Anyone else finding this iPhone extraordinarily heavy? Not sure if I should get used to it or return.
thought they’d be a thread on the weight! Reminds me of a brick!
Yes, this is the thing I was waiting (weighting?) for, this thread. I intend to upgrade my iPhone, sometime in the next few months, and I'm trying to decide between the 13 mini and the 13 Pro. This will be my first multi-lens phone, and I would really like that telephoto lens! So I'm weighing (*cough*) the tradeoffs, and this is the one I'm most concerned about. My current phone is the SE 2020, and it's the largest and heaviest phone I've ever had. This would be larger and heavier!
Of course at some point I'll be going to the Apple Store to feel the heft first hand, but even then you really get the sense not by holding it once or putting it in your pocket once but over the course of a day, a week.
I don’t see any issue with the phones being heavier, to the contrary. I like the phone having weight to it.
When Apple brought out the iPhone 5, it felt so light it might have been a stage prop. I didn't like that feeling. My 4S wasn't heavy, but it was almost 30 grams heavier than the 5, and it was concentrated into a smaller form factor, so it was significantly denser and felt like a good, solid piece of technology. When I upgraded it wasn't to the 5S but to the 5c, in part because it was actually almost as heavy as the 4S!
It is 16 g heavier than the iPhone 11 Pro but 30 g heavier than the regular iPhone 13 so if you want lightweight then the regular iPhone is the way to go. Of course the reduced weight is because of lighter and fewer components. You could go with the mini at 63 g lighter
My current SE 2020 is the heaviest phone I've ever used, and it checks in at 148 grams. The 13 mini is just slightly lighter, at 141 grams. The 13 Pro is 203 grams: that's 55 grams heavier than what I currently have. That's a lot! I went looking around the house for something about that weight I could strap to my current iPhone so I could simulate the weight for a few days. Haven't found anything yet that's a good shape to do it with. But I do have these butter knives that are 60 grams, and just picking that up alone I thought, whoa, that's heavy. Put it in my pocket with my phone I couldn't tell, because it's the wrong shape. In fact because its volume is much less than a phone's then it's really not a good comparison, because it's so much denser. I'll need to find something that distributes those 60 grams better.
This is funny. For years people complained battery was not good for the sake of thinness. They hated it! Wanted a bigger battery and didn’t care about a little extra thickness.
Well, you got it! Now your complaining it’s heavier. Lol More battery and a thicker body doesn’t mean it stays light.
Pick your poison
Though this is a fun thought, that comes up in many areas of life, it's a misnomer: it's only a valid point if it's the same people that are making both complaints. There are certainly people with loud voices that have complained about the battery, and people with equally loud voices that will complain about the weight, but they may not be the same people.
Coming from the 12 Mini my initial reaction was W.T.F.!! Had to double check the package that Apple hadn't sent me the Max by accident 🤣
I think I will get used to the weight, after using it for just a couple of minutes my Mini started to feel insanely tiny so positive that my body will adapt to whatever tech I throw at it.
That is the part I wonder about too. I was pretty worried about adapting to the size of the SE 2020. My previous phone was the SE 2016; I'd never had one of the 6-style iPhones. But I got used to that immediately, and that is 35 grams heavier than the 2016 model. I would love to believe that that is just the way of things: that I'll simply get used to it. But I suspect there is a line somewhere; that 148 grams was heavier than I had ever had but it was still less than whatever that magic weight is that I would find annoying. Perhaps the 13 Pro will surpass that line, I don't know.
(And that is still leaving out the size part of it, apart from the weight.)
But it is a tradeoff. How often will I use the telephoto lens? I think I would use it a lot. If I do find the weight annoying, then it's going to be annoying me almost all of my waking hours, whether it's in my hand or in my pocket. How much enjoyment will I get from the telephoto to balance that out?
I'm thinking way too much about this. I really need to get out more.
