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Apple Debuts iPhone 16e

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Post by walterbell »

tempaccount420 wrote: post #405
walterbell wrote: post #354

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Now that Mac Mini is smaller, it's almost viable as iPad sidecar to run MacOS and Linux VMs. The ultimate dongle, with "I should be a hypervisor" graffiti. Pixel Tablet with GrapheneOS has less limitations and will soon have Linux VMs, but lacks a keyboard travel case, and has been discontinued.

> Now that Mac Mini is smaller, it's almost viable as iPad sidecar How I wish Apple would work to make this better than the current state. Currently it's very ugly (bad scaling, weird res, weird bars around screen), high latency, needs some configuration... Just let me plug in a cable and it should immediately become a display. (with video over DP?)

Cheap HDMI to USB-c adapter was relatively painless with Orion app for video display on iPad Air/Pro.

Re: Apple Debuts iPhone 16e

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Post by asdff »

tambourine_man wrote: post #32

The death of Touch ID. Also huge.

Nothing like grabbing your phone by the button in your pocket and having it unlocked and open before you even lay eyes on it. As fast as they advertise faceid being it will never beat the fact you can engage touchid as soon as you lay a finger on the phone.

Re: Apple Debuts iPhone 16e

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Post by asdff »

Tomte wrote: post #9

Pro: action button Con(?): 60 Hz And the price hike again shows that Apple is the master of the "for just a few hundred dollars more, you can get...“ upsell to bigger iPhones.

Do people really need a 60hz display? Most people are just messaging and scrolling tiktok with their phone.

Re: Apple Debuts iPhone 16e

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dfabulich wrote: post #123

Check out the battery life! > iPhone 16e has the best battery life ever on a 6.1-inch iPhone, lasting up to six hours longer than iPhone 11 and up to 12 hours longer than all generations of iPhone SE. Their page comparing models claims the new 16e gets "26 hours video playback." iPhone 16e: 26 hours iPhone 16: 22 hours iPhone 15: 20 hours iPhone 14: 20 hours iPhone 13: 19 hours iPhone 12: 17 hours iPhone 11: 17 hours…

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Re: Apple Debuts iPhone 16e

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Post by reaperducer »

bdhcuidbebe wrote: post #381
Retr0id wrote: post #284

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But how many hours of video playback?

My iPhone today last for less than a day while I dont watch any video on it, In fact, i barely use it currently, and it still drains batteries in no time. And yes, I disabled most background services and location services and run screen on low brightness - all the popular hacks to reduce battery usage.

My iPhone today last for less than a day while I dont watch any video on it, In fact, i barely use it currently, and it still drains batteries in no time.

Odd. I wonder if you have some apps updating in the background a lot.

Both my personal and my work iPhones are two-years-old, and both will last several days even with audio streaming.

I put my work phone in its drawer last Thursday, and when I took it out on Tuesday, it still had 11% left.

Re: Apple Debuts iPhone 16e

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Post by bdhcuidbebe »

asdff wrote: post #417
bdhcuidbebe wrote: post #381

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My iPhone today last for less than a day while I dont watch any video on it, In fact, i barely use it currently, and it still drains batteries in no time. And yes, I disabled most background services and location services and run screen on low brightness - all the popular hacks to reduce battery usage.

I think the iphone does a lot more in the background than you might consider initially. Here is an experiment to try. Use your phone as you currently do, but turn on airplane mode when you aren't otherwise using the phone. Leave it on overnight too. You should only lose a few percentage overnight on airplane mode even with an old phone.

> I think the iphone does a lot more in the background than you might consider initially.

I understand that. My point being that 25 year old tech, before the real miniatyrization of circuits and power efficiency mind you, has 7x charge time and yet we are impressed by a few additional hours.

> Here is an experiment to try. Use your phone as you currently do, but turn on airplane mode when you aren't otherwise using the phone. Leave it on overnight too.

Sure but to what benefit?

I already addressed the tweaks i did do in a sibling comment. Putting the phone in airplane mode is no different than having a dead battery in terms of usability.

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Post by newsclues »

dylan604 wrote: post #338
newsclues wrote: post #95

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Yeah, have a Ubiquiti home network, and want to optimize placement of my access points (before I install mounts on the walls/ceiling) and also would like to use it to compare different APs to see if an upgrade makes sense vs installing an extra AP for the garage that doesn't get good signal.

So you want a feature in a device that you're going to use for a single purpose one time? How many times do you need to map your house once you have the map? There's gotta be a better single use device for purpose rather than having it limit your options for a non-single purpose device.

Yes.

Re: Apple Debuts iPhone 16e

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Post by Kirby64 »

bayindirh wrote: post #124
kemayo wrote: post #111

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It's probably the same as the 2x zoom in the iPhone 16 line. The 1x pictures are a 48MP sensor that does some pixel-combining to output a 12MP image. The 2x pictures are a crop of 12MP in the center of the sensor, that doesn't do any combining. So it's still "optical", but it's lower-quality than the 1x.

I think it's not "zooming with the sensor", but has a slim lens stack to enable optical 2x zoom. The whole system is also PDAF, so they need the movement anyway.

No, it’s literally a digital crop exactly like the other sensors that use 48MP sensors. There’s nothing magic here. I would be shocked if it’s anything different than the exact identical camera used in the base iPhone 15, quite frankly. The cheaper versions never use the latest hardware for the cameras.

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Post by iknowstuff »

GeekyBear wrote: post #195
walterbell wrote: post #155

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Hopefully these new cellular, wifi and bluetooth basebands can avoid the zero-day fame of their predecessors.

I would assume that Apple's new firmware would have been written in a memory safe language. They did make some noise about enabling Swift for embedded development at last years WWDC. Although Qualcomm's big zero day last year was related to the DSP and not the baseband, I believe.

Here’s hoping. Bets on Swift v Rust?

I swear if they wrote a modem from scratch in C that’s a major own goal

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Post by wiredfool »

reaperducer wrote: post #435
bdhcuidbebe wrote: post #381

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My iPhone today last for less than a day while I dont watch any video on it, In fact, i barely use it currently, and it still drains batteries in no time. And yes, I disabled most background services and location services and run screen on low brightness - all the popular hacks to reduce battery usage.

My iPhone today last for less than a day while I dont watch any video on it, In fact, i barely use it currently, and it still drains batteries in no time. Odd. I wonder if you have some apps updating in the background a lot. Both my personal and my work iPhones are two-years-old, and both will last several days even with audio streaming. I put my work phone in its drawer last Thursday, and when I took it out on Tuesd…

Tailscale and Wireguard absolutely murder the battery if the network is down/flakey.
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