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What phone are you using these days?

#141
iPhone SE 2nd Gen. I really like the ecosystem with how the iPhone can be used as a remote for my Mac Studio. For example, iPhone has a remote app for Apples DAW Logic Pro. There's some other DAW tools for iPhone as well. AirDrop for transferring files between iPhone and Mac. iPhone can be used as a video camera in PhotoBooth. Makes syncing video and audio really easy. All my txt messages appear in my Mac. iPhone can be used as a remote for Spotify. All my Notes files are synced. iPhone can be used as a remote for my multi effects unit. Apple has done a pretty good job imho.
 
#148
Updating my iPhone 16 Pro Max right now to the new iOS version released today, and I'm on track for an auto-upgrade to the new iPhone 17 Pro Max in December.

I'm also pretty impressed by the new Phone app Apple added to the new version of macOS that syncs to iPhone and lets you make and receive phone calls on the Mac, view call history, listen to voicemails, etc. Works with iOS's new call screening feature, and on the Mac it can detect hold music to notify you when a person comes on the line. And it offers live audio translation too, on both Mac and iPhone.
 
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#150
iPhone 13 Pro in the cool green color, bought certified a year or so ago after a couple years with a disappointing iPhone XS (bought used with a poor battery). I'm hoping to keep the 13 for as long as possible (like I did with a 7, until support ceased).
 
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By the way, if you have a 13 Pro or similar as I do, do not switch to ios 26, at least until some bugs are worked out. Unless I have a full 5G signal (rare in my rural area) my navigation apps (both driving and hiking) are very laggy and get confused if I deviate from the set route.

I installed the .1 patch last night, so hopefully it'll work a bit better, but it still seems laggy in general so far.
 
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#156
SteveC said:
Went from an 11 pro to a 17. No pro this time. The 17 is plenty good - especially coming from an old 11.
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I upgraded iOS immediately, no problems with my 16 Pro Max. and I'm pleasantly surprised by the new UI, sometimes even delighted.

The main reason I stick with the Pro Max in the IUP upgrades is the camera/lenses (this time it's three 48 Mp sensors on each of the lenses), the 6-9 hours extra battery life over the Pro and the regular iPhones, and the screen being just large enough to read books comfortably when traveling. To me it's worth the extra $8-$9/month over the regular iPhone every year.
 
#158
Gopherbassist said:
What are you on these days? How was your upgrade experience?
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For the past two-and-a-half years, I've been doing very well with a 2nd Generation iPhone SE (2020 Special Edition, 128Gb) that I got as a refurbished and unlocked item. It has the chassis of an iPhone 6 and 7, so I can use my older cases and screen protectors, but it has the guts of an iPhone 11, making it 5G compatible when they eventually shut down the 4G/LTE network. And, with that much storage space, I can keep my entire iTunes library backed up on it.

Fortunately, I still have my previous iPhone 7 as a fall back cell phone. For now, it's just a spare "jukebox", but I make sure to keep it updated and charged from time to time. (Now that I think about it, I should plug it in and see if anything needs an update. It's probably very thirsty.🪫)

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Google sent me an email that in their infinite wisdom they've decided to nerf both the charge speed and battery capacity of my phone, a Pixel 6a. This is my excited face :oops:

This happened to coincide with a sale on Google phones at my phone provider. This is my unsuspicious face :rolleyes:

I took tha bait and ordered a new Pixel 9, with a myriad of new AI "features" which I assume I will promptly disable when I receive the phone in a couple days.

I planned to use my current phone for several more years because I spent what was, for me, a lot of money on it. This time I spent even more money, but should hopefully be getting a lot more phone out of it and again, hopefully, several years of service life.
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My mother-in-law had a similar experience about five years ago. I got a call from her about a nasty-gram she received from Verizon that had her afraid she'd have to ditch her ever-reliable iPhone 5 she'd owned for years.

When I got to take a very long look at the letter, I started to realize how slyly crafted it was. Fortunately for her, I know a bit about "tech" in general AND had a background in "creative writing", so I was able to decode the true intent of the letter. After doing some quick research to verify what I suspected, I told her she didn't have anything to worry about for literally years.

Big picture; the letter was worded in a way as to make her think the switchover to the 5G network was imminent and her 4G-only iPhone 5 was going to be rendered obsolete…which just so happened to coincide with the release of the then-current iPhone model! (Funny, that! 🤨) I told her the 4G network wasn't going to be discontinued until about 2030 and if that had happened all of a sudden, hundreds of thousands…if not millions…of phones would be abruptly bricked.
 
#160
It's my own fault for installing the new iOS on my iphone 15, but it's making the phone too annoying to use. I need to send a lot of pictures in texts and emails for work and the new transparent nonsense makes it unnecessarily difficult, and it's generally buggy and awful. I switched back to my S22 Ultra and it's good to be back. I still think iphone hardware is superior, but the software pisses me off.
 

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