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10 Reasons to Wait for This Year's iPhone 18 Pro

gadgetmonster said:
I would have called this ‘reasons not to upgrade’. I am interested in the fold though.
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Seriously. I had the iPhone 7, which had an Intel baseband that the Apple C1 and other modems are based on. It had constant audio cutouts during calls in places that my iPhone 6s never did, and the data performance wasn't anything to write home about either. And with my house being near the center of a cell on my carrier, I don't need a baseband that has subpar performance in non-ideal signal conditions, as the Intel chips were known to have compared to their Qualcomm counterparts.

Qualcomm has been doing this for decades -- they invented IS-95 (often mistakenly referred to as "CDMA" in cellular parlance) and numerous other advancements that evolved into the modern wireless communication technology we take for granted today. There's a reason nobody else has been able to match their performance.

Sometimes Apple makes a top-tier component, as they've done well with the Apple silicon chips. But the cellular tech they bought from Intel and the Qualcomm patents that they won't be allowed to use in their own chip design means that it's basically impossible for Apple to make a better cellular baseband than Qualcomm can.
 
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The satellite connectivity is interesting, but since they GeoFence it it is useless for my main use case, cruises.
 
Ctrlos said:
I’ll stick with the Air. It genuinely feels like the first iPhone in years that is a genuine successor to the iPhone 4, single camera and all. I was debating going with an older Pro Max on trade but I actually use Siri quite a lot and am looking forward to whatever iOS27 has cooked up. That extra 4gb of RAM wasn’t put there by Apple just to improve OS performance. I’ve a feeling some of the new Siri features will have a 12gb RAM-model only limitation and I don’t want to be left out. In any case I used Siri a lot more than the .5x and 5x lenses on my old 16 Pro.
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I really want to get an Air as it seems like it would be closest to the mini I so much want again, but its actually wider and taller than my current 16pro. Also, I feel quite opposite of your use of siri more, as I find my self using it less from aggravation of its results... I do hope it gets better so I can rely on it more in the future.
I probably use the .5x and 5x lens the most out of the 3 so that would be a major letdown having an air 😬
Maybe Ill touch an Air in person and revaluate my feelings for it. I have yet to see one in the wild amongst people I know.
 
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Kylo83 said:
I say wait until 2027 for 20th anniversary phone, that will be better upgrade
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Kind of my thinking too. I just got the 17 PM with the expectation that I will skip the 18 and wait for whatever they have going for the 20th anniv.

I don't see anything exiting in this article.
 
The only device I'm looking forward to is a foldable iPhone. Might not be likely, but I'd love to have an iPad mini sized foldable iPhone so I don't have to walk around with two devices.
 
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jml12286 said:
I really want to get an Air as it seems like it would be closest to the mini I so much want again, but its actually wider and taller than my current 16pro. Also, I feel quite opposite of your use of siri more, as I find my self using it less from aggravation of its results... I do hope it gets better so I can rely on it more in the future.
I probably use the .5x and 5x lens the most out of the 3 so that would be a major letdown having an air 😬
Maybe Ill touch an Air in person and revaluate my feelings for it. I have yet to see one in the wild amongst people I know.
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It’s a phone whose entire UX is built around holding it and having it in your pocket. It’s all very well seeing ‘slim and light’ on a spec sheet but a person can’t really know until they hold it in their hand. For someone like me who had the steel girder 14 Pro Max trigger arthritis in his hands it’s been a revelation. It’s the first large phone I’ve used that can be easily gripped in one hand, even with a case. You never notice it in your pocket at all and it’s the toughest iPhone Apple ever made to boot.

The battery life is great if you’re not a TikTok-addled teenager with 10 hours+ SOT and I see the camera as more of a ‘kit lens’ setup. Pro comparisons are moot because the markets are different. I see it as a thinner, faster iPhone 17.
 
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would you mind highlighting that 5G spectral efficiency is about just 10% better than the one of 4G?
which means that in best theoretical case you'll get 10% throughput than you get with regular "Satellite 4G".
the size of the covered area doesn't change. it is still magnitudes larger than in case of terrestrial cellular, so the same maximum available bandwidth will be distributed across all users in the covered area. and that isn't much to begin with. let's assume you get a few kbit/s in the middle of nowhere - now with "SaTeLlIte 5G" you'll get maybe 5-10kbps more. tops.
 
Not happy to hear that the next Pro will be bigger and heavier. I only buy the Pro because it has the best cameras, and nothing else. What is the legacy of any of these phones in our lives? It’s only the photos and videos we take with them. I don’t think about what I had three iPhones ago. But I do look at the photo memories from that time. So I wish Apple would use the Pro for other Pro features. I don’t need a bigger battery if the sacrifice is heft. Gimme an Air with your best cameras.
 
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