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Re: iPhone SE

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Post by vincentkriek »

n0us wrote: post #332
ceejayoz wrote: post #60

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Sure, but music isn't really the sticking point anymore. Infinity Blade 3 is 1.7 GB. A single photo takes up more space than a song from an album. 40 minutes worth of 4k video maxes out the device (and that's optimistically assuming the apps that come with the phone don't take up any space).

For people like me who have no video, no games, and minimal music on their phones it's perfectly fine. I mostly just use a few messaging apps, instagram, snapchat, facebook, etc. The audience on HackerNews probably utilizes the space on their phones much more than the average consumer.

Pictures and movies are a huge factor for the average consumer. Every iphone owner in my family complains about lack of storage due to pictures taken.

Re: iPhone SE

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Post by mentando »

jonathantm wrote: post #601
jandrese wrote: post #425

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It's cheaper to get the $100 upgrade to 64G. Bigger data plans get expensive in a hurry here. Given that you're using a phone for at least a couple of years, paying an extra $40/month for the big data plan vs. $100 up front for enough storage not to need the upgrade just doesn't make sense. Of course if Apple didn't have to skimp so badly on the base phone the upgrade wouldn't be necessary. Shame so many Android phon…

Also apps using sd for storage is on an app by app basis. So say if Google turns that off for Play Music - as it seems they just did - well, now I have to cancel my subscription for that service and find something else to use my 64gb sd for. ffs.

I would imagine that you can still move your music to the SDCard, even if the app itself cannot be moved.

I don't know, since I do not use one, but at least for Spotify it is possible (as tested by my brother).

Re: iPhone SE

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Post by p1esk »

dkonofalski wrote: post #490
ino wrote: post #440

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

Pardon my ignorance, but what do you mean by "keyboard trackpad"? Is this on iOS or what? Edit : HOLY WHAT!?! How did I not know that this exists?!?! I just figured it out. If you didn't know what it is, like me, then pull up any place where you can input text. Type something in and then Force Touch anywhere on the keyboard while it's showing. Your cursor will move with your finger like a trackpad. That's amazing.

Test

Re: iPhone SE

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Post by sjwright »

mattlutze wrote: post #660
madeofpalk wrote: post #535

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But it should also be noted there's a difference of importance between the discoverability for basic functions, like opening apps or moving the cursor 'regularly' in a text field. Then you have the discoverability of the shortcuts, or 'power user' features which you can do without Of course, this is all on a grade. Control Centre has a medium-low discoverability (given only a visual hint on the lock screen), and is m…

This keyboard movement business is far from less necessary -- moving a cursor in text the traditional way, with that wonky magnifying glass and terrible snapping precision, can be borderline infuriating.

They could pop up a suggestion/tutorial the first time a user tries to refine a selection repeatedly?

Re: iPhone SE

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Post by tdkl »

prodmerc wrote: post #485
Someone1234 wrote: post #184

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Plus battery life is the first thing to go when they aim for thinness. I know they've improved battery life in the SE, but still, overall the trend is thinner with a smaller capacity battery (but more efficient components, so you ultimately break even). I have a phone with a 3100 mAh battery @ 5.1" 1080p, it isn't the thinnest phone around, but boy does it last three or four days. It is super nice. We need more phone…

> I have a phone with a 3100 mAh battery @ 5.1" 1080p Which one's that? Sounds like a dream phone for me :)

Sounds like something modern from Xiaomi line. You can get flagship specs for around 300$ with SD/dual SIM slot and +3000mAh battery.

Re: iPhone SE

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Post by mattlutze »

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…

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1385624?start=0 (Find Nathan C's answer)

If the math is still accurate and figure half your storage is music (7GB) we're talking 750-1750 songs. At 2.5 minute average runtime, 750 songs would be ~78 minutes of music per hour over 24 hours. So, you could skip 5 songs and still fill an entire day. And if you figure average 4 minute runtime like that poster did, that's 125 minutes of music per hour, or skipping 1/2 of the songs that come up.

A lot of folks aren't power users and don't need big storage on the phone. It's okay to offer them an option.

Re: iPhone SE

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Post by hkmurakami »

I was really really hoping for the 5c plastic body. It was great being able to drop the phone and not have to worry about the screen shattering on the vast majority of drops.

Re: iPhone SE

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Post by yoz-y »

CydeWeys wrote: post #383
yoz-y wrote: post #64

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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.

Discoverability is incredibly important though. I can see it being useful in games, but there's no reason it should be a core part of how normal apps function since it's not discoverable. Your average user is using over a dozen apps; absent UI clues, there's no way they are going to know which parts of each of the many different screens in each app can interact with it, and what specifically it'll do.

So far I have yet to discover an application that has a 3D touch function which is inaccessible otherwise. For me, the good use of the tech is shortcuts: It is great to force touch fantastical icon and directly create a new event rather than opening the app, going to the correct screen and then tapping the new event option. A lot of features on PCs have discoverability problems, I have, for example, encountered a few people that did not know the Ctrl/Cmd+A shortcut. But such features reward power users. I do not think that we can, at the same time, complain that the applications are getting dumbed down and oppose the additions of advanced, albeit hidden features.

Re: iPhone SE

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Post by sjwright »

benologist wrote: post #140
nharada wrote: post #109

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Have you considered gaining weight?

"You're eating it wrong", said Steve.

(Had he said that, it would have been a remarkably ironic comment, as he spent years fighting his oft-survivable pancreatic cancer not with the best current science, but with the healing power of a high fruit diet. A terrible diet for anyone, but also a particularly terrible diet for managing cancer, being very high in fructose. By the time he finally started taking the advice of cancer experts, it was too late.)

Re: iPhone SE

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Post by distances »

repsilat wrote: post #635
distances wrote: post #189

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Always the same excuse that doesn't even hold up. * US population density: 35/km2 * Finland population density: 18/km2 It's not about the size of the country, it's because in Europe the infrastructure owners are required to let others in [1]. In US the operators are natural monopolies with very little incentives for competition. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_virtual_network_operato...

Finland has a higher proportion of urban residents than the US. The US is also known for its huge number of small and mid-sized cities and population spread all over the country, whereas (proportionately) more of Finland is essentially empty.

That may be true but doesn't really factor in to the discussion of coverage and competition: even if essentially empty, Finland is still covered. Coverage maps for the two biggest operators:

* Sonera: http://www.sonera.fi/asiakastuki/verkkokartat/kuuluvuuskartt...

* Elisa: http://elisa.fi/kuuluvuus

Notice how 4G already covers almost half of Finland, and 3G basically everything excluding larger swaths of forest.

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