Once again thank you Richard Sent from my Verizon iPhone 12 Pro!!!
> On Oct 7, 2021, at 8:40 PM, Anthony Vece <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thank you > > Sent from my Verizon iPhone 12 Pro!!! > >>> On Oct 7, 2021, at 8:17 PM, Esther Levegnale <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >> hi, Richard, all those features on your phone sound fabulous! I am in the >> market for a new phone. I do have a 7+ now and it served me well. I am very >> interested in trying out LiDAR. It sounds fascinating. Esther >> >> Sent From Esther's Amazing and Awesome iPhone 7+! >> >>>> On Oct 7, 2021, at 6:56 PM, Carolyn <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>> Richard, it sounds good about your nice, blue phone, that you got on my >>> dad's birthday. It sounds especially good about the sensor. That will be a >>> giant step for me, when I get my 13, for coming out of church. >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf >>> Of Richard Turner >>> Sent: Thursday, October 7, 2021 5:23 PM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: iPhone 13 Pro Thoughts after a couple weeks >>> >>> iPhone 13 Pro, 256 GB, Sierra Blue (not that the color matters.) >>> >>> ESR clear case. >>> >>> >>> >>> I received the phone on September 25th. >>> >>> I've already mentioned in a previous note about the setup process so won't >>> repeat that here. >>> >>> >>> >>> First of all, I like the phone very much. I like the size, I have no >>> issues with the gestures to unlock, go home, do the app switcher, control >>> center, or notification center, and no issues with Face ID. >>> >>> Compared to the SE 2020 it replaced, the sound is amazing! >>> >>> >>> >>> It is faster in downloading things like BARD Books, though since they put >>> their library on the Cloud, it is pretty darn fast even on a first >>> generation SE; but noticeably faster on this phone than even the SE 2020. >>> >>> >>> >>> The battery life is truly excellent! I wanted to wait until I had used it >>> over a period of a week or two to say anything about the battery. >>> >>> I have had several days where I used the phone for a lot of hours, 8 or >>> more, for playing music, streaming videos, reading and writing emails, >>> reading the news, exploring settings, etc. I can easily get the bulk of >>> two days use before putting it on the charger at night. >>> >>> I use the screen curtain all the time. I have brightness set to auto, so >>> when I check it, it is always at 0; and since having the brightness very >>> low saves battery life, this could be a big help in this area. I usually >>> will turn VoiceOver off if someone needs to see the screen, so when I turn >>> VoiceOver back on, the screen curtain is in place. Once in a while I just >>> toggle off the screen curtain; but I have to remember to toggle it back on >>> when they are done. >>> >>> >>> >>> A side note about the charger; when I was helping a friend with her iPhone >>> 12 Pro purchase at the Verizon store, the MagSafe Apple wireless chargers >>> were on sale for $30; so I got one. They are only safe on the 12 and 13 >>> iPhones. My friend got one as well. It works great! The phone charges in >>> 2 to 3 hours from under 10% to full. >>> >>> >>> >>> The Lidar Sensor works quite well with Seeing AI's World channel, but they >>> need to increase the number of objects it recognizes, which they are >>> working on. >>> >>> >>> >>> Super Lidar, the free app from SuperSense has a very useful feature if you >>> travel alone and have either a way to wear the phone with the camera facing >>> forward, or are comfortable holding it with the camera facing forward. It >>> identifies people, and if they have no mask, it says "Person without a >>> mask" or something like that. >>> >>> That kicks in when they are getting close to you. >>> >>> In Super Lidar, the proximity sensor vibrates faster as you get nearer an >>> object, so I could see it helping when in line at a store or somewhere, to >>> know if the person ahead of you has moved up in the line. >>> >>> >>> >>> I have not taken it for a walk as yet, but while riding in a car, GoodMaps >>> Outdoors, does a great job of keeping up with intersection announcements. >>> I think the processor speed may help there but I have not tried GoodMaps >>> Outdoors on any other device. >>> >>> >>> >>> OCR with Voice Dream Scanner, Seeing AI, SuperSense are all excellent of >>> course. >>> >>> >>> >>> That is about all I have to say at this point. 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