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iPhone 14 Could Have Better Battery Life Thanks to New 5G Chip
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iPhone 13S Pro Max… yeah there’s something off about that.
Smart phones have reached maturity, the iPhones design has barely changed since 2017.
Keeping the “S” around makes absolutely no sense.
We’ve had iPhone 11, 12 and 13, all quite minor upgrades.
The iPhone has reached the same point that the Mac has been at for years, and the iPad. Gets a design refresh once every 4-5 years.
So the “S” is basically completely useless anymore, because we’d be right now on the iPhone XSSSS.
The only reason the numbers stick around is probably because carriers need them for commercial purposes, or else I’m sure Apple would drop them just like they’ve done with the rest of their products.
It’s not called the iMac 12, it’s just a new iMac
Is the data plan unlimited? 😂
You just burned through over a gigabyte doing this test.
Yeah, she averages about 20% higher than I do and we use the phones about the same way. It would be hard to know exactly without me using the Pro Max, but I’m blown away by the 13 Pro battery.
Got to milk each new feature is Apple’s motto. Had it been on iPhone 13 then what’s would 14 and 15 have USB4.
What about Touch ID. Why can't Apple put Touch ID in the power button. What is wrong with Apple at this point, it is beyond frustrating.
Lightning was a great idea back then but it was poorly executed and getting old.
As an active interface that could be adapted for infinite future peripherals because the pins are dynamically assigned, it was supposed to be bring about a very wide variety of peripherals. I heard from a friend of a friend (*wink*) at Apple that they had dreamt up all sorts of cool peripherals for Lightning, but only a few ever saw the light of day as the market transitioned to wireless. Indeed, beyond speaker docks, an HDMI adapter, and a headphone adapter - was there any noteworthy non-charging Lightning peripheral? We don't need a highly adaptable dynamic i/o interface anymore - we just need one with fast data transfer and high-power delivery and nothing else.
It's also getting old. At this point, Lightning is 10 years old. For comparison, the old Dock Connector was 9 years old when Apple launched the first Lightning iPhone.
Even the bleepin' Beats Studio Buds are USB-C at this point, to say nothing of the iPad Pro or Macbooks. I really don't understand Apple's reason for keeping iPhones to Lightning anymore.
I gemuinly don't get this talk about 5G contracts, i though contracts stayed rhe same regardless of what phone you had your sim in and if/when you got into an area with 5G coverage your bandwidth would ibpncreses and your rtt would decrease at least that's the way it works here in Norway, not a 5G contract in sight, Apperently things are different where you are, so what am I missing?
I'm not sure about an actual contract (I'm not under contract), but with my carrier, you need to have an Unlimited Data Plan to have access to 5G. All other plans are 4G-only.
I'm still saving money by not getting unlimited, so when I buy a 5G-capable phone, it will still not be able to access 5G, unless I change my rate plan. But I suspect that will change.
Once 5G is more mature and less of a marketing angle, they'll likely give it to everyone.
US T-Mobile is 5G without a new plan. Get a 5G SIM and plug it into your phone, done.
In germany, you usually have your contract with fixed conditions. Thus if you made the contract, when 5G wasn’t even invented, you either have to do a new contract or you are already on the high-Tier contracts, where they may add that. In Germany, the service providers are working against each other, thus everyone has their own net and own frequencies. Hence they need money to built the new cell towers. I did not get LTE until 2019 on a mayor network. Only 3G. Now I have it but limited to 50Mbit/s down.
It doesn't matter as most people are either working from home or in an office and not traveling for work or leisure.
I'm on AT&T and I've tried 5G auto and 5G on and I get worse speeds than LTE, which is sad because I'm paying for 5G. I've called many times and they say my account is configured correctly.
Yup me too. So I just turned it off
James
Exactly what I did when I got my 13 Pro Max. Turned 5G off immediately
Battery life for iPhones have been insanely good since the 11 Pro Max
My hope for iPhone 14 is to have the slit earpiece, the pill shaped FaceID and camera system, a pill or slit sized home bar indicator or the option to remove it in settings, a second slit earpiece/mic/speaker below the home bar indicator and the pill shaped USB-C slot. The speaker grill on the bottom is due to be moved to the edge of the screen that would mirror the top earpiece.
Okthanks for the info, here you ussualy dont sign contracts, unkess you are a buisness or get the phone on oayment, usuallu just th montly sub and the bandwigh and ot generation of mobile network udsed to deliver the setvice is only deoendent on user terminal( phone etc) and the network available where you are. Is thus unigue to norwzy, aolarently nirwegain consumers are not that price sencirive so the operators igt not find it woeth the extrawork involved having different plans/feature for 5G/LTE or it might be the telco regilations forbidding it but now I'm just guessing
Oh thats a crappy deal, but that probably explains what people mean with 5G contracts. I find it a bit strange to tie 5G to unlimitied data, you might need bursts of high speed/low latency data but not have the aggregated monthly usage ti justify an unlimitid contravr. It was probabky a beancounter desicion rather than a technical one.
Hopefully every new model can benefit from the 6nm design. Would be great for the new SE, smaller PCB, more room for a bigger battery.
I'm still using 3G which is working very well here around 15 Mbps all the time. Battery life is excellent. 4G/5G is great when you need to download or upload large files. Sadly Apple blocked 3G in newer phones unless you use unsupported carrier SIM.