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.
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![]()
Using up spare parts? I'm going to die laughing. Clearly you know nothing about modern high volume manufacturing.
Apple recognized customer demand for a smaller phone with the latest tech, higher performance, and at a lower price. Apple will sell a ton of these devices as a result. It's a nice complement to their larger devices which sold in record quantities when released.
I want a second gen Apple Watch to track my heart rate and pulse.To track flights climbed. I love having this.
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Where's it listed that it's the same screen? The 6s required a chip to momentarily flash the screen correctly.If the display is same one from the 5 and 5s, doesn't that mean that the 5 and 5s can be updated via software to enable the Retina Flash?
Yeah: this is enough for me to upgrade to my (very old) iPhone 4s.
(Don't judge me; I liked the small screen.)
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.
Where's it listed that it's the same screen? The 6s required a chip to momentarily flash the screen correctly.
While many parts were originally from the iPhone 6 or 6s, the touch screen controller components (Broadcom BCM5976 and Texas Instruments 343S0645) were originally used in the iPhone 5s.
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.It's called lack of innovation or using up spare parts; take your pick.
Real innovation would have been a 4.3" iPhone 6S with smaller bezels that has the same foot print as a iPhone 5S while fixing the camera hump. Here we have Frankenstein iPhone. Your post is the reason why we will have a iPhone 6SS for 2016; people eating what Apple throws in front of them. Not saying that the SE is bad, only saying that Apple lost it's edge. It could have been a better device for around $550.
My flip-flop has a bottle opener - summer utility!I was waiting for a bottle opener, something useful.
Oh, please excuse my dumb ass. I guess the barometer is pretty useless to me than.Why are you so certain it is the barometer that provides this information?
A flight of stairs in a commercial modern building is 12 feet. No data that I am aware of, and I have looked for a while, has shown that a barometer can be accurate to such a tiny change in elevation.
Moreover, a barometer would then not be able to tell the difference between you climbing a few sets of stairs, or the weather changing above you head, or the differecne between stairs and an escalator.
No, I am pretty sure the accelerometer is used for counting flights of stairs climbed. The data it outputs can be differentiated between stairs, escalator, and elevator; and it is sensetive enough to detect even millimeters of movement.
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.
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.It tracks elevation, pretty gimmicky, but it is still something cool to have.
It's motivational. Shame will get people's butts off the couch quicker than you think.People need a barometer to exercise "seriously"? Hmmmmmmm
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![]()
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.
Reaction when someone else uses old and new tech: They're being lazy recycling old tech.
When Apple uses mix of old and new: I'm gonna queue for Apple's greatest hits album!
Hats off to Apple using excellent components partly I suppose, nontheless.
For what use ? It's just a gimmick.
Make fun all you want, people that care more about exercise than you do.
If you truly don't understand how a barometer aids in exercise then maybe ... ?