Apple iPhone 13 Pro review
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- Anonymous
- m62
- 15 Oct 2021
So basically it is heavy, throttles quite a lot under heavy load, has mediocre 120 Hertz support (yet), charges relatively slowly and it is way too expensive (and I think anyone agrees, it is pretty damn expensive, even for an iPhone).. For me there also are personal gripes with iOS as a whole and the simply awful new lens design for the camera. I guess it has the advantage of a lack in competition. And I'm unsure about the speakers "beating every potential direct rival", my ZenFone 8 has pretty amazing speakers after all.
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- Xperia
- Dk%
- 15 Oct 2021
Cons:
"Stale looks, the notch should have been gone by now.
Compact as it may be, the 'small' 13 Pro weighs a lot.
120Hz refresh rate not widely available in third-party apps at launch.
Battery life not up to the Max's standard.
The chipset is prone to heavy throttling under max load.
The fast charging isn't very fast.
iOS (with its limitations) remains a love it or leave it affair"
4.5 stars?
What in the what what?
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- -Trix-
- Mm1
- 15 Oct 2021
Anonymous, 15 Oct 2021Apple does use deep fusion, when night mode is not used in ... moreYou can turn off deep fusion
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- aquino
- MXc
- 15 Oct 2021
3.6 roentgen of battery life ;-)
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- Anonymous
- gBV
- 15 Oct 2021
Nick Tegrataker, 15 Oct 2021Apple never advertised that they use machine learning for d... moreApple does use deep fusion, when night mode is not used in low light conditions. That's the case here.
Apple definitely guesses new (wrong) details in this image. Look at the holes and the hat of the person. Also, the leaves look extremely artificial. That's not due to interpolation. Interpolation leads to a blurry image when you use digital zoom. Traditional digital zoom would never show a person without a hat, if the person actually wears a hat. Instead it would produce a blurry image, where you can't really see whether the person wears a hat or does not. That's why traditional digital zoom is superior to machine learning zoom. I have a Pixel 3a and it sometimes can produce similar issues due to machine learning. The results can look terrible and can be worse than traditional digital zoom.
It's crazy. I thought that smartphone cameras would get better and better, so one doesn't need to buy a camera from Canon, etc, but such issues, which didn't really exist a few years ago, will make it impossible to use smartphone cameras for responsible journalism and in the end one will have to buy a camera from Nikon, Canon, etc, if one doesn't want the camera to guess completely new details that are wrong and aren't the result of interpolation.
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- Bill
- uvh
- 15 Oct 2021
-Trix-, 15 Oct 2021Such a great phone with stunning cameras, upgraded from 11 ... moreWhat ? There's virtually zero difference in image quality between 11 pro and 13 pro. You can check the full res photos from gsmarena itself.
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- Anonymous
- gBV
- 15 Oct 2021
Anonymous, 15 Oct 2021That's what happens when you use a 12MP sensor and try... moreNo, it isn't interpolation. That's the point. If it was interpolation, the image would look blurry. In this image, Apple's deep fusion guesses new details, which are wrong and not even that small. So it produces a rather sharp image with wrong details. Traditional digital zoom doesn't do this. Traditional digital zoom just interpolates, which leads to a blurry image.
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- Maria
- PA7
- 15 Oct 2021
Tanase Adrian, 15 Oct 2021yeah,you're telling me?i just returned an iphone 13 pr... moreYou need a real pro camera then, not a camera phone. A current flagship camera phone, any brands, is still having a not perfect results as you wish.
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- -Trix-
- Mm1
- 15 Oct 2021
Such a great phone with stunning cameras, upgraded from 11 Pro and expected minor difference in photo quality, but got major upgrade for photos and video.
So happy that Apple now gave smaller one the same cameras than big brother.
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- Tanase Adrian
- nDQ
- 15 Oct 2021
Anonymous, 15 Oct 2021The X70 Pro+ already has a bunch of middling reviews out th... moreyeah,you're telling me?i just returned an iphone 13 pro after 1 day!i have an iphone 11 and frankly there is omething about their pictures that i just don't like!!they look fucking ugly...ok,i get it, colors look natural but...i don't know...there is no details, if you zoom juuust a little bit, it gets noisy.there are no details in the foliage, it is not nice.i am sick and tired of these pictures frankly.
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- Anonymous
- u7V
- 15 Oct 2021
DevilMind, 15 Oct 2021I'll buy 2 iPhone 13 Pro 1tb versions in a next few mo... moreI am so jealous LOL
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- walkman8
- 3qy
- 15 Oct 2021
YUKI93, 15 Oct 2021While I can see some of Apple's typical oversharpening... moreYeah, they look Samsung-ey when you zoom in on them. Not a good look, I'm surprised how bad it actually looks.
- YUKI93
- IWH
- 15 Oct 2021
While I can see some of Apple's typical oversharpening effect for daylight photos, it's actually not as severe as I would have thought. At least within the iPhone world, the photo quality has been improved from before. If I'm looking for any brand new 2021 smartphone solely based on the camera performance, I would consider this iPhone on my list. Just about the only thing that stops this iPhone from being a complete winner is the lowlight photos. It's not really my favourite.
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- Akinaro
- a0K
- 15 Oct 2021
""So, what if you're looking for a high-end phone that is also compact? It turns out your options aren't all that many""
Depend on what you mean by high-end...
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- Anonymous
- JT5
- 15 Oct 2021
Random guy, 15 Oct 2021IP rating?68
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- Rkm
- DkZ
- 15 Oct 2021
There is something wrong with the JPEG / heic processing in the new 13 pro / pro max series. It looks overprocessed (which is normal in phone standards), yet lacking in details. Seems like a beta software.
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- Anonymous
- 7k4
- 15 Oct 2021
We can see the iPhone 13 mini battery life peeking out ;-)
- Fearghast
- 0Cs
- 15 Oct 2021
Oh, that portrait feature for photos and videos are so painful to watch - so many glitches, even with all that "3D" ToF + huge yellow tint on selfie video.
Still, 13 is a decent upgrade compared to older iPhones. My friend is still rocking the abysmal iPhone X, so this upgrade seems like a reasonable one - he likes the iOS for some reason.
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- Nobody
- cWy
- 15 Oct 2021
Anonymous, 15 Oct 2021I'm disappointed by the battery life but this is what ... moreBattery life is correlated to phone size. The Pro Max has a bigger body and therefore can use a bigger battery, which leads to greater battery life.