iPhone 13 rumors vs what it needs

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The iPhone 12 family is almost five months old, yet there are so many rumors about the next iPhone, aka the iPhone 13. let's break them all down and it seems like every year there are more rumors about the next iPhone and 2021 is no exception so I want to take a look at some of the newest rumors some of the most persistent rumors and I want to figure out what the iPhone 13 really needs to be a success. iPhone 13 yeah I have no idea what the next iPhone will be called, could be the iPhone 12s or just the iPhone kind of like the fourth q iPad or maybe it'll be called the iPhone 21 because it's 20 21 no clue about it what's going to be called.

Rumor-1:

let's jump in with my favorite rumor so far which is that the iPhone 13 will have a bigger battery,  the iPhone 12 battery life is good but it's far from the best battery life, we've seen that would be on android phones while apple has never revealed the capacity of batteries inside the iPhone sites like iFixit which sell kits to replace batteries for the iPhone shows that an iPhone 12 and 12 pros come with a 2815 milliamp-hour battery compare to that to the 4 000, 4 500 and 5 000 milliamp hour batteries on flagship Android phones like the galaxy s 21 and galaxy s 21 ultras. What's brilliant is apple gets so much battery life from that small battery and is purely through the efficiency of its a-series processors and ios now imagine applying those same efficiencies to a larger physical battery this rumor comes from an Apple analyst because who doesn't want a better battery life on their iPhone and maybe that bigger battery will fuel another rumored feature slash need and that would be a high refresh rate display.

Rumor-2:

Since 2017 the iPad pro has had a 120 

Hertz refresh rate screen now the panel on it is an LCD but rumors from max Weinbach and display analyst ross young point to the iPhone 13 getting a promotion OLED this has been a feature many of us have wanted and in 2021 we see plenty of phones at all price points with a high refresh rate screens. There's a 300 one plus Nord n10 5g. it has a 90hz display there's a galaxy s20 and s21 ultra with a 120hz display. The new Asus rg phone 5 has a 144 hertz screen and the just-announced red magic 6 phone has a hundred 165 hertz screen for comparison, the iPhone 12 has a 60-hertz screen. Now why do you need a high refresh rate the screen simply makes everything look better now that is a sweeping generalization but it specifically makes animations and 

graphics look sharper 

reduces motion blur it makes games especially those designed for high refresh rate screens seem more immersive and vivid. I do think the next iPhone needs a 120hz screen and I would be fine if it was just a feature reserved for the pro models.  currently, there aren't a bunch of features that make the iPhone 12 pro more pro than the regular iPhone 12.

Rumor-3:

let's talk about another persistent rumor and that would be the removal of the lightning port. Since Apple got rid of the headphone jack back in 2016, many people have speculated that Apple wants to make a completely portless iPhone in December 2020.  reliable rumor spreader ming chi quo cited that Apple would release an iPhone in 2021 without a port add to this rumor apple's launch of MagSafe charging on the iPhone 12. It's not impossible to imagine such a feature however in its current form mag safe charging tops out at 15 watts compare that to warp charge 30 on the one plus 8t which is double that not only would the next version of MagSafe need to be more powerful to be a reasonable replacement to a physical charging cable but Apple also need to solve for some of the data sharing that the lightning port currently affords perhaps apple is hoping 5g wi-fi six Bluetooth 5.0 and the u1 chip are those data-sharing replacements or maybe there would be a version of mag safe with a lightning port dongle who knows that said apple could build into the next iPhone a portless physical connector much like the smart connector found on the iPad pro. Just around the corner of the USB-C connector on the bottom of the iPad are three flat contacts on the back and when you use the magic keyboard accessories with the iPad pro it connects the iPad via the smart connector and magnets. You can plug a USB-C cable into the side of the magic keyboard which also charges the iPad pro now. I can count maybe three times during the pandemic where I actually plugged a cable directly into my iPad Pro. I pretty much use the magic keyboard to charge the iPad through the smart connector and since the keyboard has a USB-C port I can actually use a higher wattage charger. So who knows smart MagSafe charging anyone looks even if this rumor is true.

