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This is exactly the phone my wife wants to upgrade from her showing-its-age, 5-year-old 6S. It'll fit into her existing case. It's not too big. It's affordable. It still has a home button. She's hardly a power user, so this might be the one phone she gets for the next five year, too.
She won't be able to re-use the same phone case because of the bigger camera lens size in SE.
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I too used to buy phones based on their hardware specs. Then I got frustrated that I had to buy a new device every 2 years just to get a software update. My 5 year old iPhone got iOS 13.4 at the same time as everyone else.
I'm sorry but if you're looking to use the same phone for 5 years then you're an absolute minority. Smartphone medium progresses really quick - 5 years is a very very long period of time. Even for laptops - a relative ancient medium that has very little new meaningful inovation - 5 years is still a long time.
People want their durable goods to last. Stats have shown that people have been keeping their smartphones longer for the past handful of years as the technology is maturing. This will continue as tech improves, just like it has for every other durable good.
Compared to my first gen SE, I'd like the faster processor, better camera and better battery life. But I'm not sure I'm willing to go up in size and weight, and get the rounded edges that make it even harder to grip one-handed. For me, a bigger screen isn't a plus - after years of following the trend and being on my phone more and more, I managed to kick the habit and I'm very happy that my phone has now found its ri…
I'm with you here, I went through a period of moving to feature phones and ditching the smart watch to reduce the phone back to utility rather than a distraction. But feature phones, even those running kaiOS, just don't have the support for communication tools and things like 2fa authenticator apps. I eventually went for an iPhone SE (2016) in the last year, after it was discontinued and managed to get a boxed, new u…
Once _Settings - Battery_ indicates you need a new one, the $59 (or equivalent) that Apple charges is well worth it. You will also likely notice a performance increase as well!
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I've had smart phones for over a decade, and a mobile phone for 2, I can't think of any point when I've needed water resistance. I have however had a smashed screen once, and the bigger a phone is, the harder it is to hold, the more likely the screen will smash The old macbooks were great with the maglock power lead not pulling them off the desk. I believe new ones have downgraded the connector?
> The old macbooks were great with the maglock power lead not pulling them off the desk. I believe new ones have downgraded the connector? I have been using this Magnetic USB C Adapter and am very happy with it: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0816PV1YZ/
The risk is probably not worth it.
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It doesn't seem that bizarre to me. If something can be improved ex post facto, it seems more bizarre to me that this wasn't a thing sooner.
Headphones are purely electromechanical devices. They don't need software, except for silly contrived reasons.
Automatically that view is disqualified because we are talking about Bluetooth headphones; there must be software on them to communicate efficiently with paired devices.
AirPods receive firmware updates to make adjustments to the audio, and AirPods Pro receive further updates to make adjustments to balance audio quality and the way the noise cancellation works in order to make sure that the AirPods fit properly in peoples' ears.
I don't know that (A) connectivity, (B) audio quality, and (C) fitting in peoples' ears are contrived in any way.
Currently I have an iPhone 6. I considered going to an iPhone 11 in the next few months until the iPhone SE was announced. I like that the SE can fit in my pocket as easily as my current phone. The price is also attractive, although I tend to keep phones until they become too slow and battery life becomes an issue. However, I'm frustrated constantly by typing on it. Just typing a couple of sentences in a text message…
I've never had an issue with pocketability even with the largest phones on the market. I don't really understand the problem. Do you have really tiny pockets?
There's a good reason why Apple aren't making the small form factor phone lots of you are asking for: logistics. The new SE requires very little new manufacturing capacity. The case and probably battery are from the iPhone 8; the CPU/GPU/SOC and most of the rest of the electronics are from the iPhone 11; the camera still seems to be a slightly unknown quantity but the specs suggest it has a lot in common with the iPh…
I'm not sure you understand what you're saying. The chips are quite a lot more efficient than they were in iPhone 5/8. You might have to scale back slightly on frequency for both power and thermal design but it won't be close to the water through sieve metaphor you put in.