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Apple iPhone 13 review: The most incremental upgrade ever

The new iPhone is 10 per cent faster than the last one, and the photos are slightly better. So then what's special about it?

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The fact that the smartphone has plateaued is not a bad thing. It means you can enjoy the one you have for years to come without missing out on anything major

Brian X Chen | NYT
The truth is that smartphones peaked a few years ago.

After so many advances, the miniature computers have reached incredible speeds, their screens have become bigger and brighter, and their cameras produce images that make amateur photographers look like wizards.

The problem with so much great innovation is that upgrades are now so iterative that it has become difficult to know what to write about them each year. That’s especially the case with Apple’s iPhone 13, which may be the most incremental update ever to the iPhone.

The newest iPhone is just 10 per cent faster than last year’s models. (For context, in