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Apple Debuts iPhone 16e

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Re: Apple Debuts iPhone 16e

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Post by kalleboo »

bdhcuidbebe wrote: post #277
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…

My Nokia 3310 lasted for over a week before recharge in 2000.

I haven't done this in a while but when I used to travel I'd get a local SIM and then put my home SIM in an old Android phone. Since the home SIM was roaming (expensive), I'd turn off data, I just wanted to receive calls and texts.

It'd usually last around 2 weeks with data off. I imagine an iPhone would fare even better.

Re: Apple Debuts iPhone 16e

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Post by hackerman_fi »

kemayo wrote: post #111
OptionOfT wrote: post #85

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Isn't this the first time they have an actual zoom lens vs multiple lenses and thus CMOS? Edit: reading below it's still unsure if they actually have a lens that moves back & forth to achieve the zoom.

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.

Optical zoom changes significantly how out-of-focus areas looks like. For anyone doing photography (with actual cameras and actual lenses), calling crop an "optical zoom" is a lie from Apple.

If you have an actual physical zoom lens, cropping a zoomed out photo produces a different result than zooming in with the lens in the first place. Even when your camera/sensor doesn't move. It's all physics yo

Re: Apple Debuts iPhone 16e

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Post by kalleboo »

robterrell wrote: post #474
rsync wrote: post #427

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... 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.

I thought with the emphasis on repair within the geek community today we'd go for the Macintosh Portable, which is so modular and repairable that Jean-Louis Gassée was able to build it directly on stage when introducing it.

Re: Apple Debuts iPhone 16e

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Post by apparent »

layer8 wrote: post #610
apparent wrote: post #361

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Rumor is that the 17 will have an Air edition that will be thinner/lighter. It won't help the reach issues much but will make them nicer to hold for extended periods of time. IME the minis are nice because of both weight and the ability to comfortably use with one hand.

The Air model will be 6.6”. It will be lighter than the Plus model it replaces, but I wouldn’t necessarily expect it to be lighter than the regular models. And certainly not usable with one hand.

Where is it being reliably reported that it's a 6.6" model? Seems like it's still pretty early to know something like this with any certainty.

Re: Apple Debuts iPhone 16e

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Post by makeitdouble »

amazingman wrote: post #737
makeitdouble wrote: post #533

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> Would love a 5G MacBook with a data plan. I thoroughly enjoyed the ATP podcast discussion on this. Sounds like the base assumption is Apple is incapable of having decent tethering even as they control the whole ecosystem, including special protocols in-between their product they design 100% from hardware to software. But somehow pushing the modem in the MacBook solves this...because Apple is then good at managing t…

>But somehow pushing the modem in the MacBook solves this...because Apple is then good at managing transient network connections in macos, hooking to complex mesh networks on protocols they don't control ? A cell modem is mostly just another uplink, with all the hard stuff being done in the modem. The user doesn't need to do anything to use it. Tethering requires extra stuff to happen: the user has to initiate the co…

You choose to simplify how to integrate the modem into the system while digging deeper into how tethering happens.

Why doesn't having another separate subsystem running it's own OS managing the cell connection also have network switching implications (something deciding the connection is now the primary one, just like it does for tethering), security issues (it's a know attack vector on phones as well), power management issues etc ?

The iPhone 3G for instance was a piece of crap network connection wise, it would drop calls, lose signal, memory leak at the border of the two systems etc. Networking with a cell subsystem isn't trivial.

Re: Apple Debuts iPhone 16e

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Post by _kb »

Nition wrote: post #745
_kb wrote: post #706

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You’re also forgetting the original leather bound MacBooks and the somewhat contentious introduction of reverse scroll, with calligraphy on both sides!

Contentious then, but I preferred those to the modern "natural scroll" where the papyrus falls apart.

Ah, of course. I misspoke on that name. I may be showing my age here but the gen 1 papyrus displays were horrid. The scribes constantly complained about it muddying their quills.

Re: Apple Debuts iPhone 16e

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Post by sevenseacat »

mannyv wrote: post #151
new_vienna wrote: post #42

It seems that this will cannibalize iPhone 16 sales - it's $200 cheaper, same form factor and internals, with the only difference being the camera, which if you care about you go for the Pro model. However, the price makes for a much more appealing upgrade for anyone who has an older iPhone

This is aimed at the lower end of the market: the pre/postpaid MVNOs and deal hunters. And for kids. The new modem is interesting. How much power around the world is being wasted because Qualcomm's code sucks? Apparently gigawatts per day.

You'd give an AUD$1000 phone to a kid?

Re: Apple Debuts iPhone 16e

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Post by [deleted] »

cirrus3 wrote: post #713
selcuka wrote: post #635

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> the mAh of this phone's battery is a secret or something It can easily be measured from the time required to fully charge the phone (when turned off), and continuously monitoring the power it draws from the charger.

I'm pretty sure it isn't even that complicated. Reviewers just open it up and just look at the battery. The exact mAh is only secret until the first non-Apple person who wants to know gets one.

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Re: Apple Debuts iPhone 16e

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Post by tgma »

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…

Not sure how much modem is contributing here. My guess is it is primarily due to the lack of ProMotion. 16e has a 60Hz display.
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