Yeah - it's not
Just like my 13 Mini screen protectors -- only shape cutout is for the earhole
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iPhone SE 4 to Have Notch Instead of Dynamic Island
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Yeah - it's not
Just like my 13 Mini screen protectors -- only shape cutout is for the earhole
Not necessarily! That could be a cutout around the speaker. I'm looking at my screen protector on my 16 Pro Max right now, it has a similar cutout at the top.
From a visual design standpoint you are 100% wrong. The curvature of the sides of the notch would look atrocious as it expanded to show what the Dynamic Island shows. No way. Also considering the fact that the notch extends to the top…you’d either have the prompt connected to the top (ugly and bizarre) or you have the top portion of the notch sticking out from the top of the prompt. NO WAY.
Edit: Imagine believing that the notch would lend itself to fluid animations like the Dynamic Island. But apparently at least two people do lol. It WOULD NOT WORK. People’s negativity toward Apple enables them to believe bizarre things.
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Can they give it an edgier name than the Notch? iNotch Pro? The Gap? The Void?
If that display is correct I’d be thinking they’re going to move Touch ID to the lock button.
I call it "Dynamic Notchland."
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Switching from SE 3 to 4 will be like switching from 8 to 14. I don't think anyone will complain there's too little difference to consider upgrading…
I am planning to buy an iPhone SE to my 80 year old mum as it represent all she need in a phone … The notch will do just fine … My daughter has an iPhone 15 and could care less about Dynamic Island. We have an iPhone 13 Pro and never thought that I needed a new phone with Dynamic Island or any of the features they are implementing except the weight …
I have never not once cared about the notch and I still have a 13P. However, I would like Dynamic Island now that it exists.
More than anything, I want a mini with good battery life. I’d sacrifice many features for that as long as it was safari snappy with AI.
It is not a Notch. It is the latest invention from Apple, "Static Peninsula".
1) Switch to 30hz “slow-motion screens”. Hype the hell out of it. Throw in some AI buzzwords or insert fake frames. This will enhance battery life and I see most don’t notice the difference between 60hz and 120hz so surely they won’t notice between 30hz and 60hz either.
2) The A18 should do the job.
3) Should be there as it is a standard feature across models.
4) USB-C 2.0 will be there else they can’t sell in EU.
5) Dirt Tier LCD or OLED to keep costs down.
6) Dirt tier in-house 5G modem.
Hope they leave the Sim Card slot available, here in the US, and not just overseas. There are still people who prefer the freedom to sim swap without notifying/going through the carrier. Yes you can swap with eSIM, but per my experience with Visible, there is a limit swapping with eSIM. I've done it so many times last year with my 15 PM, that the first IMEI got ban/flagged and I had to activate using the 2nd IMEI 👎.
I suspect Apple will overprice this to prevent it cannibalising sales of the other iPhone models too much. Seems too good to be true otherwise.
As long as carriers actually make it quick and easy to swap eSIMs between devices then I don’t see a problem.
The carrier is “notified” every time you swap a regular SIM card anyway because they can see the SIM card’s IMSI is no longer paired with the same device (IMEI).
Better compared to what ?
And it surely will be (A17 or A18)
That could be a cost-cut decision. I’m not expecting MagSafe on the SE.
That’s for sure, because of EU anyway.
Could be a cost-saving decision.
iPhone 15 will be discontinued in a few months anyway.
By the way, every week there is a different rumor, so at this point the new SE could be very different from what we think.
It seems like an odd thing to drop because Apple makes money on the MagSafe cables / accessories / MFi licensing.
But there’s no MagSafe on the current SE, so who knows!
MagSafe. Apple doesn’t receive licensing revenue for third-party USB-C cables and accessories.
I'm an SE2020 user; if I upgrade soon, it'll be to an SE4, and the first thing I will do is switch Apple Intelligence off. Don't care about notch / lack of notch / Dynamic Island / lack of Dynamic Island...