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Re: New iPhone SE

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Post by proverbialbunny »

egypturnash wrote: post #389

eyes the specs eyes her 6s and the very nice earbuds that can still plug into it ponders other things she could do with $400 I miss the Actually Small form factor but I've gotten used to the slightly larger 6s and I sure don't miss it four hundred bucks plus the cost of some bluetooth earbuds and having to hassle with keeping the bluetooth Square reader powered up the next time I sell stuff at a comics con. I think t…

You can still use your headphones, unfortunately you just need to get a $10 adapter.

Re: New iPhone SE

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Post by postalrat »

sgt wrote: post #383
ivraatiems wrote: post #64

As a current iPhone SE user, here's my assessment: Pros: * Feature set in terms of processor, camera, etc., is exactly what I want * Continued presence of Touch ID is a huge plus, I don't like Face ID * Price point is, admittedly, fantastic Cons: * Lack of headphone jack is still unacceptable * Form factor is, candidly, still too big for my tiny hands * Color schemes aren't as nice as the SE's (can I contribute to CO…

Headphone jack is overrated. Keep the DAC as close to your ears as possible if you are an audiophile. For the rest of us casual listeners, the adapter is fairly cheap and just keep one connected to your headphones (or in the headphone bag if you got one).

Show me some audiophile headphones with a DAC and I'll believe you.

Re: New iPhone SE

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Post by truth_seeker »

ksec wrote: post #854

1163 Comment right now, ~800 Are about Size of Devices. I thought there was another important point. The current entry level iPhone; iPhone SE 2020 with A13 is now faster in Single Threaded performance than ALL current shipping Android, including Flagship Android. And judging by the Qualcomm roadmap, this will likely remain the same in 2021 as well. This is important if you are doing or using Web Apps like Discourse…

>> The Cost of javascript is still huge. [1] [2]

The article is almost is an year old. Nonetheless, a great read to understand the techniques of profiling. There have been 4 more releases of V8 in chromium based browsers which improved the speed and memory. Other browsers like Firefox also follow the suit.

Re: New iPhone SE

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Post by swiley »

vbezhenar wrote: post #745
colechristensen wrote: post #420

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a 95th-percentile-sized human, the large phones have been quite appreciated, there is quite a lot of frustration when everything in the world is the wrong size, whatever your size. Now if we could do something about airline seats, sedans, and home furniture.

For me phone size is not about human size. I'm tall person and my finger are quite long. It's about one-hand use. I was able to use iPhone 4S with one hand and it was convenient, not some kind of stretch. It's just not possible with iPhone 8. I'd pay good price for 3.5" iPhone 4S with modern internals. That said, this boat has been sailed. Modern apps won't work on tiny screens because their developers optimize for l…

I don’t understand why people don’t see this!

It wouldn’t be so bad if the phone had a window manager and you could keep everything you wanted in a corner (although the iPhone 7 digitizer feels less accurate than the SE was so maybe that wouldn’t work so well.)

Re: New iPhone SE

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Post by bartwe »

m1k1 wrote: post #758
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…

That's why I'm still eyeing Galaxy S10e

I have one, it's nice, wish it didn't have a bixby key though. It could be a bit smaller for my taste.

Re: New iPhone SE

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Post by nialv7 »

wiremine wrote: post #397
ivraatiems wrote: post #64

As a current iPhone SE user, here's my assessment: Pros: * Feature set in terms of processor, camera, etc., is exactly what I want * Continued presence of Touch ID is a huge plus, I don't like Face ID * Price point is, admittedly, fantastic Cons: * Lack of headphone jack is still unacceptable * Form factor is, candidly, still too big for my tiny hands * Color schemes aren't as nice as the SE's (can I contribute to CO…

> Lack of headphone jack is still unacceptable I think I'm in the minority, but I haven't really missed the headphone jack in my iPhone 11. I have the Echo earbuds, and those have been good to great for my use cases. This continues to feel a bit like the 3.5 floppy and CD-ROM removals from the Mac: a lot of people hated it, until it was a nonissue.

3.5 floppy and CD-ROM are replaced by something that does everything its predecessor does and better. Whereas bluetooth headphones are not 1:1 replacement of analog headphones. e.g. they have a battery, their audio quality is worse.

Re: New iPhone SE

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Post by jimbean »

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…

The Galaxy S10e is a really nice compact android phone just a smidge larger than this SE. Its great.

Re: New iPhone SE

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Post by ngcc_hk »

The size of the original iPhone has been insisted by Steve Jobs. Based on his insistence on the table high and low for apple store, there is a reason for that size.

I still bought a iPod lately for the size and 2nd phone SE for the size (and the weight).

Re: New iPhone SE

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Post by scroot »

proverbialbunny wrote: post #989
ken wrote: post #574

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> success by accident Sadly, it doesn't seem to be uncommon for a company (even Apple) to hit a home run and not understand why it was so successful. And then they're unable to follow up on it. HyperCard still appears in top-10 lists of "greatest software ever" -- and it's usually the only one which is no longer maintained and doesn't have a modern equivalent.

Steve Jobs was strongly adamant about the size of the iphone. Likewise, Steve Jobs saw hypercard as the future, wanting it to sync up online between people, being like the future newspaper. It's no longer maintained because it's modern equivalent is a web browser. When Steve came back to Apple he pushed hard for advancing web tech instead.

> Likewise, Steve Jobs saw hypercard as the future, wanting it to sync up online between people

Everything I've ever read about Hypercard indicates that the opposite is true: neither Jobs nor the company could "see" that Hypercard needed a true network component, nor could they even see the business case for it as time progressed.

Re: New iPhone SE

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Post by sn_master »

briandear wrote: post #311
zionic wrote: post #231

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FaceID is so terrible. It's hard to imagine a company based out of sunny California invented an authentication system that requires you to remove your sunglasses. It also sucks in any bright environment like say... the beach. Which they don't have much of in California of course. When the ambient IR is too high the sensor can't see it's own tracking dots on your face so it can't build the 3D mesh to authenticate you.…

How should Face ID work with a mask that covers half or more of your face? Doesn’t that defeat the purpose?

Exactly. That's why having an under glass fingerprint sensor is such a good idea.
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