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Re: iPhone SE

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Post by arthurcolle »

You guys are crazy. 3D Touch actually makes a screen full of apps useful. Instead of needing to have a million folders that I classify by behavior I can just have apps sprawled across a few screens and then apply a little more force on the app and then get a few actions that are related to the app.

I'm actually shocked that I'm seeing such a Luddite response to something that's objectively better. I agree that the software needs improvement (for example, what makecheck says about deleting apps) and there are a few things that are kind of stupid. For example, one can't move a full window of apps as you can with Android without moving each individual app (which is pretty ridiculous). Apple definitely seems to be falling behind but 3D Touch is a great, solid feature. It was a mistake for them to omit it from this model.

Re: iPhone SE

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Post by bobwaycott »

ino wrote: post #440
makecheck wrote: post #419

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yeah, kb trackpad is pretty much the only thing I knowingly use 3D Touch for. I randomly discovered it months ago, thought it was some confusing but at first, then realized what I'd done. The accuracy has always been slightly disappointing, though. As well as a few other little quirks, like losing its place in long text, getting stuck at the top/bottom without scrolling upward/downward, etc. but overall, pretty handy.

Re: iPhone SE

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Post by lostgame »

giarc wrote: post #209
bliti wrote: post #129

Anybody have any data on pricing? Edit From Techcrunch's post: The iPhone SE will come in two models, 16GB and 64GB, priced at $399 and $499 respectively. Kinda expensive for device that does not feature an SD card slot. :(

No iPhones have ever had an SD card slot. So you are comparing iPhones to phones made by other companies with other operating systems.

There is, however, some weird extension thing that allows you to put SD cards into, but it's limited in what it can save and what apps can save to it.

Re: iPhone SE

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Post by NamTaf »

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.

I don't understand why everyone is ignoring the simple answer that no 3D touch is simply a result of the same 5S screen being used? Presumably 3D touch requires a haptic layer on the screen so if that's not present, it can't exist.

Re: iPhone SE

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Post by duskwuff »

boondaburrah wrote: post #257
duskwuff wrote: post #56

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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.

It was a software thing. Here's the story of how it came to be:

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Boot_Beep.txt

Re: iPhone SE

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Post by wingerlang »

ino wrote: post #440
makecheck wrote: post #419

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's nice, but it could've been done in software. In fact I've used that on my iPhones since probably 2013/2014.

Re: iPhone SE

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Post by wingerlang »

devy wrote: post #307
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…

It's only $60 [1] or less to replace the iPhone NAND Flash Memory from 16GB to 128GB at Shenzhen's Huaqiangbei[2], labor included. Obviously, it's advisable to do the upgrade after your warranty has expired. ;) [1] http://9to5mac.com/2016/02/03/iphone-flash-storage-upgrade-s... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huaqiangbei

Seems irrelevant, it's some district in China and ruins the warranty. Doesn't seem like a good solution at all.

Re: iPhone SE

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Post by bliti »

lostgame wrote: post #613
giarc wrote: post #209

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No iPhones have ever had an SD card slot. So you are comparing iPhones to phones made by other companies with other operating systems.

There is, however, some weird extension thing that allows you to put SD cards into, but it's limited in what it can save and what apps can save to it.

Yes, I worked at a company that developed that for SanDisk. It was pretty nice but requires that extension you mention. I was hoping SanDisk would develop a cover that included the extension and an SD card slot after the project ended.

Re: iPhone SE

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Post by EC1 »

oconnore wrote: post #23
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…

A full 24 hours worth of music (~33 complete albums) at 192 kbps is only 2GB.

Variable mp3's, smaller and higher quality.

Re: iPhone SE

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Post by 1123581321 »

maxaf wrote: post #603
1123581321 wrote: post #575

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I think your math is a bit off. A refurb or MNVO 5S costs about $200 right now. AppleCare costs $99 + $79/replacement up to two on top of the phone. So, if Apple sold you a new 5S for $250, you'd pay $349 for it, $428 if you had to replace it, and $507 if you had to replace it twice. Replacing once sounds nearly breakeven until you factor that the price of a refurb 5S will continue to fall but the deductible on your…

The last 5S I've owned got replaced five (5) times. I'm not joking! Every apple device I've owned since my first PowerBook G4 in 2003 completely justified the purchase of AppleCare.

Wow, okay! You are in a special class; I think my math does apply to the normal curve. :) Isn't that more replacements than AppleCare allows for one policy?
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