Went to the Apple Store the other day, on the 3rd St., Promenade, and handled the new iPhone and iPhone Pro Titan, some thoughts:

First, on the iPhone Pro the screen is incredibly impressive. Extremely bright, perhaps the best display on the planet. Insanely smooth.

Handling the phone without a case, as it should be, it was interesting to feel the groove in the notch on the bottom of the camera bump. Almost like a place to put your index finger to it. However, the phone still feels very slippery.

On the standard iPhone, the simple black one, the on the back is much nicer. It feels more matte.

The iPhone Pro, everything feels insanely snappy, no lag.

However my critique:

I am the biggest Apple fan boy that I know, yet I don’t really feel a strong urge to buy one. Even though I could afford hundreds of them!

What *should* a phone be?

I think I pretty much have my heart set on this notion that having a standalone camera as far as superior than having an iPhone camera. This is nothing bad to say about the iPhone camera, it is a great camera, and I think for color photography it is very impressive. However for grainy gritty black-and-white, to simulate the look of film, a standalone digital camera is better. For example, either a Ricoh GR camera, or even a Lumix G9 camera.