Ironic that there are so many iPhones but such little diversity in the design. It went from "Think Different" to "Conformity & Comfort".
iPhone 17e
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Re: iPhone 17e
#142My mother still has an old iPhone because it fits her hand. They don't seem to get this anymore.
Smaller phones aren't great for older people because of the increased font size that they use. They can barely fit a sentence onto the screen.
Re: iPhone 17e
#143Still holding onto my 13 mini. Dreaming of another small form factor release one of these announcements.. :'}
Yeah, I wish they would commit to doing a mini every x years. Last year I bought a 16 and this year I bought an Air. I returned both after just a few days. I can't reach across the phone with my thumb, meaning I can't use it one-handed.
The new phones have some neat tricks (satellite connectivity comes to mind), but the on-device AI seems pretty mediocre and I value pocketability and one-handed usability more than the new gizmos.
When I asked myself if I would rather keep the new Air or go back to my 13 mini with an extra thousand dollars in my pocket, it was no contest.
Re: iPhone 17e
#144Re: iPhone 17e
#145Still holding onto my 13 mini. Dreaming of another small form factor release one of these announcements.. :'}
People make fun of me but I'll never skip a chance to complain about how large these phones are. I hate it so much. I have a standard iPhone, not a max, and it causes real pain in my wrist if I use it too much. Was honestly thinking about downgrading to the last SE model even though it's several years out of date.
I have found the iPhone Air much easier to hold than the iPhone 13 Pro it replaced because of how light it is, even though the iPhone Air has a bigger screen.
Re: iPhone 17e
#146Still holding onto my 13 mini. Dreaming of another small form factor release one of these announcements.. :'}
Still loving mine as well. I held out with the 2016 SE for 8 years. Sadly it's looking like I might have to do that again with the 13 mini! It boggles my mind that Apple thinks it's worthwhile to sell the 16, 17, 17 Pro, and 17e all in basically the exact same form factor. And then the Air and Max in very similar form factors. Vary it up! I don't need a new mini every year, but something in the 5.4" form factor every…
Get an SE 3rd gen!
Re: iPhone 17e
#147> and double the starting storage at 256GB Is massive storage on a mobile device really still a thing that's important? I'm saying this as someone with 512GB, but I just checked and I'm using 85GB at the moment, including the OS. Photos and videos are the likely reason why the phones have so much storage, but these days both apple and google offer decent cloud backup solutions which negates the need for massive on-de…
If you've never used an iPhone near it's storage limit, I wouldn't wish it on you.
Performance nosedives, then it starts bootlooping randomly, and eventually you can't even delete stuff because there's no space to delete things.
You resort to randomly trying to remove apps, but sometimes that fails because of the stability issues.
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The only reason I replaced my 12 Pro was storage, and I made up my mind never to skimp on storage again.
That phone lasted me 5 years and could easily have gone several more, so I see it as an extremely cheap investment across the lifetime of the phone.
Re: iPhone 17e
#148It looks like the only changes are 256GB, OLED, MagSafe, A19 and C1X. Anything else of note?
Pink!
Re: iPhone 17e
#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
SE 3rd gen here as my daily driver. Small form factor and Touch ID. The perfect iPhone IMO. Not looking forward to having to settle for those comically large phones with Face ID for my next one.
I get that getting rid of touchid haptic eliminates dead space but still blows my mind they couldn't or refused to figure out screen-based touch id as an option at least. Samsung has it...
Under-screen fingerprint readers are definitely inferior - slower and less reliable. I (Android user) wish they'd revert to back-of-device readers, which were amazing.
(I also wish for smaller screens and no-adhesive battery swaps though, neither of which seems likely to happen.)
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#150> and double the starting storage at 256GB Is massive storage on a mobile device really still a thing that's important? I'm saying this as someone with 512GB, but I just checked and I'm using 85GB at the moment, including the OS. Photos and videos are the likely reason why the phones have so much storage, but these days both apple and google offer decent cloud backup solutions which negates the need for massive on-de…
Unfortunately yes. Some mobile games are 30+ GB (and this is probably the major reason for increasing minimum storage), high-res videos take any amount of space and are slow to sync with cloud, in-app downloaded data caches are routinely 2-5 GB each in addition to apps themselves.