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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.
knowing it is sarcasm. However Ill bite.
If you are an iPhone user, you really don't need to upgrade every year. Every 4 to 6 years probably.
Year 1: Congrads! you have a top of the line phone.
Year 2: You are finally getting apps that will support your phones new features. (btw 6 months ago there was an Android competitor that is superior to your phone)
Year 3: Your phone is getting kinda boring, Works fine, the apps have some new features that you really don't need too much. The features that were toys on your phone are starting to mature and become useful.
Year 4: Your phone is starting to feel sluggish, but still usable. Just the newest apps out there don't work well.
Year 5: That last iOS update gives you no real advantages, except for security patches. Everything you seem to run that you have updated is starting to run slow. Why are all the apps seeming to be 4 times as slow, as like they are staying current with mores law.
Year 6: iOS will not support any updates on your phone, as also most apps will not update anymore. It is slow and starting to hinder anything productive you may want to use the phone for.
Going from an iPhone X to and Xs will not give you much, espctially as all the cool features on your X is now being supported.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
I think it's logical that, given what an iPhone costs, they are slowly moving to model names that sound like they should be attached high end German cars.
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Apple usually advertise burst speed - at which they beat most other mobile processors.
Over longer runs Apple processors heat up quickly and don't do well on sustained performance. This might be due to the larger size of the chips than most comparable generation mobile processors.
When it comes to sustained performance and size of the die Qualcomm et al beat them by a mile.
I know a few people that were put off of apple's ecosystem because of a lack of dual-SIM phones.
There are a few reasons to have it, like people who hunt for the best price/coverage between two operators, or executves with work and personal numbers, or people who travel a lot.
whatever the reason was, if you wanted/needed the feature, now you have an excuse to go for an iPhone.
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the restriction is that the carrier needs to support E-SIM instead of actual SIM cards. There's no SIM tray on the Apple Watch.
They are using E-SIM on the new iPhones as well to enable dual-SIM capabilities, likely with one physical SIM tray and then the E-SIM functionality. That is, if they do it right so that your primary carrier can be E-SIM and then if you are traveling you can get a local data-only SIM or what-have-you.
Short version: that's a carrier issue, not really an Apple issue outside of them not including a SIM tray on the watch for savings of physical volume.
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I think the axing of the SE is more significant than the new products that were announced. I was still really hoping for an SE 2.
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