Poll: *** The Official iPhone 15 thread (it has USB-C and everything!) ***

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Are you getting an iPhone 15?

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SDK^ said:
The quad 48MP is marketing BS, as each of the 4 sensors only has one colour, so it‘s only 12MP in real terms. [There is no additional detail in 48MP photos vs the 12MP]
It’s a sneaky way to increase each photo file size, which ultimately means people need to pay more for the next tier up iCloud storage.
As Apple have ‘locked’ in users to their system, this is increased revenue for Apple, from their users…….for the rest of their life.
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I’m not sure that I buy that. If there’s no additional detail in the photo, the outputted HEIF won’t be significantly larger.
 
Before everyone loses their mind over the cameras, let’s see what they’re like in the real world eh?

Hopefully they’ll be better than my 12 Pro Max in any case (which is still pretty decent to be honest)
 
Spleen Sauce said:
Before everyone loses their mind over the cameras, let’s see what they’re like in the real world eh?

Hopefully they’ll be better than my 12 Pro Max in any case (which is still pretty decent to be honest)
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The saving grace may be smart HDR 5.
 
Kanpai said:
Still wont be as quick as cable transfer and airdrop will only work sending to another Apple device.
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Can't say I've ever felt it could be quicker and we're an all Apple household so no issue there. I cannot remember the last time I plugged in my phone for data transfer.
 
There’s way too much emphasis piled on the camera tech in modern phones - personally I don’t get it.
Don’t get me wrong, I like having a good camera for quick snaps but realistically how much camera tech does a person need to send snapchats of their food and make their TikTok videos - because let’s be honest, that’s what the vast majority of it is used for.
IF image quality is of such critical importance then just invest in a dedicated camera. Look at all the YouTubers out there who look to heap praise on the camera tech within phones, do they use said tech for their content creation? Of course they don’t.
I honestly don’t mean to be facetious about it but even the most bog standard of cameras outperform the highest end phones.
 
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SDK^ said:
Apple really stuffed the cameras on the new 15 Pro and Max.

Everything was driven by higher marketing numbers - most users will get worse image quality than on the 14 Pro & Max phones.

  • 7 lenses :cry: : 4 of these ‘lenses‘ are cropped views, why stop at 7 lenses, you could have a ‘100 hundred‘ lenses using this method ! This is Apple trying to keep up with other phone makers who have more real camera lenses.
  • The 120mm Telephoto lens on the 15 Pro Max is okay, but if you shoot less than this (below 119mm) then you will get a cropped view from the 24mm lens. Producing a small MP photo showing garbage results. All about Apple marketing a ‘5x zoom’ to keep up with competitors.
  • The default MP size has been increased to ’24MP’ (upscaled from a real 12MP) which increases the file size of each photo, meaning eventually you will need to pay more monthly to increase Apple Cloud storage.
  • All the other Apple marketing BS associated with the camera is just deceptive
Apple really going the wrong way on the camera with this phone !
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One of the major reasons I didn't buy the 15 this year. I was excited for the camera at first but then people figured out that it's a bunch of BS and the camera was going to be worse than last year then I said helll no

And I'm not missing much, even last year's "48MP" is BS to make the camera sound better than it actually is
 
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Biggest annoyance with the 14 Pro Max that I have is that I can't take 48MP photos unless I go ProRAW, same for the 15 Pro Max as well but at least they get cropped to 24MP, just give me a bloody option to take auto processed 48MP images as HEIF photos. Really don't know why they don't at least give the option in settings. How hard is it to add an option for auto processed 12MP, 48MP and then 48MP ProRAW.
 
Spleen Sauce said:
Before everyone loses their mind over the cameras, let’s see what they’re like in the real world eh?

Hopefully they’ll be better than my 12 Pro Max in any case (which is still pretty decent to be honest)
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To be honest the camera on the iPhones are more or less the same since the iPhone 11. Since the 11, it's just been minor incremental changes
 
I believe the reason for the lacklustre performance upgrades for the pro this year is TSMC. Tsmc didn't do anything wrong; the issue is that the nexts fabrication node, 2nm, won't be ready till 2026.

That means the iPhone will be stuck on 3nm this year and for 2024 and for 2025. So Apple needs to milk 3 years of performance upgrades out of 3nm, so they have to take it slow. If they gave us all the benefit of 3nm right now they'd have nothing to give next year and the year after
 
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What’s so lacklustre? They doubled the neural engine capability, added an extra core and hardware ray tracing to the GPU, yes the CPU is only 10% faster, but a lot of the work happens on the neural engine which they boosted massively.
 
Raiden85 said:
Biggest annoyance with the 14 Pro Max that I have is that I can't take 48MP photos unless I go ProRAW, same for the 15 Pro Max as well but at least they get cropped to 24MP, just give me a bloody option to take auto processed 48MP images as HEIF photos. Really don't know why they don't at least give the option in settings. How hard is it to add an option for auto processed 12MP, 48MP and then 48MP ProRAW.
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Was added in iOS 17 RC.
 
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b0rn2sk8 said:
It’s Vodafone, I don’t know what they’ve done but their network has been utter **** for me in London and East of England. Historically they were pretty good but it seems they have fallen well behind in the 4/5g era. What concerns me the most if I get a lot of drop backs to 3G and those masts are being switched off…

I’m switching back to EE next week, well via Lyca.

They rang me up to counter offer my PAC request. I politely informed them that they could give me the service for free and I’d switch away.
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Sorry to hijack the thread. Lyca mobile I’m needing to get my parents new sims but i can’t for the life of me find on that site what speeds they will be getting?

I know that EE do a three tier structure for speeds -

Best speeds - Uncapped
Ultimate experience particularly for sharing and gaming, with ultra high-speed load times.

Excellent speeds - Max 100Mbps
Great for streaming on-the-go, and video calling to your heart's content.

Good speeds - Max 10Mbps
Perfect for everyday use such as browsing the internet and social media.
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If it’s going to be throttled as we tried giffgaff and their speeds where horrific for them whereas o2 was fine.

They’ll obviously not have priority over EE customers but even at the much cheaper price if it’s not useable it’s going to be a waste of time.
 
Reuben klang said:
Sorry to hijack the thread. Lyca mobile I’m needing to get my parents new sims but i can’t for the life of me find on that site what speeds they will be getting?

I know that EE do a three tier structure for speeds -



If it’s going to be throttled as we tried giffgaff and their speeds where horrific for them whereas o2 was fine.

They’ll obviously not have priority over EE customers but even at the much cheaper price if it’s not useable it’s going to be a waste of time.
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There’s no speed caps as far as I’m aware.
 
SDK^ said:
The quad 48MP is marketing BS, as each of the 4 sensors only has one colour, so it‘s only 12MP in real terms. [There is no additional detail in 48MP photos vs the 12MP]
The iPhone 14 default image size was 12MP. On the 15 Pro’s Apple has doubled it to 24MP by basically upscaling the image, which anyone can do themselves in an image editor.

It’s a sneaky way to increase each photo file size, which ultimately means people need to pay more for the next tier up iCloud storage.
As Apple have ‘locked’ in users to their system, this is increased revenue for Apple, from their users…….for the rest of their life.
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So realistically are we saying that I should wait for the iPhone 16 lol
 
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