This is getting out of Control...

[cucker tarlson]

sure,but what can't you do with a value oriented phone at disney world that a high end one can ?
it's kinda the whole point.

 

[Aquinus]

sure,but what can't you do with a value oriented phone at disney world that a high end one can ?
it's kinda the whole point.

Take decent video and pictures? As I said, I went from a iPhone 7 to a 11 Pro. The camera lenses make a huge difference. What about the battery life; I didn't have to charge my phone during the entire day while using it all the time and still had 50% left of the battery. I can do everything with my old phone, it will also do it half as well.

 

[cucker tarlson]

Take decent video and pictures? As I said, I went from a iPhone 7 to a 11 Pro. The camera lenses make a huge difference. What about the battery life; I didn't have to charge my phone during the entire day while using it all the time and still had 50% left of the battery.

isn't 3300mh pretty standard ?
it think it's on the lowly side.

 

[Aquinus]

isn't 3300mh pretty standard ?
it think it's on the lowly side.

The Pro Max is about 4000 and I think you're forgetting that the A13 is on 7nm, which has power consumption benefits, as does the OLED display versus LCD with backlighting.

 

[cucker tarlson]

The Pro Max is about 4000 and I think you're forgetting that the A13 is on 7nm, which has power consumption benefits, as does the OLED display versus LCD with backlighting.

mine has 4000 but it's 14nm
that said,I charge once in two-three days if I use it a lot,once a week if just calling and texting

 

[freeagent]

If I wanted to finance the pro I was looking at about a hundred bucks a month just the phone, plus another 75 for the plan. Jesus Christ. I upgraded my 32GB iPhone 7 to a 256GB XS Max for 35 a month and a plan. They have bring it back plans so you pay less, but who wants to lease a phone? I actually wanted a smaller phone than my 7, like a 5S.

Also, I wear wired headphones because they were worth 300 when I bought them and they still sound really good.

 

[Aquinus]

mine has 4000 but it's 14nm
that said,I charge once in two-three days if I use it a lot,once a week if just calling and texting

If you don't mind me asking, what do you do with your phone? I'll use mine for communication, GPS for my commute, music, video, some idle games, social media, and taking pictures and movies. After 24 hours my iPhone 7 would be under 30% where with the same kind of usage, the 11 Pro Max will be at more like 80%. The thing is that I rarely use my phone just for calling and texting and I tend to use it quite a bit, but for regular usage, I can get about 4 days out of my phone. For example, I'm at 33% right now and I haven't charged my phone since Thursday. If I didn't use it much, I'd probably last well over a week. Even streaming an hour or so of video from CBS All Access only drains the battery by something like 8%.

With that said, here's a little more context: I don't have a tablet. The 11 Pro Max I got was intended to do what I would want from both a phone and a tablet so I only need to have one device and in that regard, it does a pretty good job.

If I wanted to finance the pro I was looking at about a hundred bucks a month just the phone, plus another 75 for the plan. Jesus Christ. I upgraded my 32GB iPhone 7 to a 256GB XS Max for 35 a month and a plan. They have bring it back plans so you pay less, but who wants to lease a phone? I actually wanted a smaller phone than my 7, like a 5S.

Also, I wear wired headphones because they were worth 300 when I bought them and they still sound really good.

I've recently killed off all of my debt which was sucking a lot of money from me. Two months of those payments would pay for my 512GB iPhone 11 Pro Max. It helped me justifying spending the money on the device. That's me though. I knew what I wanted, I knew my budget, and I felt comfortable paying for it. If I didn't, I would have gotten a regular 11, an XR, or not have bought one at all.

One thing is for certain though, I won't be considering a new phone for 3 or 4 years.

 

[cucker tarlson]

If you don't mind me asking, what do you do with your phone? I'll use mine for communication, GPS for my commute, music, video, some idle games, social media, and taking pictures and movies.

same but no games and lots and lots of internet

 

[Aquinus]

same but no games and lots and lots of internet

The funny thing is that games are one of the cases where the difference with battery life is a night and day difference. Playing games on the iPhone 7 would roast through the battery in a couple hours. I can play games with the new phone and it barely impacts the battery usage. Same thing with video and GPS. Slack, JIRA, browsing and other productivity like apps don't usually use a lot, even on the old phone, but the places where it shines is when the phone is actively doing stuff where the screen is active. My screen time on my phone averages out to about 4-5 hours a day.


Games are higher than normal because I was on holiday, but you get the idea.

 

[95Viper]

Keep it on topic.
Stop instigating and throwing insults at each other.
Keep the discussions civil.

Thank You.

 

[Vario]

I don't care for phones much I use a Moto G Play which mostly is used for workout capture on my C2 rower erg. It cost me $80 a few years ago. I hate using phones and tablets in general. The effort is many times that of a pc with mouse and keyboard. I like being unplugged from the internet and social media most of the time.

