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iPhone 14 Pro Reviews: Dynamic Island Shows Promise, 48-Megapixel ProRAW Photos Impress
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Lol half of those youtube thumbnails makes me not want to watch them. The cringy clickbait stuff, anyone got some recommended reviews that are not hype and presented by some hyperactive social media cringe lord?
Not sure how the AOD can't impact battery life. I need a technical review to see battery life with it on and with the feature off. There's a reason android phones don't show the normal lock screen when AOD is on
I agree, having the wallpaper still displayed is odd - Does anyone know if there is an option to only show the clock and widgets when AoD is activated?
On a side note, the new Verge is simply horrible.
Not for everybody but looking forward to the always on display. Sounds like as expected the 48mp camera great when zooming in for improved detail
Such a try-hard design yet somehow simultaneously also a bit derivative from sites like Input. Not a fan!
It’s an absolute mess, everything is all over the place… the worst redesign they have ever done imo. Really liked the old and simple style. Less is more.
My hunch tells me that the dynamic island might end up with the same fate as the touch bar where it looks cool in demos but doesn't get enough 3rd party adoption to make it useful enough. But we'll see I guess.
Idk… these early reviews are, how do I describe it, “premature”.
Waiting for trying out demo devices, even though I’m more or less geared towards buying iPhone 14 pro max.
Waiting for trying out demo devices, even though I’m more or less geared towards buying iPhone 14 pro max.
A magnificent insult to travelers, the 14 with the most imbecile no sim tray ”solution”. Only US customers which is somewhat interesting as how the geniuses in Cupertino arrived at this? Fail.
The one just gone was pretty naff as well in my opinion, strange sized fonts and weird borders round things that looked oddly old fashioned - the one before last was their best. Anyway, best not bitch too much about The Verge in this thread 😄
Just a day and a half to limp through impatiently now and we'll be at launch day. Bring on the delivery chaos!
This made me laugh. I enjoy her videos and her channel but yeah, I don't buy anything off her recommendations alone.
This needs to be fixed. I don't blame YouTubers for how they operate. Views = Cash, and being early with reviews means more views.
Apple and other tech companies really manipulate this and have turned these early reviews into ads from 3rd-parties. They are all terrified of losing access to the product line and visits to Apple Park, so they only ever say good things about the company and it's products.
The later reviews where people aren't dependent on Apple sending them review units tend to be more objective.
Yes - Joanna tells it, but she has the weight of WSJ behind her. She has no fear of losing Apple's favor because they need her more than she needs them.
I miss objective early reviews.
Yes. I really want to give it a chance but, I couldn't even figure it out yesterday. Instead of hitting the site a few times a day, I went elsewhere where I could find something to read! Change can be hard, but they are really pushing it with this one.
OH MY GOOOOD. LOOK AT THE PURPLE IT IS SO GORGEOUS! I CANT
I cannot wait to have my dynamic island. Space Black is gorgeous, first black phone I ordered since white/colors were an option.
Watch as the Dynamic Island ends up just like the Touch Bar did. Promise at first but no one ended up supporting it.
BTW, iPhones in non-freedom countries also have spying tools built-in /s
I don't think it needs to be "adopted" in the same manner. I think those animations are happening at the system level. For example it already works with Spotify because they are using the now playing api
If i was to get iPhone 14 Pro (which im probably not), the dynamic island would be a reason for me, to go with the regular Pro (not the Max version). No way in hell i can interact with that thing using one hand.
MacRumors doing their part to promote the annoying shocked face thumbnail for the algorithms.
All these reviewers get iPhones a week early to 'test' (not really) and film their 'reviews'. They get a script from Apple on what 'points to hit' (i.e. what to say), which is why they all say the same thing and there's almost nothing actually to learn from these ads pretending to be reviews.
No one will hit Apple hard in fear of not getting a week-before-release unit to film their 'review' (ads) on.
So, Apple still applies the horrible correction on iPhone 14pro pictures too. No that huge jump I expected on cameras 