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Re: New iPhone SE

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Post by dcchambers »

sn_master wrote: post #112

I use Pixel 4, and I absolutely hate not having a fingerprint sensor. Cons: * At night it doesn't work, because I am laying on the bed and half my face is covered. * It doesn't work when I am not wearing my glasses. Annoying when I have just woken up or going to bed and want to check a quick notification. * Sometimes it unlocks by itself even if I don't want it to. For the headphone jack, I got a cheap USB-C ones and…

Hate the face ID on my pixel 4. Requires me to hold my phone at the perfect angle/distance to work reliably, and even then, it's slower than the fingerprent sensor on my Pixel 1 was.

Re: New iPhone SE

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Post by simonblack »

andrepd wrote: post #214

I was itching for this announcement, not because I want to buy an iPhone, but because this will finally mean other manufacturers will start to make compact phones. It drives me up the wall that I simply cannot find a reasonably competent phone (i.e. mid/upper range from the past 4 years) which is not absolutely fucking huge. It's insane that the "phablet" standard from ~5 years ago is now not even the new standard, b…

I spent 20-odd years enjoying how how mobile phones went from being huge 2-3 pound 'bricks' all the way down to the Nokia 100 gram 'chocolate bars' of the mid-2000s that fitted beautifully in my shirt pocket.

Then I watched in disbelief as phones began getting more and more swollen every year and got too large to hold comfortably in one hand. (or fit in your top pocket)

Time and again the phone-shop salesmen would look sideways at me when I said I didn't want the latest and greatest offering, but one of the older and smaller phones. My current phone is an iPhone 5S that I have kept for several years.

Re: New iPhone SE

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Post by kabacha »

andrepd wrote: post #214

I was itching for this announcement, not because I want to buy an iPhone, but because this will finally mean other manufacturers will start to make compact phones. It drives me up the wall that I simply cannot find a reasonably competent phone (i.e. mid/upper range from the past 4 years) which is not absolutely fucking huge. It's insane that the "phablet" standard from ~5 years ago is now not even the new standard, b…

How is this phone compact with 50% body-to-screen ratio. There are already compact phones like samsung's s10e which is a modern phone. Honestly this looks like an april fools joke.

Re: New iPhone SE

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Post by abruzzi »

karmelapple wrote: post #786
hajile wrote: post #247

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My current phone has no headphone jack and it's been an absolute pain the whole time. Adapters are hit-or-miss and generally suck. Even high-end devices (mine was over $800) often have hissing due to the analog signal running fractions of a millimeter from a bunch of digital signals. Adding insult to injury, music objectively sucks with bluetooth. A good DAC takes space and power. Multiple drivers take space and powe…

Just for reference for others, the Apple headphone adapter I've used with my iPhone XS is rock solid, and I've never had a problem with it.

The main problem I've had with it is it gets lost--constantly. Now I'm generally disorganized, which probably explains why I cold never find it when I wanted it. I know some people leave it on the cable but my headphones get used much more on other devices than on the iPhone, so I was constantly pulling it off to plug into a mixer or keyboard, and it would get lost. In the end I solved it by junking my XS and getting a used SE.

Re: New iPhone SE

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Post by kabacha »

I never understood hype behind this phone. On paper it seems like april fools joke. Single camera, absurd screen-to-body ratio and all of the things from 2010 in 2020.

None of you bought s10e which is a brilliant phone yet you whine that no small phones are available - maybe you should vote with your wallet or just admit that you're in it for the nostalgia and drop the facade.

Re: New iPhone SE

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Post by wavesquid »

kabacha wrote: post #835

I never understood hype behind this phone. On paper it seems like april fools joke. Single camera, absurd screen-to-body ratio and all of the things from 2010 in 2020. None of you bought s10e which is a brilliant phone yet you whine that no small phones are available - maybe you should vote with your wallet or just admit that you're in it for the nostalgia and drop the facade.

I bought an S10e on launch. It was too large for me and when it got stolen a couple months after I had it, I just didn't replace it. Have now been phone-less for almost a year, waiting for a good sub-5 inch android phone.

Re: New iPhone SE

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Post by raydev »

kabacha wrote: post #835

I never understood hype behind this phone. On paper it seems like april fools joke. Single camera, absurd screen-to-body ratio and all of the things from 2010 in 2020. None of you bought s10e which is a brilliant phone yet you whine that no small phones are available - maybe you should vote with your wallet or just admit that you're in it for the nostalgia and drop the facade.

> Single camera

Most people only use one camera. The SE is also $399.

> absurd screen-to-body ratio

Some people really dislike the edge-to-edge screen of the newer iPhone models

> all of the things from 2010 in 2020

This is literally one of the fastest phones on the market and it's only $399. Did you live in an alternate reality 2010?

Re: New iPhone SE

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Post by yumraj »

benbristow wrote: post #693
yumraj wrote: post #540

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm actually happy that is has no 5G, and may buy it just for that.

Fair enough, but why would you be happy to not have the latest tech?

two reasons:

1) don't care about speeds faster than what LTE provides

2) I think there are still some unanswered questions about 5Gs impact on health, and don't want the radio in my phone. I can wait, due to 1 above.

Re: New iPhone SE

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Post by kabacha »

raydev wrote: post #837
kabacha wrote: post #835

I never understood hype behind this phone. On paper it seems like april fools joke. Single camera, absurd screen-to-body ratio and all of the things from 2010 in 2020. None of you bought s10e which is a brilliant phone yet you whine that no small phones are available - maybe you should vote with your wallet or just admit that you're in it for the nostalgia and drop the facade.

> Single camera Most people only use one camera. The SE is also $399. > absurd screen-to-body ratio Some people really dislike the edge-to-edge screen of the newer iPhone models > all of the things from 2010 in 2020 This is literally one of the fastest phones on the market and it's only $399. Did you live in an alternate reality 2010?

Samsung s10e is like 300$ these days - has wide-angle camera and almost full body screen for the same phone size and has been released a year ago.

> literally one of the fastest phones

where are you getting that? What an absurd statement to make.

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