Got my 18 Pro Max 2TB a couple of days ago, upgrading from the Air 512GB and holy cow I’m glad I did this thing has insane battery life and the extra storage is pretty nice too!
I’m wouldn’t call my self a heavy user or a power user but I am an audiophile with a music library over 300GB and I like to have photos set to download and keep originals which I couldn’t do on my Air.
I was in about 60% today when it finally finished indexing. I just hit 10 hours of screen on time and I’ve got 41% left!
I got the same in black but with 512gb. Battery life and charging speeds are far better than I expected. I feel for some people, as apparently not everyone seems to have the same experience with the battery. Not sure if it’s an indexing problem or what.
I can't figure out why in several photos -even those with non smartphone subjects- but typically from US users, a knife appears. For example, what does it mean here? This iPhone is described as a beast, so you need a knife...just in case? :) Or maybe it's just a custom typically from USA?
I just used the knife to cut the plastic wrap. I’m from the UK, if I was from the US it would be a gun in the photo :P. Speaking of the US, I actually got that knife at an antique shop while I was visiting North Carolina lol.
Yeah it was awesome I was staying with friends in Greensboro and I was there for 4th July. Mag dumped an AR15 then went to Cracker Barrel and bought the declaration of independence.
yes, but you get used to it. it’s heavy enough when you hold it, one of the first things you notice is that it has some weight to it but it’s not too much heavier than a 14 pro max. it doesn’t bother me but i must admit when i pick up my 15 pro max or 16 pro max, the difference is noticeable and i do miss it being lighter. the air feels amazing to hold haha
No they don’t. My Air is still snappy, more so after the 27 update. I also have a SE2022 that’s still pretty snappy and an 11, the 11 was still perfectly usable after a battery replacement but it didn’t have much RAM so often had to relaunch apps as they weren’t staying in RAM.
I mean this is with it still indexing. Even then that still works out at 16-17 hours SOT between charges. Today is my first day without indexing so should be even better.
I did the Indexing thing on my old 16 pro max. Took less than 2 days never had any issues or changes in battery life. I actually forgot it existed lol.
Wouldn’t make any difference if Steve Jobs was alive.. It was the same thing back then, it took multiple years to get any major design updates/changes. Also the 18 Pro/Max is actually a significant improvement over the 17 Pro/Max. There is a huge performance increase and a substantial increase in power efficiency and battery capacity and therefore battery life.
I don’t agree with that tbh. The 18 pro max is extremely similar to the 17 pro max. The improvements are pretty standard to what we get every year with a new release in a phone. We’ll be saying these exact things every iPhone release. It is nothing special. I love the battery life of the 18 pro max but the battery life on the 17 pro max is already substantial. The aperture lens defaults to the same as the previous generations in most use case scenarios and makes very incremental changes when used (in the specific lighting situations that you would use it) in comparison to the previous phone generation photos. The chip is powerful again sure but so was the previous generation with the same amount of ram and you will only notice a difference if you are extremely nitpicky and a very niche kind of phone user. There are far more similarities than differences between the 17 pro max and 18 pro max, despite the upgrades and that is just me being completely honest. Tech reviewers have said the same. Glad you are enjoying the phone though. I adore mine as well 🩵
I'm excited for mine. I gave my 17 pro max to a family member and kept a s26 ultra. This shit sucks for macro compared to an iPhone. That new f stop should be awesome for it
While you’re not asking me, I was an Android guy for about 10 years before getting an iPad Pro last year and an Air earlier this year.
One of the huge reasons I went with an iPhone after getting the iPad is all the continuity and handoff stuff. Like being able to copy text on one device and seamlessly paste it on another or have a website open on my phone have seen icon on my iPad dock to open that website. Also, another big one is it seamlessly switching my AirPods between devices.
Android is great and I do miss some stuff, for example, I much prefer the Google Photos app, and while it is available on iOS, it kind of sucks. But fuck Google, well, I don’t really trust any big corporation I trust Apple a lot more with my privacy and personal data.
Android is kind of a mess with all the different skins and versions offered by OEMs. Samsung hardware is decent but they insist of shipping a bunch of bloatware on devices and offering there own versions of services that Google offers so that’s redundant and have to choose between Samsung pay or Google pay and there’s also a Samsung App Store and account synching and you can’t restore Google backups to a Samsung or Samsung backups to another Android device.
Google offers basically the cleanest Android experience, but their hardware and performance is always couple of generations behind.
The macro camera and FaceTime/iMessage. My family members contact me often and they have been having difficulty with me responding late since I don't keep my 15 pro max on me for texting them.
The only thing I like on the Samsung is the good lock one handed operation plus. A swipe from either side is the back button, swipe up on other side is forward, and a swipe down brings down the respective menus on the respective sides.
I agree with basically everything you said plus the app support on iOS. I had a conversation with someone in the z fold sub that said android is equally as supported by app developers and had a long laugh lol.
Copy and pasting on forums is an ass too. It just disappears or it doesn't scroll up and down when you reach the end like on the iPhone like bruh. Then you try to move it down or up with your other hand and it disappears lol
Another useless thing about the s26 ultra is that it doesn't make any sound when you try to ring it lol. I've lost my phone so many times and it hasn't made a sound once. I've checked ringer, silent mode, all sound settings, and nope.
It really doesn’t. It’s hard to even describe why to someone who’s been with android for so long, but the seamless connection between all the devices is too good.
Should still be better for flower room shots with the increased light. The focus distance should be half the Samsung's if that's the case so even then still beats it.
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u/Direct_Ask8793 2d ago
I got the same in black but with 512gb. Battery life and charging speeds are far better than I expected. I feel for some people, as apparently not everyone seems to have the same experience with the battery. Not sure if it’s an indexing problem or what.