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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Inspect Your Gadgets > Apple iPhone 2017 Event - September 12th - Discussion Thread
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Jalumibnkrayal
Apr 16, 2008

Ramrod XTreme
Deeper pixels?

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Comfy Fleece Sweater
Apr 2, 2013

You see, but you do not observe.

incoherent posted:

why isn't this a 7s again?

It might be the death of the numbered iphones?
Like moving to iPhone X

I don't know, nobody understands apple's naming conventions

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Vegetable
Oct 22, 2010

 f1.8 is pretty cool

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Pivo
Aug 20, 2004


 WAIT NO OIS ON THE TELEPHOTO

WHAT

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Binary Badger
Oct 11, 2005

Trolling Link for a decade


 WTF?! STUCK AT 12 MEGAPIXELS YOU IDIOTS

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Sock The Great
Oct 1, 2006

It's Lonely At The Top. But It's Comforting To Look Down Upon Everyone At The Bottom
Grimey Drawer

Molten Llama posted:

Wait, True Tone has only been on iPads all this time?

By all this time, you mean about 18 months and yes. This display will be noticeably better for reading.

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Don Lapre
Mar 28, 2001

If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

Vegetable posted:

f1.8 is pretty cool

I mean its not f1.6 like lg phones but sure, its ok

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AlternateAccount
Apr 25, 2005
FYGM

Pivo posted:

WAIT NO OIS ON THE TELEPHOTO

WHAT

That seriously makes zero sense.

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priznat
Jul 7, 2009

Let's get drunk and kiss each other all night.
Phil pointing at the butt lol

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triple sulk
Sep 17, 2014

Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:

It might be the death of the numbered iphones?
Like moving to iPhone X

I don't know, nobody understands apple's naming conventions

it's a psychological move

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Binary Badger
Oct 11, 2005

Trolling Link for a decade


 heres a kid with freckles isn't it incredible? HAH?

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Thwomp
Apr 10, 2003

BA-DUHHH

Grimey Drawer

quote:

The chips are better, the cameras are better. This is basically every new iPhone demo for the past five years.
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Vegetable
Oct 22, 2010

 they made us look at a ginger at high res

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fivehead
Jul 11, 2017

Americans Need Cash Now
Why is everyone so nervous?

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Pivo
Aug 20, 2004

AlternateAccount posted:

That seriously makes zero sense.

ITS LITERALLY BACKWARDS

i hope he just misspoke

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AlternateAccount
Apr 25, 2005
FYGM

Pivo posted:

ITS LITERALLY BACKWARDS

i hope he just misspoke

Pretty sure it was on the slide, too.

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Rick
Feb 23, 2004
When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

Don Lapre posted:

I mean its not f1.6 like lg phones but sure, its ok

Oh man you're going to console warrior this thread up, huh?

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Rageaholic
May 31, 2005

Old Town Road to EGOT

 Does anyone use Portrait mode? I used it like once or twice and then forgot it existed.

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Huge_Midget
Jun 6, 2002

I don't like the look of it...

Pivo posted:

WAIT NO OIS ON THE TELEPHOTO

WHAT

Gotta buy the X, stop being poor -Apple

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Khablam
Mar 29, 2012

 Apple collects the best light

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Pivo
Aug 20, 2004

AlternateAccount posted:

Pretty sure it was on the slide, too.

the slide just said "Optical image stabilization" and didn't specify which, he specified by mentioning it for the wide-angle but omitting it for the telephoto

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Don Lapre
Mar 28, 2001

If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

Rick posted:

Oh man you're going to console warrior this thread up, huh?

Defend your purchase

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Binary Badger
Oct 11, 2005

Trolling Link for a decade


 HEY PHIL someone needs to sculpt your face as in dermabrasion

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AlternateAccount
Apr 25, 2005
FYGM
SKYNET IS REAL

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SeANMcBAY
Jun 28, 2006

Look on the bright side.



 It would be pretty funny watching this guy try to sell this incredibly boring upgrade just to make the X seem more impressive.

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shadow puppet of a
Jan 10, 2007

NO TENGO SCORPIO


 Everyone comes out looking like corpse-face bleached Sammy Sosa. Way to rise to the challenge engineering team.

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AlternateAccount
Apr 25, 2005
FYGM
THESE ARENT FILTERS.

Except they kind of are though.

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Snuffman
May 21, 2004

 ...but I'm ugly and only know ugly people. I can't take pretty portraits. :smith:

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Rageaholic
May 31, 2005

Old Town Road to EGOT

 What company did they buy to incorporate these features into iOS?

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boop the snoot
Jun 3, 2016
 "Here's 30 minutes of why you should buy this."

"Here's $1200 reasons why you shouldn't."

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Vegetable
Oct 22, 2010

 Lighting is a big deal, this should work well in practice

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AlternateAccount
Apr 25, 2005
FYGM
LIIIIIPPPPSSS

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Three Olives
Apr 10, 2005

Don't forget Hitler's contributions to medicine.
Why is he squinting?

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Rageaholic
May 31, 2005

Old Town Road to EGOT

 Higher quality video than 4K? lol

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Happy Noodle Boy
Jul 3, 2002


 hosed up for the 8 to have a better camera than the X but that’s what they just said.

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KidDynamite
Feb 11, 2005

Rageaholic Monkey posted:

Does anyone use Portrait mode? I used it like once or twice and then forgot it existed.

Every time I try it needs more loving light

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SeANMcBAY
Jun 28, 2006

Look on the bright side.

Snuffman posted:

...but I'm ugly and only know ugly people. I can't take pretty portraits. :smith:

Take some portraits. Ugly people ones are the best.

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priznat
Jul 7, 2009

Let's get drunk and kiss each other all night.

AlternateAccount posted:

LIIIIIPPPPSSS

The biggest lippppps

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well why not
Feb 10, 2009




 tbh photo and video has been good enough for 4 or so years now it's hard to get pumped

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Henrik Zetterberg
Dec 7, 2007

 So the 8 looks just like the 6/6S, but WITH GLASS. Huh. Truly courageous stuff here.

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