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13 Pro looks like a great phone on its own but not compelling enough to upgrade from 12 Pro.
by ultimoo 5y ago
13 Pro looks like a great phone on its own but not compelling enough to upgrade from 12 Pro.
- suprfsat 5y agoThank you. I've been saying this every year since 2007.
- zaptrem 5y agoIMO TouchID, Multitasking, Front Camera, LTE, Video, and the Touch Bar all fundamentally changed the smartphone experience and were worth upgrading over.
- seanmcdirmid 5y agoIf the iPhone 13 had TouchID, I would buy it in a heartbeat.
- rpmisms 5y agoI look for two things in every phone: fingerprint reader and headphone jack. I had to switch to android after my iPhone SE (original) died.
- thinkling 5y agoHonest question: why are people keen on fingerprint sensors? I see this regularly. Is it privacy concerns with FaceID or convenience with a mask on, or...?
- rpmisms 5y agoI just like having less biometric data in my phone, being able to unlock it without looking at it, and being able to tape my front camera if I want.
- nucleardog 5y agoThe TouchID worked for me every time. I never had to think about the fact that it existed. I’m constantly trying to accommodate FaceID. Like 75% of the time when I’m unlocking my phone it’s either laying on my desk or I’m laying in bed. FaceID rarely works for me in these situations. My wife eventually just turned it off on her phone and went to purely using a passcode because it failed to work so often it was less annoying to go straight to the passcode prompt rather than wait for FaceID to timeout first.
- zaptrem 5y agoYou can tap “FaceID” in the center to open the keypad instantly. TouchID failed constantly when I had recently showered or washed my hands.
- spectre3d 5y agoIt’s faster. You don’t have to be looking at it. You don’t have to long-swipe up the screen. It works while it’s lying on the desk/bed/couch. The SE is already unlocked by the time it’s out of my pocket, so I just see HN right away instead of holding it in front of me, looking at it, swiping up to authenticate and then seeing HN. Bonus that it works in stores with a mask on so I don’t have to type my passcode in public as a result of a FaceID phone seeing the mask and popping up the passcode prompt, or pulling down my mask temporarily.
- seanmcdirmid 5y agoFace masks. It is also faster even when I’m not wearing a mask. I wouldn’t mind both.
- ToFab123 5y agoBecause the police can just point your phone at your face and it will unlock https://mashable.com/article/police-try-to-unlock-handcuffed-man-iphone-face-id https://mashable.com/article/police-try-to-unlock-handcuffed...
- ubercow13 5y agoLike they can just put your finger on it and unlock it? At least face ID won’t unlock if you’re looking away from the screen. The police can’t control where your looking as easily as they can control your finger.
- vxNsr 5y agoYup, I have the 12Pro and don't feel like all the improvements to camera and apparently battery life are worth shelling out $250 (after trade in credit) is worth it, without also getting touchID which seems to be perpetually in next year's phone for the last 3 years.
- seanmcdirmid 5y agoYearly deltas sure, but if you upgrade your phone every 3 or 4 years, it can feel like an improvement.
- Tagbert 5y agoThat is generally true. Any one year model change does not offer enough to justify an upgrade unless you happen to need a specific feature or if you just don’t mind spending a lot of money just to have the latest. At one time, when smartphones were a new thing, there were a lot of big improvements in each year, but as the lines have matured, there is less opportunity for dramatic changes. More and more people are waiting 2, 3, 4, or more years between purchases. In doing so, they benefit from the cumulative improvements all at once.
- ultimoo 5y agoAgreed. Additionally, sometimes even an update to the physical form factor is sufficient to warrant an upgrade.