At the end of the day, it’s just a phone. There’s only so much you can get excited about. Lol
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iPhone 14 Pro Already bored with my iPhone 14 Pro Max. I didn’t think the novelty would wear off so fast.
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Did you order the deep purple? If so how do you like the color? I just ordered my first ever iPhone deep purple from Xfinity Mobile so i’m pretty sure I won’t be too bored with it.
I am a major fan of the island. I have king been annoyed with how far in the background notifications can be. For instance, if you have a timer going it was buried deeply. The island surfaces it so you can keep it in sight without losing access to your phone or the timer.
It is going to offer a lot over the next couple of years. But I see it as growing to pull us to a much better place around notifications and timely updates.
I agree but also going from something like the X go a 13 Pro does bring several nice day to day quality of life improvements like 120Hz and almost guaranteed all-day battery life. The X also gets laggy in certain situations now which is totally gone on newer phones. And of course there is a massive camera improvement. The real test is trying to go back to your X now and seeing if you could live with it. You probably could but you definitely wouldn’t want to.
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smartphone era will soon be over, and it will become the wearable & AR VR era.
Life is short. Always try the new and exciting stuff. Do everything you like when you can. Don’t “wait” for anything.
Of course if you can afford to live such life in a sustainable way.
Of course if you can afford to live such life in a sustainable way.
The peninsula is now an island, wake me up when sea levels rise high enough that we get all screen 🥱
I know how you feel. From from X to 14PM and honestly after the novelty wears off it’s pretty much still the same phone.
Find interesting stuff to do *with* your phone, not *to* it ...
I have an iPhone 11 Pro and a Pixel 6 and I assure you that GPay isn't just decent, it's better than Apple Pay. Have a look at my spending so far across multiple cards in GPay via this imgur link. I can easily see how much I spent by Merchant across all of my cards in my Google Wallet. You can't do that with Apple Pay; only with the Apple Card.
Both platforms seem to be converging in terms of functionality but I think Google is better in its implementation: move icons anywhere; swiping from the bottom to reveal the app drawer is WAY better than having icons all over your screen or in the app library, which arranges apps stupidly. One of the biggest issues with iPhone is the keyboard. The Gboard is superior - number row at the top and you can hold the period to bring up other punctuation marks.
But Google isn't perfect. It has issue as well. And if you have a Mac and an iPad, it just makes sense to go with iPhone.
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DI was a way to hide the infamous notch to accommodate the faceID camera. It’s a great innovation.
But what would make me feel better is to smoothen the ugly 3 cameras at the back, they take up so much of space and create the unstable wobble when placed on its back. Flatten those cameras to fit into the chassis plushly. Then we can say there is true innovation while keeping the form factor this.
Geesh… dynamic lenses should be next…or just keep it simple and use the same camera systems as the previous models and if you want do professional photography buy the iPhone Pro Max Plus.
Any chance this will happen?
But what would make me feel better is to smoothen the ugly 3 cameras at the back, they take up so much of space and create the unstable wobble when placed on its back. Flatten those cameras to fit into the chassis plushly. Then we can say there is true innovation while keeping the form factor this.
Geesh… dynamic lenses should be next…or just keep it simple and use the same camera systems as the previous models and if you want do professional photography buy the iPhone Pro Max Plus.
Any chance this will happen?
Jeeeez some people upgrading from 12 or 13 to 14 pro. Minus the flashy UI island interface upgrading to the 14 pro ask yourself does it really change what you use your phone? After 3 hrs will you still be impressed. Anyway you want to waste money? Bam do what I did. Handheld gaming PC. Playing GTA on the couch and titanfall 2. And forza horizons v. now that’s a different and novel experience. Not same old iPhone. Big freaking deal.
Waitlisted for more than a year and damn it’s worth the wait. 64 gen model with 1tb micro sd card.
Waitlisted for more than a year and damn it’s worth the wait. 64 gen model with 1tb micro sd card.
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I am using a iPhone 12 Pro Max, I have no interest in upgrading my iPhone until the IPhone 16 pro max. Besides it matches the notch on my MacBook Pro.
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Depends how long you go between upgrades. I’ll be upgrading from an iPhone 6, so the improvement should be pretty drastic.
Current plan is to upgrade every 5 years.
It was a nice upgrade, hence why I kept the 13 Pro instead of sending it back. My point is that for the majority of what I do on my phone (and I'd wager what most people do) - navigation, browsing websites and listening to podcasts - nothing has really changed. I get the same directions and the content that I consume is still the same.
I liked all the improvements that they made to the 13 Pro, and yet I still have to conclude that outside of the nicer pictures that I can take (mostly when I'm on vacation), it's been a pretty minor improvement for me on an everyday basis. If I'd be less enthusiastic about gadgets like smartphones, I could've swapped the iPhone X's battery and it would still serve me just fine.
Went from 13PM to 14PM. Happy I did. Did two things to make the experience more fun for myself:
1. Clear case. Since 2008 I have covered the beautiful (I think) design of the iPhone with an OtterBox Defender. This year, I chose a clear case.
2. Purple. I have always had gold until last year when I bought blue but couldn’t enjoy the blue because of the case. I have purple now with a clear case.
These two simple changes make it feel like a new experience for me.
But lastly - the great thing about the free market is that if you don’t want to upgrade this year, don’t.
1. Clear case. Since 2008 I have covered the beautiful (I think) design of the iPhone with an OtterBox Defender. This year, I chose a clear case.
2. Purple. I have always had gold until last year when I bought blue but couldn’t enjoy the blue because of the case. I have purple now with a clear case.
These two simple changes make it feel like a new experience for me.
But lastly - the great thing about the free market is that if you don’t want to upgrade this year, don’t.
I am already bored before even receiving it. I was supposed to get it yesterday but left home early as I had something important to do and missed the delivery. I am not in a hurry. I just didn't want to wait till October which is why I ordered early but definitely not in a hurry. Only reason I got it is the camera upgrade, and wanting to pass down my 13 Pro Max to my parents so photos they take of me also look good
The 'Dynamic Island' is just Apple's way of trying to make the display notch seem a good thing. It isn't.
I would say even three years now and that goes for Android phones too.
the notch on an iPhone doesn't bother me at all - on a Mac it can be kind of bothersome at times for me, but still acceptable.
haven't had hands on with a DI equipped iPhone yet, but for now, it's actually looking like a worse solution to me.
haven't had hands on with a DI equipped iPhone yet, but for now, it's actually looking like a worse solution to me.
I think the mistake the OP made is to upgrade from a 13 to a 14 series. I usually try to keep a nice big gap and even then don’t expect major changes or to be wowed because I still end up using the phone for the same old stuff.
I have created a list in notes of all the cool features I will get when I upgrade to a iPhone 16 pro max. Gaps are always good when upgrading.
- Always on display iPhone 14 meh
- Boot up & shutdown chime iPhone 14 meh
- Pro motion display 100hz iPhone 13
- Macro photography iPhone 13
- 48 Mega Pixel iPhone 14
- ESim iPhone 14
- Improved flash iPhone 14
- Qualcomm's Snapdragon X65 modem for faster 5G speeds, lower power consumption, and improved mmWave iPhone 14
- Periscope lens rumoured for iPhone 15
- USB C rumoured for iPhone 15
- Under display Face ID rumoured for iPhone 16. Be gone you cursed island
Oh god please no, its bad enough at the moment with phone scrolling zombies, walking around staring at their phones, oblivious to everything around them.