why would anyone actually choose to goto an apple store

 

Because I still leave to go work and they store is close by

 

well i guess with covid, the stores arent as crowded as they used to be

 

It no worse then the food store.

 

so then... damn maybe i should've done that instead. Friday's I have to work in the office.

 

 

hmm.. with the box being smaller because of the "environment" maybe FedEx can just dump it in my locked mailbox.

 

lmao, so i picked up some AirPods from @Costco when they were on sale for $99.

They didn't send me any shipping notification. They just showed up at my door yesterday and just now I received a shipping notification.

 

I’ll drop them off for you personally, white glove, no contact service

 

no deal. I want full contact service

 

That’ll cost you extra

 

Maybe you will get a second pair

 

liking what im reading about the battery life, but those estimates have never lived up for me.

camera is a given in that it would be a massive upgrade to my 7 Plus.

https://www.macrumors.com/review/iphone-12-pro-max/

 

The battery life reviews seem to be great coming from a Pixel 4XL. I can't say I am sold on the camera yet. I expected with the larger sensor and sensor stabilization to see a larger gap. Think the Pixel phones still hold the night time winner on most cases as far as detail in the shadows go. When the iPhone gets it right the pictures at night are sharper but it doesn't seem to always be the case. Daytime wise so far from the reviews it seems the iPhone wins most of the time.

 

Big Phone just got delivered. setting it up now.

 

having been given a 7 for work and understanding the OS, I wouldnt mind the 12se or small one.

 

There is no 12SE...there is a 12 Mini, 12, 12 Pro, 12 Pro Max

 

Mine is set. So far so good. 5G hasn't really been great so far but I'll probably need to live around to see

 

yeah, that's what I meant. the 12mini!

 

Mines waiting for me when I get home from work.

i checked AT&T coverage of mmwave (5G+) and I’m in an area with service so that should be fun to test.

 

What color did you all get?


I went with silver.

 

I haven’t signed up for a 5g plan yet. But 5g is all over LA. I know my neighborhood has antennas

 

Blue

 

Silver here. Looks great

 

i want to see what that looks like in real life. not product photos.

 

This silver is more like a pearl color.

 

So is the silver like a silver pearl or white pearl like it looks in videos?

I got the blue and it isn’t bad but thinking of giving of having my girlfriend get the silver since she likes the blue and then she can have mine.

Weird experience on my first iPhone ever.

 

i'd say more like a white pearl. right @Whiskers ?

 

i bought some cases to try out but I think I like the clear Apple case. It’s the thinnest one.

 

That blue does look nice.

I wanted to go with the clear one too but why did Apple made the bonehead move not to fully protect the bottom of the phone

 

It’s protected enough. It’s comes down around the bottom corners.

 

Yeah been looking for a thin case but I have the same complaints as Mizouse on the apple thin cases not covering the full bottom.

 

Is there a feature so I don’t have to swipe up to unlock the phone after Face ID authentication?

it would be similar to the Touch ID accessibility feature “Rest Finger to Open” where you don’t have to press the home button to unlock, just placing your finger on the home button immediately unlocks the phone to the Home Screen.

Raise to wake and that feature turned on meant really speedy phone unlocks.

 

Yes that is super annoying to me coming from Android face unlock where it immediately opens to the home screen or last app once unlocked.

 

My wife has decided she wants the 12 mini, and ATT has a promotion for trade in credit of $700 and her XR qualifies. first phone in forever I wont have bought direct from apple.

 

It’s only the clear case that doesn’t fully cover the bottom, their silicone and leather cases fully protects the bottom.

 

Interesting speed differences between LTE & 5G on my 7 Plus and 12 Pro Max.

Kind of odd the upload speed in 5G is half as fast as LTE.

Also no AT&T 5G+ (mmwave) at my house, but there should be in San Francisco so i'll test that on Monday.

LTE on 7 Plus



LTE on 12 Pro Max



5G on 12 Pro Max

 

Maybe I wont...dealing with AT&T is like pulling teeth. Trying to get straight answers about how the promotion works is infuriating. And I would have to upgrade to 5g for the promotion. Im about to tell them to fuck off.

 

what plan are you under right now with AT&T? interestingly I didn't do any AT&T 5G upgrade and my phone just has it out of the box.

I bought my iPhone from Apple.

edit: I have the AT&T Unlimited Elite, but it seems like all their unlimited plans comes with 5G

 

i got handed off to a manager who actually knew what they were talking about and it made sense.

traditionally I’ve purchased all my phones from Apple except maybe once or twice. I’d only this because the mini would be almost free (save tax and $50 to get the 128gb)

right now I have an older plan that has 30gb shared data (non-5g). With my discount it’s $134 a month.

To get the phone promo I also have to upgrade to a 5g plan. The unlimited elite would cost $140 and the unlimited starter is $130. The biggest differences are 30gb of hotspot (which we very rarely used) free hbomax (I use my parents) and no speed throttling until 1000gb. The starter doesn’t have the first 2 and says speed might slow down if the network is busy. So no guarantee against throttling.

the other to thing to get those prices is I have to enroll in autopay. Which I don’t have with my current plan. I don’t love the idea of auto pay. But at the same time it’s a $20 difference.

the credit for $700 is spread out over 30 months. So my wife would have to commit to a phone for that long. I don’t think that an issue. She has had her xr for 2 years and would happily keep it. But she does love the smaller phone. Her complaint about the crash has always been that it’s too big.