oh that happened to me on the iPhone 4. Very annoying. There was a spot on every picture i took.
Luckily not seen it on any of my later phones.
xxxgate that Apple opened up by themselves:
- Bendgate with weak points around the mmwave slot/SIM slot. The new iPad Pros have shown the weak point of this design (the SIM slot in case of the iPad Pros).
- Scratchgate/crackgate on the screen, simply because Apple is claiming 4x more durability.
- 5Gate/holegate/antennagate 2.0 when people cover up that tiny hole with their hands/fingers.
- Batterygate when a number of people are using 3rd party cables/chargers and have battery/power issues later
- Magsafegate when people are using 3rd party magnets and their iPhones end up falling/breaking
The usual MR posts:
- yellow/discolored screen
- dust under screen/camera
- rattles
- Apple not shipping theirs soon enough
- Battery drains too fast with 5G on
- Bendgate with weak points around the mmwave slot/SIM slot. The new iPad Pros have shown the weak point of this design (the SIM slot in case of the iPad Pros).
- Scratchgate/crackgate on the screen, simply because Apple is claiming 4x more durability.
- 5Gate/holegate/antennagate 2.0 when people cover up that tiny hole with their hands/fingers.
- Batterygate when a number of people are using 3rd party cables/chargers and have battery/power issues later
- Magsafegate when people are using 3rd party magnets and their iPhones end up falling/breaking
The usual MR posts:
- yellow/discolored screen
- dust under screen/camera
- rattles
- Apple not shipping theirs soon enough
- Battery drains too fast with 5G on
They mentioned how the Ceramic Shield is great for preventing shatters but they never mentioned scratch resistance. We've had glass improvements for a few years and I recall a year or two ago one phone might've been better for shatter-resistance but it was way worse than the year before for picking up small scratches. I really hope this new design helps both cases.
Yeah, I also wondered about messing up the rear of the phone when using a MagSafe charger without a case. Like the 4/5 models of the iPhone, I imagine the new one will feel much better in your hand and not like a bar of wet soap so I was also planning on not using a case.
THIS
And Apple already foreshadowed it by stating the 5G will automatically switch off to optimize battery life. So you KNOW that won’t work.
you get an A on the assignment for working in a new feature.
"If I hold my phone under this bright lamp and use a magnifying glass I can see some burn in!"
