I just got the 16PM 512 on a promotional deal from carrier - after owning the 15 Pro Max for year - and I absolutely love it! I’m no pixel peeper - so I’m not a stickler on picture quality, as they’re all amazing to me in IQ… and the video quality is amazing - especially with the better compression - 4K @ 120 and ProRaw formats.
I also dig the camera side button - but it took a YouTube video or 2 to figure it out. The battery (I’m on Dev beta) is phenomenal in comparison with my 15PM (which went to my wife… who’s not a phone user, other than text and Bejeweled).
I do have the Adobe Creative Suite and intend on comparing the two still shots side by side of several different shots, but everything else, including the display - IMO, are incredibly satisfying as a year to year update - as well as the speed of the SoC, brighter display, and the battery, as mentioned, is good for at least a couple extra hours of screen on time
I watched and read plenty of the pros n cons about it but I disagree with the idea of it being a disappointment as a year to year update.
I also update from the M1 Max MBP to the M4 Max Studio - and the insane power increase and speed of both single and multi core performance along with the updated en/decoders is amazing. Not a normal increase Y2Y over the M1-2-3 (about 15-20%) where the M4 bounced almost 50% in single core testing and kisses the last (M2) Ultra’s multi core score - graphically, it smokes! And as a creator of primarily audio post production (60%) video editing and grading - to output (25%) with about 10% still editing - I’m saving a lot of time and/or getting more done on the m4 v m1.
To be expected. While the synthetic benching on the iPhone wasn’t as significant as m3 -m4 - the quality of life improvements, sensor and motion capture improvements as well as the speed of recording off cam (to an external T-7 or T-9 SSD) read or write has been beefed up too. I know my 15PM had the same USB-C/Thunderbolt? I/O but it did buffer some while finishing a shoot (before shooting again after pressing stop) - while the 16PM using the same APFS formatted T-9’s speed of capture on the 16PM is, faster, and in some cases - significantly so. If you use the Adobe suite, Logic, FCP or DaVinci on your iPad or Mac, the FCP camera (and standard cam) with their continuity to the Mac or iPad is amazing.
Mine is quicker to mirror my display via Apple TV to my main TV, it’s definitely a good looking phone and I dunno, but it seems like Dynamic Island is more prevalent on the 16 vs 15 - or maybe it’s me lol - but honest question, if you came from the 15Pro or ProMax, do you miss it? Do you wish you’d have waited? I’ve got a family - and hand me downs work fine, with AppleCare+ Theft/Loss into perpetuity (pay by month) and a better display (seemingly for fingerprints/oil) and oleophobic coating, brighter and amazing OLED… I don’t understand the hate of the 16PM. Especially if you’re upgrading from anything before the 15.
IMHO, the 16PM IS the BEST iPhone yet, and I have owned every single iPhone since 2007 - still have (1 of the 2) my OG 4GB 2G/Edge and box, 30 pin cable and charger. While I don’t consider it the iPhone 4/4s update or even to the taller 5 and larger 6’s - the 16 is a killer phone with faster NAND chips (10-15% both R n W) especially the Random(4KB) iops and R/W. Latency has decreased. Mainly the write speeds have increased from my 14 Pro and 15 PM by nearly 50%!
It’s often the little things - when writing using a faster speed signal, the installation is significantly quicker. As are system updates, app updates or downloads, etc.
Lastly the heat of my 15PM while playing a flight simulator or Real Racing 3 (I am > 50, play few games) would get quite hot - I like my iPhones naked, AppleCare is my case. I’m not feeling the same heat on the 16PM, and my battery, to be expected a year old… but I don’t remember it being significantly better in the beginning, is a good 2-3 hours of real use. I can space charging it and it’ll easily make it through two days
Just wondering. I, again, have wife, son and daughter - so there’s a new phone or two each year - and undoubtedly the 16’s been my most enjoyable to date - and apparently I am completely goofy because I LOVE the camera button - it’s feedback and capabilities of adjustments that were usually in a menu 2 or 3 deep… using fingers on your display (picture obscured) while trying to adjust for exposure comp, white balance, focus et al.
