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Apple Debuts iPhone 16e

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Re: Apple Debuts iPhone 16e

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Post by DrBenCarson »

melvinmelih wrote: post #260
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…

26 hours of battery life but you still have to charge it with a cable (they didn't add MagSafe). This might be a deal breaker for me…

The improved battery life is BECAUSE there’s no MagSafe lol

You’ll need to answer for yourself: more battery life or MagSafe?

Re: Apple Debuts iPhone 16e

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Post by mrexroad »

Mistletoe wrote: post #229
ksec wrote: post #75

It is an iPhone 16, inside iPhone 14 Body, Single Camera from iPhone 16, with iPhone 14 OLED Screen, Apple Modem, Without UWB, Minus 1 GPU Core on A18, 7.5W MagSafe Charging same as iPhone 14. Wifi 6 instead of Wifi 7 on iPhone 16. However at $599, higher than the rumoured $499 or $549 pricing. iPhone 14 previously at $599 and iPhone SE at $429 are now gone. Getting rid of iPhone 14 and iPhone SE as they are both usi…

I wish they would make a mini version of this, it would be perfect. After the 13 Mini, us small phone lovers are screwed.

still loving my 12mini. size is perfect, batt is only issue.

Re: Apple Debuts iPhone 16e

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Post by turtlebits »

officeplant wrote: post #267

$599, 128gb base model. Welp rip any interest a bunch of us had in an iphoneSE4. What a fucking waste of time. The sad thing is I can accept that apple continually wants miserable storage base tiers, that ship has sailed and they will never see 256gb as logical starting points on a phone so damn expensive when their computers start at that horrid storage point. If it was $499 I would have contemplated finally upgradi…

The SE was always a bad value prop. A used iPhone was always a much better value. The only reason I approve of the SE is that they get very cheap via the prepaid market (regularly <$100)

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Post by robterrell »

rsync wrote: post #427
Kwpolska wrote: post #419

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The 12" MacBook Abomination was a short-lived, badly-designed, performance-limited computer. Apple doesn’t sell them anymore, and modern Airs are very respectable computers.

... except for the fact that they refuse to re-issue the second greatest laptop form facter of all time : the 11" MBA. First place, obviously, goes to the Toshiba Libretto.

Come on. First place has gotta be the PowerBook 100.

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Post by Coryodaniel »

deergomoo wrote: post #176

At this point there’s only really one thing I want from an iPhone and that’s an option for a 12/13 mini sized device again. Surely those phones didn’t sell so few that it’s not worth doing at all?

Staying on my 13 mini until someone makes a dumb phone that doesn’t suck.

Re: Apple Debuts iPhone 16e

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Post by DrBenCarson »

FirmwareBurner wrote: post #247
GeekyBear wrote: post #195

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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.

>I would assume that Apple's new firmware would have been written in a memory safe language. Memory safe languages don't protect from human programmer complacency and stupidity, or from incidental alphabet agency backdoors.

Sure, but they do protect from a massive swath of real attacks

Don’t guarantee complete safety but do eliminate a massive attack surface

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Post by seec »

nonchalantsui wrote: post #384
Mistletoe wrote: post #229

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I wish they would make a mini version of this, it would be perfect. After the 13 Mini, us small phone lovers are screwed.

On the bright side, when your mini dies, there will likely be better flips out there. The Z Flip 6 isn't that bad currently, and I really did enjoy how much pocket space it saved, but if you're stuck to Apple it's another 2 years before they release their attempt.

I have considered flip phones as a replacement for a mini but it's just not the same thing at all when it comes to a smartphone.

It makes the phone less durable for a useless screen size, its pocket ability isn't much better because it is just bulkier (easier to enter in small pockets, but bigger deformation and feel) and it's just less convenient because you have to open it anytime you want to use it.

There is no replacement for a small phone, some manufacturer has to do it.

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Post by DrBenCarson »

iknowstuff wrote: post #439
GeekyBear wrote: post #195

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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

Definitely Swift https://swift.org/blog/embedded-swift-examples/

Re: Apple Debuts iPhone 16e

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Post by vessenes »

insane_dreamer wrote: post #404
hnburnsy wrote: post #197

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Its been a long slog for Apple, they have been working on this since 2018, and they had to keep extending its supply agreements with Qualcomm... "Inside Apple’s Spectacular Failure to Build a Key Part for Its New iPhones" >The 2018 marching orders from Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook to design and build a modem chip—a part that connects iPhones to wireless carriers—led to the hiring of thousands of engineers. The goal…

Apple managed to design its own state-of-the-art CPUs. I wouldn't have imagined that designing its own modem would be such a difficult challenge?

The original M-series chip team left years ago, or at least the major drivers. Also: radios are hard, super hard.

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Post by DrBenCarson »

cptskippy wrote: post #393
GeekyBear wrote: post #379

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From the article linked above: > With the blessing of competitors, Apple is about to change the Qi wireless standard itself. It’s contributing to a new version of Qi that works much like MagSafe — magnets, authentication, and all.

"Qi2 is based on Magsafe" is not the same as "Apple is... contributing to a new version of Qi" Your statement implies that Qi2 used Magsafe as a starting point or that it's primarily based on Magsafe. Your statement is inaccurate and would lead people to think that Qi2 was mostly an Apple design.

…it is. Qi2 is basically a copy-paste of MagSafe
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