What would be your Ultimate iPhone, based around what’s potentially possible?
For me, it would be an iPhone that’s:
6.9” Screen Size (like S20U)
Smaller Bezels
MicroLED
12-bit Colour
2000-nits Peak Brightness
1200-1800 Sustained Brightness
3nm A-Series Chip
4K Screen Resolution (Dyanamic to scale with content)
Quad-Camera Setup (best available)
Quad-Speakers
No Physical Buttons (Touch/Feedback)
No Sim Tray (eSim)
No Charging Port
MagSafe 2.0 with 100W Fast Charge
No Notch
Under-Screen Front Camera
Under-Screen Touch-ID or Side Touch ID.
Polished Titanium Enclosure
Jet Black Colour
240Hz Pro Motion+
All Day Battery / Next Gen Battery
Latest 5G/6G Ready
Latest WiFi 6E / 7 Ready
Ability to hide the little Home Bar that insists to be on screen always!!!
All of this, but make it a folding phone, too.
Mock Samsung all you want. I owned a Galaxy Fold 3 for almost two weeks before returning it for an iPhone 13 Pro. It was awesome — it felt like I was holding something five years from the future in my hands.
I loved using the s-pen, and the size, unfolded, was great. I remember holding it side by side with the new iPad mini at Best Buy, and they were way closer in size than you’d think.
Why did I return it, then? That’s a simple answer: it didn’t run iOS, and the Android tablet experience still STINKS.
I gave it a fair shake, and then some! (I even bought and paired it with a Galaxy Watch 4. But that… experience is better discussed in it’s own post).
I hated losing FaceTime and iMessage. I hated sending super compressed photos and videos that were so blurry they were almost unwatchable to friends/family.
All the talk of RCS “fixing everything” was BS. It only worked on google messages, not the stock messages app. And Google messages doesn’t work well with the Galaxy Watch, because it doesn’t integrate as well.
Oh, and not being able to instantly airdrop stuff to my iPad Pro to work on annoyed me.
These are the only the major pain points I can remember now, nearly 3 months later. But there were more — it truly was a death by a thousand cuts.
Additionally, Android tablet apps (EVEN on a small tablet) are trash. Still. Over a freaking decade since the first Android tablets came out. It really does boggle the mind.
Even Chrome or Samsungs browser were more difficult to use then they should be; it seemed like every website I went to, I had to go into the browser settings and adjust the page zoom and font size for it to display correctly. I’m sure I have some screenshots saved to back up what I’m bitching about.
The Kindle app and reading comics was great on it, though.
I probably would have kept it if the tablet experience was good, and just quietly suffered through the lack of my beloved iOS creature comforts.
But it wasn’t, and I was legitimately angry that I had to return it and go back to a tall slab of a phone.
Once (if) Apple’s in the folding phones game, I hope to god they nail it. There’s so much potential.
It feels so freaking cool to open your phone up and have a tablet sized screen in front of you. And you know what? I bet Apple’s known that for longer than we think?