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iPhone 16 Series Is Just Two Months Away: Everything We Know

wbeasley said:
the way the world is going lately, this might be the only sure fire certain upgrade that will happen as everything is probably set in stone now and ramping up production...

buy the soon-to-be-released model to DoomScroll even faster :)
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LMAO

I hope they make a Back to the Future 4 that centers around Marty going back in time to prevent doom-scrolling.

Imagine having to explain to kids in the 80s what that is. OK kids, so in the future we purposely inject as much chaos into our brains as fast as we can and then have panic attacks over it. And yes this is a "choice".
 
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Sprocket_Proton said:
I have a 12 mini and this was meant to be my update year. I’ll hold off for the 17 and see if that offers any real improvement.

Five years is the longest I have had a iphone model.
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As Long as Apple pays the bill for me I will buy the latest one.
Just taking the win of my Apple Stocks I bought years ago, it works fine.
 

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lewchenko said:
13 Pro owner here. I wonder how old an iPhone do you need to have to get excited about the 16 / 16 Pro series ?

An 11 or 12 maybe ? Not sure I’m convinced of the need to spend so much money upgrading.
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12 Pro owner here. Not excited yet.
I wish there were a yellow Pro, a bigger Max model and a smaller iPhone like the 13 Mini.
 
sounds like a real upgrade this year - but then the HomePod mini just go a new color
 
djc6 said:
For those who uses cases like myself, my concern is that without bezels how would a case work? Would is obscure part of the display?
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I would assume it would be like my old Samsung S23Ultra with the curbed screen you still have a case around the screen it just wont be thick. Their will be a bezel just slightly thinner compared to the current 15 Pro series.
 
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wbeasley said:
Name one company that gives users choice to the level you want?

Samsung sell different processors to different markets based on region.
Hisense sell TVs/projectors without streaming services in China because of government decree.

Most users wouldnt know the difference anyway.
We had all the drama about single memory slots in Macbooks and how bad it would be (and it could be demonstrated) yet sales boomed with the buying public.
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Your post seems to be giving guidance to the consumer on which version to buy - including taking one’s own use case into consideration
 
lewchenko said:
13 Pro owner here. I wonder how old an iPhone do you need to have to get excited about the 16 / 16 Pro series ?

An 11 or 12 maybe ? Not sure I’m convinced of the need to spend so much money upgrading.
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The 13 Pro got me off the 11 Pro Max with the ProMotion display and wanting a slightly smaller phone.

Since then I'm glad I got that one. Nothing has tempted me except USB-C. Kind of starting to think the Action Button would be useful.

Other than that I'm just waiting for the upgrades to pile up and a family member's Android phone to continue aging. Eventually hope to give her this phone and maybe get the 16 Pro.

It's probably at the point now where I'd notice a lot of subtle improvements. Not sure it's quite worth over a grand yet though.

Let's see how the 16 is. I would like a useful Siri.
 
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Honestly, seems like one of the least hyped updates in several years. I think I will just hold on to my 14 Pro Max for another year.
 
Goodness why do they need to polish the titanium? The brushed metal on the 15 Pro is spectacular, which I'll be sticking with as USB-C was a solid future proofing feature.
 
Be interesting to see how the Apple wallet fixes to MagSafe on the iPhone 16 pro if the camera bump is vertical and not in the square format it currently is in on the 15 pro. I mean unless they are going to make bank cards smaller it won’t fit.
 
airwalk331 said:
"Ultra-Thin Bezel Technology" -stop calling this a feature! There shouldn't be ANY bezels! We have a robot on mars!
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My Samsung S10+ had an edge to edge 'waterfall' screen. I loved it because I lost my left hand and I can do gestures by swiping the side of my screen with the arm. Sadly they got rid of it because people didn't like the sides being exposed.
 
ppenn said:
I'm ready for a new phone but "biggest ever iPhone" is a detractor, not a selling point.
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I’m reading a collection of Steve Jobs interviews and speeches. One thing he hits over and over and over again is that he wanted to “make things smaller.” That was in his top five goals for EVERY product. He was obsessed with making everything that can be smaller even smaller. The idea that the whole “small and thin” drive originated with Jony Ive is wrong. It all comes from Steve.

So I also question Apple’s trend towards larger phones. It seems contrary to their core DNA.
 
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