I mean most of the time it’s not necessary but it is convenient, allows us to have full HD FaceTime calls, 4k movie streaming benefits from it, apps download or load in seconds, no hiccups on music like I used to have all the time driving around on LTE… it’s just better. Course you gotta think of the future too, as tech progresses and apps and content demand more speed, its future proof for a long time. We have unlimited plans for 20-30 bucks too but you have a data cap. We also have the Ultra Wide Band on our iPhones, we have the little glass oval on the right side of our iPhones where most other countries don’t. You guys have normal Sub 6Ghz 5G, which is still good but barely noticeable difference compared to 4G/ LTE. It’s meant to go longer distances and through objects like LTE does. Ultra Wide Band connection here is why it’s a bit pricier, the cost has to come from somewhere for such high data speeds ya know? And the pretty fast development of 5G here once it launched also cost carriers a pretty penny. I’m sure as we get further along with 5G prices will fall some.

I use 5G only, my state and town has amazing coverage for being basically farm land everywhere but the city. I can get 500-1500+mbps download speeds anywhere in my town on the ultra wide band 5G. I also even have T Mobiles 5G wifi and they just came out with even external antennas you put on the sides of your house for better reception and to enable ultra wide band 5G where it was normal 5G before, $55 a month and I get 1500+mbps download speeds and 300+ upload speeds for my home wifi on 5G UC. I love it. It all depends where you are in the country and how well your carriers infrastructure is developed, but T Mobile did it smarter, they put out tens of thousands of normal 5G towers first to get as wide spread coverage as possible, then upgraded them all to Ultra Wideband 5G later, where Verizon and ATT did the opposite, they slapped far less towers up and rushed Ultra Wide Band on them all so they couldn’t manage to get enough towers up in a fast pace. T Mobile gives me amazing 5G UC connection literally anywhere I’ve ever been since it came out on iPhone. Shits blazing fast. Only time I’ve ever switched back to LTE since my 12 pro max was to save battery life when I was running low and didn’t have a charger nearby. Otherwise I rock 5G anywhere and everywhere with zero problems.

No dip Sherlock… we know this, I was just saying this is all I’m waiting for and only thing the iPhone lacks for me, not enough for me to ditch my iPhone that has a far more powerful processor than any Android phone and works far better with better app quality as well. Android may have more features, but those features are barely used even by Android users and they are way behind in quality when it comes to apps, performance consistency, and processor power.

Let’s just say the only thing I’m freaking waiting for is for them to unlock the app grid and let us put apps wherever we want. I don’t even care about the custom icon crap, I just want to put all my apps on the bottom of my Home Screen without having to use widgets I don’t need to push all my folders down to the bottom. Back when I used Android long long ago, I always had just the bottom two rows of apps and an empty space above to see my wallpaper, I liked the minimal clean look and be able to see my wallpaper when I’m actually using my phone and not just on my Lock Screen. Other than that my iPhone does literally everything I need it to and it’s my only device. TV, Movies, YouTube, Social media, photography and videography, editing, rendering, occasional gaming, finance, business, everything is done just on my phone I don’t even own a TV let alone computer or tablet etc. iPhones and smartphones in general have peaked. Until we have some crazy technological innovation, they’re gonna stay basically the exact same with spec improvements. Foldables still are janky and damage stupid easily for $1700+ devices… and they aren’t good for the general public besides basically literal office workers that don’t do anything besides sit there all day. The plastic “glasstic” screens dent with a finger nail or the pixels bleed in less than a year… give it another 5-10 years and we’ll see something insane happen but till then it’s gonna be much of the same we’ve had. Sorta how we went from these tiny ass smartphones with sub 300p displays, all the way to 2.5k displays in less than 10 years. Just gotta give it time. Till then start saving some money and rock your favorite iPhones till they lose support unless they come out with something insane before that point!

