iPhone 13 Pro vs iPhone 12 Pro :: First impressions

I am moving my stuff from an iPhone 12 Pro to an iPhone 13 Pro. And I am shooting some quick photos with a Fujifilm camera. I apologize for the bad photo quality, but I cannot shoot the iPhones with the iPhones. We will return to the old quality after this. 🙂

Here are some quick observations:

I knew that the new camera is bigger than the old camera. I did not imagine how much larger it is. Very hard to see in a photo, I used perspective to make the difference more pronounced. Just by looking at the camera I know which iPhone I am holding.

Although the iPhones look very similar at first glance, the iPhone 13 Pro is noticeably thicker and heavier. All buttons have moved slightly towards the bottom and that is a very good thing for my fingers. Also, the SIM card slot has moved quite a lot towards the bottom left side, but I only touch that twice, when I put the card in and when I finally remove it.

The bigger camera, the thicker case, the moved buttons all mean you cannot use an old case. That was to be expected.

I use a MagSafe Duo charger and I was worried it would collide with the new camera hump, but it does not. It has actually become easier to put the phone down on the charger. Just place it face up, a little bit too high, and then draw towards you. Bamm. I always have to do this in complete darkness and it worked better on the first try then did after months with the iPhone 12 Pro.

However, if you get the Apple leather case, you will get a collision between the high lip that protects the camera and the Duo charger. The normal MagSafe works just fine.

This collision is purely cosmetic. The charger works just fine and it does not apply to me since I have used the iPhone 11 Pro and the iPhone 12 Pro without a case, and will also do the same with the iPhone 13 Pro.

This is just a first impressions before getting too much use out of the iPhone. I only got it yesterday but I am already liking it. Moving data and apps from one phone to the other was a breeze. The only thing that always worries me is the TAN generator one of my bank uses. You have to enroll it again on the new phone. For those who don’t move iPhones as often as I do: you basically place the old phone next to the new one and follow the default options. After that it moves the data, reinstalls the apps, pairs the Apple Watch and the Apple headphones. Only the information stored in the secure element needs to be recreated.

The mother of all iPhone camera reviews

We’ve spent the last week in southern Tanzania, exploring this vast natural habitat and capturing all its beauty with the iPhone 13 Pro’s camera. As I watched Apple’s keynote about this year’s iPhone release, I was most excited about the new macro capability, increased telephoto zoom, and Cinematic mode.

Check this out. I do not want to spoil the pleasure with just one photo. You have to see it yourself.

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Microsoft stellt neue Surface-GerÀte vor

Microsoft hat heute eine Reihe neuer Surface Produkte vorgestellt. Das innovativste war sicherlich der Surface Laptop Studio, ein Laptop, bei dem sich die Tastatur hinter dem Bildschirm verstecken lĂ€sst. Der Bildschirm bewegt sich dabei Ă€hnlich wie beim Desktop Studio. Ich bin noch nicht sicher, ob das ein Design fĂŒr mich ist, aber ich finde die Innovation sehr cool. Erinnert ein wenig an das iPad Magic Keyboard, kann aber mehr. Etwas merkwĂŒrdig ist der Sockel, aber das ist wohl der Power geschuldet.

Surface Pro 8 ist die grĂ¶ĂŸte Überarbeitung der Surface Pro-Reihe und gleicht mit den beiden Thunderbolt-Ports dem Surface Pro X, das vor zwei Jahren vorgestellt wurde, hat aber die LĂŒftungsschlitze, die ein ARM-Prozessor nicht braucht.

FĂŒr beide gibt es einen neuen Surface Pen, der induktiv geladen wird und ein haptisches Feedback liefert. Dazu gibt es eine Überarbeitung des Surface Go. Das Surface Pro X bekommt ein neues Wifi-Modell mit einem gĂŒnstigeren Einstiegspreis.

Surface Duo, das Android-GerĂ€t mit zwei Bildschirmen, fand ich letztes Jahr sehr interessant, aber auch zu langsam. Als Surface Duo 2 bekommt es mit dem SD888 nun ein Chipset, das dem Preis angemessen ist. DafĂŒr gibt es nun 5G-Support, NFC fĂŒr kontaktloses Zahlen, eine Triple-Kamera und neben dem weißen auch ein schwarzes Modell.

