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Re: The Best iPhone

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Post by selectodude »

temende wrote: post #63
ljosa wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple’s battery replacement service is about $50 including shipping. Took a little less than a week for me.

Interesting, $50 isn't too bad. What did you do while your phone was gone for repairs? Did they give you a loaner?

They will give you a loaner but I think the vast majority of Americans live close enough to an Apple Store where they'll swap the battery in 30-60 minutes. I pop in, drop the phone off, go fuck off for a beer or two, come back to a fresh new battery. Super straightforward.

Re: The Best iPhone

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Post by seehafer »

Another iPhone SE fan here. Among all the other benefits listed in this post, there’s also no notch. I hate the notch and I can’t believe Apple industrial design is fine with it being a permanent feature of its products.

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Post by sokoloff »

di3goleite wrote: post #47

My iPhone SE is the 2nd gen one. I love this phone, despite some ocasional lags when I try to do some app switch or when I try to take a picture suddenly. Is anyone here facing these same problems? I really enjoy this phone, but seems Apple is trying to force me to make an unnecessary upgrade.

I bought a second gen SE on craigslist while waiting for a screen for my Xs Max. I’m using it right now as a secondary device and don’t notice any particularly common lags on the SE2.

Battery health is down to 89%, meaning it was a little annoying to use as a daily while traveling but that was my only complaint (and I’d have no problem replacing the battery to alleviate that if I wanted to keep using it as primary).

Re: The Best iPhone

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Post by xyzzy123 »

commoner wrote: post #24

> It is a crazy strategy of Apple to put the “brains” of its most expensive phone, the iPhone 13 Pro Max (+USD 1.099), in its entry model, low cost (USD 429). No other company does this. The $449 Pixel 6a, which was released today, has the same Tensor chip as the $899 Pixel 6 Pro. This is advertised prominently on the product page: https://store.google.com/us/product/pixel_6a

I don't think it's crazy though; I think it reflects that in software / OS development you save a lot of dev & qa time by minimising your hardware fragmentation.

Also that if you have special sauce (eg a tensor chip), you want to give it to all users if you can, or developers won't bother optimising for it.

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Post by batiudrami »

bamboozled wrote: post #28
LeoPanthera wrote: post #12

I bought a Mini with great excitement, thinking that it would take me back to the glory of the "my phone fits my my pocket and I can type with one hand" days. I kept it for 3 months, and then traded it in for a Pro. It turns out that the world has moved on. Web pages are getting harder to read on small screens. I had to squint a lot. The phone's short height means that it often doesn't charge "vertically" in Qi charg…

Why did you go for a Pro over a regular iPhone 13 (for example). I'm trying to workout which one to get, way too many options in 2022. I do a lot of outdoor stuff, not sure if I want the weight of the pro, is it worth it?

As above and 6GB memory not 4GB. The processor is fast enough that it will be good for 5+ years with a battery replacement midway, but the 4GB ram might end up hurting before that.

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Post by yuy910616 »

I have the iphone 8 - love it. I'm planning to own it for the long haul and make the jump from 8 to 18 (when it comes out).

Thank you Tim for making this a 10 year wait, and not 20

Re: The Best iPhone

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Post by massysett »

petercooper wrote: post #40
LeoPanthera wrote: post #12

I bought a Mini with great excitement, thinking that it would take me back to the glory of the "my phone fits my my pocket and I can type with one hand" days. I kept it for 3 months, and then traded it in for a Pro. It turns out that the world has moved on. Web pages are getting harder to read on small screens. I had to squint a lot. The phone's short height means that it often doesn't charge "vertically" in Qi charg…

I have luckily had the opposite experience. I've always had the biggest phone I could get (Pro Max and all the rest) but decided to try the 13 Mini after hearing so many good things. Given how fussy I usually am, it's been amazing. The pros outweigh any cons for me, but it seems the Mini is going the way of the dodo in future anyway and the SE really is a step too far down for me.

Just hold on to your current phone. I upgraded to the 13 mini from the 7 Plus expecting it to be faster. It isn’t. I’m still glad I upgraded because the mini is smaller than the 7 Plus while giving up only a little bit of screen size, and I can use it without a case because it’s not shaped like a bar of soap.

But this showed me that phone performance is no longer a reason to upgrade, so I’ll probably hold on to this one even longer than I kept the 7 Plus.

Re: The Best iPhone

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Post by rjzzleep »

AzzieElbab wrote: post #78
rpgbr wrote: post #23

I knew I wasn't the only one fond of small, cheap-but-great phones! :) Btw, this is my first post in English. I cover tech here in Brazil for +10 years and run a +9 years old independent, self-sustainable publication written in Portuguese. Now, I decided to give it a shot in another language, despite still feeling uncomfortable with my English. (I hope I haven't misspelled anything!) If you enjoyed this brief iPhone…

I would go for cheaper phone but I really value good screen. I read books on my phone. I don’t like owning multiple mobile devices just to read books

I'm not sure where you live and what locale you want, but depending on the LTE bands of your region, the Hisense A9 has a fantastic eink screen. It's a Chinese OS with at parts janky english translation.
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