Tech Purchase Thread
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@JC said in Tech Purchase Thread:
For any that are interested, the new iOS 16 includes personalised spatial audio if you’re using AirPods. To set it up you have to let your iPhone scan your head and ears. My go-to for checking out headphones is Van Morrison's Moondance, and in this case, gimmick or not, the results are like the fat old turd is beaming music straight into your fucking head. Try it out if you’ve got the kit.
It's cool, I've been using that for a fair few years with SXFi gear from creative. Officially Pronounced sexyfi, I shit you not. It's pretty cool, I have a little usb sound card version that you can plug into any device, phone, PC, iPad, whatever. But that's wired.
I use the Sony XM4 buds, they are amazing, especially when playing HD audio
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@Kiwiwomble said in Tech Purchase Thread:
one thing i forgot about the jabra's (maybe common now) is they have "hear through" so the opposite of ANC, turns them into effectively a hearing aid, quite handy when on the bike for things like traffic and on the rare occurrence when im in the office and dont want people sneaking up on me
Settled on these - https://www.jbhifi.com.au/products/jabra-elite-5-anc-true-wireless-in-ear-headphones-titanium-black
Jabra Elite 5. Have ANC and hear-through which were the main things. Kind of hard to get used to if I'm honest, in terms of them just sitting in my lugs but the sound is good and they were $199, which I can live with (having been paid my annual bonus yesterday
)Just trying to figure out how to remove Google Assistant so I can go back to using left/right for volume up/down.
EDIT: Ah I see - need to hold it down for longer....
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I did what I thought I'd never do and deliberately bought a smaller phone. In this case iPhone XR => iPhone 13 mini. I hesitated with buying the standard 13 (mainly because of battery life differences), but I never liked the way the XR took up all the space in a jeans pocket (wallet in the other), meaning keys went into back pocket. So far I'm pretty happy, the phone certainly has top-notch specs. You do need to charge at least once a day and if you spend a lot of time watching movies or scrolling through documents it's a little tiring. But the phone is very light and takes up a lot less space. If battery ever becomes an issue, there is the magsafe batteries. Anyone else deliberately gone smaller??
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@Billy-Tell I have been using SEs for years for the smaller format and ease of carrying around. The wife has just brought a 13 mini for the same reason.
My work phone is “standard “ size and if I have it on me I do tend to use it for reading news/fern etc on the train but I still like the smaller format for general calls and messages, music playing while working outside etc
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@Crucial said in Tech Purchase Thread:
@Billy-Tell I have been using SEs for years for the smaller format and ease of carrying around. The wife has just brought a 13 mini for the same reason.
My work phone is “standard “ size and if I have it on me I do tend to use it for reading news/fern etc on the train but I still like the smaller format for general calls and messages, music playing while working outside etc
I really like Face ID now which SE doesn’t have. If I’m honest I’d take a slightly larger phone but there is nothing between 5.4 and 6.1 in the apple range. I suspect they might bring out an SE/mini hybrid next time round.
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@Billy-Tell said in Tech Purchase Thread:
@Crucial said in Tech Purchase Thread:
@Billy-Tell I have been using SEs for years for the smaller format and ease of carrying around. The wife has just brought a 13 mini for the same reason.
My work phone is “standard “ size and if I have it on me I do tend to use it for reading news/fern etc on the train but I still like the smaller format for general calls and messages, music playing while working outside etc
I really like Face ID now which SE doesn’t have. If I’m honest I’d take a slightly larger phone but there is nothing between 5.4 and 6.1 in the apple range. I suspect they might bring out an SE/mini hybrid next time round.
I like face ID for general use but found print ID by far the easiest for Apple Pay and when in London that was my biggest phone use. Tube fares, payments, at the pub.....it just seems like you are in more control with a thumbprint and it is single step.
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@Billy-Tell I'm an android user and used to have a Nokia 5, which was perferct in size (5.2in screen) & performance for my use. When it eventually died, I hoped to buy a similar size phone, but couldn't find a small android phone in the lower price range. I now have an Oppo that is bigger (6.5in) and, although it's a good phone, I find it too big. I guess I'll get used to it, but I can't wear it in my pockets anymore, meaning I sometimes forget my phone because it's lying around somewhere.
