iPhone 11 or pro max

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  • mantis
    mantis Posts: 17,312
    edited November 2019
    After living with the iPhone Pro 11 Max for a few months now I can honestly say it's the very best iPhone ever.
    My Issue over the years has been I would upgrade to a new iPhone and in about an hour feel like I wasted my time money and efforts. The new models year after year didn't really feel any different then my last model. I had them all since the original iPhone. The worse one was going from the iPhone 7 plus to the X then to the 8 plus. The 7 and 8 felt damn exactly the same. When I got the X I hated it in about 2 hours or less. I hung in there for a few days and then returned it and traded it for the 8 plus as I hated so many things about that phone.
    The 11 Pro Max is another beast, this thing really has not flaws. It's the first time I really felt I got a really nice upgrade over my 8 plus. I loved the 8 plus and skipped the whole X and X Max era of phones as I had no reason at all to change my phone. I almost didn't get the 11 Pro max as I was afraid of hating it like the X. But I would not go back now. This phone is truly amazing.
    The Battery life is stupid. I can't ever seem to see anything under like 65%. I can go days without charging it and it's like a Tesla Regen Braking , it seems to make it's own power LOL. It came with a fast charger for the house and since I owned the phone I have yet to use it LOL. My phone gets a charge when I'm driving as I use Car Play in my Wife's Charger and I use the regular U connect features in my Durango. When I'm at work I drive a Mercedes Benz and I use their USB features for music maps etc.
    They are the only times this damn thing gets charged and every time I check the battery life it's always like 90 something %. This morning as I write this my phone is at 92% and it hasn't been charged since yesterday. Thats crazy right? Can't be happier with the battery, Apple Killed it here.
    If I was asked " Is there anything about the phone you don't like?" Yes there is, I don't really care for the Face ID. Yes it works but something you just want to grab your phone and check something. With the Finger reader on the 8 plus I could just reach over to my phone while it's sitting on a table or something, press the reader and the phone wakes up and I can check something. The face Reader you have to look at it before it works, and I don't care what anyone else say's it feels slower then the finger reader. You have to look at it and then swipe up. The Finger reader would open up on press. I don't like that, I wish if I looked at it it would just open up but it sits and waits for you to swipe up. Small issue I have but I don't like that.
    The Camera system is excellent. I think it's rated the best in the industry vs everything made. I have to agree if thats true. It's at least the very best iPhone camera system I have ever used. The Video is incredible and the pictures are awesome.
    Lastly the screen, the blacks are so inky black it gets me from time to time. Off Axis is amazing and absolutely destroys the LCD screen of years past. I didn't think having a OLED phone would even matter or I would care at all, it's small and the LCD screen are very very good BUT after owning it now for awhile you really get to understand why Apple and so many other phones have gone OLED. It's the very best screen offered today and it's by far a huge step up. It's not a quick compare side by side that really tells the whole story as before I got it, I sat for awhile with my 8 plus and I thought it was so close that the screen quality was not a factory on why I should upgrade BUT after time you really start to realize how damn good this screen is and ever considering going back to LCD is stupid.
    Dan
    My personal quest is to save to world of bad audio, one thread at a time.
  • K_M
    K_M Posts: 1,632
    edited November 2019
    BDT wrote: »
    Still rockin' the IPhone 6 and will do so until that sucker dies.

    I replaced the battery last year which is tedious but not overly difficult and it runs like new.

    I just can't fathom paying that much for a telephone....I mean at some point I'll have to I suppose but....

    Cheers,

    Troy

    To me not enough difference to get a new phone every year or so.
    IPhone 6 user also.

    Camera quality matters, but we own a few decent digital cameras that look better than any phone camera.

    Lenses by the size limitations in a cell are simply not able to equal a "real" lens. Painfully obvious when viewed on a big TV screen in comparison to a true stand alone camera.
  • mantis
    mantis Posts: 17,312
    Agreed the low light and night time shots are amazing. Loving this phone for everything it does and it does everything very well.
    Dan
    My personal quest is to save to world of bad audio, one thread at a time.