Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Apple Debuts iPhone 16e

apple.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

791–800 of 857 posts

Re: Apple Debuts iPhone 16e

#791

Post by icedchai »

debian3 wrote: post #762
icedchai wrote: post #686

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The maximum battery capacity is showing 83%, which seems decent. The phone is over 3 years old now. And I love the Mini form factor. I want something that fits in my pocket...

Re: Apple Debuts iPhone 16e

#792

Post by uticus »

tverbeure wrote: post #673
uticus wrote: post #504

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would buy that a decent modem is harder than many CPU designs, maybe even most. But harder than state-of-the-art? Surely not, have you seen the complexity? And even CPUs (esp state of art) have to worry about radio effects, as in avoiding internally and across chipset.

I never worked on radio modems, but I've worked on wireline modems: the issue is not the math or the standard algorithms, it's making it interoperable with everything that's existing out there and all environment conditions while working around bugs of other implementations. It is a ridiculous amount of work and if you're new to the business, it takes a long time just to be build the lab test suite. And you need to s…

> Radio effect are rarely an issue with regular chips.

I'm an amateur, so welcome correction with this, but I'm also not convinced. For one example, ref this RFI mitigation with Intel's gen 12 processors: https://edc.intel.com/content/www/cn/zh/design/ipla/software...

Re: Apple Debuts iPhone 16e

#793

Post by echoangle »

hnaccount_rng wrote: post #734
selcuka wrote: post #725

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is the capacity published by Apple. Apparently some regulatory bodies [1] require that information. [1] https://www.mysmartprice.com/gear/mobiles/mobiles-news/apple...

But it is an interesting question: What is the manufacturing tolerance? Naively I had assumed that it's much smaller than a watt-hour. But that's based on ~no knowledge :D

You can still have a specific "normal"/expected capacity, even if you're producing them +-20 mWh.

Re: Apple Debuts iPhone 16e

#794

Post by Kirby64 »

M3L0NM4N wrote: post #300
melvinmelih wrote: post #274

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah but the MagSafe charger I've spent $150 on doesn't work without the magnetic part.

I wonder if one of those MagSafe cases that basically "passthrough" the MagSafe magnets in the phone would work.

Just as well as any of the other ones for Android phones. Heck, you can even buy adhesive magnet rings to stick directly to any case or phone back, as long as you align them properly.

Re: Apple Debuts iPhone 16e

#795

Post by debian3 »

icedchai wrote: post #791
debian3 wrote: post #762

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The maximum battery capacity is showing 83%, which seems decent. The phone is over 3 years old now. And I love the Mini form factor. I want something that fits in my pocket...

83% is pretty bad. You might be surprised if you put a new battery in it.

Re: Apple Debuts iPhone 16e

#796

Post by Kirby64 »

fkyoureadthedoc wrote: post #257
azinman2 wrote: post #209

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But you need to align it perfectly.

I've had good luck with cases that have the magnet bit built in

Assuming they do it correctly. There was a series of Pixel cases (the 9s, I think?) where they used the same alignment between the Pro and non-Pro Pixels on the case, despite the coils not being in the same location on the actual phones... which apparently caused poor/non-existent charging and excessive heat.

Re: Apple Debuts iPhone 16e

#797

Post by nobankai »

boxed wrote: post #730
musictubes wrote: post #607

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But it’s better to sell phones with better margin. More people need to take Econ 101. Opportunity cost is an actual thing. You can be sure they did the math. Selling ever so slightly fewer larger phones at higher margin is better than selling slightly more phones at a lower margin. Apple knows its sales and profits much better than anyone else.

And yet, here I sit with my iPhone 12 mini and will absolutely not upgrade until it explodes or there's a new mini. THAT is also an opportunity cost.

Apple knows you would upgrade to a Pro Max model if it was between that and switching to Android.

Apple owes small phone enjoyers nothing and they will drag you into paying more for a phone you don't want because you are helpless.

Re: Apple Debuts iPhone 16e

#798

Post by cptskippy »

pertymcpert wrote: post #601
cptskippy wrote: post #358

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Qi2 is based on Magsafe. That's an insult to all of the engineering that went into Qi. The Magsafe specification was an attempt to create the new Lightning connector ecosystem that backfired spectacularly and blew up in Apple's face. It's nothing more than magnets and DRM layered on top of a regular Qi charger. Naturally Apple used the DRM to limit the charging speeds of their phones when paired with regular Qi cha…

So what I'm seeing is that Qi2 is based on MagSafe then.

MagSafe is just a branch of Qi that was merged back into main.

Re: Apple Debuts iPhone 16e

#799

Post by cptskippy »

DrBenCarson wrote: post #480
cptskippy wrote: post #393

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"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

MagSafe was a branch of Qi that's been merged back to main.

Re: Apple Debuts iPhone 16e

#800

Post by hot_gril »

pests wrote: post #739
Tade0 wrote: post #733

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not all though. Sony retains the jack, screen without cutouts and the SD slot.

They really did themselves dirty calling it a notch, drawing attention to the loss of space. They should have used something like "extra screen ears" - implying you are getting some extra space around the sensors.

Did Apple themselves actually call it that? On the debut, I think they only called it the "true depth camera system" https://youtu.be/aEoVcYQ8caM?si=bf2Xxv7VeFPONVyO&t=482

Scanning through, it was pretty silly how much the iPhone X was about mocapped emojis.

Post reply on HN