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@Billy-Tell said in Tech Purchase Thread:
I did what I thought I'd never do and deliberately bought a smaller phone. In this case iPhone XR => iPhone 13 mini. I hesitated with buying the standard 13 (mainly because of battery life differences), but I never liked the way the XR took up all the space in a jeans pocket (wallet in the other), meaning keys went into back pocket. So far I'm pretty happy, the phone certainly has top-notch specs. You do need to charge at least once a day and if you spend a lot of time watching movies or scrolling through documents it's a little tiring. But the phone is very light and takes up a lot less space. If battery ever becomes an issue, there is the magsafe batteries. Anyone else deliberately gone smaller??
I have a mini as I can't stand the large ones, plus I have actual 4K tvs to watch stuff on so don't really watch anything on the phone.
But apparently they've sold so badly that they're not going to make them anymore. Which is weird as I was at dinner the other night and of the 8 of us five had minis, two had android, and one had one of the giant new ones.
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was seriously planning on grabbing a mini for my next iphone and the bloody stopped them with the latest round! might have to look at a 13 but then they arent THAT much cheap even though not the latest model, we just go my mother in law a new phone and a NOS 12 mini was still like a grand
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@Kiwiwomble said in Tech Purchase Thread:
was seriously planning on grabbing a mini for my next iphone and the bloody stopped them with the latest round! might have to look at a 13 but then they arent THAT much cheap even though not the latest model, we just go my mother in law a new phone and a NOS 12 mini was still like a grand
You could just grab one to use for a few years? I'm going to hold on to mine as long as I can.
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@Nepia too expensive! i decided to splash out on a decent case to make the current one last a while longer (although memory is running low), also curious if iphone is going to drop the lightning cable in favour of USB-C or just go completely wireless
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@Kiwiwomble said in Tech Purchase Thread:
@Nepia too expensive! i decided to splash out on a decent case to make the current one last a while longer (although memory is running low), also curious if iphone is going to drop the lightning cable in favour of USB-C or just go completely wireless
I don't use a case. Just adds extra bulk I don't want.
Are they still full price? I got mine on sale so wasn't too expensive.
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@Nepia normally i dont but this one is 3 years old and a couple of small cracks etc so want to protect it, got a "good" one so less bulky than some...but still bulky unfortunately
as i said, we just brought a 12 mini for the mother in law (so two models old) and was only still over $1k so only maybe 10-15% cheaper than full price
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@Kiwiwomble said in Tech Purchase Thread:
@Nepia normally i dont but this one is 3 years old and a couple of small cracks etc so want to protect it, got a "good" one so less bulky than some...but still bulky unfortunately
as i said, we just brought a 12 mini for the mother in law (so two models old) and was only still over $1k so only maybe 10-15% cheaper than full price
Hmmm, I think I have a 12 as I got mine for less than $1k a couple of years ago (so I assume it would have been just before the release of the 13) - would have got my tax back too if not for Delta.
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@Nepia wow really? just checked and a 12 mini at somewhere like noel leemings is still $1150, we got a refurbished one now i remember but it was still about a grand
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@Kiwiwomble said in Tech Purchase Thread:
@Nepia wow really? just checked and a 12 mini at somewhere like noel leemings is still $1150, we got a refurbished one now i remember but it was still about a grand
IIRC I actually bought one from Apple for around $999 and then Office Works had a sale a few days later and I returned the Apple store one. I think I wound up paying $890.
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@Nepia will have to check that out, i thought as a rule apple stuff never went on sale, cheers
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@Kiwiwomble said in Tech Purchase Thread:
@Nepia will have to check that out, i thought as a rule apple stuff never went on sale, cheers
I think they might do when new products come out. I also wonder if I got the education discount, but I don't think they give it on phones, just laptops and iPads.
Just don't buy from Harvey Norman even if they are having a sale.
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@Stargazer still not exactly cheap, over a grand for 256gb of a model thats 2 years old, you see what i mean, that age doesn;t save you loads...you need to also get refurbished...or drop down the memory or something
