I don’t know how you guys can stand the iPhone SE, the thick bezels at the top and bottom make it feel so claustrophobic.
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if apple would have moved to usb-c, I would have jumped ship to the iphone 13 mini when I needed a phone. Sad that they won't be making them for a while.
Out of curiosity, why? USB-C offers no marked improvements over Lightning, none whatsoever, plus it's more fragile and the port size is significantly larger.
If you're just going to declare all of that to be factual, what response should anyone give? If there is "no improvement, none whatsoever" then obviously Lightning should win! But that's not the case at all.
Lightning places the springs inside the port, instead of on the cable. So, when the springs wear out, you need a new phone instead of a new cable.
Lightning directly exposes the pins on the cable to the environment and corrosion, which is not a better design for durability and longevity.
I have no idea where you're getting the idea that USB-C is more fragile than Lightning. It isn't, although this seems to be a persistent belief. All evidence I've seen points to the opposite conclusion, at least as far as the port is concerned, and everyone should care a lot more about the port than the cable. Ports are much more expensive to replace than cables. We're also not talking about the flimsy microUSB connector, which was rife with problems.
The USB-C port has also been repeatedly proven to be small enough to fit into the current crop of iPhones, so why does the minuscule difference in size matter? It isn't the limiting factor for anything.
But, none of that really matters. What matters is that approximately all of my other devices use USB-C, but I have to either carry around a Lightning cable or a wireless charger just for my phone. Why? It's incredibly annoying to need yet another type of cable, and Lightning isn't better at anything. If Lightning was so much better, Apple should have pushed for it to become the standard instead of USB-C, as Apple has been part of the USB-IF for a very long time, and Apple would have used it on their laptops instead of USB-C... but they didn't do either of those things. Even Apple is moving away from Lightning, first on their iPads, but it is clear they're going to do this across the board over time.
Even worse, Lightning is limited to USB 2.0 speeds on iPhone. Apple introduces iPhones with a terabyte of storage and the ability to record massive 4k ProRes video files... but how are you supposed to get those multi-gigabyte files onto a computer for editing? Lightning at slower-than-WiFi speeds? WiFi at 600Mbps instead of USB-C at 10Gbps? None of it makes any sense.
It is way past time for Apple to switch the iPhone to USB-C, but it apparently won't happen until next year.
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#223Not having the Touch ID lose Apple at least one, if not more, upgrades. At least in my case. I’m on an iPhone 7 that’s definitely showing it’s age. I would e upgraded a long time ago but held off “because maybe the next version will have Touch ID back.” Well, that never happened and I’m now in the position of having to upgrade a phone that’s starting to crash due to battery issues, will probably be out of iOS updates…
The iPhone SE, described in the article, has Touch ID.
Yeah, but “not latest tech”. Hard to swallow that.
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#224I would pay a decent chunk of money for an iPhone SE clone that runs Android. I'm so tired of big phones. I can't do this anymore. Past discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31411191 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30405011
The Pixel 4a is probably your best bet; that's what I use. Still getting updates and it's quite decent, though it's a couple years old now.
Last update is scheduled for August 2023.
https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/4457705?hl=en#zippy=...
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#225I have a 12 mini. It's so good. Then I got the 13 pro for the better camera and I can't go back to 60hz displays. It's like something is visibly wrong with any screen that doesn't do more than 60hz any more. And the 14" macbook pro has higher refresh rate but the ghosting is so bad it renders it pretty much moot.
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#226Earlier quoted context omitted.
if apple would have moved to usb-c, I would have jumped ship to the iphone 13 mini when I needed a phone. Sad that they won't be making them for a while.
Out of curiosity, why? USB-C offers no marked improvements over Lightning, none whatsoever, plus it's more fragile and the port size is significantly larger.
Travel. Travel. Travel.
Having everything USB-C just makes travel so much easier.
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#227Genuine question, what's the best phone to look at currently if the camera is your main focus on a device? I'm past the point of caring about speed or storage, as its all much of a muchness now I feel... But I want an actual camera that just happens to have a phone attached to it.
Photo or video? I heard that there are many competitive devices for photo, but iPhone is seems to the best for video.
Yeah mainly still photo, it would be super handy to have video that can be used along side our other camera footage though (a friend and I do a lot of automotive mechanical youtubing so having phone video is occasionally handy). I had heard that the iphone is really good with it, I might need to have a play with the 13.
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#228The best 'cheap' phone that was ever released in the US was the $499 Google Nexus 6P by Huawei in 2015. It was an octa-core phone that made Apple's dual core iPhone 6s (also released in 2015) look like an overpriced joke. The 6P's aluminum body was lighter and thinner than the iPhone 6s, its camera took much better pictures _by far_ especially in low light conditions (restaurants, evening travel, etc), the iPhone's old backlit IPS LCD screen had _nothing_ on 6P's gorgeous AMOLED. It took Apple 2 years to catch up to the 6P, with their iPhone X, and even then it didn't beat the 6P in every category. It was a beast of a phone. Mine finally died last year after 2 years of heavy use and 4 years of being a backup phone.
See for yourself: https://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=7588&idPhone2...
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#229I Like my iPhone SE (currently 3rd gen, previously 1st gen), but goodness is it ever slippery. It’s lovely to look at, but tough to use without covering it in a case.
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but... your pixel was more than $100 new. the phone you use does not normally fit into the category you describe. the only part that makes it work is the "second hand," bit. cheap/expensive is relative, and $400 is cheap for a phone (for north american audiences). fwiw, i find even pixel phones to be sort of slow after a couple years into software updates, mostly between multitasking/app switching. so I think that th…
> i find even pixel phones to be sort of slow after a couple years into software updates I assume that's because they're Google's software updates. Removing all Google apps, and most phones are fast . My BlackBerry KeyOne, with its midrange chipset, is still fast five years after it was released. Hell, I wanted a smaller form factor for a few days, and threw my SIM into my Nexus 5. Changing apps, installing updates,…
If I removed all Google apps, my phone would be like a paperweight to me. Maps, Photos, Calendar, Gmail, Drive, Books, YouTube and others are all critical to my workflows, and even just for navigating the world and taking photos in general.