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Apple Debuts iPhone 16e

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Post by tempaccount420 »

walterbell wrote: post #431
tempaccount420 wrote: post #405

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> 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.

The cheap ones have high latency and only 1080p, no?

Re: Apple Debuts iPhone 16e

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Post by debian3 »

icedchai wrote: post #686
abnercoimbre wrote: post #342

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Do you still own it? I've kept my 13 mini so far, but I hope the browsing or app experience doesn't degrade anytime soon (battery's still great.)

I still have my 13 mini, but it is feeling somewhat slower with each major iOS release. Still I can probably get a few more years out of it.

Maybe the battery. I’m typing this on my 13 mini and it’s as fast as it’s ever been.

I still have apple care+ on mine. I knew they will probably never make a new one again. I use it without a case, so when I drop it break the screen or something, I just get an express replacement. There is a small fee ($100 or something) and I basically get a brand new iPhone mini. Hopefully their replacement stock last for a while.

Re: Apple Debuts iPhone 16e

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Post by debian3 »

nunez wrote: post #458
abnercoimbre wrote: post #342

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Do you still own it? I've kept my 13 mini so far, but I hope the browsing or app experience doesn't degrade anytime soon (battery's still great.)

I have two (personal and work); browsing websites is fine in a pinch, but it's not nearly as fast as the iPhone 16 Pro that's in my drawer right now and I run into more Safari crashes than before. (I blame the modern web for that, not the phone.)

I never had safari crash on mine except that one website from here a while back. Not sure what it was .

Re: Apple Debuts iPhone 16e

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Post by znpy »

Seems nobody's mentioning that this model drops the sim slot completely.

It's a bummer, because it means that in case of need (broken phone) i cannot buy any new phone, drop my sim in and go.

It's a HUGE step back.

Re: Apple Debuts iPhone 16e

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Post by scrlk »

walterbell wrote: post #608
scrlk wrote: post #496

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There's a number of firmware jobs on their website at the moment. All of them ask for C or C++ experience - I haven't seen anything that's asking for Rust or Embedded Swift experience. E.g.: https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200579953/embedded-5g-4...

Was the modem codebase inherited from Intel?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-16/apple-pro... (https://archive.ph/A2UUI)

> One major development snag involves the software used to power the modem, some of which was acquired from Intel. The Intel code wasn’t up to the task, and most of it had to be rewritten from scratch, people involved in the project said. As Apple engineers sought to add new features, existing capabilities would break, and the modem wouldn’t work properly.

Re: Apple Debuts iPhone 16e

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Post by mcculley »

azinman2 wrote: post #235
mcculley wrote: post #216

> the first cellular modem designed by Apple Whoah! Maybe Apple can now figure out how to put a cellular modem in a MacBook Pro.

But couldn’t this previously have happened with a Qualcomm modem as well? You can always easily tether to your iPhone. It’s hard to imagine people who own a Mac but don’t have a phone — I assume Android can also provide tethering? Aside from the BOM price increase and physical real estate, do want to pay $10/mo or whatever for an additional line?

I own a MacBook Pro and an iPhone (and other Apple devices which have cellular modems in them: an iPad and an Apple Watch). The tethering is flaky and burns two batteries at once while adding latency. I want an always on Internet connection like I can get with a Dell laptop.

The Qualcomm royalty agreement has been the problem, as they reportedly get a fraction of total device cost.

How my cellular provider bills me for it is irrelevant.

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Post by throwaway48476 »

apparent wrote: post #693
throwaway48476 wrote: post #448

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No, no one cares about AVP.

Currently, this is roughly true. But there's a decent chance it will have a killer app within the next ~5 years, and then adoption will grow quickly. At that point, it would be nice to have a small library of videos/photos that were taken with the AVP in mind. Regardless of the AVP's success, there will probably be some AR/VR device that becomes popular, and can read this format in the future.

VR is not usable if it's not ultralight on account of the physical pain the weight of the headset causes. Of course the AVP is the worst for this as it's made of metal and glass.

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Post by alistairSH »

dima55 wrote: post #531
ndiddy wrote: post #451

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Of course your phone has a short runtime, it both has a small battery and it's 3 years old so the battery's worn out. One of the main reasons why small phones remain a niche is that improvements in battery technology have been far outpaced by improvements in SoCs, so the easiest way to improve a device's battery life vs. the older model is to make it larger so it can fit a bigger battery. Even when it was new, the re…

If only one could open the back and replace the battery, the thing that has been known to everybody to wear out while the rest of the device is perfectly functional. One could only dream of such advanced technology. Maybe in 10 years.

You can. Or at least Apple can (for which they’ll charge you $80 or so). Sure, you can’t “hot swap” during the day, but if you like the size, it seems well worth the expense to get a new battery installed.

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Post by tonyedgecombe »

Synaesthesia wrote: post #463
SunlitCat wrote: post #133

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The price hike is the major turn off point. Even as a non Apple person I was on the verge of getting the new "SE" if it's in the price range of the old SE line up. But not for 600 USD, that's a bit too much.

Yeah Apple overcharges. The SE is downright crude by modern standards, no ways was it worth $430. This phone is at least modern, but it's not great value for money.

>no ways was it worth $430

It's worth what people are willing to pay and plenty of people valued it enough to put their hand in their pocket.

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