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Re: The Best iPhone

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Post by eyelidlessness »

rpgbr wrote: post #23

I knew I wasn't the only one fond of small, cheap-but-great phones! :) Btw, this is my first post in English. I cover tech here in Brazil for +10 years and run a +9 years old independent, self-sustainable publication written in Portuguese. Now, I decided to give it a shot in another language, despite still feeling uncomfortable with my English. (I hope I haven't misspelled anything!) If you enjoyed this brief iPhone…

Your English is excellent, and I was surprised to learn that it’s not your first language!

Re: The Best iPhone

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Post by skaber »

jen729w wrote: post #64
LeoPanthera wrote: post #12

I bought a Mini with great excitement, thinking that it would take me back to the glory of the "my phone fits my my pocket and I can type with one hand" days. I kept it for 3 months, and then traded it in for a Pro. It turns out that the world has moved on. Web pages are getting harder to read on small screens. I had to squint a lot. The phone's short height means that it often doesn't charge "vertically" in Qi charg…

13 Mini lover here. I find the small screen an advantage, because it makes me less likely to look at web pages on it. I'm actively trying to use my phone less, while not pretending that living modern life without a phone is essentially impossible. When I do succumb to my own weakness and look at something on the tiny screen, I often think, meh, this isn't great, just do something else!

Fully agree with you. I need the practicality of a smartphone but want to reduce screen time. The 13 mini forces me to use my laptop if I want to read or perform a task.

Re: The Best iPhone

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Post by emeril »

rpgbr wrote: post #23

I knew I wasn't the only one fond of small, cheap-but-great phones! :) Btw, this is my first post in English. I cover tech here in Brazil for +10 years and run a +9 years old independent, self-sustainable publication written in Portuguese. Now, I decided to give it a shot in another language, despite still feeling uncomfortable with my English. (I hope I haven't misspelled anything!) If you enjoyed this brief iPhone…

still rocking my iPhone se 1st gen (though I painstakingly had to change the battery on my own at the beginning of the pandemic...)

it's even smaller than the newer ones!

Re: The Best iPhone

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Post by Aeolun »

When I went looking for a phone for my wife, the only requirement was that it was ‘not too big’.

In a whole store full of smartphones, this left literally two options. The iPhone SE, and some weird Chinese tiny model.

I’m just sad that everything needs to be so huge…

Re: The Best iPhone

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Post by cyberlurker »

thom wrote: post #103

I upgraded to the 13 Pro Max from the 8 Plus and I’m still annoyed several times a day by interactions that are strictly worse without the touch sensor. Today it was because you used to be able to unlock just by holding your phone with your thumb on the sensor. But now you have to raise it to your face, hope it works after a couple of goes with your sunglasses on, and then even when it does you have to swipe up to se…

I also miss the fingerprint sensor. It’s fast and effective. I wish they would add it to the power button or if they can improve the tech, under the screen.

Re: The Best iPhone

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Post by Aeolun »

jsjohnst wrote: post #139
rpgbr wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, some iPhones work with masks — my girlfriend's iPhone 11 doesn't. Gloves aren't necessary here :) I live in the (allegedly) Brazil's coldest state capital, Curitiba, and you can get through winter here without them.

> Gloves aren't necessary here Gloves are used in more scenarios than just cold weather, motorcycle gloves for one example.

Wearing motorcycle gloves would make it impossible to touch anything on your screen anyway?

Re: The Best iPhone

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Post by culi »

I wish the "buy it for life" movement had real momentum in phones. No I don't want some super modular phone that could be upgraded as parts wear out. I don't have anything against those, but I'd like my phone to actually be waterproof...

What I want is something with the build quality of an iPhone. Something so well made that they get the same battery life as other smartphones despite having half the battery size. But something that I can trust will last a really long time. But everything about the phone industry seems specifically structured against that possibility

Re: The Best iPhone

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Post by paul7986 »

rpgbr wrote: post #23

I knew I wasn't the only one fond of small, cheap-but-great phones! :) Btw, this is my first post in English. I cover tech here in Brazil for +10 years and run a +9 years old independent, self-sustainable publication written in Portuguese. Now, I decided to give it a shot in another language, despite still feeling uncomfortable with my English. (I hope I haven't misspelled anything!) If you enjoyed this brief iPhone…

Only thing I like about my 2nd iphone SE bought this year (had the 2020 version) is that it has Touch ID.

Other then it's trash with low battery life and at times becomes non-responsive like the SE 2020 did.

What is wrong with Apple .. every other smartphone has touch id system. Its been five years and Touch ID for me is the best UX. It is grab my phone without even looking at it and it's open. Compared to grab it & swipe up while looking at it which is two steps vs. one. Those two steps while driving is dangerous (chide me all you want cause you use your phone when you drive too .. either sometimes, to a little or a lot)!

Re: The Best iPhone

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Post by fomine3 »

xyzzy123 wrote: post #85
commoner wrote: post #24

> It is a crazy strategy of Apple to put the “brains” of its most expensive phone, the iPhone 13 Pro Max (+USD 1.099), in its entry model, low cost (USD 429). No other company does this. The $449 Pixel 6a, which was released today, has the same Tensor chip as the $899 Pixel 6 Pro. This is advertised prominently on the product page: https://store.google.com/us/product/pixel_6a

I don't think it's crazy though; I think it reflects that in software / OS development you save a lot of dev & qa time by minimising your hardware fragmentation. Also that if you have special sauce (eg a tensor chip), you want to give it to all users if you can, or developers won't bother optimising for it.

It's also true for hardware. I think this is primary reason rather than software because bleeding edge SoC R&D fixed cost should be higher.

Re: The Best iPhone

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Post by Aeolun »

petercooper wrote: post #40
LeoPanthera wrote: post #12

I bought a Mini with great excitement, thinking that it would take me back to the glory of the "my phone fits my my pocket and I can type with one hand" days. I kept it for 3 months, and then traded it in for a Pro. It turns out that the world has moved on. Web pages are getting harder to read on small screens. I had to squint a lot. The phone's short height means that it often doesn't charge "vertically" in Qi charg…

I have luckily had the opposite experience. I've always had the biggest phone I could get (Pro Max and all the rest) but decided to try the 13 Mini after hearing so many good things. Given how fussy I usually am, it's been amazing. The pros outweigh any cons for me, but it seems the Mini is going the way of the dodo in future anyway and the SE really is a step too far down for me.

> the SE really is a step too far down for me

Down? What does the mini have that the SE doesn’t?

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