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Wow do these really ship with last year’s A15 chip? Why would you buy them over iPhone 13?
by drexlspivey 4y ago
Wow do these really ship with last year’s A15 chip? Why would you buy them over iPhone 13?
- heartbreak 4y agoIf I recall correctly we are in the midst of a chip shortage.
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- berkut 4y ago1 extra GPU core, but otherwise, yes.
- ProAm 4y agoConveniently you can't get a 13 Pro anymore on their website.
- AnonHP 4y agoThese have much better cameras, crash detection and some more improvements over iPhone 13 Pro (the chip is from the 13 Pro, not from the 13).
- colinmhayes 4y ago> These have much better cameras They say that literally every year and I never notice.
- pwinnski 4y agoI have an iPhone X (2017). My partner has an iPhone 12 (2020). The difference is very noticeable across those three years. I think often a single year's improvements are negligible but real, so any given two year's improvements are much more noticeable.
- insightcheck 4y agoThe best way to really tell the difference, in my view, is to watch YouTube videos or see comparisons of photographs. I find that a lot of written articles or comments on forums really hype up the difference (along the lines of "get the new phone, it has a better camera"), when in practice, it's not that noticeable. For example, this YouTube video from a quick YouTube search shows fairly insignificant differences between the iPhone 11 and 13 non-Pro models: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjosGytrIJI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjosGytrIJI
- npteljes 4y agoBack then I found that 11 had a noticable leap forward in terms of image quality, and in later version, I don't detect such an increment in quality. As an example, I looked at this low-light photo comparison of the basic 11 and the 13 pro max: https://www.gsmarena.com/piccmp.php3?idType=5&idPhone1=11089&idPhone2=9848 https://www.gsmarena.com/piccmp.php3?idType=5&idPhone1=11089... Sometimes the later model's image looks a bit better, sometimes it's indistinguishable. Meanwhile the 13 pro max costs more than twice as much in my country.
- soheil 4y ago> crash detection physical crash, not the kind that can be caught
- mabedan 4y agoYou wouldn't. It's mostly for people who own older iPhones. Other than the pro models, it's a minor update.
- nerbert 4y agoIncremental changes. Several minor updates makes a big update. That's why most people don't buy two generations successively.
- dymk 4y agoI think I'll be upgrading my XS to the 14 Pro. My only gripe is how big the phone is. XS is 5.8" / 177 grams, the 14 Pro is 6.1" / 206 grams. I really wish they kept on offering a Mini. Maybe I'll just go for a 13 mini, but the camera does look substantially improved, and satellite communication would be very nice to have (I do lots of hiking away from cell reception).
- sgerenser 4y agoI was hoping (despite no rumors to the contrary) that they’d at least keep the non-pros at slightly smaller sizes than the pros (say, 5.8” and 6.4”). But alas if you want a smaller phone your stuck with last years model.
- Synaesthesia 4y agoA15 is actually pretty insane, it’s the same core as M2, it’s pretty fast. GPU is amazing too, as is the ISP and everything else.
- kaba0 4y agoAnd that graph of an A11 A16 and “competing CPUs” is still true (showing A11 lightly ahead of the competition, while A16 being like 15% better than it) - apple is ridiculously ahead of the pack in CPU design.
- svnt 4y agoIf you want to be at the leading edge you buy the 14 Pro which has the A16.