I Phone 13 Pro photo's

You can buy a REALLY nice digital camera for iPhone price. They (apple or whoever) can remotely kill a working phone?! My Galaxy S4 was still chugging along fine until I left it on the floor and stepped on it. No OtterBox can protect against that.

 

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I've got a decent camera set up, but it's getting very long in the tooth. Plus it requires a USB port to tether to my laptop which is also getting very elderly. At some point the laptop will poop out (or the camera) and I'm hoping by then I can just get the next phone.

In any case, I'd also love to see any 13pro coin photos. Crossing my fingers they will be good enough to take over for when all the other toys die.

 

Well.... I know this question wasn't to me but as someone who never owned an iPhone, someone convinced me to try one so I got the iPhone 11 Pro max when it was new and have been using it for about 2 years now.

It takes a little getting used to but it has unique features and operating system and just works so good with my other Apple products that I had before I got the phone. You learn that swiping the screen from just about any direction or in an L shape does different things. What really interested me was the camera and the slo-mo video feature. The camera is very good and uses 3 different lenses depending on zoom.
If you select slo-mo instead of regular video, it will record standard speed video and allow you to edit it to slow down fast motion in any part of the video just by sliding bars on the timeline and saving. Easy to do and cool. You may have seen this on social media and wondered how people do it if you don't have an iphone.

Next function I love is "airdrop". If you need to send a picture or large video to a friend who also has an iPhone, you can use airdrop feature. The phones sync and a video will transfer in seconds. Much faster than texting it, if you are even able to text it.

It syncs easily with airpods to listen to music, podcasts, youtube wirelessly. Syncs with apple watch. If you can't find phone or airpods you can swipe up on apple watch and hit a button to make the missing hardware audibly beep so you can locate it.

Face time is a cool function. Their mobile video chat app. Don't use it all the time but sometimes its nice to see the person you're talking to.

Has it's own app to keep track of all your apple devices so you know where they are in the world. If I forgot my work Ipad at a restaurant I could look on my phone and see it's icon on a google earth image and know where it's at. If somebody stole it I can watch it move on the app in real time.

Last one I'll mention is the iPhone can send texts to other iphones over wifi if you're in a bad service area which I often am. This is huge. Android doesn't have the capability. Iphone users are always happy when they are communicating with other iphone users because texting works so much better.

I recently added an Applewatch 7 to the mix which has it's own cool futuristic functions. It keeps track of blood oxygen level, can run an EKG with it at any time, tracks sleep, fitness, can control the shudder on my iphone camera remotely with it. Can see what my phone sees on it's face. Can see my Ring doorbell live video on the face. Sends and receive calls and texts off it. It's a compass, stopwatch, alarm clock, heartrate monitor, Ipod, walkie talkie calculator ...and a watch, that you can swipe to change faces on any time you like. I've never had one of these before either but will attest that it's cool. Now you know.

 

Well shoot, how I want an Apple Watch too . I have resisted as I hate bigger watches and I have about 6 years of fitbit data. Fitbit is not the best at anything, but it's been around so long it doesn't feel right to jettison it now (plus it's smaller). Which is nuts as I use a different heart rate monitor for exercise now. Then again I still have my aol email address...I'm sentimental about that too.

 

I've used Fitbits for years as well. I've found their durability matches the price point. The face loosened on my last one and was held on by electronic tape inside. There's just adhesive around the edge that holds the face down. I superglued it back down and then it ruined something inside so I couldn't swipe on it anymore. So I decided to try the Applewatch this time which cost about as much as four Fitbits but are supposed to be a lot tougher.

It does more, but the battery only lasts about 24 hrs or less. The Fitbit battery lasts for days without charging which was a big plus to me. But the charger clamp was always finicky to get it right. The Applewatch is unbelievably easy to charge. Just has an aluminum disk that's magnetic. You can take it off and drop the back of watch on the disk and it magnetically pulls the watch in as you walk by and begins charging. In about 30 minutes it's fully charged and you get a notification that it's charged. You're good for another 24 hrs.

Fitbit has far better sleep tracking which is surprising. It seems like Apple hasn't invested much time into that aspect for whatever reason. From one generation to the next it seems it's not that necessary to upgrade watches the same as phones. Just slight improvements. So maybe once every 6 or 7 years update the Applewatch where as Fitbit seems to last about a year and a half if used daily and then you need a new one for a variety of reasons.