This year will be my first Pro Max. Natural Titanium coming Friday. Pretty excited for the larger display, better battery, plus all the things new to iPhone coming from my 13 Pro.
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iPhone 15 Pro Reviews: Improvements Go Well Beyond USB-C
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Fair warning, it’s going to feel huge and unwieldy in your hand at first, but give it time and your brain will adjust to it…. Then it will feel much smaller as you get used to it.
Whether or not you trust the review or whether you regard battery life as a big deal are both your subjective opinions, which I respect. But this is a shared forum, not a me-to-you conversation. I was trying to share information on battery, which a lot of people, me included, were curious. You questioned its integrity, source, and condition, which I now provided. You then digress to your subjective opinion, which is fine, but the battery test information I'm sharing is no longer intended to you as audience then.
Good example, and I think photo quality is largely subjective — I may like the way a photo turns out, but others may point out the problems with it (color, lighting, etc.). For me, if it looks good — it is good.
I’m Going from 14PM to 15P. PM is far too large. These are for like lebron James and Andre the giant type hands 🖐️
But tell me I’m not the only one who has (way) more than once lined up the perfect shot, went to click the volume button and…whoops that was the lock button.
Couldn't agree more. I have no idea how anyone carries the Max around.
Not everyone is 5 feet tall, imagine that, the descrimination towards us giant people needs to end. We barely get phones big enough for everyday tasks and all we hear is complaints about how big and heavy they are.
good time to do it given the device will feel lighter than current pro max models.
They're on completely different sides of the phone lol.... I understand if they were on the same side, but that sounds like a brainfart if you click on the opposite side rather than a design flaw.
Interesting that you say the Pro Max size phones "are for like lebron James and Andre the giant type hands." I have XL hands, but not XXL like pro basketball players, and I find that the PM size drives me to more two-handed operation, whereas the Pro size I can operate one-handed. It seems to me that once one is forced to two-handed usage even smaller hands should be able to handle the PM size the same as my XL hands do.
However I am in full speculation mode because XL-hands operation is my only experience ;~). In any event, the Apple Watch Ultra, AirPods Pro and the USB-C EarPods help obviate a lot of phone handling as I move to the PM size this year for vision reasons.
You say "This isn't the iCamera which happens to make calls, this is the iPhone which happens to snap quick photos," which made me think.
For me this very much is the iCamera which happens to make calls, not the iPhone which happens to snap quick photos. Phone calls and texts are trivial, easily handled by the Apple Watch Ultra and/or AirPods. The iPhone Pro I use primarily for image capture that is integral to my daily life, including my work product.
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Perhaps I am holding it wrong, but I have XL hands and often use the iPhone Pro one-handed. So clicking involves a right+left squeeze (I squeeze a shutter release or a trigger, I do not punch it). That squeeze can easily end up initiating the right-side button instead of one of the left-side buttons. No brain fart, just lousy shutter release ergonomics in iPhones.
Some of us having been saying all along to ignore all the prerelease clickbait junk, especially including sensationalism like "the awful battery and heating issues that's been leaking out today on social media."
Your use case of "...just happy I had a camera on me in the first place to capture the moment. Take photo, move on with life." is no doubt very common; perhaps overwhelmingly so.
However some of us do look at our pictures, critically in fact. We look at them and think before we push the shutter release, then we chimp them after we push the shutter release, then we edit them and archive them for multiple current/future usages. For us each new camera's generational improvements are of significant interest - - and may require learning new workflow modifications to optimize.
Apple engineers are stuck between a need to optimze for your most common Take photo, move on with life use case and my use case of wanting maximum camera capability. IMO they do a very good job of compromising.
So perhaps in your case you would benefit from the buttons being on the same side and the other side being empty so you can squeeze with no repercussions. Or better yet going back to having the power button on the top of the phone.
All camera users would benefit from better shutter release ergonomics, which currently suck. I am hoping that the new button on the iPhone 15 Pro Max may be a step in the right direction.
I’m tall and have very large hands. I can therefore comfortably operate the 6.1” standard iPhones with one hand. But I prefer smaller phones and wish we could go back to the 3.5” iPhone 4 size again. 😢
The volume button already does and always has so using the action for this seems pretty redundant.
I can see how such a test would provide insights into efficiency of the comparative internals by excluding the screen impact.
"Key new features of the iPhone 15 Pro models include a...lightweight titanium frame" -- MacRumors
You have to question the accuracy of tech reviews when so many tech review sites, including MacRumors, get it wrong when it comes to a basic, easily knowable fact like the use of titanium in the new "Titanium" iPhone Pro lineup. There is only a titanium band. That's it. Not the frame, not the back of the phone, nothing else. But don't take my word for it, take Apple's, which plainly states the facts in the marketing copy on its website: "The titanium band is bonded with a new internal aluminum frame..." But you gotta love Apple marketing--they've taken what is essentially a piece of trim on the phone and branded the whole phone with it. No shade from me, I like the new brushed finish, the softened edges and whatever weight savings were achieved through its use. Just let's not overstate what it is.
You have to question the accuracy of tech reviews when so many tech review sites, including MacRumors, get it wrong when it comes to a basic, easily knowable fact like the use of titanium in the new "Titanium" iPhone Pro lineup. There is only a titanium band. That's it. Not the frame, not the back of the phone, nothing else. But don't take my word for it, take Apple's, which plainly states the facts in the marketing copy on its website: "The titanium band is bonded with a new internal aluminum frame..." But you gotta love Apple marketing--they've taken what is essentially a piece of trim on the phone and branded the whole phone with it. No shade from me, I like the new brushed finish, the softened edges and whatever weight savings were achieved through its use. Just let's not overstate what it is.