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I've got the 2022 iPhone SE. It's small, still has a fingerprint reader, and works well.
Yup, such a nice thing. I kinda wish though that the screen was without this weird green tint. And also in my experience the screen scratches far too easily compared to even an old 8.
I ended up moving to an iPhone 12 mini. As much as I liked the original SE form factor, I really appreciated some things like bigger and better screen and face id. I use mine as an mp3 player connected to some speakers at home. If I were in your position I’d just get an iPhone 13 Mini since it’s the last iPhone with a small form factor. Another option is to look for smaller android devices, but i doubt anything will…
You probably mean 13 mini.
It is on discount now on several retailers.
Since apple is dumping the mini, ill switch to an android compact — the zenfone asus looks good right now.
I've been using one since 2016. The recent two years have been a bit tough because of the degraded battery. Swapped a new battery earlier this year, it was good for a while and now it's slow again and barely last a whole day. The last straw was the music player/spotify stuttering while I'm using Safari. I have made up my mind that I won't buy another iPhone due to their design choices in the past years (mainly, remov…
I replaced iPhone batteries in family and friends phones more than 20 times. It's only about $15 and 10-20 minutes of work. Some after market batteries don't last year even a year, some are good for 2 years.
I don't think the battery was bad though, but instead the new iOS version being more power-hungry given the new models and chipsets coming out every year. The new battery was already at 92% health only 4 months after it was installed, which was a bit surprising for me.
At this point I just accepted that it was at the end of its lifespan.
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I replaced iPhone batteries in family and friends phones more than 20 times. It's only about $15 and 10-20 minutes of work. Some after market batteries don't last year even a year, some are good for 2 years.
I actually got it serviced at an apple store, and coincidentally they only had one 1st gen SE battery in stock at that time. I don't think the battery was bad though, but instead the new iOS version being more power-hungry given the new models and chipsets coming out every year. The new battery was already at 92% health only 4 months after it was installed, which was a bit surprising for me. At this point I just acce…
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same. i'm really feeling it now after adopting a dumb phone. recently had an idea: what if we installed small, public computers on city blocks, much in the same way that we did phone booths
You think the fraud tech on ATMs is bad already? Wait until you see what people would do with those computers :)
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Maybe it's more noticeable because this phone has a really tiny battery, but yeah. I actually went through a few adapters to find one that worked, because some of them (e.g. the one Apple makes) actually only wire up a DAC inside the phone to the physical 3.5mm connector. The Palm phone doesn't have a DAC though ... Maybe the one I have (by a company called Baseus, which I've never heard of before) just sucks and it…
The 3.5mm adapters that Apple makes absolutely include a DAC themselves. Not sure where you get the idea that they don't. Both the USB-C and the Lightning versions are all digital on the port side. There are very few USB-C analog -> 3.5mm adapters, strictly because there is so many compatible issues (i.e., you need to support the alternate mode, AND you need to map the pins correctly).
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I do hope to see these numbers get bigger and bigger as the years go on. I feel like expecting 6 years of updates out of the iPhone 4 would have been kind of ridiculous!
I can install a modern build of Linux on a 20 year old computer and expect it to work. Let's not pretend 6 years is some kind of miracle.
I'm happy for your old computer running a distro of linux that still supports 32 bit processors, though.
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Yup, such a nice thing. I kinda wish though that the screen was without this weird green tint. And also in my experience the screen scratches far too easily compared to even an old 8.
I think you’re talking about true tone? You can try turning it off to see if it feels better. It is turned on by default.