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iPhone 11 Review Roundup: Improved Camera, Battery Life, and Performance Result in the iPhone for 'Just About Everybody'

The one thing all phone reviews share in common (iPhone, S10, Note 10 for example) is that they are great upgrades for people with older devices, but only slight upgrades from previous years.

So I don’t know why people complain they’re not massive upgrades from the previous year. Nobody makes devices that are a huge step up from previous years.
 
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realtuner said:
The one thing all phone reviews share in common (iPhone, S10, Note 10 for example) is that they are great upgrades for people with older devices, but only slight upgrades from previous years.

So I don’t know why people complain they’re not massive upgrades from the previous year. Nobody makes devices that are a huge step up from previous years.
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How much are you paying for a minor upgrade?
 
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Yes and they can easily fit all the features in a iphone 5 enclosure and keep the battery large enough for all those features. Because there's already so much empty room in the current iphone enclosures. :rolleyes:
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Apple's obsession with speed has replaced their obsession with thinness. No mobile apps require the power of modern chips. If they instead focussed more on efficiency they could design an amazing small phone. Plus small phones with smaller screens use less battery anyway.
 
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If Night Mode is just sofware,
which Apple banns from iP XS (Max),
I'm amazed if there would not be s***storm.

People have bought $1.5k flagship products from less than year ago to just few weeks ago.
And then Apple puts new software to a phone that costs half of the recent flagship.
We all know A12 could handle it.
 
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bookcase said:
I have the Product(red) iPhone 11 on it way, but I'm sort of digging that teal color. But I've stuck with the red every time they've offered it, from the shuffle to the iPhones. Good color; good cause.

I do Apple's upgrade plan, so I'm upgrading from the XR and looking forward to the better camera/features. My dogs will finally get some photos using portrait mode!

I'm sure OLED is technically a better screen, but you'd never know it using the XR for the past year. It's vibrant and terrific.
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Agreed. I have a white one one the way, but some of those pictures of the green look really nice. Oh well, I'm not changing it. . . Just keep telling myself that over and over.
 
toke lahti said:
If Night Mode is just sofware,
which Apple banns from iP XS (Max),
I'm amazed if there would not be s***storm.

People have bought $1.5k flagship products from less than year ago to just few weeks ago.
And then Apple puts new software to a phone that costs half of the recent flagship.
We all know A12 could handle it.
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My total guess is it could be hardware given that the new phones have 100% focus pixels and the previous ones didn't, and the new photo techniques are based on pixel-by-pixel section from multiple images.
 
Surprisingly this year, every review seems to have forgotten something: BEZELS

We are in 2019. Compare the iPhone 11 (or even the Pros) with just about every other manufacturer's phones and the size of its bezels are completely unjustified. For not talking about screen resolution….
 
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I’m really excited for my 11 Pro Max. Every year the iPhone gets better. I don’t mind the big size, seems normal to me. However, I do wish they had a smaller phone for the people that are requesting it.

The reviews seem pretty good. Friday is almost here!
 
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If no OLED, Apple should have upped the resolution just a bit. Then again, that would almost make the choice to go for the 11 even easier.
 
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hagjohn said:
How much are you paying for a minor upgrade?
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You missed the point. These new devices aren’t for people with last years phones. They’re for people who have an older device. To them it will be a big upgrade.
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Khedron said:
Apple's obsession with speed has replaced their obsession with thinness. No mobile apps require the power of modern chips. If they instead focussed more on efficiency they could design an amazing small phone. Plus small phones with smaller screens use less battery anyway.
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Don’t project the issues with Apps on Android and your inability to find powerful ones over to iOS. There are lots of Apps we can use to take advantage of this power.

Further, it’s a good thing developers, CPU & GPU designers and the like don’t think like you do. Imagine where we’d be today if they all thought “computers are good enough”.
 
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It would be a great phone if Apple hadn't disabled 4x4 MIMO to upsell people on the pros. As it stands, the phone is kind of useless.
 
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realtuner said:
You missed the point. These new devices aren’t for people with last years phones. They’re for people who have an older device. To them it will be a big upgrade.
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Don’t project the issues with Apps on Android and your inability to find powerful ones over to iOS. There are lots of Apps we can use to take advantage of this power.

Further, it’s a good thing developers, CPU & GPU designers and the like don’t think like you do. Imagine where we’d be today if they all thought “computers are good enough”.
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Examples of apps taking advantage of the A12 power?
 
Coming from current 8 plus. I would go with a Red 11 or Green 11 Pro. That notch and lack of USB C is my deciding factor at this time to wait another year
 
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