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iPhone 13 to Include 1TB Storage Option and LiDAR Across the Board, Says Wedbush Analyst
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That's not tons of storage space if your shooting videos in 4K60, or pictures in ProRaw. I don't know what the bit rate on Apple's 4K60 (honestly because I have not looked)But at work when we shoot 4K at 100Mbs, 1 TB is only minutes of storage.
My other thought is, if you start filling it up and you don't use cloud back up, you will need to have a huge hard drive in the computer.
As others have said, RAW 4K footage takes up a ton of space. This may be the iPhone MAX $2K edition haha.
That, with hopefully-improved battery life and camera improvements would have me trying a mini.
Turn off 5G
Verizon support says you should turn off 5G to save your phone’s battery
LTE is always enabled as a fallback for the 5G network
That is odd, cause with just applications and the OS, it would use up closer to 20GB. You have nothing on there?
Yeah, its useful, but hardly noticeable by an average user. The vast majority of users would not detect any difference.
I have the iPhone X and I’ve only used 88 GBs so far out of 256 GBs. But it definitely is future proofed. If I do upgrade in the future, will go with the base storage. The iPad is likely where I will go for more storage. My 2017 iPad Pro I went with LTE model (which I rarely use) and 64 GBs of storage. You guessed it, I’m regretting right now. 128 GBs seems to be the sweet spot.
I’ve skipped both the 11 Pro Max and the 12 Pro Max waiting for Apple to offer a 1 terrabyte storage option to replace my 512GB Xs Max. I’m full. Need the higher storage capacity. Sure hope it still has a Lightning port. Portless would be a deal breaker for me.
I think that is what's going to happen. If it wasn't for the pandemic I would have guessed Apple initially wanted the iPhone 12 Pro to start at $1099 with 256GB.
But it turns out even with the pandemic, iPhone Pro Max was the best selling iPhone model. So there are plenty of space for Apple to increase pricing. And to be fair 5G is expensive, Apple didn't hike up the price was a little bit of a surprise.
My guess would be something like
$1199 256GB iPhone 13 Pro Max
$1099 256GB iPhone 13 Pro
$799 128GB iPhone 13
$699 128GB iPhone 13 Mini.
And if it comes with Touch ID, then it really doesn't matter, it will still sell like crazy.
$699 128GB iPhone 12 - ( iPhone 12 128GB right now is $849, a reduction of $150, exactly the same as XR's price drop years before )
$599 128GB iPhone 12 Mini
$499 64GB iPhone 11
$399 64GB iPhone SE
And supposedly iPhone SE update and SE Plus in 2022 March with side button Touch ID. Which is strange because it would cannibalise the iPhone 13 momentum.
And then the year after will be 13s, and after that will be iPhone 15, skipping the 14.
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But don't forget that the battery in the Mini is lower in capacity than the other models.
If the 13 Mini comes with a larger capacity battery then it might be okay.
Interesting to see the people talking about how huge 1 TB is and who could possibly need that much space. I remember the same conversations when 1 GB drives first came on the market in the mid 90s. I'm sure there were similar comments when iPhones first offered 32 or 64 GB. In 20 years when everyone has 64 TB in their iPhone-equivalent communication device, this will seem just as silly as the old conversations do now.
Others have pointed out 4K footage as a big driver of increased storage need. I'm in a minority, as I'd like a terabyte for my music collection, which I still sync via iTunes. It's currently over 400 GB in Apple Lossless, which doesn't leave much room for apps, photos (57 GB and growing), and the occasional 4K videos. So I'm glad 4K is driving storage expansion so I'll be able to take advantage for my much more niche usage.
Of course, it'll still come with 5 GB of iCloud storage to back everything up. ? Though in all seriousness I hope they'll also bump the paid iCloud storage tiers, because my complete photo library is already well over 1 TB, and I'd like to eventually migrate it all to iCloud photos.
Others have pointed out 4K footage as a big driver of increased storage need. I'm in a minority, as I'd like a terabyte for my music collection, which I still sync via iTunes. It's currently over 400 GB in Apple Lossless, which doesn't leave much room for apps, photos (57 GB and growing), and the occasional 4K videos. So I'm glad 4K is driving storage expansion so I'll be able to take advantage for my much more niche usage.
Of course, it'll still come with 5 GB of iCloud storage to back everything up. ? Though in all seriousness I hope they'll also bump the paid iCloud storage tiers, because my complete photo library is already well over 1 TB, and I'd like to eventually migrate it all to iCloud photos.
The Lidar is for the upcoming Astrophotography feature. Of course you will need to wait many years for it to measure the distance to even the nearest stars.