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40% of iPhone Users Plan to Buy iPhone SE 3, Survey Indicates
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Maybe part of the 40% are people like me - and my identical-twin sons - who want to use the touch-ID method of secure entry instead of the flawed face ID. Bring touch-ID back to the higher-end phones and I might actually buy one of those instead. Otherwise yes we'll be part of the 40%.
It sounds like you are living somewhere without 5G coverage or at least using a provider without 5G coverage (EE Mobile?). A phone antenna cannot pick up a signal that doesn't exist. In my area of the U.S. I rarely have anything other than 5G.
If you chose a plan with data caps, that's on you and unrelated to whether you're using LTE or 5G.
Maybe you don't live in or close to a big city ?
I've seen 5G quite often here in and around Montreal since I own my iPhone 12.
But let me give you reason : yes, it's a gimmick. It's not (much) faster than LTE. At least not now. And they took a decade to develop this...
Yeah, it reeks of users who are either iPhone/Apple enthusiasts or already looking into getting the SE and therefore answering this survey.
There's just absolutely no way the average iPhone owner wants to switch to a device that looks as dated as the SE -Most consumers are not actively keeping up with product launches and don't sit around their computers and watch Apple events etc.
The reasons why average consumers upgrade to the latest and greatest iPhone is because billboards start appearing, tech bloggers/vloggers start reviewing and doing millions of "reasons why the new X is better than the new X", newsletters from providers with great deals go out etc. And, above all, because the phone design looks obviously new and different to older models in a way that almost anyone can understand.
But knowing about a new phone being available mostly happens post launch. Next to no average, non-tech enthusiast is aware of the date when Apple launches new products or is following tech news from day to day, keeping up with rumors and leaks, etc.
40% upgrading has to be nonsense. The SE 2022 is a spec-bumped iPhone 8, not a new iPhone. There will be next to no hype around it even after launch as not even Apple will go heavy on promotion for it.
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Your personal anecdotal experience does not a fact make.
In addition we're still on the early stages of 5G rollout.
Now, 5G mmWave seems to be a hard to locate beast that serves very few, but 5G is more than just that.
Tech companies are so terrible with these things -Yes, 5G should be a big deal in theory. But irl the network infrastructure just isn't there yet, not im my opinion.
But instead of telling us the truth, it's advertised as this great advancement that changes everything here and now, today.
The way I see it, 5G will be reliable and widespread enough to make a difference for the average person in 5-10 years from now.
That is to say, upgrading your smartphone just for 5G alone is a huge mistake in 2022.
Count me in baby!!
Bezels. check
Home button. check
LCD. check
Headphone.
Just hope it comes with decent amount of ram and latest cpu, bluetooth, wifi. Don't care about 5G at all.
Bezels. check
Home button. check
LCD. check
Headphone.
Just hope it comes with decent amount of ram and latest cpu, bluetooth, wifi. Don't care about 5G at all.
Don't know why anyone would move from iPhone 11 to SE.
How does that work then? 1.6 people said they considered buying it?
most countries it is. it's not really making your day to day any better.
no different to using my mobile 4G on 100mb compared to my wifi on 360MB. people would rather have better battery life.
I don't know why you're questioning the validity of my claim... I guess you're not aware of other countries that get the new iPhone models several months or even years after it was introduced and released in the USA...
I have done my research... My iPhone 7 Plus came with iOS 13.4.1 [released April 7 2020] and as per the serial number it was manufactured in March 2020...
I didn’t question anything. I did some basic homework on your statement that didn’t align with what you said and what’s factual of Apple’s release information when the phone was manufactured and removed from their lineup officially.
Depends where you live. I'm in Korea, and we have it all over (although I am an Android user thinking of going Apple). It's certainly in wide use here, but it's a bit frustrating because the price packages for 5G begin about $17 a month higher than 4G's closest package. They're using it to force people into price upgrades, and the data plans need to be much larger. The smallest data plan offered here for 5g is 10GB/month. I can get a plan of less than 1.5GB on 4G, and pay a lot less. I wouldn't get that, but there are some (grandma who stays home) who would.
That and there are "lies, d4mn lies, and statistics."
Thanks to British PM Benjamin Disraeli for a great quote and to Mark Twain for popularizing it in the US.
That’s because the site or service may cap the speed of your connection, in order to balance their bandwidth among all connections.
So while it’s true that you could download a movie at 400 mbps a lot faster, your download speed may be 20 or 30, which defeats the point.
Such speed makes more sense when used to connect a computer, which can access multiple sites at the same time and take better advantage of such speed.
If it did, it would sell like hotcakes. But everything I have seen says it'll keep the same old body. That battery makes it useless for me. I'll probably go base Iphone 13 or 14, if I can wait.
I totally agree on the self selection bias.
That said, I’m considering changing to SE3 from my iPhone 11 due to a preference for touch id, and smaller size.
If I could have a Mini with touch id in the power button as on the iPad Air and smaller notch I’d take it in a heart beat.
That said, I’m considering changing to SE3 from my iPhone 11 due to a preference for touch id, and smaller size.
If I could have a Mini with touch id in the power button as on the iPad Air and smaller notch I’d take it in a heart beat.
I’m ready to replace my 2020 iPhone SE. 5G service is here and good. A second generation 5G modem should make battery drain similar to what it’s been when trying to find LTE in mostly 3G areas.
I got a OnePlus 8T to replace a poorly-performing tablet but I can’t imagine trying to use Android 24 hours a day, despite the great hardware at US$399.
I got a OnePlus 8T to replace a poorly-performing tablet but I can’t imagine trying to use Android 24 hours a day, despite the great hardware at US$399.