Radio is the only kind we can send at our technology level. Any electromagnetic signal (this includes radio) we send decreases in power with the square of the distance.

There is a caption, with an arrow pointing at the blue dot that reads “200 light years in diameter.”

The Earth is only about 8,000 miles in diameter.

The arrow isn’t pointing at the box.

Therefore the blue dot is a volume of space 200 light-years in diameter.

Can you point me to a specific claim of sturdiness in an ad?

All smart phones that have Qi charging (which is practically all of them, including the version of Qi charging Apple calls “MagSafe”) will have to have either a glass or plastic back so the magnetic field of the charger can “couple” to the coil in the back of the phone to transfer power to it. It’s inescapable.

I’ve owned several models of iPhone (3G, 4, 5s, 6s, 8), encased all of them, dropped each multiple times, even on concrete—and never broken a single one. You need a case.

The fronts and backs of iPhones are glass, and glass can still break when struck hard enough.

I have to be familiar with those models to note the OS will have differences OP won’t like and a technically faster clock speed doesn’t automatically translate to a faster phone because Google can’t optimize for a greater variety of processors whereas Apple can optimize for a small handful of processors?

You could…maybe…visit two stores? What, specifically, do you need to compare in the exact same time and place?

> So I have to keep looking for an electronics store with both.

Why both? You’re already familiar with Android. A store isn’t going to let you install benchmark software on two new phones; going to a store would be about figuring out if iOS is acceptable to you.

You need to explore a “try before you buy” strategy. A borrowed iPhone, a second-hand one, perhaps spend a couple hours at an Apple Store exploring one and asking a lot of questions…something.

> I want to try iPhone because it’s something new I have never owned, not because androids are slow etc.

In my opinion, switching ecosystems purely out of curiosity is a waste of time and money.

I switched from Windows to Mac not out of curiosity, but because I was thoroughly dissatisfied with Windows.

Are you dissatisfied with Android/Samsung?

> Thank for the answers, I would appreciate non biased discussion.

You started this thread biased:

>It costs 1.5x the price of S22 Ultra which has more features and better HW.

If the “better” hardware (?) is running software not really optimized for it, it’s wasted hardware. It’s spending too many cycles parsing excess code. iPhones, with their optimized code, can run a number of benchmarks faster. You might even be eyeing a more expensive model of iPhone than you would really need. Few who believe themselves to be “power users” actually are.

Moreover, features implemented first are not automatically features implemented best.

> S20 FE 4g

> S22 Ultra

What do these mean, exactly? I’m assuming these are models from…Samsung?

> I know stores like Book Depository offer free shipping internationally on books as cheap as $10…

Businesses can get better rates for shipping than individuals.

Also, from the USPS web site:

> First-Class Package International Service

>Affordable Lightweight Shipping

>First-Class Package International Service (FCPIS) is an economical way to send lightweight packages to about 180 countries. Packages can weigh up to 4 lbs (64 oz) and contain goods up to $400 in value. Other restrictions may apply based on the destination country. First-Class Package International Service includes Electronic USPS Delivery Confirmation® International (E-USPS DELCON INTL®) when you ship online to select countries, although certain limitations may apply. Prices start at $14.85.

If any picture actually cried out for a banana for scale, it’s this one.

Except the Moon rotates, so that temperature shift goes around the Moon every 28 days. Apart from a few deep craters at the poles (if they’re deep enough, there might be water ice at the bottom of those craters), all of the lunar surface experiences both extremes of temperature.

Alternative medicine once again on its way to becoming medicine. Because if natural Salicylic acid were still somehow better for you we would still be chewing Willow bark instead of taking two aspirin.

The Closer is awesome. Kyra Sedgwick plays a CIA-trained interrogator who is hired by the LAPD because of her reputation for closing cases: she notices things other people don’t even realize they’re revealing. But when she isn’t solving a case, she’s navigating being a perennial outsider at the LAPD and her personal relationships with as little aplomb as the rest of us.

What’s the copyright date?