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Apple Unveils iPhone Xs, iPhone Xs Max, iPhone Xr (venturebeat.com)
Apple on Wednesday announced its 2018 flagship phones: the 5.8-inch iPhone Xs and 6.5-inch iPhone Xs Max. From a report: As the direct sequel to the iPhone X, the iPhone Xs retains its predecessor's marquee features: a stainless steel frame and 5.8-inch, edge-to-edge Super Retina display, interrupted by a depth-sensing Face ID camera inside a black "notch." The new model promises the best liquid resistance in any iPhone, with a screen that's now HDR10 and Dolby Vision-certified.
As expected, Apple also introduced a larger version of the iPhone Xs called the iPhone Xs Max. While the iPhone Xs packs a 5.8-inch OLED screen into a footprint roughly the size of its former 4.7-inch iPhone 6, 6s, 7, and 8 models, the Max version includes a 6.5-inch screen within a chassis sized like the 5.5-inch-screened iPhone 6 Plus and its successors. [...]
The iPhone Xs has a 2436 by 1125 screen, while the Xs Max has a 2688 by 1242 screen, the largest ever in an iPhone. Apple's calling it "Max" because it's bigger than the iPhones' past Plus-sized displays. Apple also says that the new phones have wider stereo sound fields than before.
[...] The handsets are powered by A12 Bionic, a 6-core, 7nm CPU with 2 performance cores that deliver up to 15 percent speeds and 40 percent lower power, with 4 efficiency cores running at up to 50 percent lower power. Apple is touting a 50 percent GPU performance improvement over the A11 Bionic, as well. It also has a second-generation Neural Engine, and can process 5 trillion operations per second, up from 600 billion the year before. Both the new iPhones sport a dual-camera system:12MP wide-angle+12MP telephoto. The new iPhones can accommodate up to 512 GB of internal storage. The base models of iPhone Xs and iPhone Xs Max start at $999 and $1,099 respectively. More on this here. On the sidelines, Apple said it was inching closer to selling its two-billionth iOS device.
The company also announced the iPhone Xr, the cheapest among the three handsets announced today, that sports a 6.1-inch LCD display (instead of OLED screen) and does not offer 3D Touch functionality. Its base model starts at $749. All of these handsets go on sale later this month.
As expected, Apple also introduced a larger version of the iPhone Xs called the iPhone Xs Max. While the iPhone Xs packs a 5.8-inch OLED screen into a footprint roughly the size of its former 4.7-inch iPhone 6, 6s, 7, and 8 models, the Max version includes a 6.5-inch screen within a chassis sized like the 5.5-inch-screened iPhone 6 Plus and its successors. [...]
The iPhone Xs has a 2436 by 1125 screen, while the Xs Max has a 2688 by 1242 screen, the largest ever in an iPhone. Apple's calling it "Max" because it's bigger than the iPhones' past Plus-sized displays. Apple also says that the new phones have wider stereo sound fields than before.
[...] The handsets are powered by A12 Bionic, a 6-core, 7nm CPU with 2 performance cores that deliver up to 15 percent speeds and 40 percent lower power, with 4 efficiency cores running at up to 50 percent lower power. Apple is touting a 50 percent GPU performance improvement over the A11 Bionic, as well. It also has a second-generation Neural Engine, and can process 5 trillion operations per second, up from 600 billion the year before. Both the new iPhones sport a dual-camera system:12MP wide-angle+12MP telephoto. The new iPhones can accommodate up to 512 GB of internal storage. The base models of iPhone Xs and iPhone Xs Max start at $999 and $1,099 respectively. More on this here. On the sidelines, Apple said it was inching closer to selling its two-billionth iOS device.
The company also announced the iPhone Xr, the cheapest among the three handsets announced today, that sports a 6.1-inch LCD display (instead of OLED screen) and does not offer 3D Touch functionality. Its base model starts at $749. All of these handsets go on sale later this month.
I don't want Google spying on me.
They're really naming their phone XS? I don't know about anyone else, but if I find myself about to buy an expensive phone named Excess, I'd stop and think about whether I really need this.
When someone says, "Any fool can see
I was getting updates to my iPhone 5C (circa 2013) as of last year. Show me any Android phone that issues OS updates four years after the release.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
2 performance cores that deliver up to 15 percent speeds
Woah, gotta get me some of THAT. How do they do it ?!?
- First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then ???, then profit.
I don't want Google spying on me.
And I like getting timely OS updates and bug fixes
Apple. There are 7 Macs in your lineup. 2 of them are 6 years old. 5 get a "DON'T BUY" from the macrumors.com Buyers Guide. And 1 gets a "NEUTRAL". https://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#Mac
The average professional can not upgrade or repair your hardware anymore. You soldiered the memory and hard-drives. Removed the useful ports. And the escape key. ifixit.com gives recent MacBookPro's a repair-ability score of 1 out of 10. https://www.ifixit.com/laptop-repairability
Guess you've been focused on other things, phones. Let us know if you go back into the computer business.
Steve Jobs said crap like that all the time. I remember one year he talked about why putting video on something like the iPod was pointless since the experience was bad and then next year told everyone how cool it was that you could now have video on your iPod. If Apple had something to sell you, that thing was the greatest fucking thing ever, at least until the next thing. If they didn't have it, it was some pointless feature and what kind of knuckle dragging ape would want that.
It's generally a good sales tactic. Why tell people something is awesome if you don't have it. Even if it really is a cool feature, I'm sure there are some downsides to it, such as it really killing battery life (why one of their earlier phones didn't have 4G, although they were kind of right about that as the first 4G phones were battery hogs) or whatever else you can come up with. Emphasize what you have. It's the other guys job to try to sell their product and if they're your competition don't do their job for them.
So Qualcomms are better at a use case scenario that would overheat your phone and drain your battery quickly? A use case that only shows up on synthetic bench marks and in no way reflects real world usage?
It's 2018 and instantaneous single-thread performance is STILL king for end user applications. Power up, deliver the processing power to effect minimal delay to the user when they need it, then power down again to save energy. You may not feel like it, but the time between user actions to a process is glacial eons. The ideal processor usage graph for a mobile device should be a flat line with extremely high spikes
Phones are portals for services and not general purpose computers. If you're running applications that hit all cores hot you are doing it wrong because that phone's dinky battery won't last - You can't ignore the laws of thermodynamics.