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Five 'iPhone 15' stories September 2023 - January 2024

From Palm Pilot to Samsung to Apple: My dad got his first iPhone, and he has opinions

from 9to5Mac Jan 29 2024 - 10:06 am PT

When my dad called me a month ago to tell me we were getting new phones because we were switching cell phone providers, he informed me that he would be getting the iPhone 15. I wasn’t sure I had heard him correctly. “Wait, you’re getting an iPhone?” I asked, twice. “Yeah, what’s the big deal?” he countered, as if this was normal, as if he hadn’t been a decades-long Samsung devotee.

After just over a month with his new iPhone 15, my dad’s got a respectable list of things he’s enjoying, and some things that he believes Samsung did – and does – better.

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Pixel 8 Pro vs. iPhone 15 Pro speed test shows Google’s latest crushed by Apple [Video]

Ben Schoon Oct 27 2023 - 12:52 pm PT

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The Pixel series has never been about performance, but in a new speed test up against the iPhone 15 Pro, the Pixel 8 Pro is heavily beaten by Apple.

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 benchmarks put up a fight against iPhone 15 Pro [Video]

Ben Schoon Oct 27 2023 - 6:38 am PT

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Qualcomm this week unveiled the next flagship chip for Android, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. Just on paper, the chip already looking compelling, but some early Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 benchmarks show that the new chip even rivals Apple’s 3nm chip in the iPhone 15 Pro.

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A look back at Essential Phone, the Android phone that beat iPhone 15 Pro to titanium

Ben Schoon Sep 17 2023 - 9:00 am PT

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Apple this week launched the iPhone 15 Pro, its first smartphone made with a titanium frame. That launch will bring the material to the masses, but it also reminds us of 2017’s Essential Phone, the short-lived Android phone that had a premium build that was so far ahead of its time.

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iPhone 15 seems set to revive Google Pixel’s fabric cases; what buyers should know

Ben Schoon Sep 5 2023 - 7:06 am PT

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Apple is apparently set to ditch leather cases on the iPhone 15 series and, in its place, adopt a new “woven” fabric case as 9to5Mac reports. That’s a style of case that Google Pixel users are quite familiar with, so here are a few things to keep in mind as Apple prepares to revive the cases Google never should have killed off.

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