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Five iPhone 13 Rumors You May Have Missed

BaltimoreMediaBlog said:
One missing rumor is no TOUCH ID under the glass with mask mandates on the rise, so once again Apple's phones will be the least functional during a pandemic and I'm going to pass on buying again.
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How does having NO TouchID make apples iPhones least functional during the pandemic??? Pray tell please. Like you cannot use your thumbs or finger to unlock your phone vs always having to rely on Touch/FaceID?

these features and hardware and software that goes with it is a convenience. The password still is king. Like every other smartphone the last 17yrs.
 
Bronze is a great color on metal
(Remember the old Brass Beds from yester year). However on glass it’s going to be hard to make it pleasing to the eye
If anyone can get it right Apple can
 
MacAddict1978 said:
State mandates are irrelevant. Schools are adding them in droves and lots of stores have begun to require masks again... plus airplanes, every medical facility in the country.... there are still lots of masks, and lots of people who are voluntarily wearing them because they actually value science over conspiracy theory.

I'd just like them to fix Face ID unlock with Apple watch. It works 1 out of 10 times if I'm lucky.
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Weird. Works for me everytime. I do wish they added touch ID though.
 
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Astrophotography, shall await the results but in my corner of the light polluted world, it will be interesting to see what results they achieve.
Might stick to my telescope.
Though wonder if an adapter to the scope will achieve anything decent?
 
Not having Touch ID doesn't bother me at all... I'm so glad we don't have to wear masks in the UK anymore (except on public transport... but then I would rather walk in the pouring rain than use a bus here!)
 
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Portrait mode / bokeh for video: very wanted by me. ✌️ Filming talking head videos, courses and similar on iPhonewould get a higher level.
 
w5jck said:
Astrophotography on a camera with a tiny sensor and a tiny lens will look like crap! Sorry, but physics is going to win that battle every time. No amount of post processing will yield good AP photos from a camera with such tiny specs. If Apple ever manages to put a 1” sensor and a sufficiently large lens to get enough light on that sensor, then you will be able to make decent AP images, but not great ones. But as it is now, any AP images will look really bad if looked at on a TV or monitor, although they might look somewhat okay when on a small phone screen, unless you zoom in, in which case, it will look like crap.
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what “physics” are you speaking of?

I may not know a lot if not anything about cameras sensors and lenses … but if we consider Hubble it’s taking pictures of planets and stars millions of light years away - surely those lenses and sensors and other tings are “too small” by comprarison to what it’s taking photos of. It’s super old too so if it’s pics are heavily influenced by software why can’t a phone be relatively decent from the ground taking photos of the sky?

light reflection of major cities off clouds would affect quality but why can’t software be a solution?!
 
BaltimoreMediaBlog said:
One missing rumor is no TOUCH ID under the glass with mask mandates on the rise, so once again Apple's phones will be the least functional during a pandemic and I'm going to pass on buying again. Thank You Timmy! At least Steve Jobs admitted when something failed or didn't work in the wild the way he expected. He famously didn't base his designs on consumer demand, but when something didn't work as he expected, he was quick to fix it. Timmy is stuck in the basement doubling down on epic failures hell or high water that he still thinks are brilliant. Sorry Tim, you didn't design "Insanely Great." You just inherited it.
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This.

Whats really infuriating is Apple could also embed it in the power button like they’ve already done for iPad. So it’s not an inability, it’s just them willfully withholding useful features.
 
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If the copper iPhone looks like that pic, I'm tempted to grab it over space grey. A metallic racing green would be the ultimate though!

There is a sneaky rumor that I read the other day about the 13 possibly having a FaceID unlock feature that works with masks. If that's true, it will be huge and a major selling point.

I'm disappointed this machine isn't coming with both FaceID and TouchID. Give us options in these crazy times, Apple!
 
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Seems like iphone 12s at best!

there’s one good thing about that though … iPhone 12 and pro ON SALE should be really good options
 
DeepIn2U said:
what “physics” are you speaking of?

I may not know a lot if not anything about cameras sensors and lenses … but if we consider Hubble it’s taking pictures of planets and stars millions of light years away - surely those lenses and sensors and other tings are “too small” by comprarison to what it’s taking photos of. It’s super old too so if it’s pics are heavily influenced by software why can’t a phone be relatively decent from the ground taking photos of the sky?

light reflection of major cities off clouds would affect quality but why can’t software be a solution?!
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The Hubble telescope has a 2.4m (nearly 8 foot) lens, pixels about ten times the size of a smartphone sensor, no RGB filters to reduce the effective resolution by two thirds and an exposure that can be measured in days rather than at most a few seconds, so in no way comparable to some sort of software setting. Then again with a lifetime cost of about $10bn and the fact it lives in space, you wouldn’t expect it to be comparable. I think people are just hoping the new iPhone has an astrophotography setting like the Google Pixel, which is capable of some amazing photos.
 
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DeepIn2U said:
what “physics” are you speaking of?

I may not know a lot if not anything about cameras sensors and lenses … but if we consider Hubble it’s taking pictures of planets and stars millions of light years away - surely those lenses and sensors and other tings are “too small” by comprarison to what it’s taking photos of. It’s super old too so if it’s pics are heavily influenced by software why can’t a phone be relatively decent from the ground taking photos of the sky?

light reflection of major cities off clouds would affect quality but why can’t software be a solution?!
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The lens will be important (to get clean, detailed images, with low distortion or diffraction, whilst also allowing as much light through as possible, whilst maintaining tight focus.

But the most important thing here is sensor size, photosite sensitivity, and signal to noise ratio, especially during long exposures.

Some of this is a physical limitation of what is possible on the tiny sensors in phones (smaller sensor = smaller photosites = less area to capture light). But the gain amplifier can be tweaked to improve SNR. This technology is constantly improving, but there are of course limitations… one of the reasons phones rely so heavily on post-processing to improve the end results.
 
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I know most people don't care, but I'd love to have an anti-fingerprint coating on the edges. I don't ever use a case and hate the fingerprints that show on the stainless steel.
 
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