Why not? A great little phone with a good battery life and very pocket friendly.
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2020 iPhones May Have Full-Screen Touch ID, New iPhone SE Based on iPhone 8 Also Possible Next Year
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Why not? A great little phone with a good battery life and very pocket friendly.
All this talk about 3d touch and here I am wondering why i've never used it. What am I missing out on?
Touch ID requires an extra step. Face ID works seamlessly for me while inputting passwords and making payments. That’s a key issue for me.
FaceID does produce fewer false positives (works when it shouldn't) than TouchID, however that is misleading because who the heck knows who their fingerprint doppelgänger is!? Whereas it is much easier to recognize who a face doppelgänger is or could be (twins, siblings etc.). My false negative (doesn't work when it should) rate is MUCH MUCH higher with FaceID than it was/is with TouchID. TouchID worked for my 99% of the time when my hands are dry. I'm lucky if FaceID works 75% of the time for me (and a much lower rate on my iPad Pro 11 since it constantly claims the camera is being blocked - sometimes it is but sometimes it isn't.).
Hopefully they will offer both FaceID and TouchID that you could chose one or the other (people can chose what works best for them) or even BOTH to be successfully for even another layer of security if people want it.
This doesn’t look terrible.
A smaller, flatter, rounded square unit for the camera looks ok.
A smaller, flatter, rounded square unit for the camera looks ok.
Also, keep in mind that this is the third generation of Touch ID vs. 1st generation of Face ID. If you compare reliability of the 1st gen Touch ID, Face ID blows it out of the water.
People liked the SE because it was small. I love the size of the X but I wouldn’t be opposed to a smaller all screen iPhone with cheaper materials that I could use as my travel phone.
I really hope this iPhone SE 2 only borrows the internals of the iPhone 8, but not its size. I wish Apple were more aware that some people want smaller phones.
That said, putting the internals of a phone that'll be 3 years old in 2020 is a cheap attitude Apple.
That said, putting the internals of a phone that'll be 3 years old in 2020 is a cheap attitude Apple.
It works for different people.
I am the counter example. The Touch ID was what sold me on the 5s originally. But my sweaty fingers are constantly making it useless.
On the other hand, Face ID have yet to fail to recognize my face no matter what kind of lighting, eyewear, or headgear I have.
I hope that’s what Apple does. It fits with the iPhone 8 rumor, in that shrinking the phone down to fit the iPhone 8 display size would achieve an SE-sized phone with iPhone 8 internals.
Hopefully if this rumor is true that’s what it means, shrinking the case down to the screen dimensions of the 8.
Sadly I don’t have confidence this is what Apple will do. But they also won’t likely call it an SE either. So we’ll never know.
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You know, you don’t have to buy it if you don’t like the SE.
Let those of us who like it have the choice.
Count me in. I would get in line for that.
Please lord give me the willpower and strength to skip the 2019 iPhone.
Me, neither. But definitely clean the notch once in a while! Naturally greasy skin and fingers certainly don't help.
Probably because this is what the actual 2019 iPhones are going to look like. Leaks of machine molds or half finished dummy units always look way worse than what actually gets released.This doesn’t look terrible.
A smaller, flatter, rounded square unit for the camera looks ok.
Ive had the same experience. Especially working on cars and just getting hands dirty and cuts all the time. iPhone X has been great with recognizing my face. My wife on the other hand, must change her face daily, because she claims hers doesn't work that well. (did swap out her first phone for faulty face ID which I didn't believe her for the longest time).
Haha, if you're on the Upgrade Program like many of us are, that problem goes away, you're getting it
Lack of 3D Touch is a deal breaker for me as I use it ALL the time EVERY DAY. That would completely change my user experience, which is a terrible idea. Even if the majority of their users don’t use it (because they don’t really know how to or are unaware that it’s there). Haptic Touch is trash compared to 3D Touch. Guess I’ll be getting a XS for the next couple years after all... smdh