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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...

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[–] GhostMatter@lemmy.ca 53 points 1 year ago (14 children)

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@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago (11 children)

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.de 4 points 1 year ago (9 children)

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.

[–] misanthropy@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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.

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