iPhone 15 seems very similar in terms of specs to iPhone 14
(though they will likely improve a bit this relatively "meh" camera that has some weaknesses to focus at short distance without external apps like Halide)
and iPhone 14 was already quite similar to iPhone 13
If they really will have a model with a periscope lens for the camera, I would be pretty interested. Of course it will likely only be in the huge 15 Pro Max model, which is annoying difficult to lug around.
The sensor size for periscope lenses are so small that even the flagship Sony Xperia 1 V's periscope lens with a Sony sensor produces garbage pictures. How Apple solves this will be interesting.
I tend to believe the specialists who are running Apple-related news websites.
Many of these sites have deep connections within Apple, their suppliers and partners, and can give rather accurate predictions (especially now that the phones are actually already produced).
I have an iPhone 13. When I upgrade (which will not be this year) I will get all the features in between, which means that it will be a substantial upgrade.
But it will feel less than that, because I have read so many of them in between.
Dont you find it all Samey Samey and yet the same old problems exist?
Perhaps summed up as Hype Fatigue.
In some respects the silicon valley layoffs of last year and earlier this may also have catalysed it for this year, as it ripples around the globe, perhaps demonstrating the interconnected nature of industry's.
I want a proper keyboard, dont like touch screens much, something like an updated HTC SPV M1000, that was a nice phone with its slide out keyboard.
Its bad enough the US tech sector dominate the offerings and so many people feel they need to follow suit, but when you master the sciences, you master the population, in ways the legal system can do nothing about it.
In the same spot - good enough requires 0 change. I don't see any reason to replace my $1200+ phone just to make a few cables go away. That's waste and cost for optimizing something that is solved by making 0 changes.
> My wife has held out on two generations of iPhones for this.
Is that a lot? I'm still using an iPhone 11 and honestly don't see a reason to upgrade. My friends who use iPhones are rocking the old ones that are round at the sides. Yet on public transport etc I see iPhone 14's everywhere. Buying a new phone every year or every other year is cringe imo.
I'm not sure. She's on a 12 mini where the battery life has crapped out and a 3rd party replacement didn't make it any better (thought iFixIt's batteries would be better, but guess not), so she has a lot of incentive to swap over.
For me, I'm on a 13 Pro. If the 15 didn't have USB-C, I'd probably have skipped the iteration. Since there's USB-C and most likely WiFi-6e support, and I play MOBAs on the iPhone that are sensitive to latency and have WiFi-6e APs, it's reason enough for me to upgrade.
I use the Apple leather case and after 2 years, the case may have worn a bit, but the phone itself is pristine.
There is a set of people (like a friend I have) who doesn't like using cases and feel that the point of having a case-less phone is that the phone is meant to be shown off in its bare glory.
yeah, last year, eventhough the current models were the iphone 14, needed a new phone and bought the previous generation's iphone 13 mini, because probably like you, wanted the smaller form factor. It's awesome!
Yeah, like you, going to have to hold on to this phone forever...
... although, might buy a foldable when Apple releases one (the Samsung zflip 5 seems really compact and nice!)
Something was wrong with their design of the last MacBook Airs with USB-C charging port. I'm very gentle with my electronics and yet the charging port broke two times in a row (fixed under warranty). My daughter's MacBook Air had the same internal break as well (fixed under warranty).
I suspect they didn't properly support the internals so the force of inserting a USB-C plug caused a crack or break over time (and a short time!).
I went out and bought cheap "MagSafe" like USB-C connectors for my machines and my kids (in college) machines. I personally WELCOME the return to MagSafe!
>I went out and bought cheap "MagSafe" like USB-C connectors for my machines and my kids (in college) machines. I personally WELCOME the return to MagSafe!
Be very careful with these; they can misalign as they come apart and put 20V onto pins not capable of handling it, blowing out the electronics for the port (and NOT covered by warranty).
Unfortunately, I'm kind of up against a wall. I need to use my laptop for work, but I can't keep sending it in for repairs (and I can't afford out-of-warranty repairs). I'm extremely gentle, but my MacBook Air needed the USB-C port replaced TWICE in just one month.
So, I went with the "let's not somehow magically break the physical port" route. I certainly hope the unofficial MagSafe connectors don't blow it out...
You still charge through the USB-C / Thunderbolt ports (and use a USB-C to USB-C cable with the provided power brick to do so). The MagSafe plug is just for convenience (and perhaps slightly higher wattage than is normally specced for USB-C on the beefier MBPs).
