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Apple Says 128GB iPhone 15 Pro Limited to 1080p ProRes Video Recording Unless External Storage Connected
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Respectfully, what model Samsung is that?Incorrect:
Samsung flagships haven’t had SD cards in them for years.
You sir, deserve the Nobel prize - I've just re-read the article in reference Apple's lack of clear clarification on the tech specs page unless you directly compare to the 14 Pro - 1TB it is then.
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You can, as long as your storage is 256gb or above
Unless read/write speeds are affected like on the macbooks then I don't care about 128 or 256 aside from my cost to own. I would legitimately take a 15 Pro Max 128 Gb. I have no need for 256 currently and 128 would double what I'm currently using.
If the Pro Max sells well (and the rumours are it is) you will get your wish next year, alongside a price bump to $1099.
Surely it makes sense to keep the 128 Gb model? Those who are serious about ProRes would probably prefer to spend $100 on a 2 TB external SSD rather than a measly 128 Gb extra internal storage?
Folks, even with the 256gb phone, 4K ProRes will fill up the hard drive very quickly. This is a professional codec and the fact that a phone can encode to that standard is awesome. The headline here is that the 15 Pro phones can now record directly to an external hard drive making them very capable. Nothing to be embarrassed at here.
Lmao the absolute ridiculousness of saying the product shouldn’t exist if it cant do an extremely useless thing
What a terrible fan base
What a terrible fan base
I dont know which one it is and it doesn't matter. It's been done before and Apple (Samsung included) both refuse to do it now. Sony has kept the MicroSD card though.
My point stands. Not everyone needs 256 much less every feature of said model. There is nothing embarrassing about paying for a base model phone with 128 if that is all one needs.
Apple is in the business of making money not satisfying comments labeled as embarrassing from forum members. If you don’t like what Apple is offering, pay for the upgrade, complain directly to Apple, or go to a different ecosystem.
A 64GB Pro iPhone shouldn’t exist and Apple agreed when they made 128GB the base storage in the 12 Pro without increasing its price in the US.
The 128 GB iPhone 15 Pro is like the Touch Bar MBP. Its only purpose is to fill the magical $999 price-point and, by extension, for Apple to advertise the Pro lineup as "Starting at $999."
This is still kind of a gross limitation, people should be free to use the available storage they have as they please, even if it means they can’t record very much. But at least this generation they give you some way around it. So it’s an improvement.
Part of me wonders if it’s not even an issue of capacity so much as limited write speeds - maybe the 128gb they put in the phone is of a lower performance grade than the higher capacities, or if the controller has more overhead in trying to manage so much data with relatively little available space
Part of me wonders if it’s not even an issue of capacity so much as limited write speeds - maybe the 128gb they put in the phone is of a lower performance grade than the higher capacities, or if the controller has more overhead in trying to manage so much data with relatively little available space
They are and that's the whole point, aside from the fact that it precludes a feature of the phone, regardless of whether you use it or not.
I think this might just be a copyedit issue; If you scroll down to the "Front Camera" section of the comparison, it shows this:
Hence, I think internal storage is still limited to 30 fps as before.
There aren’t microSD cards fast enough to withstand that massive bitrate that Prores has in 4K60.
Besides, I’ve never really understood the concept of being embarrassed for a company. Especially not one that’s so wildly successful.
Hey, then someone would say the price got raised by $100!
It is Apple we are talking about, they are not known for keeping the same price for more storage like a charity. 😂