The only thing which is making me want to upgrade, and it's really a stupid point, but I've had one phone of every generation, the XS is the first 'S' I've ever owned. But I guess i could get the 11 S
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To be honest for those that have a X or XS there isn't really a compelling upgrade on the cards but that isn't that different to those with a Samsung or Pixel owners, they are all very incremental hardware wise. If you are on a 5/6/6S/7/8 its a very different conversation. It's all about the software these days at almost all levels.
I think we have pretty much reached peek phone in the 'west'.
I think we have pretty much reached peek phone in the 'west'.
Agreed. I'm still using a launch day 6. Had the battery done last year but as it won't be getting iOS 13 I've already decided that I'll be upgrading. Which one I'll be upgrading to however remains to be seen. Hopefully I'll have a better idea after I've seen the keynote
My thoughts exactly - it's the latest iPhone iteration, why on Earth would it be slow?
I'm on the original X and it's still super fast as far as I'm concerned. I've not been thrilled with face ID, I'd much rather touch ID, and perhaps a third camera (be it ultra wide or super zoom) would be great, but other than that I can't see too much reason to make the jump.
The iPhone X's camera still boggles my mind. This photo was taken from my a recent trip, out of a window with plenty of marks:
And this one, admittedly with a touch of the old Instagram filter and superb lighting:
No editing:
Low light is always the weakness:
Also, we walked past the Amsterdam Apple Store and noticed that, well, the door had fell off:
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The low light pic is great for a phone still
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Pixel 3 says hello. Such s shame that phone is let down by the ram in it. Camera is far superior to any iPhone I’ve used and I love Apple stuff.
Well, after a party this weekend, I've woken up and my XS Max has a steamed up front camera and the screen responsiveness has gone weird (thinks I'm long pressing when I'm not)...
... so maybe I'll be in the market for an 11 after all :/
... so maybe I'll be in the market for an 11 after all :/
Part of me wishes I just upgraded last year instead of holding onto my 7...At least then If I did get enticed by next years model I would have had 2 years use out of it.
I dont think I can hold onto it for another year, I want something new and my screens smashed and battery life is meh - even when I had 100% capacity.
I dont think I can hold onto it for another year, I want something new and my screens smashed and battery life is meh - even when I had 100% capacity.
By definition it must be still under warranty, I had exactly this with an earlier iPhone and it was swapped without question. Get it into an Apple store ASAP.
I opened the SIM tray and I don't think the water damage indicator has been triggered... so hopefully that'll work in my favour
We don't know what the new iPhone is yet, so how you can say there's no reason?
Because for 90 odd % who have the xs or xs max, their phone isn't suddenly going to become obsolete.
Unless they finally add USB-C or SD card storage I see no reason to upgrade an already impressive phone.
Same thing has been said every year since smart phones came to market. Bar a few specific model years the bump over a single year is generally small but over 2 it can be quite big. That’s more like 3 these days, the original X isn’t likely to be that far off from the new phone.
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I haven’t seen the chart in a while, but I remember seeing that CPU performance doubled or better every other generation and the latest phones have 40+ the CPU power of the original iPhone.
If only PC CPUs had done the same...
Phones don't need more CPU, they have reached a level where phone manufacturers are trying to find niche uses for this CPU grunt. Having a CPU in my phone that is on par with a laptop makes no difference when you're sending a message or making a call. AR seems to be the big push from Apple that makes uses of the hardware, but I'm not sold yet.
My iPhone runs everything smoothly, it's very fast at doing phone stuff.
My iPhone runs everything smoothly, it's very fast at doing phone stuff.
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On my 8+ still.
I want a smaller phone but with a the same screen real estate (more or less) which makes the x/xs perfect. I'll see what they come out with in September. I may wait another year. Do you think there's any chance of them bumping the price? I'm not sure I could justify spending more than 1k on a phone.
I want a smaller phone but with a the same screen real estate (more or less) which makes the x/xs perfect. I'll see what they come out with in September. I may wait another year. Do you think there's any chance of them bumping the price? I'm not sure I could justify spending more than 1k on a phone.
I think that's a given.