I like the lower price for the features. It might even be low enough for parents to consider buying it for their kids instead of passing down their 3 or 4 year old phones.
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First iPhone SE Teardown Reveals Mix of iPhone 5s, 6, and 6s Components
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Because I'm a bodybuilder and actually use the one in my phone all the time?I doubt you care more about excersise than me. And that Someone thinks a barometer is a useless gimmick has nothing to do with how much they care about excercising. Thats just an incredible dumb argument because you cannot defend why its important to you
I'm going to bet I care more than you do about exercise, in fact.
Please try to refrain from using ad hominem in your posts, thanks.
Not saying that there is no demand for smaller phones. I'm saying that I would have paid a premium for a 4.3" model in a iPhone 6S body with smaller bezels that included every feature that the iPhone 4.7" model has including 3D Touch/vibrator, screen resolution, better front camera and faster Touch ID; AKA a no compromised iPhone. Not a Frankenstein phone using parts from a 5S, 6 and 6S. The damn phone looks exactly like a 5S.
But as it stands the phone is a good deal if you own a iPhone 6 and below. A current generation iPhone 6S owner would be making a mistake.
I want a second gen Apple Watch to track my heart rate and pulse.To track flights climbed. I love having this.
Where's it listed that it's the same screen? The 6s required a chip to momentarily flash the screen correctly.
The SE would be a huge upgrade for you at a very nice price. It's the goofballs that want to go from a 4.7" 6S to a SE that I can't understand. The 6S is definitely a manageable phone for a average to large person. Even smaller women are rocking bigger phones than me and I'm twice their size.
This is why people are all different. I've heard plenty of people got sick of waiting for a new 4 inch phone so have upgraded but don't like the larger size. My father has had an iPhone 6 for work for about a year now I think and he still dislikes the size, compared to his personal 5. The 6S is not manageable for me, and I'm average. The SE will last as long as the 6S, has the same camera, and better battery life. Things that are missing may not matter to people. Tons of people found the 5S screen perfectly fine, don't take selfies and don't use 3D touch on their iPhones even though they have it.
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I think the SE is great, but like I suspected it is NOT a "6S in a 5S body", like many keep claiming. It is a hybrid of 5S, 6, 6S at an attractive price.
And you forgot about the environment "report" on the event? Apple could just reuse those components, and reduce the impact of our environment, which in my opinion, way more important than just releasing new stuff every year.
Did they find out for a fact if the touch ID is from the 5s, 6, or 6s?
Oh, please excuse my dumb ass. I guess the barometer is pretty useless to me than.
More like it's a very affordable 4" 6S with very minor real-world compromises (lack of 3D touch, slightly lower contrast LCD, 1st gen TouchID, 1.2MP selfie cam)
I predict the SE alone is going to easily outsell every Android flagship combined this year thanks to that, no way this isn't going to be a huge hit, especially in poorer regions.
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The iPhone SE has excellent performance at a great price. It's a winner for iPhone users who prefer a more compact phone.
I wish I were lying but I get a real sense of shame when I do not meet my average daily flights and frequently I will remedy it by running up and down the stairs like ten times so yeah it's gimmicky but it does increase my exercise ever so slightly.
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It's motivational. Shame will get people's butts off the couch quicker than you think.
Atmospheric pressure also varies by altitude, hence the barometer being used to measure elevation. That is why apps that measure elevation such as Strava and MapMyRide provide significantly more accurate and consistent altitude charts in iPhones that include the barometer. I have seen a great improvement when upgrading from the 5 to the 6. It's also why you'll find barometers in gps devices made by Garmin and others.And there i was thinking a barometer measured atmospheric pressure... the one in my hall must be running up and down the stairs at night when I'm not looking
A Frankenstein phone? Really... A phone is about how it works, its performance, battery life, and price. As long as that criteria is met nobody cares about whether the parts happened to be used in another phone.
It wasn't redesigned in a new form factor because it's not a flagship phone. That will be the upcoming iPhone 7. The SE is a great deal as it stands assuming you prefer a small phone as many do. Apple is giving their customers choice and that's a good thing. And it will probably be one of Apple's better selling phones.
It's all Apple's fault that there's a market of at least a 30M customers that still wants a 4" iPhone.
Also, let me know when somebody else puts a Snapdragon 820 into a ~4" phone, and if somebody actually bothered, becomes anywhere even a fraction as successful.
Tracking the number of floors climbed. It's a nice stat to have alongside distance walked.
Altimeter vs Barometer! I could vegetate in one place for eight hours and show atmospheric pressure changes that vary with an oncoming or departing storm and show phenomenal stair-climbing exercise logs.
I go by actual steps taken, as a stair-master or climbing up and down a 14-step staircase will not show enough barometric changes to boast climbing a mountain!