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Re: iPhone SE

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Post by krzyk »

kobayashi wrote: post #223
cryptoz wrote: post #117

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Apple themselves use it to count the number of flights of stairs you climb. Google uses it in Android phones for faster GPS and for indoor location mapping. I'm using it to forecast the weather by crowdsourcing billions of live atmospheric pressure measurements at Sunshine ( https://thesunshine.co ). Other use cases are for migraine headache prediction/prevention and other health-related issues. The primary and most…

It's also used for emergency phone calls. When 911 calls are made, the barometric pressure is also relayed to give the emergency operators an idea of how high someone is, which is especially useful if the call is made from inside a building.

How does it work? Isn't 911 just a voice call?

Re: iPhone SE

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Post by untog »

robertwalsh0 wrote: post #248

I remember Jobs talking about never making a larger phone. I really wonder if it was a case of him caring about "taste" over "giving people what they want." There was some leaked Apple internal document where they said that people wanted larger phones. The post-Jobs Apple created larger phones to meet market demands. One thing that always makes me giggle, though, is the fact that if you double tap the home button the…

> isn't it proof that the larger phone provides a worse user experience?

I think it's proof that they weren't willing to make some significant changes in iOS to account for this size change. The back button being in the top left of the screen is, in retrospect, a pretty bad idea. Android gets many things wrong, but having a back button easily accessible in the bottom bar is very user-friendly.

Instead iOS has this double tap thing, and also added swiping to go back. It's better than nothing, but buttons at the top of the screen still feels like a mistake.

Re: iPhone SE

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Post by joelhaasnoot »

afreak wrote: post #10

$399 USD is great, but why are we still stuck with 16 GB of storage on base model phones? You can barely put a day's worth of music on your phone and you cannot always stream via services like Spotify. Spotify accounts for 2 GB of traffic per month on my phone and some plans are barely affordable when you want more than that--fortunately I can do up to 6 GB before I am traffic shaped, but that isn't the say the same…

I wonder how well this will work: wife has an iPhone 5C but hates it because it's an 8GB model. Facebook already takes up 500MB with its caches and she's constantly removing apps. Pictures also take up room - with Photo Stream on there are 4 copies of each pic on your phone...

Re: iPhone SE

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Post by cryptoz »

krzyk wrote: post #391
kobayashi wrote: post #223

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's also used for emergency phone calls. When 911 calls are made, the barometric pressure is also relayed to give the emergency operators an idea of how high someone is, which is especially useful if the call is made from inside a building.

How does it work? Isn't 911 just a voice call?

E911, or Enhanced 911, is much more than just a voice call. For some time, E911 calls have sent sensor data from smartphones to the 911 dispatch, such as latitude and longitude. Soon, the FCC is going to mandate all barometer-carrying smartphones to send the barometric pressure when an E911 call is made.

https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-15-9A1.pdf

Re: iPhone SE

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Post by sbierwagen »

kobayashi wrote: post #223
cryptoz wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple themselves use it to count the number of flights of stairs you climb. Google uses it in Android phones for faster GPS and for indoor location mapping. I'm using it to forecast the weather by crowdsourcing billions of live atmospheric pressure measurements at Sunshine ( https://thesunshine.co ). Other use cases are for migraine headache prediction/prevention and other health-related issues. The primary and most…

It's also used for emergency phone calls. When 911 calls are made, the barometric pressure is also relayed to give the emergency operators an idea of how high someone is, which is especially useful if the call is made from inside a building.

What, really? I would figure GPS coords+altitude would be more useful than raw barometric pressure.

Re: iPhone SE

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Post by dosshell »

>With 64‑bit desktop-class architecture

Desktop-class architecture!? What do they really mean? For me desktop architecture is x86-64...

Re: iPhone SE

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Post by OscarCunningham »

unprepare wrote: post #310
shostack wrote: post #266

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My 80GB 5th gen video iPod (that's right, the clickwheel one) just gave up the ghost. Right now I'm limping on with an old 4GB iPhone 3 hand-me-down that I'm using as an iPod, since my Nexus 4 doesn't have the storage, nor battery capacity to be my music listening device. At this point I've started to come to terms with the fact that for the next few years, my phone will not be able to be my primary portable music de…

sandisk makes mp3 players with microSD card slots for around 30$ [1] and 64GB microsd cards are only ~30 bucks also [2], you can get 128GB microsd cards for under 50$ pretty easy Putting you at 8GB+128GB for less than a hundred bucks. Haven't done it myself, but have been thinking about it. [1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00VXMY262?ref_=zg_bs_12648... [2] http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=lp_3015433011_nr_p_n_feature…

I was going to do this but I was worried that it wouldn't support SDXC and so would only get 32GB from a 128GB card.

Re: iPhone SE

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Post by samstave »

paxswill wrote: post #111
pen2l wrote: post #107

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> Some of the features you get from it are nice little quality-of-life things though, like quick app switching. You can quickly switch apps using 3D Touch? How?

Force-press the left edge of the screen, then swipe to the right. It can take a little bit of practice to get a hang of it. I find kinda rolling my thumb works well to trigger it. Swiping all the way across goes to the last app, just partway opens up the app switcher.

What about killing a tab in chrome? In android, I could hit back and it would kill that tab and take me to the previous one, which works beautifully for Reddit. With iOS it's like five clicks to get back to the previous tab.

Re: iPhone SE

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Post by lewisl9029 »

rpgmaker wrote: post #243
oconnore wrote: post #23

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A full 24 hours worth of music (~33 complete albums) at 192 kbps is only 2GB.

I don't want just 24 hours of music, I want a comprehensive sample of my entire music library. In my case it exceeds the 16gb (or whatever it's available after iOS + other apps) easily .

Storage is one of the reasons why I could never get used to using my phone as a music player.

I keep my 50GB+ music collection on a separate device (FiiO X3), which allows me to stick to the lowest storage tier for any phone I'm interested in, and not have to worry about expandable storage (which seems to be on the way out as a trend, unfortunately).

Also, I'm a rather heavy user and my phone tends to only barely last the entire workday and commute before running out (if it lasts at all). Having a separate device for music means I don't need to feel guilty about wasting phone battery when listening to music.

The downside is you end up having to carry 2 devices instead of one, which can honestly be annoying at times, but I'm willing to make that compromise. YMMV of course.

Re: iPhone SE

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Post by threeseed »

frandroid wrote: post #379
kylec wrote: post #335

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As far as I'm aware, Apple has never removed hardware functionality on a future generation of that iOS device. I would expect the iPhone 7, 7S, 8, etc to all have 3D Touch. Now, whether they continue to integrate it into more places in the OS will remain to be seen.

The floppy drive, the DVD drive, the Ethernet port, the MagSafe port...

Great examples. Most of which were removed with the introduction of the iMac and Steve Jobs rejoining the company.

That said floppy drive was available for 14 years (128K->iMac) so that should give you some idea of the commitment Apple has to keeping technologies in place.

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