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Apple's First New Low-Cost iPhone Since the iPhone SE Expected to Launch Early Next Year
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Same is true for 4.7” 16:9, at least for me.
My 5s, I could use one-handed. 6s, sometimes but not all the time. My thumb won’t reach from bottom left to top right without changing my grip.
What they will do and what I want are two totally different things. I’m well, well aware.
I never really cared whether it was low cost, my preference was always a small phone that would fit in my pocket.
For me, the perfect iPhone would be the size of the iPod touch and have mid-to-high end features.
Having said what I want, here's what we'll probably get- an iPhone 6,7,8 body with the chin and forehead filled in with more display (save the notch natch). Which would put the display right about 5.5" which is apparently another size that's been rumored about. So iPhone 11 in small and medium, and iPhone 11 Pro in medium and large. Or maybe append mini and max on the far ends of the size spectrum. Seems a reasonable spread of phone sizes, although I'd still pine for smaller. I have entirely too many thought processes wrapped up in this speculating.
Why? I think the draw for most people to this phone was the size and now it’s similar to the size xs and probably won’t be much cheaper XR.
Maybe the niche market for a phone the size of the SE isn’t the same anymore but even if it was smack dab in the middle at about 4.3 inches that would have been about the perfect size for the smallest iPhone.
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But why does anyone need that?
There has been an unusually large amount of FUD spread by MacRumors and other media about products speculated to be released by Apple in 2020.
The intention of this all this fear, uncertainty, and doubt is surely to disrupt sales of Apple's 2019 products.
This is a good sign in my book - - the haters are running scared.
The intention of this all this fear, uncertainty, and doubt is surely to disrupt sales of Apple's 2019 products.
This is a good sign in my book - - the haters are running scared.
I'll take "bezels that stop my screen getting destroyed in 90% of drops" please.
Apple's "low cost" phones are still expensive for the general populace. It's a wait and watch game, we've all been speculating of the second coming of iPhone SE since dog years. I'm surprised at how many people still love the SE form factor, though I have honestly moved onto the 6-8 form factor and find it perfect.
Exactly. With a edge-to-edge display you can still get a good-sized screen out of a 4” device. Why hasn’t Apple done this?
Can't wait for this to happen. Still on my third (!!) iPhone 6s and iPhone 5c.
I hate the bigger phones. I need to use my phone comfortably with one hand.
An iPhone XS in the size of an SE (ideally with the shell of the 5C which I love hahah) would be amazing.
This is what got me. I needed a small phone because I run a lot and don't want to carry anything bulky.
As it turned out the SE was affordable as well as being the ideal size. I was sold.
As a consequence of this affordability and the ideal size, Apple have kind of "trapped" me - in a good way. I would not have bought an Apple Watch if I hadn't bought the iPhone SE and it's very doubtful if I'd have bothered replacing my iPad mini 2 with the iPad mini 5.
I'm happy with my growing range of Apple products but, if not for the SE, I wouldn't have bought any and would still be faffing about with Android phones, no smart watch, and an increasingly outdated iPad.
So they've made more sales with me *because* of the affordability and size of the SE than they would have had without it.
Well some SE fans like the 4.0” size and they don’t want a bigger screen. Some want a 4.7” screen in the SE form factor. Some want a low-cost device, as will reportedly be introduced. Others would gladly pay $899 for an X-type, SE-sized phone.
It’s not one size fits all, it’s more like each of those four subgroups is 3%, but even if they all wanted the exact same phone, the total still wouldn’t add up to a good-enough selling model.
They aren't going to put any of the Face ID tech in a low cost phone.
It'll be a repackaged iPhone 8, which was pretty much what the SE was, a last gen design with some updated internals.
The XR is basically a compressed XS-Max. Apple could do a compressed XS. The XS is quite long but not very wide, so this would be reasonably small and fit for smaller hands.