  • Das Surface Go 3 wird ab dem 5. Oktober 2021 – zusammen mit Windows 11 – verfĂŒgbar sein (ab 439 Euro fĂŒr Consumer)
  • Das Surface Duo 2 kommt zum 21. Oktober 2021 (ab 1.599 Euro fĂŒr Consumer)
  • Das Surface Pro 8 kommt zum 28. Oktober 2021 (ab 1.179 Euro fĂŒr Consumer) und im kommenden Jahr fĂŒr Firmenkunden

Alle weiteren Surface Produkte kommen Anfang 2022.

Surface Pro (2017) muss bei mir wohl aufs Altenteil, weil es von Windows 11 nicht mehr offiziell unterstĂŒtzt wird. Und ich kann einfach nicht zurĂŒck auf Windows 10. DafĂŒr lĂ€uft mein Surface Pro X nun mit Windows 11 und 64bit-Emulation erst so richtig rund. Ein Intel Surface Pro kommt mir wohl auch nur noch ohne LĂŒfter ins Haus. In der Vergangenheit gab es das beim Modell mit Core i5.

Can I undo this iPadOS 15 change?

Multiasking in iPad OS has always been difficult. Now Apple wants to make it simpler by offering a three dot handle at the top of the screen that let’s you drag apps. Unfortunately some apps have another handle right at the top as well, for instance the Apple Music app. If I want to drag down this shade, it was always easy on iPadOS 14. Now I more often than not hit the multitasking control instead of the shade handle.

Is there any way to disable this new control? I would really like to get back to the prior behaviour.

The problem with Facebook is Facebook

The company’s own research reveals that Instagram harms teens, that it can’t control anti-vax misinformation, and that there is a secret double standard for VIPs. In short, the problem with Facebook is Facebook

Siva Vaidhyanathan

There is only one cure. Stop using it, and everything else they own.

Don’t be as stupid as the next addict: “I can control it”. No, you can’t.

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Getting rid of OneDrive notifications

Grumpy mode on. Why does every app need to bother me with unimportant events? Yeah, cool, I shot some photos 365 days ago. Big deal. For a while I have been dismissing these messages, but eventually I was fed up. Yes, I could turn off all notifications, but I want to know when an editor starts working on my manuscript or when I deleted a large number of files. Time to hunt for the options. I now have disabled “OneDrive creates a photo album for me” and “I Have Memories From This Day”?

Do you notice how the last option is all capitalized and the others are not? This seems like a hot new feature somebody squeezed in. Next up: find out how I can disable the automatic creation of albums. Yeeez. You are a file replication service. I don’t want to talk to you, ever. Just do your thing and replicated files.

Grumpy mode off.

iPod Classic frontend plays Spotify and Apple Music

Tanner Villarete is a frontend developer, that has developer and published cool interfaces, like a web interface for Apple Music. The iPod Classic is the coolest of them all. It plays from Spotify (paid account) or Apple Music, and works in pretty much every modern web browser. But it’s of course best on a touch device, where the scroll wheel makes more sense.

I don’t think you will actually use it, but its certainly is a nice blast from the past, when “A thousand songs in your pocket” was a big deal.

Apple did not compare A15 to A14 CPUs – for a reason

The rest of the industry may be ready to catch up to Apple, who lost the lead architect and some hundred engineers to a new startup, that was bought by Qualcomm.

Regardless of the paltry CPU gains and potential core architecture delays, Apple is still the leader in performance per watt. With Intel design teams starting to get back on track, AMD executing almost flawlessly, and Qualcomm coming in soon like a hammer with Nuvia cores, we aren’t sure if this lead will be sustained. The A11 to A12 generation was seen as Apple starting to asymptote out on gains with only a 15% gain, and the A13 to A14 looked even more weak with 8.3% gains, but now with no CPU gains, let’s cross our fingers and hope the A16 brings a large architectural change.

Dylan Patel

A very interesting analysis.

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