When I recently wrote about the iPhone 15 Pro rumors I care about, I mentioned that upgrading to an iPhone...

I downgraded to an iPhone 11 Pro Max – and I’m not missing much::When I recently wrote about the iPhone 15 Pro rumors I care about, I mentioned that upgrading to an iPhone…

  • GhostMatter@lemmy.caEnglish
    631·
    1 year ago

    I was extremely worried about downgrading to a phone from four years ago, but it turns out I’m totally fine using it as my main phone.

    Man, I don’t feel like I’m living in the same world as the author of the article. All my smartphones have lasted me years and years, but they were flagships like the 11 Max. If they had been iOS, they’d surely have lasted longer too.

    • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
      17·
      1 year ago

      Yea, I’m literally on an iPhone 11 and bought it with the intention of using for this long as a minimum (I picked it because it had a good battery and seemed to be a good iPhone generation). Previously I was on a 5. Some people just need to be forced to see that not consuming like an addict is actually possible.

      • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        83·
        1 year ago

        The 11’s don’t have 5g though. That’s a pretty big negative since network’s are dedicating less and less bandwidth to 4g.

        • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
          7·
          1 year ago

          And, do we need 5G? I’m doing more than fine on my 4G. To the point I’d actually forgotten about 5G. Last I checked it was a bit more marketing than innovation as it’s increased speeds were not reliable.

          • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Yes, depending by on where you are and who your provider is, medium band 5g is everywhere and is a noticeable improvement over 4g. Providers will be moving their bandwidth more to 5g over time, so it will become more important.

            mmWave 5g seems to be only in cities, is a slow rollout, and your provider may charge more to use it. Most of us wont

          • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            5G is totally not needed for a phone, but at least on my network (t-mobile) the bandwidth allotted to 4G now is reduced, so when I am using 4G, it’s a lot slower than it used to be. Same thing happened to 3G. Once 4G was the norm it really throttles down 3G.

        • misanthropy@lemm.eeEnglish
          61·
          1 year ago

          Guessing you’re in Germany, but here in the states 5g is near nonexistent if you’re not in a city. I will keep my 4g phone long as it works. My breif experience with a 5g phone was awful and speeds were no where near 4g at my home

            • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              Granted I haven’t travelled as much since COViD but Verizon seems to have medium band 5g everywhere I’ve been. When I have seen it drop out, LTE is about to drop out too

          • QuarterSwede@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            1 year ago

            That’s definitely not true. There’s 5G everywhere now in the states I’ve traveled in. mmWave is the one only in dense cities. 5G is pretty much as low latency as my home fiber connection. It’s definitely faster than LTE.

      • June@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I’ve carried my 12 Pro for 3 years, which is the longest I think I’ve kept a phone (worked in wireless for a good while and had to keep up with latest devices so I could sell them, and it became a bit of a habit to upgrade regularly). My 15 Pro Max comes in tomorrow and I plan to use it for 3-5 years. I’m upgrading specifically for USB-C so that now all my devices that get used regularly have the same port. I’ll give my lightning cables away so they don’t just become e waste immediately and that’ll be that.