Who still smokes?
My mother in law still smokes. Amazes me she's still alive.
Who still smokes?
I have smoked two to three cigars and couple of pipe bowls a day since the mid 80’s.Who still smokes?
I think 20 stop rumor might be an exaggeration of what Apple’s PR people handled to the leakers.when's the 20 stops rumored sensor supposed to come ?
Well, this mock-up currently looks better than Pixel😂 Google “tried so hard and go so far, in the end it doesn’t even matter”, their design is extra ugly. What really makes me anxious is that Apple plans to move precious Apple logo to accommodate wireless charging. Gonna be a disaster in terms of style and looksBy doing so we make the iPhone look like a Google Pixel. Which is to say pretty darn ugly.
It will all be approximated and emulated, same as 20 years ago when people had been editing shots on low-res monitors.I'm left wondering how one post-processes an image file with 20 stops of dynamic range when modern displays have far less
A20 Chip
Apple's upcoming A20 Pro chip, set to power the iPhone 18 Pro models, will reportedly be built using TSMC's third-generation 3nm process – the same node expected for the A19 Pro chip in this year's iPhone 17 Pro, according to analyst Jeff Pu. This suggests that year-over-year performance gains between the A19 Pro and A20 Pro may be modest, at least in terms of raw CPU and GPU improvements.
However, Pu notes that the A20 Pro will feature a more advanced packaging method known as CoWoS (Chip on Wafer on Substrate). This technology enables tighter integration between the processor, unified memory, and the Neural Engine, which could potentially enhance performance in AI-related tasks. The shift could be part of Apple's broader push to support on-device Apple Intelligence features in future iPhones, as the company ramps up its machine learning capabilities.
You're saying the final hdr picture is already 20 stops? Do you have a sourceI think 20 stop rumor might be an exaggeration of what Apple’s PR people handled to the leakers.
Theoretically, anything HDR is already 20 or 40 stops if we take all the photos used to expose the image and sum up their exposures.
20 stop single exposure image would probably need a sensor sized as whole iPhone 16 Pro Max and appropriate lens. Also it will probably need another color space switch - from P3 to ProPhoto or smth similar. As well as it would need another round of color bits emulation on monitors, i.e. 12 bit monitors that can emulate 16 bit ones.
Anyway, unlike marketers tell us, it won’t significantly make images better😃 Maybe improved night shots with better clarity and longer exposures, maybe better HDRs, anyway it will all be controlled by neural engine, i.e. AI-powered
Well, this mock-up currently looks better than Pixel😂 Google “tried so hard and go so far, in the end it doesn’t even matter”, their design is extra ugly. What really makes me anxious is that Apple plans to move precious Apple logo to accommodate wireless charging. Gonna be a disaster in terms of style and looks
It will all be approximated and emulated, same as 20 years ago when people had been editing shots on low-res monitors.
The thing is, neither person nor the computer shall “see” the small bits of exposure that do not change the balance anyway. It may be a problem if one tries to push all the juices out of a RAW file (bad idea honestly, Ken Rockwell told more than 15 years ago why exactly it is bad), but for JPEG editing the only thing you need is a good and “faithful” display, i.e. same as the music - you won’t mix a track well on JBL bluetooth speaker (tho, some do!)
Wait! Wut? I don't have to buy a new TV when my remote batteries die? Well H E Double Toothpicks!! I wish someone would have told me that long ago...I always wondered why my buddies were so eager to take my old 75" LG's off my hands every time that happened...You could literally replace the battery 10 times before it's cost the same as a new phone.
Your current battery will last you at least another year before it drops below 80%. Replace it at that point and you'll have 2-3 years of perfectly fine battery life again. You'll be able to skip not just the 17, but the 18, 19 and 20, possibly even the 21 - especially if you get the battery replaced a second time. By then it won't support new software updates, so it will be time to upgrade. For less than £200, you can basically enjoy your current phone for 6+ years in total. That is what the lifespan of any phone should be.
The time to upgrade is when the phone no longer does what you need it to do - not when the battery needs replacing. You don't buy a new TV when the batteries in the remote need replacing. You don't buy a new car when the battery needs replacing, you just replace the battery. The battery is the consumable/disposable part. Not the phone.
Honestly my source was initially “trust me bro”🤣 BUT it wasn’t that far from truth! And that’s exactly what I meant: if it is currently 13 stops, maybe they can make it 20?You're saying the final hdr picture is already 20 stops? Do you have a source
I do hear you that bracketing allows for very high dynamic range but I thought the base 12 figure was already accounting for that, I didn't understand it was 20 in single shot
HDR (High Dynamic Range) images and displays offer a wider range of brightness levels than traditional Standard Dynamic Range (SDR) content. While SDR displays typically offer around 6-8 stops of dynamic range, HDR content can achieve 13 stops or more, allowing for a more realistic and detailed representation of scenes with both bright and dark areas
I highly doubt Apple will undercut Samsung and Samsung just raised the price to $1999 for theirs.Given the rumored production numbers for the foldable, Apple must think they're going to sell a lot of them. If so, I don't think they'll give it a price approaching the Vision Pro. I suspect it will cost around $1500. That's still a lot of money for a phone, but for many people it will be cheap enough.
I have smoked two to three cigars and couple of pipe bowls a day since the mid 80’s.
Zero adverse effects.
Yes, I did that last time (got 7 years out of an iPhone 7 and kept a trusty 2011 MBA 11” running until 2024.) Wife and I will likely do the same with our respective 14 pro and 14 pro max. Smart phones are mature tech now so I just buy a premium phone model and keep until they no longer receive iOS security updates or the actual phone dies. New battery in my 14 pro max is brilliant. Tech sector yearly model upgrade announcements are irrelevant marketing rubbish! Garmin get it, as millions of happy Fenix 6 (2019) users in 2025 will attest.You could literally replace the battery 10 times before it's cost the same as a new phone.
Your current battery will last you at least another year before it drops below 80%. Replace it at that point and you'll have 2-3 years of perfectly fine battery life again. You'll be able to skip not just the 17, but the 18, 19 and 20, possibly even the 21 - especially if you get the battery replaced a second time. By then it won't support new software updates, so it will be time to upgrade. For less than £200, you can basically enjoy your current phone for 6+ years in total. That is what the lifespan of any phone should be.
The time to upgrade is when the phone no longer does what you need it to do - not when the battery needs replacing. You don't buy a new TV when the batteries in the remote need replacing. You don't buy a new car when the battery needs replacing, you just replace the battery. The battery is the consumable/disposable part. Not the phone.
Yeah, I also have a 14 Pro and I think it’s time to upgrade. Maybe in two years I might be tempted to get the 2nd gen folding iPhone.Skip the 17Pro for rumors that might or might not materialize? No. I'm also not a fan of being an Apple first-adopter for their new technology changes; I learned that lesson a very long time ago. I have a 14Pro, and it's time for the upgrade with the 17Pro or 17ProMax (I upgrade every three years now instead of every other year when carriers were subsidizing a portion of the cost of the phone).