iPhone 15

[greenleaf]

Is eSim a PITA especially if you have to travel internationally? Still hesitant to upgrade from XS Max due to physical sim.

[TommyRO]

Ultra 23 best phone by a mile who cares

[Jasonw1178]

I had an iphone 14 promax and left it on top of a car. That was a bad day.

[multiplemiggs]

Legit don't give AF what Apple or Android put out until there's something with a real fukking keyboard. I'm sick to death of this touchscreen bullchit for text entry. Page navigation is fine. Hard to believe 20 years ago we had real keys and phones that were more than just a blank slate on glass.

[havoc00]

Legit don't give AF what Apple or Android put out until there's something with a real fukking keyboard. I'm sick to death of this touchscreen bullchit for text entry. Page navigation is fine. Hard to believe 20 years ago we had real keys and phones that were more than just a blank slate on glass.

sidekick physical keyboard crew

[DustinTheHuss]

I'll never understand why people are so hard up to hang on to wired earbuds.

AirPods are another device to charge. It’s too much if you have an Apple Watch.

[Akd123]

flip 4 with spiggen case crew.never broke a screen before but there is zero chance of breaking a screen with the flip closed.i got no clue how some people break multiple screens

[greenleaf]

Nope. I'm getting the regular Pro because I want the smallest phone possible to take up the least pocket space. As long as girls can instantly tell you have the most expensive iPhone at a glance, you're good. I'm glad that Apple didn't split the Pro and Pro Maxx into two separate categories to try to force people to get the Maxx to statusmaxx.

iPhone is still status symbol? LOL

[swoleyo]

Def. one of the best phones right now. BRB 3-5 years ahead of Apple.

Samsung has good hardware specs but the phone's software invades every aspect of your privacy and sells your data. Every Samsung app (most of which you cannot remove) keeps making you resign usage rights where they basically tell you there going to sell your data.

[roosky11]

Hundreds spent year after year just to text or male phone calls here and there? Actual businesses owners or executives or any job where a phone is key component of the job makes sense. To just scroll Instagram or mundane sht is a major waste IMO. ONLY thing I can think of where some people may need a high end phone is if they're seriously into photography or videography and they don't or can't afford high end equipment. But then again based off of the spending Icucks do anyways they may as well just do that anyways. Anyone buying the newest Iphone or continually upgrading should never complain about $$ issues. Common knowledge they fuk their phones over time on purpose while changing nothing and yet people still buy them regardless while complaining about it. Cucked to the max.

For many Americans being so anti CCP/Communist/ Big Business, you all sure are keeping the wheel spinning. Can't complain about the system you continually support willingly.

[_zman]

Samsung has good hardware specs but the phone's software invades every aspect of your privacy and sells your data. Every Samsung app (most of which you cannot remove) keeps making you resign usage rights where they basically tell you there going to sell your data.

In the US we have a lack of regulation on data regardless. Any app can sell your data whether they agree not to. There's nothing stopping them from doing it. I hated that aspect and limited the amount of apps I used to download and permissions, but there's no beating these corporations at their game because the data is too valuable for them not to steal/sell. I'd be delusional to think any of my data is safe no matter what phone or service provider I use.

I'd rather have a phone with some of the best specs out there. And AT&T gave it to me for free, so it was a no brainer. I've had a Galaxy since the first one came out. I've considered other phones, but not many beat the Galaxy depending up the version. The S23 Ultra is pretty tough to beat.

[outfoxxed]

I'll never understand why people are so hard up to hang on to wired earbuds.

Bluetooth rays turn you gay. You put one in each ear and your brain is in the middle.

[gixxer0.6g]

It's 2023 and apple users still haven't realized nothing has changed in years.

Meanwhile everyone else's phones fold in half.

[Matty5RA]

It's 2023 and apple users still haven't realized nothing has changed in years.

Meanwhile everyone else's phones fold in half.

We 2004 now?

[gixxer0.6g]

We 2004 now?

Just lol at not having two functional screen options

[Matty5RA]

Just lol at not having two functional screen options

Nah that’s overkill

[LateShow]

It's 2023 and apple users still haven't realized nothing has changed in years.

