iPhone 11 I use iPhone 11 now. Is it worth buying iPhone 12?

[robertosh]

Is this a real question or you are already decided and want someone to tell you that you are right?

For me it makes no sense to change phone every year... I think that I had only 4 phones in my entire life ! (I'm 36yo)

 

[jimmy_uk]

IPhones for SE Gen 1 through to 11 Pro Max all run iOS and run it well. So unless you need a hardware difference, ie larger/smaller screen, better camera etc then I see no real reason to upgrade. The iphone 11 is good for software updates for at least another 4 years.

 

[slimejester]

I‘d wait and see what the new phones actually will offer. You would get a decent trade-in price for your 11 and even more if you sell it privately. Either way, I wouldn’t worry about it too much until they’re officially announced. Plus, the 11 is still a great phone and will be for many years to come.

 

[jwar1976]

I may as well add my small chapter to the ever growing iPhone 12 story. Last time I owned a iPhone was almost a decade ago with the iPhone 4 & after a brief encounter with a really awful Windows Phone, I have been on Android since, swearing that I would never own another Apple product again, due to batteries not lasting long.

However times change and then in 2019, I got myself a 2018 iPad Pro 12,9 & a Early 2015 MacBook Pro with the iPad being my most used day to day device & only power my Windows Laptop for gaming and editing CR2 Raw flies in Lightroom.

Now this year after becoming a fitness fanatic, I have found myself doing tonnes of research on the Apple Watch 5, which of course means I need to jump ship back to Apple and get a iPhone to connect to it. Now it just so happens that from August this year I am able to upgrade my phone & get myself a IPhone, so have been keeping an eager eye out on rumours & speculation and looking forward to the official reveal in a few months time, especially as battery life has dramatically improved on the phones for awhile now.

Should it be the 11 or 12, I have no idea, but the next few months are going to be interesting.

 

[Alaxlmartin]

My small chapter;
I have a 11 Pro max paid off. I want the 12 Pro max if there is pro motion, which seems is limbo. I am working and out a lot less. However, the I Pad Pro i wanted didn’t come out (no Mini Led) so I am in limbo in what to do. I will buy if pro motion can excute, but feel there would be a source saying it was rock solid.

 

[rdy0329]

I’m a sucker for upgrading yearly. I’m waiting for my maturity to kick in and just ”settle” with a 6.1” Pro To last me 3 years like what most people did with their iPhone X.

Due to OLED and cornered edges, the size might be more manageable than my current 6.1” iPhone 11.

By ”most” I mean my non-tech inclined friends who are not in an Apple fan forum. The form factor won’t change and the basic tech won’t change much within the next 3 years as well and by then they might finally go notchless and portless which is another huge upgrade for me.

 

[eyeseeyou]

What features in the 12 do you like over the 11?

 

[44267547]

I’ll say it again, 5G is overrated. It won’t even be available in certain markets through 2020. Any future iPhone purchase, 5G is not even a considerable option for me of why I would want to upgrade, there’s so many other features that consumers are interested in, aside from 5G. Also, I would wager how many consumers even understand with 5G is and how it would benefit them.

 

[rui no onna]

I’ll say it again, 5G is overrated. It won’t even be available in certain markets through 2020. Any future iPhone purchase, 5G is not even a considerable option for me of why I would want to upgrade, there’s so many other features that consumers are interested in, aside from 5G. Also, I would wager how many consumers even understand with 5G is and how it would benefit them.

Depends if you're in a market that's already served by 5G. These are the early days prior to mass adoption. I remember when I got my first LTE device years ago, I was getting double or triple the speeds I'm getting now.

Granted, I'm in the Los Angeles area. I expect there are few cities in the US that are more crowded.

 

[The-Real-Deal82]

I’ll say it again, 5G is overrated. It won’t even be available in certain markets through 2020. Any future iPhone purchase, 5G is not even a considerable option for me of why I would want to upgrade, there’s so many other features that consumers are interested in, aside from 5G. Also, I would wager how many consumers even understand with 5G is and how it would benefit them.

I agree entirely. With 4G still being patchy and largely nonexistent in a lot of parts of my little island, it’s hard to really get excited about 5G. It wouldn’t even make the top ten list of features I’d be looking forward to in the next iPhone and is more of less irrelevant to me. My iPhone uses more WiFi connections than anything else anyway.

 

[The Game 161]

I agree entirely. With 4G still being patchy and largely nonexistent in a lot of parts of my little island, it’s hard to really get excited about 5G. It wouldn’t even make the top ten list of features I’d be looking forward to in the next iPhone and is more of less irrelevant to me. My iPhone uses more WiFi connections than anything else anyway.

Agreed

Just done a 5G check here With EE and where I live there is no 5G yet and no 5G where I work or where my parents live. So to get 5G coverage i would have to go into town which i avoid at all costs where possible. I can’t see this improving until mid 2021 if i’m honest

 

[jwar1976]

Just ran a search for 5G in my area and there is no known date for my network even tho I live in a city centre. Will give it until my upgrade date and if no rollout then I may just as well get the IPhone 11, I honestly didn’t realise it came out last year, I thought it had got released the year before. 😳

 

[The-Real-Deal82]

Agreed

Just done a 5G check here With EE and where I live there is no 5G yet and no 5G where I work or where my parents live. So to get 5G coverage i would have to go into town which i avoid at all costs where possible. I can’t see this improving until mid 2021 if i’m honest

I think 5G will be standard on contracts later this year but it’ll be one of those things where we are blown away by the very sight of the icon showing up on the status bar for some time lol. I can get 4G at home but I travel 20 mins to work and no sign of it. to be honest I only use about 4GB of data a month as most of the time I’m on WiFi so the speed of 5G is pretty irrelevant most of the time.

 

[The Game 161]

I think 5G will be standard on contracts later this year but it’ll be one of those things where we are blown away by the very sight of the icon showing up on the status bar for some time lol. I can get 4G at home but I travel 20 mins to work and no sign of it. to be honest I only use about 4GB of data a month as most of the time I’m on WiFi so the speed of 5G is pretty irrelevant most of the time.

Yeah, my signal at home is poor my speeds on 4G is like 5MB so I will always use WiFi first. I would hope 5G is standard but on the S20 it’s separates I hope the iPhone 12 won’t have different plans for 4G and 5G

 

[rui no onna]

Yeah, my signal at home is poor my speeds on 4G is like 5MB so I will always use WiFi first. I would hope 5G is standard but on the S20 it’s separates I hope the iPhone 12 won’t have different plans for 4G and 5G

This is exactly why I'm looking forward to 5G. I get 5 Mbps down/1-2 Mbps up at work on LTE (no wifi available) and browsing websites, there's noticeable latency and timeouts. 5G is already deployed in our area, I just need a device than supports it.