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Well, it is hardly a necessity too.


$150 phones have better refresh rates. Once you get used to the better rates, it will spoil any scrolling on 60 Hz screens.


> Once you get used to the better rates

I suspect everyone who upgrades from a $150 120Hz phone to a new iPhone will be thrilled.


With that take Apple would still putting 32gb on the base models.


I prefer to have two days battery of heavy used phone than few hours of smooth scrolling.


Screens drop to 1hz when not being interacted with. On _modern_ devices, at least.

This is just Apple maximising profit as usual, pushing people up the endless tiers of their product families.


I used a 14 pro for 3 months before going back to 13 mini. The screen was definitely nicer on the former but I have no actual issues with the little one. Maybe because I don't wildly flick through social media feeds very much?


It seems like 120hz is mainly designed for doomscrolling.


At the cost of worse UX in every other dimension, sure.


This is great. Now people can have superior scrolling experience at much lower price than iPhone.


Since I scroll quite a lot, I prefer to have a better experience with this very basic and common activity. Apple claims to provide the best experience, while it clearly does not.


If you spend less time scrolling on your phone, you will have a better experience.


It's REALLY nice, though. I immediately notice if I switch my android from 120hz to 60hz. Even cheap Samsung models have high hz screens now.


The vast majority of people cannot even see a difference.


Literally anyone picked off the street will notice jumping from 60hz to 120hz after maybe, I don't know, 2 seconds of swiping around.

You have it backwards. Nobody is pro gaming on an iPhone. That high refresh rate doesn't have a real, practical purpose. It just looks really really good and immediately grabs your eye - it's candy.


They can't notice motion smoothing either.


The current top comment talks about how an average person "can't tell the difference between LCD and OLED" and I was shaking my head. While I got used to LCD again after having OLED for a few years, it took multiple months for me to stop noticing the faux-gray dark patches. It makes a real difference and you instantly see it when you hold phones side by side with a screen or picture that includes any dark section. If you know what to look for, you can also tell at a glance without a side-by-side comparison

> Literally anyone picked off the street will notice jumping from 60hz to 120hz after maybe, I don't know, 2 seconds of swiping around.

But frame rates? I was curious to see what the hype was about and walked over to the phones section in a nearby tech store when I was there to buy something unrelated. Side by side, I just cannot tell the difference. I'm swiping fast and slow but I cannot tell whether one is smoother or if that's my brain doing this placebo thing. I'd be very curious if I can tell in a blind test. Perhaps I could, but it's so close that I really don't see the point of making a big deal out of selecting for screen refresh rate, for myself at least


There are three types of people when it comes to OLED/fast refresh rates.

1) OMG! What an upgrade! I will never own another phone without this! 2) Eh, I see what the difference is. I don’t care/it isn’t worth the price. 3) What are you talking about? I don’t see any difference.

2 and 3 combined are probably the majority of people. The first post is literally about his girlfriend not noticing screen differences. There are plenty of people like that.


> There are plenty of people like that

No, no there aren't because fast refresh rate is painfully obvious. I'm talking within a second, maybe fractions of a second, you will notice. Because every single animation is affected.

It's one thing to say it's a small change, or not a big deal, or not worth it (I'd even agree). It's another to say you can't notice it. No... you can definitely notice it.


Yeah, like with 24 Hz right.




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