I just got a 16 Pro. I still have my 7 Plus. Form factor of 7 plus is still the best of any of the iPhones, for my money. It feels THE best in-hand.
The features customers actually want vs what the shareholders tell them they want.
I just bought two brand new three year old phones to replace the identical broken ones we currently have because the current models have less functionality for more than we plaid for these.
To get the same functionality cost twice as much.
And we still get three years warranty…
I totally forgot it even had that. The people I talk to only talk about the new side button.
Insanely true, I didn’t give a shit about 90% of the features on my new phone once my old one broke down and I got a Pixel 8, but I was delighted to go from a worn-out 12 hour battery life to a 64 hour battery life. I would actively like to uninstall any sort of current AI function from my phone if it could increase my battery longevity by even 1%.
Also: ew, Apple.
Kinda dumb to post in an Apple enthusiast community with your bullshit tho
Nobody’s ever accused me of being smart! But hey, at least I’m honest
I’d actually be willing to accept a loss in battery life to not have a device be infested, but luckily that’s not a likely trade-off
Literally just give us phones that can do what they could do 10 years ago, with modern batteries.
You know what would be good? Headphone jack, and great batteries yes, but how about something easily self repairable? Or shit replaceable batteries would be nice too.
My ideal would basically be a modern version of the lg v20 - give me that removable battery, headphone jack, microsd slot, etc and just give me the current gen on chipset, screen, camera, etc.
No AI, no preloaded nonsense I can’t get rid of, I don’t care that it could be 0.000004mm thinner without the jack.
Its never been about what the consumer wants, its about driving “features” that will make more profits.
If it works with some custom software like GrapheneOS I’d buy this in a heartbeat
Not even out.of the box, just run nexus style - unlock if you want but support is now your own problem.
Which works for me regardless.
this. put the sensors, audio jack, notification led, ir blaster back!
And fuck off with the ai!
You know, almost every phone still has an ir blaster… It’s just not made Available to you.
(Auto focusing in cameras is largely done via an ir blaster and corrisponding receiver)
I just want both the Touch ID and the Face ID on my damn phone…
I want it to be like the glory days of the Note 8/9. You want a FP reader? Its on the back and it works really well! You want Facial recognition? How about iris scans as well! Notification LED, aux jack, and a Pen built right in! Not enough storage, pop in a MicroSD. Only thing that was missing was easily swapped batteries! It all went downhill from here imo
That’s an interesting take. Thinking about it, I think I agree with you.
LED notifications and physical keyboards. I miss my Blackberry
God me too. I feel like such a luddite whenever I bring this up. Touch screen keys even with swipe to text are terrible
It can be helpful when you use multiple keyboard layouts
People have been asking for thicker phones with more battery for years. Wth
When I replaced my 5 year old phone the only two benefits I saw was OLED screen (never going without again) and the battery life going from maybe a day to like 40 hours
Maybe your old phone’s screen sucked. I switched from flagship 2021 OLED phone to mid-tier IPS 2020 phone. I prefer IPS, because it crisper and have more neutral colors. And more important, it doesn’t have stupid waterfall edges.
I just replaced my iPhone older than six years old with a 16 Pro Max… OLED to OLED, but now 120hz. Magnificent. And yeah, the battery lasts forever now.
Smartphone buyers care more about that thing that they’ve been begging for, for years? You don’t say… And mobile phone manufacturers are again and still going to ignore what people actually want in favor of expensive and non functional vaporware, like they always do?
You don’t say!
Also I want my OS to be an actual OS with root access. I want Linux in particular.
Like you know, you can setup a file share to back up files. You can back up your phone and get a new one easily. If you lost a phone you can bring it back. Your files organized the way you want and not some things here and done things there like the apps want.
@Alphane_Moon someone wanna tell them that AI can be used to increase battery life? 😂
I really hope the AI hype dies off
We are talking about a very particular branch of AI called LLMs or better know as “chat bots”. Every other AI is usually very useful and have been in your phone forever.
“The only thing we bothered changing in the new model is we added a robot that hoovers even more of your data and then lies to you confidently!”
They’re pushing AI so hard but most people just see it as a gimmicky thing. The only people who care are the investors.
I still would take an extra mm for more battery life. At this point it’s no difference if it’s a bit thinner.
