That becomes slippery to hold. But I think they do need to do something to make it more comfortable to hold. Maybe a combination of smoothing the edges and using a grippier coating. The real problem is the phone is too heavy.
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iPhone 15 vs. iPhone 16: 15+ Rumored Upgrades Compared
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I never found any phone with rounded sides to be slippery, maybe you don't have a good hand grip.
On the other side of things the phones with flat sides are painful to hold at times, literally, as the edges dig into your hand.
I didn't have this problem with my iPhone 5S and SE 2016. Very comfortable to hold.
On the other hand, the iPhone SE 2022 I am using now (without a case) feels like a bar of soap.
It’s nice to see stuff trickling down from the pro model to the baseline model. I just can’t understand why the heck something such as WiFi 6E (that the vast majority of people won’t benefit from because they don’t have a WiFi 6E capable router or a fast enough connection) trickles down in 1 year, whilst a 120hz display still hasn’t (and that way more people would actually notice). Only reason I can see is upselling you the pro model.
At the very least we should have gotten a 90hz display by now (although 120hz with LTPO isn’t exactly unheard of at the price point of the regular iPhone).
At the very least we should have gotten a 90hz display by now (although 120hz with LTPO isn’t exactly unheard of at the price point of the regular iPhone).
Just wait a year and you get just about all the pro features in the base model. I'm starting to think Pro users are real world beta testers for the base model.
I suspect that there will be a penalty in battery performance in older iPhones vs. newer iPhones due to increased load on the Neural Engines offloading the CPU. So, while more Neural Engines "should" provide new benefits, there is a strong incentive to adjust basic/old functionality code towards being clearly detrimental to the performance older iPhones, incentivizing customers to buy a newer phone🤔 That is, at some point you are forced to upgrade iOS, making your iPhone slower simply due to code switching and NOT due to newer, more demanding functionality.
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I agree. Even the DOJ agrees.
The DOJ complaint says -
"Apple itself has less incentive to innovate because it has insulated itself from competition. As Apple’s executives openly acknowledge: “In looking at it with hindsight, I think going forward we need to set a stake in the ground for what features we think are ‘good enough’ for the consumer. I would argue we’re already doing *more* than what would have been good enough. But we find it very hard to regress our product features YOY [year over year].” Existing features “would have been good enough today if we hadn’t introduced [them] already,” and “anything new and especially expensive needs to be rigorously challenged before it’s allowed into the consumer phone.”
Each year I read all the rumors, comparisons, the good, the bad, and in September I'm frantically typing in my CC as I attempt to be among the first to get my pre order in. This year will be no different. Just holding out now for the M3 Ultra Studio, or fingers crossed and M4 Mac Pro
Moving back to a stacked vertical camera lenses is fine, but why would they put the flash off on it's own like that? It just makes case design much less elegant as most will probably stick to a square cutout on the back. They should've just made it like the camera bump on the iPhone 12 again instead...
I’m feeling the same way. Especially when I consider how few pics I actually take.
I'll be moving from a stock 13, so a pretty sizeable upgrade!
I just have to decide if I want the 16 regular or the pro.
I just have to decide if I want the 16 regular or the pro.
