Unless you are someone who REALLY loves knowing what time it is, most people spend very little time looking at their watch. What’s the benefit of the screen being on when I’m not looking at it?
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iPhone 13 May Feature Apple Watch-Inspired Always-On Display
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I'm not sure if I would make use of it since I have that with my Apple watch, but I'm sure some might. I'm sure they would have the off option in there. Especially for do not disturb hours.
Now...if there was a screensaver that could run on the screen that would be SWEET!
Now...if there was a screensaver that could run on the screen that would be SWEET!
perhaps it has something to do with battery life?
You can get premium android if you want a safe slab. Let the early adopters try out bleeding edge tech, it will trickle down to the normies in a few yrs. I remember all the criticism I got when I bought the 1st iPhone. Now 3 yr olds have their own phone.
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Providing it's something you can choose to enable then it is a nice feature.
Always On will be particularly useful to the developers of Pegasus malware that turns your iPhone into a fully fledged spy station.
I always use a folio case, so it wouldn’t add any value to me.
Nice to have but not essential IMHO.
Bring the bloody periscope camera and bridge once for all the (already small) gap with the compact cameras, that’s my wet dream!
Nice to have but not essential IMHO.
Bring the bloody periscope camera and bridge once for all the (already small) gap with the compact cameras, that’s my wet dream!
I want clean notifications like the picture above, just with little badges. I used to jailbreak just for that back in the day, long overdue in my opinion. Notifications still kind of suck on iPhone.
Always on will be 1 Hz though.
So it's going to be a variable refresh rate screen. I don't see anything else.
These news are making the upgrade better by the day. iPhone 12s / 13 might be just an evolutionary update, everything will be a welcomed change.
Screen burn in is avoided in Android by changing the position of the text every few minutes. But sounds like you didn't know that because you have never owned a device with an always on display. Can't wait to see Apple spend an hour explaining how they avoid screen burn in with always on displays at their event like if it's new technology.
Already implemented in Android by using the proximity sensor that turns off the screen when you raise the phone next to your ear during a phone call
This is one of those things that sounds cool but has little practical use for most people. I have my phone in my pocket 95% of the time. I take it out, and “raise to wake” means the screen is on when I look at it. If the phone is on my desk, the screen turns on if there is a notification. So basically this means your phone becomes a better clock when it is sitting on a table, which is nice, I guess.
of course, they been pulling that kinda thing since the iPhone 3GS with the video recording when my jailbroken iPhone 3G was able to record LOL
I was hoping for these features in the iPhone 12 models. Alas. Android users would be justified in making fun of Apple users "finally" getting this feature.
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Indeed. I'm not really sure why people will want always-on iPhone. I think they mainly want it for pretty phone screen but that sounds like a dumb reason to me.
Because it will use the same technology used in Apple Watch?
It's far from worthless on the watch. On the contrary it's one of the BEST feature of the watch.
Good question!
Ah.. I'm kind of understand it now.
I wear my watch to sleep, but I create an automation for when I charge my iPad it will show a clock app on screen. So awesome and far easier to see than on the watch.
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I have one of the always-on Watch models and it's great! I'd never turn that off. But since I already have the Watch, I doubt I'd use this feature on an iPhone. I'd much rather take the extra hour a day of battery than having the screen on all the time.
You meant the technology implemented in the 1st iPhone before there was any Android phone?
I seriously didn’t think about this. This is a key comment and probably deserves a poll for kicks and giggles: “do you go to other sites to trash their products?”
For transparency, I totally do not go to “Androumors” or “Samrumors” or the like and hang around to discuss and explain how bad androids are and how their thousand cores and thousan GBs snapdragons ARMs won’t beat Intels/AMD CPUs.
Heck, I don’t even look for them except when MR itself shows an interesting feature or piece of news that sometimes does trigger a: “hmm, would be nice to have that I think
I have an Apple Watch SE, which doesn’t have an always on display, however the reaction time is fast that I don’t really see the point, flick the arm: see the HR/Cals/etc continue running.
But I sense that it might be one of those things that once tasted the whole appeal is perceived.
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now, what the heck is a super cycle in the context of a product launch again? Just briefly looking it is explained in the context of a country’s economy at large, like so (paraphrasing): “In Canada, there have been 4 commodities super cycles to date since 1900, used as a metric for gauging trading and stuff”.
If a display is always on, but there’s nobody there to see it, is it on?