The battery life is so good that you don’t mind the glacially slow charging (although you do resent the Lightning cable in a world that is almost entirely USB-C now). Whether it is the way it sleeps or the way the device uses battery while it’s in use, it’s more frugal than any Android phone I’ve ever used. The battery performance is simply stellar. Now that I have the whines out of the way, let me focus on the things I loved about the iPhone 13. If you’re not that nerdy, you may well not care. But if you’re switching from Android and you are used to really getting your hands dirty with the device, you’ll find the iPhone a little too restrictive. If you’ve only ever used iOS, you’ll probably have no idea there are features that you’re missing. You can’t set the battery indicator to show a percentage, can’t access the iPhone’s file system, notification management is simply inferior compared to Android. Neither of these options is available on iOS. On Android, I customise my SwiftKey app to a great degree, I finetune the size of the keyboard, specify the long-press duration, and so on. Let me get my tweakability complaints all out of the way right here. You do get used to it after a few days though, but the fact that you don’t have a choice to tweak it doesn’t sit well with me. Compared to gesture navigation or button navigation on Android, the latter of which is my preference, this feels simply inconsistent. The swipe to go back works in certain circumstances, but not in certain others, at which point you have to reach your finger all the way to the top of the screen to tap a back arrow. The lack of a universal back gesture or button is a real irritant coming from Android. Now, if you also agree with it, then you will have no problems whatsoever, but if you want to do things a little differently, then you’re stuck.īut once again I must pipe up with complaints. Apple has optimised every interaction to work in the way they deem best. My broad philosophical issue with it is that everything has to be done only in one particular way. I’d mentioned earlier that my reluctance about iPhones stemmed from Apple’s approach to iOS. Like every iPhone fan will tell you, “it just works” – but it’s the matter of how it works where I have a few quibbles. I did encounter the odd bug (such as the YouTube app randomly freezing up) but overall there’s very little I have to complain about in the way that it functions. The phone is in general very fast, smooth (as smooth as 60 Hz can be) and completely lag- and stutter-free. The iPhone 13 has a bit more detail while the Poco has a smidge more bass, but they’re very close. In fact, this is the first phone I’ve heard that matches up to the Poco X3 Pro in terms of sound quality. The camera bump features the two-camera array with a normal and ultra-wide, the buttons are clicky and satisfying, the alert slider is a superb feature that every phonemaker should copy (and sadly only OnePlus does), the haptics are excellent, and the stereo speakers are loud and clear. The rest of the hardware is pretty standard. I’d go so far as to see it’s the most premium-feeling device I’ve used. It’s also worth noting that the compact size feels like a really nice change from the giant slabs that are the norm in smartphoneland. The design is a true classic and not even its ubiquity takes away from the feeling that you’re holding something truly special in your hands. The slab-edged design looks premium and feels immaculately built and finished. I used it to watch videos, scroll Twitter and Instagram, make phone calls, and generally mess around with the device. I popped my second SIM into it and used it as much as I could bear to be away from WhatsApp. Now, at the outset, I ran into problems because I couldn’t port my WhatsApp backup to this iPhone 13 (yes, I tried that method you’re thinking of and no, it didn’t work), so I had to use it as a secondary phone. The model I have is the 512 GB which sells for Rs 1,09,900. To get the basics out of the way, this is the non-Pro iPhone 13 and starts out at Rs 79,900 (although available cheaper now) for the base 128 GB model.
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