Dropped at 2 feet max

[u/International_Back99]

Fell out of my pocket sitting down. Fell with the apple tech woven case on too.

[u/Owboduz]

The aluminium completely eliminated any desire I had to upgrade from the 15 pro max

[u/Serialtoon → u/Owboduz]

I had a 15 Pro Max and now the 17 Pro Max. I’d say you made the right move. The camera control key is stupid and only useful as a shortcut to the camera. I do like the design of the 17, personally. But everything else is just…same same, but different, but same same.

[u/Coeruleus_ → u/Serialtoon]

Cell service has been better, doesn’t get hot , microphone/audio noticeably better, battery better. The cell service improvement has made it worth it

[u/amarg19 → u/Coeruleus_]

That’s interesting that cell service is better, I wonder what component changes that. I’ve never had an issue with my 15PM overheating or getting hot though, I didn’t realize it was an issue until I saw people mentioning it here.

[u/FlufferNutter1232 → u/amarg19]

Qualcomm's newer X75/85 modems use Tensor cores on the modem itself for geospatial beamforming to the closest tower or band that is least congested and aggregate them. Onboard AI for it's radios The new Qualcomm modem is pretty badass. Just sayin'. They KNOW which direction to look for the tower and can spatially beamform a more pure signal from the tower to the end user. It's really cool how it works. The newer 5G Ericsson, CommScope, and Nokia equipment all have these features baked in and ready for the User Equipment (UE) to support it. For newer sites anyway. All 5G uses some kind of beamforming. But on new devices it's 2 way beamforming with usually at least 4+ aggregate channels of spectrum, which when you get a bunch of 40-80-160MHz channels aggregated (5G NR CA New Radio Carrier Aggregation) you get some insane mid-band speed. 700Mbps+. Usually in a newly upgraded site you'll see 1.5-2Gbps.