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Five iPhone 14 Rumors You May Have Missed
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Maybe they’ll do away with physical SIM AND T-Mobile. I tried T-Mobile for 2 months two years ago, worst mistake ever.
I guess if you had a treehouse built in one of their towers and never left the house, you could keep a signal.
But I think you’re probably right.
Really? Just curious for what use, other than doodling or signatures. I just don’t see much use for it.
And unless they’d dip into Galaxy Note territory and add a stylus/Apple Pencil in the iPhone, would they downsize the Apple Pencil and have it magnetic on the outside like they do for the iPad?
For your use case a Google Voice number might make sense.
But people who use two SIMs would include those who would otherwise carry two phones, one private and one for work, and people who travel a lot abroad.
I’m currently on holiday from the UK in Egypt. I have my ‘normal’ eSIM so people can still contact me, but I’m also using a local physical SIM card I picked up at the airport which cost me £20 for 30GB of data. If I’d used data roaming with my UK SIM, that 30GB would cost me £210,000 (yes, that really is nearly quarter a million GBP!).
Also, when I’m back in the UK I can have my work number separate from my personal number but don’t have to carry two phones like I used to.
And also that means that this would be bad news, as in many countries it’s easy to pick up a visitor physical SIM card, but not so much an eSIM. It also makes the option of swapping a travel SIM with other family members much more complicated.
It doesn't matter to me as I don't travel!
However, I imagine that as more phone makers push towards eSIMs, we will likely see more options to purchase eSIMs before travel. Thus enabling us to select what suits us rather than what we can easily find available for sale on arrival.
Do you have an iPhone 12 or an iPhone 13? PWM doesn’t seem to be an issue anymore, at least according to Zollotech. He suffers from the same condition as you.
I really hope they do not remove the SIM card slot. That goes right past courage into stupidity. eSIM is not always an option. I don’t see that changing in the next two years.
They removed the headphone jack to promote their wearables business and it worked. Courage had nothing to do with it beyond the courage to chase that money.
Unless Apple becomes their own cellular carrier I don’t understand why they would remove it.
They removed the headphone jack to promote their wearables business and it worked. Courage had nothing to do with it beyond the courage to chase that money.
Unless Apple becomes their own cellular carrier I don’t understand why they would remove it.
At this point I prefer to have the options of both eSim and physical, they each have their own pros and cons.
Is that the end for Liquid Metal and Apple then? It seemed to be the ‘next greatest thing’ when Apple announced the partnership back in 2015, but it never seemed to get any further than being used to manufacture the SIM tray ejector tool.
I remember one of the eSIM only iPhones had a mention of a potential eSIM transfer as part of a new device setup. Hopefully that’s a prerequisite for going this route
Can't imagine why I would ever want 2 TB of storage on my phone when everything is in the cloud - anyway, I'm probably just not the target audience for this, no biggie.
And yes, they direly need to drop Ligthning and move everything to USC-C already - I get that Lightning gets them licencing revenue, but it doesn't make any sense anymore to have some devices on one connector and others with another.
"Per the rumor, the device's sensor is said to be 1/1.3-inches in width, 57% larger in area than the 1/1.65-inch sensor of the Wide camera on the iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max."
Is it just me or don't these measurements make sense? Is 1/1.3-inches equal to .769"? If so, why use the fractional version as it has to be calculated to determine what the actual size is. And if it is .769", that's a very large sensor for inside an iPhone. This all just doesn't add up for me.
Am I missing something here?
Is it just me or don't these measurements make sense? Is 1/1.3-inches equal to .769"? If so, why use the fractional version as it has to be calculated to determine what the actual size is. And if it is .769", that's a very large sensor for inside an iPhone. This all just doesn't add up for me.
Am I missing something here?
It comes in really handy if you have both a personal number and a business one but prefer to use only one phone.
I think it’s unlikely that apple will switch to USB-C for the 14 because of all the profit they make by keeping it lightning. But I really hope they do at this point. All of my apple devices use USB-C and having just my iPhone using lightning is a massive hindrance by now. I doubt they will make the switch since they won’t have to until 2024 but if they did I’d be super excited and will definitely get it. What are your guys thoughts?
If they released AirPods Pro 2 with a USB-C charging case, I'd likely upgrade just for that. I can cope with the iPhone being lightning for the time being.
I can cope with it as well, but they’ve been using the lightning for so long that I am growing impatient to be honest. :/