I thought it was time to upgrade my five year old 6s Plus, so I bought a year old 11 Pro Max, since I always upgrade to a year old model, due to price. I expected a huge upgrade, since the models are four years apart.
Long story short, I sold the Pro Max after a week and got back to my 6s Plus...
My reasons:
- OLED screen looked mostly very nice, but I could see a top-bottom color gradient on all white screens like in mail, settings, safari etc. basically the screen was pink at the top and greenish at the bottom. Especially visible with night shift and true tone on. I couldn´t unsee it.. I use my phone mostly in the evening and at night, so this was always visible for me. Turning off features to unsee it seemed illogical to me, as I paid for them. So even though my 6s Plus has just a smaller LCD, it is perfectly uniform and the resolution/colors are comparable, except the deep blacks.
- I took some pictures outside in the woods, in regular day light, and was not so impressed by the cameras. I mean, they are certainly ok, but ultrawide is not stabilised, so those pictures were often blurry. Telephoto pictures were grainy (clouds had a weird pattern to them). The wide camera was fine, but not much different to my 6s plus? The portraits were the best, I admit that is a nice feature. And night photos, which I take maybe once a year though...
- Size/weight. My 6s Plus is nicely thin and light. I didn´t expect that the extra milimeter of thickness and 30grams of weight would make a big difference, but boy the Pro max felt so thick and heavy. My 6s Plus feels like a feather, even though they are the same width/height.
- Loud speakers. It is certainly nice, that there are 2 on the Pro max vs. 1 on the 6s Plus. But the quality didn´t seem so good to me. Maybe it is because one is firing in your face and the second one to the side? I´m not sure, but playing music loud sounds very similar on those 2 phones. The biggest advantage is when you accidentally cover the bottom speaker like while playing games and you still hear the sound from the second one. But the "Dolby Atmos spatial sound" marketing etc.. seemes like a joke. Those are still tiny phone speakers...
What I really liked was the battery, as it lasts easily 2 days and the phone is way faster, but those are probably the only 2 features that I really liked.
Does someone have similar experience? Maybe I´m getting old, I was always so excited when upgrading from iPhone 1 to iPhone 4 or from iPhone 5 to iPhone 6s Plus. But this didn´t work this time..
Maybe upgrade to the regular 12 Pro?
Long story short, I sold the Pro Max after a week and got back to my 6s Plus...
My reasons:
- OLED screen looked mostly very nice, but I could see a top-bottom color gradient on all white screens like in mail, settings, safari etc. basically the screen was pink at the top and greenish at the bottom. Especially visible with night shift and true tone on. I couldn´t unsee it.. I use my phone mostly in the evening and at night, so this was always visible for me. Turning off features to unsee it seemed illogical to me, as I paid for them. So even though my 6s Plus has just a smaller LCD, it is perfectly uniform and the resolution/colors are comparable, except the deep blacks.
- I took some pictures outside in the woods, in regular day light, and was not so impressed by the cameras. I mean, they are certainly ok, but ultrawide is not stabilised, so those pictures were often blurry. Telephoto pictures were grainy (clouds had a weird pattern to them). The wide camera was fine, but not much different to my 6s plus? The portraits were the best, I admit that is a nice feature. And night photos, which I take maybe once a year though...
- Size/weight. My 6s Plus is nicely thin and light. I didn´t expect that the extra milimeter of thickness and 30grams of weight would make a big difference, but boy the Pro max felt so thick and heavy. My 6s Plus feels like a feather, even though they are the same width/height.
- Loud speakers. It is certainly nice, that there are 2 on the Pro max vs. 1 on the 6s Plus. But the quality didn´t seem so good to me. Maybe it is because one is firing in your face and the second one to the side? I´m not sure, but playing music loud sounds very similar on those 2 phones. The biggest advantage is when you accidentally cover the bottom speaker like while playing games and you still hear the sound from the second one. But the "Dolby Atmos spatial sound" marketing etc.. seemes like a joke. Those are still tiny phone speakers...
What I really liked was the battery, as it lasts easily 2 days and the phone is way faster, but those are probably the only 2 features that I really liked.
Does someone have similar experience? Maybe I´m getting old, I was always so excited when upgrading from iPhone 1 to iPhone 4 or from iPhone 5 to iPhone 6s Plus. But this didn´t work this time..
Maybe upgrade to the regular 12 Pro?
