I can even access verge review, it shows 404 LOL. anyways who cares what reviews say. I want one and I am upgrading from 12 PM. 14PM see you on Friday!
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iPhone 14 Pro Reviews are in and the consensus is well meh
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Yeah, no clue what they were thinking with that redesign. Absolutely horrific looking site. Old Geocities/Angelfire pages back in the day looked better than that.
Toms Guide has been pretty questionable on some product ratings in the past. I think they are big Android people over there. Least that’s what it seems to me.
How much margin do they make on the Pro though? I wouldn't be surprised if they made more on regular 14
I am always the most excited for the cameras...based on what I have watched and seen, the cameras seem to be a considerable improvement in detail. I am by no means a "Pro" , but enjoy taking photos and love taking scenic landscape shots when I have the opportunity. The 48mp raw is going to be great. Even the 12mp binned photos look much more detailed. Youtube channel Gadgetmatch posted a photo with the telephoto lens at night, compared to the 13 PM, and the detail and lighting difference was astonishing IMO.
I was a bit sour on the "dynamic island", but Im a bit softened to it now.
Most of the reviews that I have reviewed have all been fairly positive.
I was a bit sour on the "dynamic island", but Im a bit softened to it now.
Most of the reviews that I have reviewed have all been fairly positive.
If we followed Apple's classic naming scheme, it would be iphone 12SS. Apple has dropped the S badge and simply went with numerical only from 11 onward.
Everything on the 14 Pro is expected improvements over 13 Pro. Apple never intended for the last year iphone users to upgrade. They are after those with 12 Pro or older. Trickle updates to justify yearly releases.
Besides, if these reviewers are actually tech reviewers, they would've done a deep dive into the A16 and what it brings to the table. But no, they're all simply talking about the superficial features, lifestyle bloggers pretending to be tech reviewers. 😆 Here's hoping for Anandtech to do the real tech review.
I watched the keynote and I know what I’m buying and for what reasons. I’m still excited and will be my own critic.
I don’t need reviewers making my decisions for me. 👊😎👍
I don’t need reviewers making my decisions for me. 👊😎👍
The consensus… hah!! The consensus is decided by sales and sales alone. Get out of here with this crap.
I'm coming from a XR to a 14 Pro Max. It's going to be night and day for me ...
I also live in a first world country in which I don't take for granted our insane level of privilege and luxuries.
This.
Case in point I have a 12 Pro Max that I’m mostly happy with although the battery is starting to degrade a tad. I was planning to keep it but the Dynamic Island and Space Black color woo’d me. But the 12 Pro Max is still a great phone. No noticeable lag or anything of the sort.
It’s a different game than years past where performance grew by leaps and bounds each generation and the software demands almost necessitated an upgrade every other year at most in order to not feel choppy. Even the iPhone 11 series is still plenty fast.
Side note but The Verge's new site is potentially the most disgusting news site I've ever seen, I can't believe it got green lit. It's not just gross to look at but practically impossible to read because of the formatting.
The same people that green lit their How To Build A PC video. Honestly, their new website may be one of the worst designs I've seen since dial-up.
I think it's safe to say that more people here agree that the Verge's new website is completely horrific than they do that the consensus is "meh" like the OP claims.
It's think it's supposed to be optimized for mobile or something and they forgot about the desktop entirely. But ... I checked it on mobile ... and it's just as bad.
The Verge's new design has to be the worst designed website ever. It's horrible to try and read. Used to go there multiple times daily, haven't been more than once a day since they changed it.
verge didnt seem overjoyed by it
(also LOL to the new design, gotta bleach my eyes now after witnessing that)
Yeah. I'll no longer be visiting their site unless they change it to something that doesn't make my eyes bleed.
More like these tech reviewers with free review units basically get something that looks different every other month, so they are jaded that any newer product has to look different than the older one.
It has basically become like car reviews, where most of the talk are only skin deep about the outer appearance and design changes.
Yeah. They get everything new under the sun for free. They don't have the same excitement for tech as us plebs.
None of the other lifestyle bloggers are doing any deep dive either. (note that pixel peeping != deep dive).
The only site that does real deep dive on iPhone reviews that I've seen is Anandtech.
But at least MKBHD has a more neutral tone in his content. The other lifestyle bloggers are tend to be more flamey and clickbaity with their words just to incite flamewars (and generate engagement) in their comment section.
Jeez, this sharpening is ridiculous. And people thought, "Once Apple goes to 48MP, they'll do it right. They won't rush into it like Android OEMs did."
verge didnt seem overjoyed by it
(also LOL to the new design, gotta bleach my eyes now after witnessing that)
Apple copied exactly the Android OEM mistake: massive oversharpening to compensate for no-real-detail improvements from these "upgraded" high-megapixel sensors.
And night shots still seem devoid of most colors:
Blue? iPhone 14 says that's white.
Orange? iPhone 14 says nope: that's off-white.
Green at the bottom left? iPhone 14 is yet about another shade of white?
I also don't understand why Apple's white balance is still frequently too-warm. The displays are already red-tinted, so having red-shifted photos is no help either.
A proper review and comparison needs to have both the new and the previous model be of the same physical size (Pro Max vs Pro Max), same tier (non-Pro vs non-Pro or Pro vs Pro), and same iOS version (iOS 16.0 public non-beta release)
If any reviewer cites how the new device performs now and compares it with the previous generation when it was new then that is flawed...
If any reviewer cites how the new device performs now and compares it with the previous generation when it was new then that is flawed...