Rumor-4:

iPhone needs is something other than a face id or a passcode to unlock their phone and that's where the rumor that touch id is returning. Since the first android phones came out with an in-screen fingerprint reader people speculated that under the display touch id sensor would be in a way to alleviate the frustrations some people get from using face id and remember this is pre-pandemic before face masks were a thing now currently on android phones there are two types of in-screen fingerprint readers, there's the optical in-screen sensor and those work okay but I think those would be a horrible alternative to face id. And then there are ultrasonic fingerprint readers which just got a refresh with the galaxy s 21 series. Now rumors from you guess it mini quo is that the iPhone 13 will have an in-screen fingerprint reader, I have no idea if this would replace face id or be in addition to face id but if apple could get an ultrasonic sensor to a point of reliability ease of use and dependability it's not hard to imagine them on an iPhone. And if touch id is paired with face id you could have more ways to secure and access your phone.

Rumor-5:

let's talk about camera rumors and there are a bunch. Currently, the iPhone 12 Pro has the same selfie wide and ultra-wide cameras as the iPhone 12 and 12 minis it does have a 2x telephoto camera but it's not the same one as the 2.5 x telephoto found on the iPhone 12 pro max. Now there are rumors from minke Kuo that point to the iPhone 13 pro getting a larger sensor for its wide camera not sure if it'd be the exact same one that would be used on the iPhone 13 pro max or not but this larger sensor might utilize the same sensor-based stabilization which is currently found only on the iPhone 12 pro max. The iPhone 13 Pro is also rumored to be getting the same or a similar telephoto camera as the 13 pro max. Look all this means is that the regular 13 pro model will be much closer to the 13 pro max. Model whereas the 12 and the 12 pros this year are exceedingly similar there are also rumors about a new ultrawide camera coming to the iPhone now this could be for the iphone 13 or the iphone 14 but ming chi Kuo suggests the ultrawide cameras will have better low light performance. Barclays analysts Blaine Curtis and Thomas O'Malley think that the ultra-wide will be getting a faster aperture lens going from the f 2.4 on the current ultra-wide to an f 1.8 lens on the iphone 13. Now that would certainly help towards improving low light performance and I think that all of these iphone camera rumors are all things the iphone 13 could really use.

Rumor-6:

Let's start with the portrait mode video. I'm sure most of you are familiar with portrait mode which lets you take a photo and give the picture an artistic blurry background. The idea is it replicates a larger sensor mirrorless or DSLR camera and a fast aperture lens now on the iphone portrait mode is just limited to photos but currently, several android phones offer portrait mode video and in my experience, none of them work great some are okay but uh yeah at least something to be desired look this rumor comes from max Weinbach so it could be exciting to see what Apple could do with portrait mode video and how it handles all the processing needed to make videos that can blur out the background. This rumor also points to the ability to change the depth of field after you record the video. Now it would be especially cool if you could also use apple's portrait lighting looks in video now that's just wishful thinking on my part. Now I don't think portrait video mode is something the iPhone needs but I think it would be fun.

Rumor-7:

let's talk about the last rumor on my list and that has to do with astrophotography currently with night mode. You can mount the iphone on a tripod and extend the capture up to 30 seconds. This means under the right conditions you can capture a starry sky but when you see what the google pixel can do in terms of astrophotography capture, it leads a lot to be desired on the iPhone and if this rumor is true maybe astrophotography still lives under the night mode capture way of doing things but you could extend the time more than 30 seconds and or use computational photography to capture a better night's sky and this could be another one of those features that live only on the pro models kind of like the way apple pro raw. Currently does this is definitely not a needed feature but it a nice to have one especially if you live outside of a city.

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So that's all I've got but I want to hear from you guys. What do you think about these iphone 13 rumors. Are there other features and upgrades that you think the iPhone needs? Throw your thoughts in the comments