What does SE mean?
"Settle for Ergonomic"
iPhone SE
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Re: iPhone SE
#252Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
As an aside how in the world is Tinder 1.5 gigs?
I think iOS has this application caching issue. Apps seem to always be caching data to the storage, but there is no option to erase, or remove it as needed.
Re: iPhone SE
#253Here'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.
That's why I've been desperately holding on to my Nexus 4! It is the perfect size.
I've been holding on to my S4 mini for years now. Samsung keeps growing the size of the phones in their Mini line which is ridiculous. If you keep increasing the size of the phone it stops being "mini" at some point and becomes just an expensive, underpowered, flagship lookalike.
Re: iPhone SE
#254Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Some of the features you get from it are nice little quality-of-life things though, like quick app switching. You can quickly switch apps using 3D Touch? How?
Force-press the left edge of the screen, then swipe to the right. It can take a little bit of practice to get a hang of it. I find kinda rolling my thumb works well to trigger it. Swiping all the way across goes to the last app, just partway opens up the app switcher.
Wow that's amazing. I'll use this so much now.
Re: iPhone SE
#255$399 USD is great, but why are we still stuck with 16 GB of storage on base model phones? You can barely put a day's worth of music on your phone and you cannot always stream via services like Spotify. Spotify accounts for 2 GB of traffic per month on my phone and some plans are barely affordable when you want more than that--fortunately I can do up to 6 GB before I am traffic shaped, but that isn't the say the same…
16GB is enought for me. I don't watch movies, I don't listen to much music and I don't install apps. Just a phone with some basic apps and internet connections.
I also think 4 inches is decent size for my pocket.
I think I'll buy my first iPhone soon. Good job, Apple.
Re: iPhone SE
#256Just in time! My iPhone 6 just broke and its about time to get a new one. I have no problems going back to a smaller phone if it still carries the class and power of the phones that have recently come out. Not to mention the price makes me happy as well :)
Re: iPhone SE
#257Earlier quoted context omitted.
Complete with the loud BING as the startup sound?
Not to burst your bubble, but the sampled startup sounds didn't come until after the SE. The SE just went BEEEEEEEEEP .
Yeah but the beep had an envelope to it. There was definitely a strong attack followed by a less-than-square wave rather than a uniform beep. Though whether that was part of the sample (which the mac SE definitely could've played) or an artifact of some analogue circuitry I don't know.
Re: iPhone SE
#258$399 USD is great, but why are we still stuck with 16 GB of storage on base model phones? You can barely put a day's worth of music on your phone and you cannot always stream via services like Spotify. Spotify accounts for 2 GB of traffic per month on my phone and some plans are barely affordable when you want more than that--fortunately I can do up to 6 GB before I am traffic shaped, but that isn't the say the same…
iPhones would be amazing if it could be expanded with microSD!
Re: iPhone SE
#259I remember Jobs talking about never making a larger phone. I really wonder if it was a case of him caring about "taste" over "giving people what they want." There was some leaked Apple internal document where they said that people wanted larger phones. The post-Jobs Apple created larger phones to meet market demands. One thing that always makes me giggle, though, is the fact that if you double tap the home button the…
This is a user preference thing. I cannot stand using the smaller sized iPhones, my fingers and thumbs are too large to accurately use the screen. My vision isn't very good either so I wind up having to squint and/or hold small phones very close to my face.
I love my gigantic Nexus 6, some people hate it. I like that I can make the text big and still see enough of it on one screen. I can accurately input text, and comfortably hold the phone in my hand.
At this point if somebody told me that my large phone was a poor user experience and I had to use a smaller phone, I would be very upset.
Re: iPhone SE
#260Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Please, someone provided me a single rational and irrefutable argument for there even being a 16 GB version.