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iPhone 13 Pro Reviews: ProMotion and Longer Battery Life Highlight an Iterative Refresh
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I also go jogging but unfortunately there is a permanent brick weight in my pants 😢😜
My guess is marketing. I think that S after the phone leads some people to believe the product is “lesser” than a regular numbered phone. For consumers who don’t follow this stuff, they probably don’t want an S, they want a NUMBER phone. The number is just better for marketing purposes. Also, Samsung uses stuff like S21 in their branding, which sounds a lot Apple’s S branding. A simple clean number 13 is more Apple-y than 12s.Not sure why they did just call it an iPhone 12S. A numerical increase should require a larger hardware and visual product difference than the previous model.
I suppose the new colors require a new number.
I can afford to upgrade every year, correction I can afford to upgrade every 6 months or less but that is not the issue is it. 😝
I mostly agree with this sentiment. I generally think the innovation will be smaller going forward, such as no notch and built in fingerprint reader under the screen. Those are no small feats, but they aren’t exactly world shattering as FaceID and fingerprint reading is already an established technology. What we really need to come to the realization is that phones are now mature technologies that can’t really be improved upon in any meaningful way. They’re essentially screens, speakers, and cameras. You can change how the screen works (folding screens), improve the speaker quality, or add 15 camera lenses. But it is still essentially the same thing.
Anyways, Apple doesn’t expect a lot of people to upgrade from the 12 to the 13. People nowadays are on a 2-3 year replacement cycle. If you get your phone through a carrier (like A LOT of people do) they essentially force you into a nearly 3 year cycle with their monthly payments. These improvements aren’t meant for people who read MacRumors, but for the consumer whose iPhone Xs is getting long in the tooth and is looking for a solid upgrade.
I had an iPadPro with ProMotion and it took me less than a day to not notice it anymore on my iPad mini, so I am not sure what you are talking about. Are you trying to convince others or yourself on the case for 120 Hz display refresh rate. If you are someone who constantly uses Pencil2 to draw there maybe a case.
What is more interesting is that Pencil support is a possibility on iPhone Pro in the near future, late Steve Jobs eat your words and RIP.
I really, really love the new Blue Sierra color, anyway I still think I should stick with my beloved 11 Pro (512 GB) until the foldable iPhone sees the light.
I read text while scrolling and 60 Hz is quite fine, it’s more of the resolution than refresh rate while reading text and scrolling with me.
I bought into the story and ended up with both an iPad Pro 12.9” and PC with a 3080ti connected to a 120Hz display. For gaming sure it makes a difference. For text in both cases it does not.
For text scrolling you basically get no additional readability. You have to slow it down or stop to actually read text.
Animations might be smoother I couldn’t really tell.
Just go to the Apple store and try an iPad Pro before you buy into this is all i’m saying. It’s not an upgrade worthy feature in and of itself imho.
If you have a 12 pro let them know you want more before you drop $1200 again on these.
In any case the product is really a 12s and they didn’t skip the number 13 either. I guess nobody cares about that anymore.
They pretty much expect people to upgrade on an alternate year cadence now I guess. This is coming from someone who bought every single iPhone except the OG.
Also I want to add that speculation so far is that the A15 bionic consists of exactly the same A14 cores but an extra GPU core only. Frankly these processors are snappy enough and even 50% increase will hardly be noticeable. Still it is supposedly the same CPU core. Same process too.
The 13 pro would be a buy in a heartbeat if I were into videography. There is no question in that case. Outside of actually using it for that purpose it’s hard to recommend an upgrade from a 12 pro.
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Phones in pure black colors. If Apple want to experiment and offer their phones in other colors, totally fine, as long as they always also provide a black version. But they don't. Unbelievable.
That will be interesting if becomes widespread and makes a difference. I've got 5G in my neighborhood, but literally on one part of one block a few blocks away from my house. So basically as I walk down that street, there is a one block area where my phone will connect at that very fast 5G speed. So I could stand there and do some significant App updating on the fly I guess. Not sure what I would be doing on my phone that a strong LTE signal wouldn't cover.
Or… you’re on an upgrade year and you’re trying to justify spending the money to yourself lol.
It’s actually a very inexpensive upgrade too. They’ve juiced the trade in values really hard. The upgrade is relatively inexpensive and actually a very good deal for someone into videography. Also I can admit the fact that pro and pro max are equal in is a pretty big deal.
The 13 Pro reminds me of the iPad Pro 4th Gen. Not quite as bad, but a very incremental upgrade—with the pro motion display being the only standout, unexpected feature. I‘ve upgraded every year since the 5s, but this year breaks that cycle.
Here’s to hoping the 14 Pro Max is a quantum leap forward. 🍻
Here’s to hoping the 14 Pro Max is a quantum leap forward. 🍻
What does this even mean? Iterative is the truth. Just like car models are iterative.