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can I contribute to COVID-19 research without getting a bright red phone? Yes. Write a check. Mail the check. Done.
Exactly. The entire point of the red phone is to shout at other people "look at me, I'm a good person because I supported a charity!" Apple doesn't offer low key signaling. You're either a brow beater or a stealth support of charity.
"Best Single-Camera System in an iPhone" Is there another iPhone with a single-camera system? Otherwise it just sounds like they had 0 other good things to say about it. Soon we're down to "the newest iPhone ever released so far".
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FWIW I've got some wired headphones I really love and I bought a dongle for them when I got my iPhone XS in 2018. I really don't notice it; it just feels like an extension of the cord.
If there were two native lightning ports that could be nearly as good as a 3.5mm jack. The lightning+3.5mm bodge jacks retain the functionality at a reduction in usability, but just about work for a non-premium product. An SE case with an upgraded processor would have been perfectly good.
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Vat is applied in the price in the UK, and sales tax is at checkout in the US.
Interesting, I'd find that super annoying as a consumer that's used to seeing the full price (ex. delivery) upfront. Is this standard practice for online US stores?
I was itching for this announcement, not because I want to buy an iPhone, but because this will finally mean other manufacturers will start to make compact phones. It drives me up the wall that I simply cannot find a reasonably competent phone (i.e. mid/upper range from the past 4 years) which is not absolutely fucking huge. It's insane that the "phablet" standard from ~5 years ago is now not even the new standard, b…
Yes. I'm an Android user who is absolutely sick of phablets. I have a Pixel 3A (5.6") and it is way, way too big. I've been quite excited about this iPhone SE announcement. However, the lack of a headphone jack is a huge negative, and 4.7" is the absolute largest I think is reasonable. A little smaller would've been ideal. I'm undecided on whether to switch to the SE, but I genuinely hope it sells like crazy. Then ma…
Adding insult to injury, music objectively sucks with bluetooth. A good DAC takes space and power. Multiple drivers take space and power. Bluetooth modems require space and power and generate interference simply because they are modems. When you try to shove all of that inside a tiny earphone, there are going to be massive tradeoffs.
I'm disappointed by the lack of a headphone jack and the size, while better than the phablet nonsense, is still bigger than I would like.
I'm actually not sure what I will do after these phones go kaput, I only use my phone for calls, music, Whatsapp, and maybe maps (though with travel completely halted for the medium term, I don't even need that). If there was a feature phone version of Whatsapp, I'd probably go back to one of those.
An upgraded iPhone 8 with a starting storage of 64 Gb at only $399. Seems like a great deal. Makes me seriously consider this model for my next phone instead of spending $1200 on an iPhone 11 Max.
Right. They seem to seriously be undermining their higher price point phone products. Although, this may be the time to do it given current market conditions.
That will spur a great deal of people who are refusing to buy iPhones to buy iPhones (+$$$) and convert a certain percentage of bigphone users to smallphone users at a lower pricepoint at the next upgrade cycle (-$$).
It is possible that Apple's usage statistics for old iPhones indicate that the + will be greater than the - while getting a bunch of users off of older lower-performing phones.
Apple is making more and more money from the app store and is trying to get into the streaming content game.
Streaming tv shows and movies on a tiny screen is not as enjoyable,therefore the old SE screen size is simply never going to happen.