There’s quite a few members who scored the new iPhone SE for ~$200 from Walmart with a sale/promotion, and for that price, ‘that’s a lot’ of phone. I think the new SE is going to be very successful across the world, not just because of the $399 price point, but because of the beloved 4.7 inch form factor. It’s comfortable enough one-handed, but not too obtrusive in the pocket either.
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Hands-On With the New Low-Cost 2020 iPhone SE
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Yeah, I miss it when the only options were size, color and capacity. Not different tiers. With that being said, the new SE definitely gets the job done if you’re still cool with the 2014 design and don’t mind the lack of FaceID.
To be honest, I always use cases so it's not like I'll see much of the chassis color. With all SE2 bezels being black, this time around, I didn't really care what chassis I got.
Chose the Red mostly since Apple's donating part of the proceeds for anti-COVID-19 research. Was planning on getting another Red for my mom but stock was very hard to come by at Walmart. I ended up buying her the White 128GB AT&T version as it was the only 128GB AT&T available while I was ordering.
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The lineup was certainly a lot simpler back then.
high-end: latest model
mid-range: last year's model
entry-level: last, last year's model
Given I'd rather not go bigger than iPhone 6(s)/7/8 size and I'd prefer to see the notch greatly reduced before going FaceID, I'm happy the SE2 is available.
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Just use Apple Watch for payments when you are in a store and have to wear a mask. Lets you keep your phone in your pocket too, and if you have AirPods you can issue commands etc.
I have to wear gloves and a facemark at work so..
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I wish the front color matched, I love white Apple devices. I think this phone is priced perfect. Definitely going to grab 1 to replace moms 6s and my aging work 8. I might another one just as a backup and trade in my 7 I used as a back up to my XS.
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The news writer isn’t even reading Macrumors articles, apparently.
How can you say it is the same camera module of iPhone 8 when there is a tear down video on this very website showing a physically different camera module ??? 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
How can you say it is the same camera module of iPhone 8 when there is a tear down video on this very website showing a physically different camera module ??? 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
Ooo! Ooo! Wear both!! Then whatever shall we do? It’ll be like the “before” times... just skip passcode and biometrics entirely! Hah. Crush the market for Cellebrite at the same time. 😆
If you are wearing gloves to avoid covid-19, you shouldn’t be touching your phone at all.
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More expensive phone is better than a cheaper phone? I think you have stumbled onto something big here.
In real life, I wished it worked that way.
I would expect that. However when I’m shopping (with masks and gloves) my phone is my shopping list and payment device.
Voice commands to Siri to unlock with iPhone 12 new biometric feature “VoiceID“.
You: “Siri unlock phone”
Siri: Searching Porn
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Tim Cook: We introduce iPhone 12 with an anti-bacteria and anti-viral coating to protect you against pathogens.
I agree. I hope I’m not jinxing anything, but hopefully this is a temporary state of affairs.
Works pretty well.
You are aware you can store more than 1 scan of your face, right?
Did that already as a wearer of glasses - 1 with, 1 without, now simply add 1 with hash. Done.
You don’t need to wear face masks working from home you know...or drinking a beer in the garden.
When my wife goes shopping you will see 2-3 tops wearing masks....so it’s not that common for people to be wearing them here.
Nice try.
Glasses don't matter. I wear glasses and my iPhone 11 unlocks with or without them.
A mask is a different story. I just tried to set up an alternate appearance with a mask covering my nose and mouth and it says "Face obstructed. Try removing anything covering your face." It won't work.
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I wear glasses.
Look, you can even see them in my photo!
I found FaceID greatly improved accuracy when I trained it both with and without - trained only with and it often wouldn’t work without.
And I did a train with a facemask, it happily accepted it and now works nicely in all 3 scenarios.
The first few days, I thought I couldn’t get Face ID to recognize me while not wearing glasses, but then I realized what it was: not wearing glasses naturally meant I was holding my phone a lot closer, and holding it a little further away while unlocking does the trick.
Mask, though? Yeah, so far no dice.
You know, I remember Nokia phones costing around $400. For HD touch screen, Wifi 6, touchID,A13, 64GB local storage, you really can't complain. Price to option ratio is crazy good.
I would love to hear about your experience, I am going through the same upgrade path and wondering if I will feel a difference
I would love to hear about your experience, I am going through the same upgrade path and wondering if I will feel a difference
Ive never turned FaceID on once or even set it up on my 1.5 yr old XR. I’ve been wearing masks over my face for 5-6 years every day for work. I never used Touch ID either.
Passcode is always the best bet.
Got mine last week, been using it for a few days now, it's nice to have a phone that doesn't feel like the OS is wading through molasses. The biggest issue is the lack of Force/3D Touch: Without the Home Bar-thing (from newer phones), there's no quick way to "alt-tab" to the last used app. That's missing functionality I used many times per day.
It's a decent enough upgrade for me but it's still disappointing in the ways the 7 and 8 were. It's a stain on the "SE" name (of which I was a massive fan of) but hopefully non-SE fans enjoy it for a more accessible phone for which you don't have to remortgage the house.
It's a decent enough upgrade for me but it's still disappointing in the ways the 7 and 8 were. It's a stain on the "SE" name (of which I was a massive fan of) but hopefully non-SE fans enjoy it for a more accessible phone for which you don't have to remortgage the house.
The white looks awful with the black face plate. Will be keeping my 1st gen white SE for a while longer now.