 

[RealNeil]

I caved and bought a brand new Galaxy S-4, years ago. ($600 or so)
Since then, I haven't felt the need to throw my money at a new phone.
My latest is a $50 special (LG SP-200) that I got at a phone store that was going out of business. It was brand new (but old too) when I got it.

I like it just fine, thank you very much.

 

[theFOoL]

I'm actually going to get a LG V20 and a extended battery later on. Going to install Lingeagos on it to. Goodbye SAMSUNG S8+ on Verizon and hello LG V20 on T-Mobile

 

[AsRock]

I was quite blown away when I bough a phone last year,this thing can pretty much do casual internet as fast as my 2015 ultrabook.Reading word and pdf - no problem.Split screen - no problem.

I just don't know how much further we can improve it without changing the physical shape of a phone.Dual/foldable phone is a must before I upgrade this one.There's just no returns for cramming faster components into it when you don't game.

Means absolutely nothing to me, personally i think they are getting worse and have been for some time now.

Don't need nothing but a phone, don't need internet on one and don't need what ever apps they can have on them. Don't trust them why would i.

 

[Vayra86]

Even for stuff like cycling computers, my waterproof S10+ ceramic can be mounted on my handlebars and used for live GPS maps, speed, HR, glancing at messages, taking calls on my buds etc.

The point is it's one (potentially) expensive device that replaces 10's of other (potentially) slightly less expensive devices.

I don't see how that is wasteful or overpriced.

Don't be so sure lmao. Full Linux is running natively on smartphones these days when placed into dock mode.

Oh but this is a very strong argument and you are absolutely correct on that. The phone DOES replace a lot of other things. It replaced our mp3 player. Our dumphone. Our PDA. Our portable DVD player (if you ever had one lol).

At the same time, no... your DAC isn't better than a decent one in a PC or external sound device; physically just not possible. Your video is still compressed because internet. And while you may think you have a crapload of processing power in your hands, that only flies in a very limited landscape called ARM and a handful of premade apps. Yes, you can dev on it too. But you're not devving an x86 environment and never will you get close to the flexibility that offers. You're devving more ARM tailor made crap that is very low on complexity and often sandboxed or contained. That is why every Joe can make a flashlight app. Low barrier of entry is the key word here.

With ease of use comes sacrifice. And those are made, no matter if its a 10000 dollar phone or a 60 dollar one. Space is at a premium. Comparing it to laptops... lol. Any half decent half cost laptop will run circles around a 1000 dollar phone. I strongly question how useful those killer specs on a phone really are. Lots of storage... but everything is about cloud anyway. Lots of processing power (?) but if you care to actually use it all the time, you can just see the battery drain. Try camera use for a while, too. That's even more fun for your battery. Now compare that to a real DSLR...

It is and will always be jack of all trades and master of none. Excellent at all? Nah... thát is the marketing of it. Its like the pocket knife. Very useful, but if you're not in the woods, who cares? That also applies to 80% of a phone's options for 99% of the time. The vast majority does nothing other than check social media, the odd call, and lots of Whatsapp. Whether on a 60 or 1000 dollar phone.

So no, you still don't really need or benefit from overpriced phones. And they still go obsolete, even the high end ones because you're either rooting the OS or not receiving essential security updates anymore after some years.

 

[John Naylor]

These aren't phones ...they are toys ... mainly for mental masturbation and drawing attention to oneself. Best phone I ever had was the Palm Treo 650 ... it made phone calls, it took pics, ran dozens of engineering apps and .... I charged it once a week" ... now toy users whine when their phone battery dies on the way home from work when they are stuck in the snow after annoying coworkers sall day playing cat videos. And they sit in their car playing music thru a $2,00 car audio system sourced from a $15 sound subsystem on their car phone.

 

[eidairaman1]

Best battery life is a clamshell

 

[Grog6]

I'm still old school; I use a phone for phone calls, or random photos. Yes, it's a flip phone.

I spent ~$200 on it in december; Verizon made me upgrade from the one I liked, a VX3800.

For real photos, I still use my 175MP 35mm film cameras; a Canon AE1 is my go to, but for important stuff I use my Minolta SRT101.

For computing, I use my Eyefinity multimonitor setup, with a left handed Logitech mouse, and a mechanical keyboard from 1984.

You guys that have to have the newest best to brag about features you don't use is amazing to me.

As long as I can hit 60fps at full resolution on all three monitors, I'm happy.
We've proven by making videos that over 60 frames doesn't help us at all; maybe you guys using auto aim on a controller can use the faster refresh, but I doubt it.

I don't buy an expensive toy to do "everything" half-ass; I buy good equipment to do what I want it to do, even if I might have to carry something else.

Just my take; enjoy yours.

 

[EarthDog]

What's getting out of control? Click bait thread titles that tell nothing of what is below? Agreed.

Being more serious, does anyone really GAF about bezels? Ugh...give me my 10s back plz. Lol

 

[bogmali]

As usual, thread ran its course cause some of you chose to hijack it by trolling/baiting and for that I'm shutting it down