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Re: iPhone SE

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Post by baddox »

yoz-y wrote: post #64
Negitivefrags wrote: post #52

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It's because Apple has realised 3D touch is bad and it's also a very expensive feature to add to a phone. The real question is if they will admit it was a misstep by removing it from their flagship model or just keep pretending and keep it in. Companies really hate admitting they were wrong so my bet is that they are stuck with it for the forseeable future.

Says who? 3D touch is an awesome addition. Granted it has discoverability problems but I think that adding a new dimension to the interaction is great. It is a nice way to avoid a cluttered interface while providing advanced power-user functionality.

I think it's a pretty cool input mechanism that could be used well, but I find Peak and Pop to be completely useless. What is the point of peaking? It's too slow for previewing a webpage. If you peak at a full-width photo (e.g. in a Facebook or Twitter feed) the preview isn't any bigger. I don't get it. It's always faster to just click the thing and swipe back to get back.

Re: iPhone SE

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Post by kylec »

cm2187 wrote: post #414
kylec wrote: post #390

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I don't think this counts, as the Lightning connector retained the same functionality as the 30-pin connector. Sure, you can't connect old 30-pin cables or accessories without an adapter, but no functionality was lost.

One could say the same of the audio jack

There's a subtle distinction though - the 30-pin connector and the Lightning connector can only be used to connect to or from an iOS device. If Apple removed the headphone jack and encouraged people to buy Lighting headphones instead, those headphones could not be used to connect to anything else other than an iOS device, and you would not be able to use any of the headphones that use the standard connector on the new device. Basically, the 30-pin to Lightning changeover swapped one proprietary port for another, and did not change any of the potential use cases for that connector.

Re: iPhone SE

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Post by kgwgk »

donutz wrote: post #411
lathiat wrote: post #291

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it does it for you, if your phone starts getting full you'll notice apps randomly switch icon and name to Clearing or something like that quite a bit.

Can't tell if testing my gullibility or you actually believe your phone does this. :-/

https://marco.org/2011/10/13/ios5-caches-cleaning

Re: iPhone SE

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Post by delecti »

ihsw wrote: post #312
mmanfrin wrote: post #281

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They are; they went from the 6 to the 6p and 5x; the 5x is smaller than both 6 and 6p.

But the Nexus 5X is larger than the Nexus 5. Comparing the 5X with the 6 and 6P is disingenuous -- the numbers refer to the phone size, not generation number.

I think that was the point. They went up to 6" and then took a step back and released a ~5" and a ~6" model the next year.

Granted I thought the 5X was too big, considering the 5 was already pushing that limit, but still.

Re: iPhone SE

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Post by grey-area »

mrweasel wrote: post #338
bydo wrote: post #328

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Note that the price in Denmark includes VAT, whereas the price in the US is before any taxes. Though which comparable device would you suggest at a similar price point?

>Though which comparable device would you suggest at a similar price point? I wouldn't know, I won't pay above $30 to $40 for a phone or above $10 per month for my cellular plan. While a phone/smartphone is insanely useful, I just don't think the price is justified.

People don't buy smartphones to use them as a phone. Think of that as a secondary function to a global internet device and the price makes a bit more sense if you value internet everywhere and want power/battery/screen size etc. If you don't, stick with a normal phone.

Re: iPhone SE

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Post by sosborn »

giarc wrote: post #105
fiatpandas wrote: post #72

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Yes I understand 7 is going to be bigger than the 5S/SE size. I'm willing to go bigger if there something really compelling about the 7, so I want to wait. (and 4 is stuck on iOS 7)

What about the SE doesn't appeal to you then?

OP didn't say that the SE doesn't appeal to him/her, just that they prefer to wait to see what the 7 brings.

Re: iPhone SE

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Post by tedmiston »

jayflux wrote: post #96
scope wrote: post #70

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> couldn't thumb around... Double tapping the home button makes the top of the screen reachable That being said, I too still use iPhone 5S & I don't think I'll make the switch, 4K video & 2nd generation Touch ID are nice but I WANT 3D Touch. I understand why they're not there yet --- they had to shove some of the battery on the 6S to fit in the 3D hardware. EDIT: seems they stuck with the first generation Touch ID? (…

So THATS what it's doing! I thought it was a bug.. TIL

You can also disable it in settings if you accidentally activate it regularly like I did.

Re: iPhone SE

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Post by klunger »

Meanwhile, did anyone else find it hilarious that folders were pointed out as one of the great new feature upgrades for Apple TV?

Re: iPhone SE

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Post by pix64 »

Doctor_Fegg wrote: post #57
afreak wrote: post #10

$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…

checks Settings->General->Storage I've got 5GB free on my 16GB phone. You've explained why 16GB is not a good fit for you, but that doesn't mean it's not a good fit for anyone.

Using 20GB on an android phone without any music.

Re: iPhone SE

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Post by ino »

makecheck wrote: post #419
tsunamifury wrote: post #35

No 3D touch is a very odd fragmentation. You'd think they'd want to shore up their devices to be completely compatible with this across the spectrum to motivate developers to use it as a key part of their UX. Now when only X So your apps have to optionally use 3D Touch, Pencil, adaptive layout, fingerprint, and several other interactions that only cover fractions of their hardware line.

You know, until you mentioned it just now, I’d forgotten my phone even has 3D Touch. It had been literally weeks since I last thought to use force-touch for anything, mostly because there is zero indication where it will work. And it is half-baked in the sense that when I do activate 3D Touch, it’s usually by accident. It is almost the same gesture as deleting apps on the home screen! I go to delete an app, press-and…

Start using the keyboard trackpad for moving the cursor, selecting and deleting words, paragraphs or the whole text input. It's the killer app.
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