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Here's hoping that they'll include something like this in the Google Nexus lineup. They keep growing the phones, but my pocket is the same size.
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I would be surprised and I'm curious too. I always assumed a barometer was how the iPhone measures flights of stairs climbed without expensive GPS calculations.
I think you can pretty easily distinguish stairs climbed using just the accelerometer, but I could be way off. I'd be impressed if a barometer had enough resolution to indicate smaller (~10ft) altitude changes.
I wonder if reverting to the iPhone 5 design indicates that the design of the 6 is viewed as a flop by Apple. I've dropped my 6+ so many times that I love the design (it's indestructible) but perhaps Apple's market research is showing that some people love the look of their 5 and are avoiding upgrading for that reason.
If they made a 4" phone with the design of the 6, perfect.
So, 6mm longer than the iPhone 4, but 1.7mm thinner. And with an A9 processor. Seems like a good size - I haven't cared for their "thinness at all costs" trend lately, as it makes the phone hard to hold onto. This appears to be much more hand-friendly.
I immediately thought "Secure Edition" when I read the title...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_trim_nomenclature
(* that is, you don't really need to know that SEL stands for Sonderklasse Einspritzung (Lange) to know it comes with something more than an SL).
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It's Apple being petty (price segmentation), basically. How much does 16Gb cost today, $10?
I see it as a rather significant error on their part. And to be honest, I am not quite sure why there has not been a massive revolt by app developers, content creators, and companies in general. With the OS taking up a huge chunk of that 16GB and basic functionality like messaging taking up another 700MB-1.5GB, and not even counting photos and videos than can almost take up infinite amounts of storage; little is left…
On a 4in screen? Nope, I don't.
> If you want a decent sized music selection
I don't. I listen to music at home, from my desktop. I don't really have a use case for listening to it on the road.
> I, as a 16 GB iPhone user, would not be able to download or keep various apps on my phone that would be available for use if I had to trade off with taking pictures of my life
Sure. So don't buy a 16GB iPhone.
It's ok that there are phones that don't suit your needs, as long as there are also phones that do. Moving the base-level storage to 64GB has a cost, and assuming that Apple is determined to keep its industry-leading margins - and why wouldn't they? - then I don't want to pay that cost for 48GB of storage I don't need.
It's fine that the 16GB model is not for you. It really is. You don't have to call people bastards because they made a phone you don't want to buy.