6.9 inch but not 16:9 aspect so doesn't reflect true size
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Here's How the iPhone 17 Pro Max Will Compare to the iPhone 17 Pro
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- iPhone 6 Plus - bigger battery, bigger screen, optical image stabilization
- iPhone 6s Plus - bigger battery, bigger screen, optical image stabilization
- iPhone 7 Plus - bigger battery, bigger screen
- iPhone 8 Plus - bigger battery, bigger screen
- iPhone XS Max - bigger battery, bigger screen
- iPhone 11 Pro Max - bigger battery, bigger screen
- iPhone 12 Pro Max - bigger battery, bigger screen, sensor shift image stabilization, 2.5x zoom
- iPhone 13 Pro Max - bigger battery, bigger screen
- iPhone 14 Pro Max - bigger battery, bigger screen
- iPhone 15 Pro Max - bigger battery, bigger screen, 5x zoom
- iPhone 16 Pro Max - bigger battery, bigger screen
I’m with you. But I will give it a hardy duration test trial during the 15 day return policy and pray I don’t regret buying it.
The iPhone is so powerful and fast it can age 3 years in only 12 months.
My 14 pro battery is knackered. Barely last a day, drops to 0% anywhere from 10% 3 years old
Correct, for the average person there is little reason to upgrade. Like I mentioned, I upgrade for the increased battery life. I travel for work and every extra hour I can squeeze out of my device is precious.
The added RAM alone, for me, was worth the upgrade, not to mention that the A18 Pro brought significant upgrades for both CPU and GPU while increasing the memory bandwidth nearly 20%.
They fixed the thermal design and the battery life was much improved.
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Therefore, the 16 Pro Max was not the end-all-be-all, it was simply everything the 2023 iPhone 15 Pro was not and should have been.
I don't see the problem with that, I like to know what I may be getting (no matter what the device is) a few weeks or months in advance. I hate waiting and waiting, only for them to just announce it on stage.
At least doing leaks well in advance it gives Apple or any other company an idea of what people think of the product, so that they may be able to do tweaks if any time allows it, or at worst change how the next product or one after that may turn out, considering these devices can be planned years in advance.
This is what you get with any product that is refreshed yearly. You're not getting ground breaking changes. Instead you are getting smaller, incremental changes or additions. If you have a 15 or 16 iPhone it's going to more than likely feel underwhelming. But in reality Apple is working on two or three iPhone years ahead. Apple is working on a foldable iPhone, an all glass iPhone (or at least those are the rumors). The iPhone 18 or 20 or whatever they end up naming it will be more groundbreaking.
You can't have it both ways though. You can either have a new iPhone every year with small changes and better battery life, or you can have a new iPhone every two or three years and get more drastic changes and new features.
You can't have it both ways though. You can either have a new iPhone every year with small changes and better battery life, or you can have a new iPhone every two or three years and get more drastic changes and new features.
The only reason I’d go for the Pro Max is because of the bigger screen. Otherwise I’d go for a base iPhone. Too bad the Air is rumored to be smaller than the Pro Max.
Its always interesting to read people's opinions on what they think are the key differentiators of a particular product. We obviously won't all agree, but the fact that our opinions will vary on which product features are most important at least brings some legitimacy to having the different models in the lineup.
Can we please get multiple personal spaces (sometimes called multiple users) on iPhone? That's what keeps many of us from iPhone and I know apple could innovate the feature to make it even better than it is on android.
This comment must be a joke honestly because I dumped Windows for an M4 Max Studio in April this year and I've had few bugs. RuneScape 3 crashing because it's still an Intel binary with poorly optimized code is about the worst I've experienced. If I was on Linux for 3 months I would have had to already reinstall it because of something stupid and nevermind that resolution scaling in Linux is by far the worst of the 3 operating systems thanks to different libraries being used for different apps. Don't even get me started on how many fewer annoyances there are vs Windows either. I disabled Gatekeeper and set the computer to not automatically sleep when the screen is off (older monitor with a DVI to USB-C adapter would wake up repeatedly otherwise and pushing the power button to turn off the display would result in it not turning on again until I unplugged it and plugged it back in but I love my Alienware ultrawide and I'm not ready to replace it) and I've been very satisfied since then.
Apple didn't let the secret out as far as everything they have planned at WWDC so don't count iOS 26 or even Apple Intelligence out either (although I personally think AI is just a toy that's not worth the money being dumped into it at this time, especially for things that run on device). That said, my 16 Pro Max beats the living crap out of my OnePlus 13 in battery life and day to day performance despite the fact that the chip in the OnePlus 13 is technically faster and the battery significantly larger on paper so the grass isn't really greener on the other side. The visual overhaul of iOS 26 has also grown on me in beta 2 and in Apple fashion they will continue to actually refine it unlike Samsung and Google where what you see in the beta is what you get at release until months of updates down the line.