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iPhone 13 to Include 1TB Storage Option, Lidar Across Board, Say Wedbush Analyst

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I love how these so-called "analysts" just make shit up and it gets thrown around the internet as actual fact. And by love, I mean hate.

If true (and affordable) this is really good news - it's stupid that these expensive mobile computers were still stuck with limited memory. (Disregarding the fact that non-phones had expandable memory; I also don't recall if any model supported more than 256GB sdcards?). Now add removable batteries to these, and the ability to sideload apps (for free) and iPhone 13 would be the perfect phone ...

For me, removable battery is non-negotiable. Maybe a knockoff will arise.

>Still stuck with limited memory.....

I reading the sentence you mean Storage rather than Memory?

I think its obvious they mean more storage

The reality is that for the vast majority of customers they don't want expandable storage, they just want more storage. The average customer doesn't know how to install an SD card, format it and ensure that files are saved to the SD card and nowhere else.

I had countless customers ask me with their shiny new Samsung/Sony device that they have ran out of storage because they cant or don't know how to save images to their SD card. Or some versions wouldn't even allow you to save certain system files, applications or games to the SD card that was locked to the device.

If you want a device with an SD card because you need expandable memory, then you are not the majority of customers.

Off topic but half of my 256gb iPhone is taken up by the very vague “other”.

In my reading & experience, that space is often stale cache, e.g., iMessage attachments. I’ve not found a way to simply delete it. A device wipe & restore should free it up. I hate that advice, but it consistently works for me.

Definitely not imessages. 140gb of something. Your fix will work but it's not possible for me at the moment. Support is attempting to help me but is failing.

Normally if you open that iPhone Storage Screen for longer, let it run in those background checks, those "Others" should unfold into something else.

You could also try to leave that screen on for a few min, close that screen and reopen it again. They are most likely Apps, or Apps cache that wasn't calculated when you first use that screen.

I’ve done this, plugged into iTunes, waved a magic wand and all other possible methods. At best it magically frees 10gbs or so. They ran diagnostics and this had to be uploaded through iTunes as well, waiting too long for the results. My phone entered a boot loop when out of memory despite me using less than half of my phone. Lastly, “On my iPhone” has 10gbs that can’t be located anywhere, I deleted all downloads etc. Not a huge deal but it’s a hell of a bug. When I have too much time I’ll have to do a factory reset but I can’t risk it yet. Offloaded many apps, don’t use them too much so not a problem. It must be due to iCloud or just temp files that refuse to leave.

This seems like an old bug of iCloud I had experience years ago. Where if you had some sort of non-perfect iCloud Backup restore process it would take up so much space for no reason.

There is also the iMessage bomb and iCloud Photo bug. But those were a long time ago and I haven't heard about it for years.

So yes best to do Factory Reset. And I know it is a pain. I have lots of people around me who just refuse to update apps and iOS anymore. ( But Apple is now actively courting them to do so )

backup your phone locally and go through the data yourself?

My well placed internal sources tell me it will be the best iPhone yet.

Best iPhone they have ever made

Why do I need Lidar? I thought that was for self driving cars?

"I'm not impressed by shiny objects" said the iPhone 8 user

Probably for superior AR that Apple keeps trying to push without a clear endgame in sight. Unless it’s data gathering for their rumored AR glasses.

Clear consumer endgames probably aren't going to be in sight for a while (especially after what the pandemic scuttled or delayed in the AR gaming space), but my impression has been that a lot a big enterprise and governmental contracts are still directly and indirectly pushing AR competition in consumer devices. A lot of AR is getting used in "boring" and "unsexy" ways in Enterprise work (like logistics and inventory/space management).

ETA: Also, there's the "unsexy" but increasingly common boring consumer stuff like Face ID and Portrait Mode and Smart Action Camera Auto-Focus that you mostly stop noticing how it works (if you ever notice it other than assuming it is a magic black box) so long as it works.

Other than AR, it is also used for Computational Photography.

Not to sound rude, but the first operation that a camera must complete, before taking a photo, is finding the distance between the camera and the subject. Making a true 3d map of the subject and surrounding, regardless of light levels, is pretty much end game for camera focus, which is why it's coming to future high end Sony cameras. It's nuts we're getting this in a consumer camera. Ideal focus tracking, and all of computational photography perks, should give better result for photos and videos.

It would be super neat if they added some sort of 3d image/video capture. I would love to start taking 3d videos now, that I'll be able to enjoy on my cheap 3d picture frame, in the future.

> It would be super neat if they added some sort of 3d image/video capture.

This is pretty much what a 'Portrait mode' photo is... it's the regular photo plus a depth mode. And on the iPhones with lidar, the depth map is way more accurate. There are various apps that let you visualise the photo in 3D (I've used Focos before).

Can be done in video too [0], but last I checked it would only stream at 320x240, probably because it's still rather compute-intensive. Don't know if that's improved on the lidar-possessing devices.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/avfoundation/avcap...

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