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I also dig the camera side button - but it took a YouTube video or 2 to figure it out. The battery (I’m on Dev beta) is phenomenal in comparison with my 15PM (which went to my wife… who’s not a phone user, other than text and Bejeweled).
I do have the Adobe Creative Suite and intend on comparing the two still shots side by side of several different shots, but everything else, including the display - IMO, are incredibly satisfying as a year to year update - as well as the speed of the SoC, brighter display, and the battery, as mentioned, is good for at least a couple extra hours of screen on time
I watched and read plenty of the pros n cons about it but I disagree with the idea of it being a disappointment as a year to year update.
I also update from the M1 Max MBP to the M4 Max Studio - and the insane power increase and speed of both single and multi core performance along with the updated en/decoders is amazing. Not a normal increase Y2Y over the M1-2-3 (about 15-20%) where the M4 bounced almost 50% in single core testing and kisses the last (M2) Ultra’s multi core score - graphically, it smokes! And as a creator of primarily audio post production (60%) video editing and grading - to output (25%) with about 10% still editing - I’m saving a lot of time and/or getting more done on the m4 v m1.
To be expected. While the synthetic benching on the iPhone wasn’t as significant as m3 -m4 - the quality of life improvements, sensor and motion capture improvements as well as the speed of recording off cam (to an external T-7 or T-9 SSD) read or write has been beefed up too. I know my 15PM had the same USB-C/Thunderbolt? I/O but it did buffer some while finishing a shoot (before shooting again after pressing stop) - while the 16PM using the same APFS formatted T-9’s speed of capture on the 16PM is, faster, and in some cases - significantly so. If you use the Adobe suite, Logic, FCP or DaVinci on your iPad or Mac, the FCP camera (and standard cam) with their continuity to the Mac or iPad is amazing.
Mine is quicker to mirror my display via Apple TV to my main TV, it’s definitely a good looking phone and I dunno, but it seems like Dynamic Island is more prevalent on the 16 vs 15 - or maybe it’s me lol - but honest question, if you came from the 15Pro or ProMax, do you miss it? Do you wish you’d have waited? I’ve got a family - and hand me downs work fine, with AppleCare+ Theft/Loss into perpetuity (pay by month) and a better display (seemingly for fingerprints/oil) and oleophobic coating, brighter and amazing OLED… I don’t understand the hate of the 16PM. Especially if you’re upgrading from anything before the 15.
IMHO, the 16PM IS the BEST iPhone yet, and I have owned every single iPhone since 2007 - still have (1 of the 2) my OG 4GB 2G/Edge and box, 30 pin cable and charger. While I don’t consider it the iPhone 4/4s update or even to the taller 5 and larger 6’s - the 16 is a killer phone with faster NAND chips (10-15% both R n W) especially the Random(4KB) iops and R/W. Latency has decreased. Mainly the write speeds have increased from my 14 Pro and 15 PM by nearly 50%!
It’s often the little things - when writing using a faster speed signal, the installation is significantly quicker. As are system updates, app updates or downloads, etc.
Lastly the heat of my 15PM while playing a flight simulator or Real Racing 3 (I am > 50, play few games) would get quite hot - I like my iPhones naked, AppleCare is my case. I’m not feeling the same heat on the 16PM, and my battery, to be expected a year old… but I don’t remember it being significantly better in the beginning, is a good 2-3 hours of real use. I can space charging it and it’ll easily make it through two days
Just wondering. I, again, have wife, son and daughter - so there’s a new phone or two each year - and undoubtedly the 16’s been my most enjoyable to date - and apparently I am completely goofy because I LOVE the camera button - it’s feedback and capabilities of adjustments that were usually in a menu 2 or 3 deep… using fingers on your display (picture obscured) while trying to adjust for exposure comp, white balance, focus et al.
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