Also if you happen to trip over the magsafe cord, the possibility of snapping the connector is non-existent compared to the risk of using a USB-C cable.
It's of course a possibility but the Type C connection was designed to sacrifice the cable part first, both on the "repeated insertion" metric and for cases like this.
You can still charge via USB-C and Thunderbolt. I already had a bunch of USB C chargers and see no reason to buy additional USB-C to MagSafe cables when most the time USB-C to USB-C works just fine. At my desk I plug into a thunderbolt 3 dock and it works great. Seamless.
Having the MagSafe and the Thunderbolt 3/4 ports is a great combination. it's a welcome change on the road to have magsafe but I use TB3 at home with a dock.
Are you not able use the USB-C port to charge on the Air (or is it more that there's less ports available if you do that)? I'm able to for my M2 Macbook Pro and it has a magsafe port.
I bought a bunch of USB-C to Lightning dongles with lanyard that tie to the end of the cable. Now I have exclusively USB-C cables with dongles attached to them, and it's almost as good as a native USB-C iPhone.
Were did you get these? I have been looking for a USB-C female to lightning male connector for some time, but I don't think they exists. What you have found seems to be the closest thing.
I bought mine at a local phone repair shop, but Amazon is rife with them. Here's a random result which I'm sure you can improve upon. They generally come with a little lanyard of nylon or silicone to permanently tie to your USB cable.
I’ve held out for two generations as well and although USB-C would be nice, having to carry one more cable or an adapter just isn’t enough for me to justify spending >$1,000 on a new phone.
My iPhone X is full (someone is gorging it with cat pictures...). So, I'm awaiting this event and the release. The phone is down to about 80ish% battery life as well.
My 14 Pro is at 94%. It was purchased on day 1 availability last year. I charge it daily (overnight). I haven’t noticed those 6% degradation in real life.
Actually, since 13Pro, I noticed my phone could last almost two full days.
I wonder if Apple will ever go back to in person presentations, or if they really enjoy the flexibility of shooting these whenever the presenter is available vs scheduling everyone at the same time in a live fashion. It's the WFH version of a live presentation, they are so much better. The annoying fanboi applause breaks are hopefully a thing of the past
Also I'm sure there's a lot of people very happy about not having to plan, test, rehearse the live demos. Rerecording or splicing the bits that didn't go well saves time/stress.
If you think they are not planning and rehearsing the bits as is, you'd be mistaken. Of course they like the ability to do multiple takes. If you've never been on set with someone that's never used a teleprompter or maybe just their first time on camera, it is not always smooth sailing. You can tell they are doing that in the final video with some of the edits they make. I've seen people that are amazing at talking to a group of people freeze on camera. Keeping your eyes from scanning while reading is actually a nice skill, but the distance of full length shots helps hide that.
Oh I'm sure they rehearse. But it's completely different for "this has to go right the first time, the whole world is watching" and "we've rehearsed - if it's not perfect we'll shoot again". I mean, there's a whole story about how the first iPhone presentation was a perfectly rehearsed number of steps to make sure the device still under heavy development didn't crash.
USB-C would be nice but it probably won't happen until Apple is forced to do it.
I have an iPhone 11 that is starting to fail so I guess its time to upgrade but honestly there's nothing feature-wise I can think that I need in newer models and it's been that way for years.
One thing I wish they'd do is have Touch ID as an option on all iPhones, iPads and the Apple Watch. I absolutely hate Face ID. In fact it's ableist, often failing for people who through lack of normal vision have to hold their phones closer to see them.
Just put a touch sensor on the back like the Samsung Galaxy phones used to (and still do?).
But that won't happen. Still, I ditched a perfectly good iPad Pro (with Face ID) to buy an iPad Air (with Touch ID) but that one and only reason.
"While all iPhone 15 models are expected to have a USB-C port, only the Pro models will support at least USB 3.2 or Thunderbolt 3 for faster data transfer speeds up to 40 Gbps, according to Apple supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. He expects the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus to remain limited to USB 2.0 speeds of up to 480 Mbps like Lightning."
If you watch the Foundation series on Apple TV+ the opening sequence uses a similar technique and I imagine that this event logo was inspired by that production. When watching a series, I usually skip over the opening sequences, but I like to let that one play and just watch the animations.
I mean some of these people think JFK is coming back, so I didn't really need the evidence, but it is a very compelling piece of evidence. It's like in the movie where the person has a ton of strings connecting all of the cut outs on the wall. It's just in a sharable format
But somehow over the past few months my interest has flagged, to the point where I am now "Meh. It's all good enough. Maybe next year".