You'll be sure to notice it if the blind test is all-day long and takes battery life into consideration as well.
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tvOS 17 Code Confirms A17 Chip for iPhone 15 Pro, A16 for iPhone 15
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You'll be sure to notice it if the blind test is all-day long and takes battery life into consideration as well.
I wish we would go back to the days of having the same generation chip in the same generation phones. Or if we're not doing that have the decency to call it what it is, the 14 a 13 and the 15 the 14, so the new range this year would be iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max and the 14S and 14S Plus. Otherwise it will cause confusion amongst consumers as we will end up in a situation where they either ditch the Pro's support early or give the pros an extra year of life over their non-pro counterparts.
Most people who's walking into the store or ordering online doesn't know what chip is inside the iPhone and most likely check to see if it has three cameras and the price.
Exactly the same. I'm not like SUPER power user, but yeah. Also still 100% (day 1 unit) on Desay battery. I mean there was many battery test videos online when the phone came out and was #1.
Will the 15 have 6G, or do we have to wait until next year?
5G iPhones were only released in 2020 [iPhone 12 series]
It's not like iPhone 2G in 2007 then iPhone 3G in 2008... 4G/LTE iPhone was only released from 2012 [iPhone 5 and newer] onwards...
Why can’t people who don’t want an ugly, incredibly heavy phone with boring colours and a tumour on its back have access to the latest chip?
I see that you have been disliked quite a bit but I agree with you on the overheating aspect. My 14 Pro Max gets hot pretty quickly and dims the screen for some time. The battery life has not been severely affected but it is definitely not as strong as it was with my 13 Pro Max.
Because the A series is seemingly overpowered for iOS, I see no issues with this strategy. I think the iPhone 15 and 15 Plus will be very popular this year due to dynamic island.
My 14 Pro has never overheated either, but battery life is more along the lines of a 13 Mini I used to have than a previous Pro.
This last years chip scheme has put me off buying this year. I was thinking of buying a 15, non Pro. (the camera bump is getting ridiculous and I really don't need a better camera anyway)
That's the first thing I turned off on my 14 Pro, and daily battery life is not great anyway.
They don't it's actually even simpler than on the iPhone side, the consumer chip is M# the pro chips is M#Pro, M#Max, M#Ultra. And the customer should be looking at the product name name not the chip name to make it even easier, if your a consumer get the iPhone #, want better get the iPhone # Pro. Or get a MacBook, want better get a MacBook Pro. If you're a "Pro" then the `Pro`, `Max`, and `Ultra` become more important, and you should know what you need to do your job.
I always buy my phones outright, I hate subscriptions. I have upgraded my iphone most years, but not all years, and probably not this year.
I on the otherhand am expierencing those issues and only use apple charging products as well. Battery is down to 88% and I get the warning when using my car play alot that charging has to pause until phone cools down.
The Pro/Max/Ultra don't exist for marketing reasons but rather because bigger Macs allow for bigger thermal headroom.
A phone will always allow for the same thermal headroom regardless for how "Pro" it is.
My 14 Pro is at 94% battery and daily battery life has never been that great. I bought it when it was first available.
I see references to this every year for every phone model. I’m not sure if it is inconsistencies in manufacturing or just the perception of some that their batteries don’t last as long as they should or what. I’ve had a new iPhone every year since the 4s. They have all had what I perceive to be excellent battery life. Mine comes off charge before bed and lasts till the next night when it goes back on charge and still has plenty left. I hand my phone down to another household member after one year and they use it for two years then we sell it. They always still have good battery health after three years. Typically 83-88% in recent years since that number has been available.
I currently have a 14 Pro and it, like all the rest, has good battery life and also does not overheat.
I think it would we a nice move for Apple to relaunch the whole phone line with USB-C.
Sure, keep the old SE as the superbudget option for a few more years, but to be honest it would be nice if they would clean up and offer less models or at least have them more alligned.
To have 5 different screensizes with different resolution just makes things hard for developers.
my 12 Pro Max that i got on launch day is at 88% battery health. i've seen people say they hit low 90s or got into the 80s only months after buying it.
to be fair, for a long time i did have a shortcut set up to notify me when the charge hit 80% so i'd rarely ever charge it up to 100% and i didn't let it go below 15-20% unless I really needed it. not everyone is going to do that so it will degrade quicker.
My 14 Pro Max gets crazily warm doing light tasks and has terrible battery life. Hopefully this will be better with the next generation.
Exactly this. But you always get comments like “my battery is still 100% how do you use your phone”. This year there are exceptionally more people having battery health problems and This is a fact that can’t be ignored. Even Zollotech got terrible battery health.
Same can apply for 13 Pro. My sister is with 13 Pro (Sierra Blue and bought in Germany) and for 1 year she was at 90-91%. There are a lot of people having no issues or their batteries are good. May be we are lucky.
Also ZolloTech says like 99% of the time, that he have ZERO issues with overheating... it's random.
I am not seeing coconutbattery in the App Store or the MacOS store. Is there another name it goes by to check the battery manufacturer?
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