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iPhone SE 4 Rumored to Feature 6.1-Inch LCD Display With Notch
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I'm still using my XR and its design is nice. Curved sides feel good in my hand. Doesn't have a fancy OLED screen, but then again I didn't have to pay fancy OLED screen prices.
Less about face ID and more about the removal of the tactile home button. Although being able to unlock my phone or sign into apps by just forcing me to look at is far easier than getting a fingerprint IMHO.
Secondly, gestures are a pain in the butt, and even more-so on a bigger screen where you have to use two hands.
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Make it wireless charging to eliminate a connector. Slower data transfer is likely less of an issue with its user base.
However, requiring a physical touch, vs. just holding the device to someone's face to unlock it, can prevent law enforcement from unlocking it without consent, depending on the laws of a country. Face ID is a much grayer area, IMHO, as your face is publicly visible and unlocking with it does not require you to take action to allow access.
The old blue paper ones were kept in a giant vault, at least pre-digital era.
The point with the production line makes a lot of sense to me. They used the one that they had for the iPhone 6/6s/7/8 (pretty amazing how many “high-price iPhone lines they had to squeeze out of it before considering it “cheap enough” 😄) for the SE. The lines for the Mini would be obsolet, so maybe maybe… 😍
And then please also quadrupel the PWM frequency of the 13 Mini… hm, that might not happen. 😅
I have a feeling Apple is going to come out with their version of a flip phone and that will satisfy the “small” phone market.
Not ready? Are their faces not fully grown yet?
Look at the iPad lineup. The cheapest device is not the smallest, and the smallest device in not the cheapest.
Could they do the same with iPhone? It admittedly doesn’t look promising right now. But a few years on? Certainly not impossible.
Or as others mention, a flip-open iPhone might be a thing eventually.
The iPhone SE was meant to be cheap, not small. It just happened to be small because in order to make it cheap they re-used parts from older iPhones.
Apple tried making small phones again with the iPhone 12/13 Mini. It didn't sell well, that's why there's no iPhone 14 Mini.
Apple tried making small phones again with the iPhone 12/13 Mini. It didn't sell well, that's why there's no iPhone 14 Mini.
Is temporal dithering as much of a problem for people as PWM is, or is this much more of a rare issue for people out there to encounter?
Just curious as I have heard of plenty of people (here online, and even myself to a degree) with PWM sensitivity, but hadn't heard about sensitivity to temporal dithering.
Depends. Getting it out of my pocket or paying or new apps, I definitely like Touch better. For other things like authentication when already looking, I like Face better.
an iphone with side touchbar would be a dream (if it works as smooth as the regular one, I never tested the ipad’s one…)
Face id is quite good for many situations but still fails a lot for me (iPhone11)
Pandemic times where horrible, night time is horrible, numeric code is asked too many times randomly (same when using wallet) a bit tiring to me.
My sunglasses are polarized so I have to deactivate “attention awareness) in the car is hard to unlock, in the vespa even worse with helmet, same as in some sunlight situations…
TouchId was awful with gloves and wet fingers, but at an other situation was far superior and faster.
3 years after my iPhine 11 purchase still loving my iPhone 7 touchId (which I still using for work)
Face id is quite good for many situations but still fails a lot for me (iPhone11)
Pandemic times where horrible, night time is horrible, numeric code is asked too many times randomly (same when using wallet) a bit tiring to me.
My sunglasses are polarized so I have to deactivate “attention awareness) in the car is hard to unlock, in the vespa even worse with helmet, same as in some sunlight situations…
TouchId was awful with gloves and wet fingers, but at an other situation was far superior and faster.
3 years after my iPhine 11 purchase still loving my iPhone 7 touchId (which I still using for work)
Not surprising, but this will definitely disappoint people who were hoping to replace their 12/13 mini with another same-size iPhone in the next couple of years. No A16/A17, improved cameras, USB-C and dynamic island in a mini-sized iPhone unfortunately for those people.
I will definitely pass too if FaceID. The whole point of SE is TouchID. Just can't read the small SE well or barely any content is on screen. It's nice to use now for the Apple things, but I could never use it as a primary. Need to come out with the SE+ already keeping Touch.
I'm sure it will be good TouchID since even my Android is good. Face is still stinky on Android though. Plus it is dumb in some apps because you need to pick Finger or Face. Might as well just touch the power if I'm touching something already