Bro for years I’ve been saying that I’d love a full matte stainless steel iPhone Pro Max… I literally have never liked or used wireless charging. So having a glass back doesn’t benefit me at all in the slightest. Metal backs also dissipate the internal heat better than glass too acting like one giant heat sync not even talking durability. I’d easily rock my phones caseless with a screen protector only if I had the same squared off design with an all steel body. Back glass is the most expensive repair anyways. I will never use wireless charging plus it degrades your battery faster due to increased heat cycles. It makes me honestly regret using cases on my old 6s plus and 7 plus. The only thing keeping me from going caseless on my 14 pro max is the back glass… if it had all metal it would be naked giggity. They should honestly make a model like this purely for those that don’t care for wireless charging at all. Many people don’t ever use it, many people do, but give us an option as a more durable iPhone in exchange for wireless charging, and keep the way the phones are now for those that need/ want wireless charging. Best of both worlds. Durability is far more important to me than wireless will ever be.

Is that basically a high quality Dac plugged into the iPhone’s low quality dac to upgrade the sound quality with professional headphones? 😅

I only use the triple tap for flashlight and that’s when it works. 9/10 times it doesn’t work when you want it to, and comes on randomly cause it thinks you tapped the phone 3 times somehow when it barely works when you tap it 3 times perfectly in the center of the apple logo in the perfect way not too hard not too soft… its barely functional, but the fact my flashlight comes on at least twice a week by itself when I don’t mean for it to, I will never run anything on the double tap cause it’ll go off and do whatever the action is all on its own but not work when I am intentionally trying to. Kinda a useless feature. Even with a caseless phone it barely works right. Honestly better off having it set like Motorola had theirs, doing a double or triple air chop while holding the phone. Use the phones accelerometer and gyroscope to do it instead of a tap that the phone barely ever registers.

No. It’s not that they lost their touch man, it’s that smartphones as a whole have peaked. There’s not much you can do to change or improve the current phones we have, the candy bar metal and glass sandwich phones are at a point where nothing is gonna change for quite a while besides internal specs and camera lenses. Foldables are okay but they’re far from being practical or durable enough to take the beating of everyday life and are meant for office workers that don’t have a spec of callused skin lol. It just feels like they’ve lost their touch cause it went from looking like the iPhone’s with all the thick chunky bezels, to having the notch and being more full screen, to now having no notch. Smartphones are at a stalemate right now and have little room to make anything drastically new or innovative until we progress further with technology as a whole. All the crazy phones you see trying to push the envelope the past few years all look tacky and weird and have features most consumers find useless, think of the Chinese brands here. We are basically just getting more refined versions of what we already have, with a processor bump up each year to keep the longevity and power factor the same for the same amount of years. Give it some time, once technology as a whole progresses and we discover some out of this world tech again, that’s when smartphones will change again. Right now it’s better to keep your iPhone for 3ish years and only upgrade for a fresh battery, and processor and camera improvements and software features. Your smartphone’s will remain stable is the good news.

Uhh my question is why didn’t they coin another term for airdrop over wired connection? The entire point of the term air drop is to send the content wirelessly over the air… lol. Like they need to differentiate the two. If using wired connection they should just call it “Data Transfer USB-C” or something, and save AirDrop for actual wireless content sharing.

Bro literally skipped the entire Notch phase all together lol. I loved my 6s Plus and my 8 Plus the most, I’ve owned every Plus and Pro Max there is and those two are still my favorite iPhones ever. The 6s Plus was the first really nice and current flagship iPhone I ever owned so it’s nostalgic for me and first phone I got with my own money, and the 8 Plus was like a truly refined version of it with the A11 Bionic from the iPhone X was the kicker! But I still wish they offered a full metal body iPhone like the 6s Plus and 7 Plus, but with the modern design for those that don’t ever use wireless charging. I’ve never used wireless charging on any of my phones. Up until this year I still used the 5W charging brick and lightning cable over night since it charged super slow it maintained my battery health longer, less heat generated too. I’d love an SE Plus 2024, iPhone 8 Plus body, but with a modern camera sensor and current flagship processor. It would make a fantastic business line secondary phone and also gaming device with the bezels to hold onto!

I wouldn’t say so, I think it’s more so the fact the pandemic happened, so manufacturing was all over the place even more than usual, and parts were needing to be rushed on high priority in order to make enough iPhones for the yearly release. Hence last year a lot of people struggling to get a 14 pro device till well into 2023… and now they’ve dropped down to just a small handful of manufacturers and lost a few of their really high end manufacturers. The stresses of the economy touch everything and everyone, including the trillion dollar company Apple.

98 for sure.

Uhh low, no… damaged and warped yes.