give me a monochrome e paper android device, metal case, small like the 12 mini, week long battery life. k thanks bye
I'm waiting for the daylight tablet screen to make its way into a phone
iPhone 17e
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#342The reasons for using a small-screen iPhone will become increasingly compelling with the rise of AI voice assistants.
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> the ability to reliably send quality video to iPhone users. Just curious but why? Is it iMessage lock in?
Yes exactly. RCS exists but unless an iPhone user goes and turns it on it won't work. Which means no one has it turned on.
It's also dependent on the telco supporting it. Australian telcos don't.
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#344Still holding onto my 13 mini. Dreaming of another small form factor release one of these announcements.. :'}
Worst part about big phones are that fingers cannot reach around the whole screen when using one hand, so you are forced to always use two hands. They also fall out of pant pockets easily and have no holes for lanyards.
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#345> 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…
I have a 64 GB iPhone and I’ve never come close to using all the storage space in many years. I’ve got thousands of photos and videos but like you say, they are automatically backed up to the cloud and then the local version is optimized away until I need it.
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#346> 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…
Cloud storage do not help you sharing that old photo album with friends spending the night in a cabin far from the closest cell phone coverage. Also, cloud service typically move your older stuff to colder/slower storage which are painfully slow to retrieve whenever you decides to do it. I realized this when browsing some old pictures before closing a google account I had not been using for years except emptying the…
The iCloud backup built into the iPhone for me seems quite seamless. As I mentioned in another comment, I have several thousand photos and videos that don’t fit on my phone because it’s only a 64 GB device. It’s been this way for many years. But I can still scroll back and see all the photos. And when I click one I view it instantly. I’ve never noticed any lag or any problems associated with the cloud backup. It feels to me exactly the same as if they were local.
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#348Earlier quoted context omitted.
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'm typing this on an iPhone SE (2020). It runs the latest iOS, although it's likely missing some of the new bits. I prefer the size, although the screen that spans the entire front surface would be the superior device; I like the iPhone 13 Mini.
My SO has the latter and switched from the former when it started behaving erratically.
It's the very last reasonably sized iPhone and one of the very last in this category overall.
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#349> 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…
Cloud backups are great for keeping your photos long-term, but if you want those photos on your phone so you can show them to people or share them, you need to download them anyway. I need storage because Honkai: Star Rail is 32gb and I like being able to have more than one game on my phone.
iCloud seems to work differently. Nearly all of the photos and videos I have are stored in iCloud because my phone is only a 64 GB device. But I can scroll back many years and pull up any photo video and play or view just fine right away. I can swipe right through long sequences of photos from five years ago on a device that doesn’t have them downloaded. I’m not sure exactly how that works.
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#350Still 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.
>it causes real pain in my wrist if I use it too much
LMAO