Meanwhile everyone else's phones fold in half.

You don’t buy a new iPhone for anything new, you buy one because your old one becomes a brick from all the new iOS updates and none of your apps working anymore. Or because the battery can’t hold charge anymore

[benedetto27]

I don't know how a company can get away with the same design on a phone for 4 years in a row (or arguably 5 with the 11 series) and people will still buy it up.

USB 2.0 on the basic 15 lmao I was like lmao.

I will still stick with my iphone 8 plus even though it isn't getting the latest ios. Put in a new battery myself for $20 and some time, still does basically everything I need.

I *might* get an iphone 12 if I see a good deal just to get 5g, my work might require me to for security idk.

[Onlinedatingcel]

I use a cheap $150 phone. Runs everything fine except games. It runs social media fine but I don't use that much because I'm an incel.

[greenleaf]

iPhone 12 is still running strong in Europe LOL...



Belgium reviews Apple's iPhone 12 after France halts sales over radiation

Belgium said on Thursday it would review potential health risks linked to Apple's iPhone 12, raising the prospect that more European countries might ban the model after France ordered a halt to sales due to breaches of radiation exposure limits.

Apple contests the French findings, saying the iPhone 12 - now a relatively old model launched in 2020 - was certified by multiple international bodies as compliant with radiation standards.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/b...on-2023-09-14/

[crash1181]

I'll never understand why people are so hard up to hang on to wired earbuds.

Because Blutooth sucks. It's a very inefficient protocol that sucks down battery fast.

The problem is Apple can't put in a headphone jack or they lose their waterproof rating.

[truesteez]

I still have an iphone x from 2017. No case and not a single scratch on it but the battery is chit and it overheats to the point that I have to set it down or else it hurts my hand.

Will be upgrading only because I need to.

Buying a new phone is like having to get a new car. You lose every time. Makes me feel like a sucker tbh.

[truesteez]

I'll never understand why people are so hard up to hang on to wired earbuds.

I use wired ear buds. The apple ones. Have had chicks come up and start a conversation about them in the gym multiple times. ded srs. I don't know what the phenomenon is about them but I only use them because I have terrible tinnitus and the Bluetooth ones sketch me out. Plus I always dropped them and they'd bounce around the gym floor.

[LogicalLifts]

iPhone is still status symbol? LOL

It has only ever been a status symbol to poors. E.g., in China, etc.

Back in the day maybe Vertu was a status symbol of sorts but it was normally placed on a table next to car keys which were far more a status symbol than a phone could ever be.

I am in the market for a new phone, with usb-c iPhone might be attractive again so I could use my portable dac...

[SarahMendoza]

yall geeks obsessed with phones are absolute fukin losers, ive been rocking a chitty iphone SE for years and i dont even think about replacing it ever until it breaks, WTF is the need for a new phone every 2 years or whatever? nothing signifcant even changes. All you losers do is post on the misc, instagram etc, call/text which can all be done from an iphone 6

[theory816]

It has only ever been a status symbol to poors. E.g., in China, etc.

Back in the day maybe Vertu was a status symbol of sorts but it was normally placed on a table next to car keys which were far more a status symbol than a phone could ever be.

I am in the market for a new phone, with usb-c iPhone might be attractive again so I could use my portable dac...

The real status symbol phones were the very small mobile phones. Vertu was never a status symbol phone. That chit was for qweers. Iphone is a status symbol phone. Its fookn 1k for a phone.

[OffwhiteBrah]

innovation has peaked for phones, don't be a phakkit and upgrade yearly , every 3-4 years is ideal

[bertishere]

keeping my 13 pro for at least another year, maybe 2 (or if i break/lose it).. don't see the need to upgrade every year like years ago when there was actually a difference.

[5x10]

I have a 12
Would like the brighter screen , especially outside when I’m trying to film my son playing football
Would be a $700 difference if I traded mine in
Not sure if I’m gonna do it

[greenleaf]

You get the same iOS 17 upgrade next week regardless LOL.