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iPhone SE First Impressions: Small Size is Perfect and Performance is Impressive but Power Button Rattles

I received my 5SE today and coming from a 6S it did feel tiny. I couldn't believe my old 5 was that small but now it feels normal to me. I take a lot of pictures and videos and I just shot a couple of videos in the garage and the lighting wasn't that great but the video was really bad, real grainy compared to my 6S. I'm going to shoot some more and compare but I must say this bums me out a little. Other than that I love it. It seems very fast.
 
People keep coming up with these ideas. I can guarantee you that it's the power button that most here are talking about. I'm not saying it's impossible that a noise comes from somewhere else for some people. I'm as sure as anything that mine and many others is in fact the power sleep/wake button.
 
LamonsterGarage said:
I received my 5SE today and coming from a 6S it did feel tiny. I couldn't believe my old 5 was that small but now it feels normal to me. I take a lot of pictures and videos and I just shot a couple of videos in the garage and the lighting wasn't that great but the video was really bad, real grainy compared to my 6S. I'm going to shoot some more and compare but I must say this bums me out a little. Other than that I love it. It seems very fast.
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I don't mean to insult your intelligence, but are you watching the videos and looking at the pictures from both phones on the phones themselves? If so, the screen won't look as vivid on the SE compared to the 6S.
 
PaladinGuy said:
I don't mean to insult your intelligence, but are you watching the videos and looking at the pictures from both phones on the phones themselves? If so, the screen won't look as vivid on the SE compared to the 6S.
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I uploaded the video to the web and then watched it. I shoot a lot of videos for my products and this was a product review and it was so bad I took it down.
 
Some movement in the power button is well within specifications according to the Apple Store genius that looked at mine.

It's fine with me, I'd rather it be a little loose rather than too tight. It does seem like people are making a big deal out of nothing.
 
impressive performance...I'm guessing not having to push around as many pixels as the bigger phones help alot.
 
think it's the type of phone i would consider having just as a backup for when i sell my 6S plus for the 7 and could use it for a few weeks before the new one arrives but saying that maybe i would struggle with the small screen even for a few weeks
 
We go to "5.5-inch is perfect for our hands" to "now 4" is perfect for our hands"

But all the while its just reviews..

its funny when u get used to something (aka 3D Touch) then when u get a phone with lacks this, it doesn't work the way u expected it too..

Its like saying "u like 3D Touch" but now u don't want it when a new phones comes out, probably the same user..

Its still a *feature* so maybe,,, but users buy phones with that in mind... but then you don't worry too much when a new phone *without* it comes out.. oh ok,, so u changed your mind about something u REALLY wanted. ok... I don't see that. except its now suddenly not that important anymore.
 
PaladinGuy said:
Could some of the parts in these phones literally come from swapped out/old iPhone 5/5S phones? Might be a stupid question. I'm just curious if that would be possible.
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It's way cheaper to machine new power buttons and make them rattle, than to disassemble old iPhones and take their rattling buttons. But yes it would be possible. ;)
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Its like saying "u like 3D Touch" but now u don't want it when a new phones comes out, probably the same user..
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Everything is a compromise. You could add 3D Touch to the iPhone SE and you would have to develop a new screen assembly and a smaller battery to make room for the Taptic Engine. As a result the phone would be more expensive and have less battery life, just for a feature no phone had six month ago. Some day in the future when more apps use the technology, 3D Touch will be indispensable like multi-touch trackpads on a MacBook. But for now you want budget and battery life.

We need to be kind of grateful to big phone buyers. Only because Apple can dump their bleeding edge technology and sky high price tags in the huge phones, we get away with a reasonable priced iPhone SE. The iPhone 5c couldn't be much cheaper and having the same modern processor as the iPhone 5s, because both phones had the same screen size and were too similar. Now that 4-inch phones are ridiculed as unusably small, we finally can have a phone with no plastic, no old processor, no high price. Perfection.
 
Button rattle seems annoying, but I never noticed this in my 5s, but I did experience button collapse, where the button doesn't protrude as it once did and while still being completely serviceable, it is not as easy to trigger as when it protruded more.
 
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So it's just like the 5S, power button rattling was common on the 5 and 5S , hardly a fault.
 
WestonHarvey1 said:
My 5s power button rattles when you shake it. I haven't thought about it in 2 years.
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Had my 5s since it was launched and never noticed the power bottom rattle until today when i shook the phone and listened. Not an issue for me :)
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GuitarMan0121 said:
Something rattles quietly in my iPhone 5. It's not the power button, maybe the camera assembly?
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Siri is having a fewer and chatter her teeth. Give her some love.
 
Steve121178 said:
Wake me up when there's some solid Mac news.
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Your post made me realise that Apple is no longer a computer company in a conventional sense, and their laptop and desktop market is just a branch.

Post PC era I guess...
 
iPhone SE is a great phone for that price point (in Apple's standard).

But.....I didn't want to say this......1.2 MP front camera in 2016 is a crime.
 
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18 hours later and zero complaints on my end, even battery life. no button rattle or anything, my 5s had it but i never even thought about it. just can't wait for the jailbreak, factory ios is boring!!!
 
All iPhone, most Macs, all iPads, and all iPods do not have moving parts. If a spinning hard disk product causes rattling noise, I have yet to see that complaint!

So, rattle all your iPhones like a tambourine, even the 6s and 6s Plus, and post complaints about the noises. Three 5s 64GB, one 6s, four iPods (5) and two Macbooks (Air and Retina 15.4) - no rattling noise at all on daily use. No sound when walking or running with the iPhones on person - hand or pocket!

Just going out of the way to find faults! Why not campaign Cook for a minimum 32 GB storage by mass writing to Apple instead - that is a more practical problem?
 
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PaladinGuy said:
Could some of the parts in these phones literally come from swapped out/old iPhone 5/5S phones? Might be a stupid question. I'm just curious if that would be possible.
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I believe that consumer protection laws in the US prevent that without the appropriate label.
 
And babies die when you shake them...
Moral of the story, dont shake your phone...
Stupid to have to say it...
Pointless to complain about an issue that occurs outside normal usage...
 
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There are other "rattlers" in the iPhone 5s - the volume buttons. Not evident when in a case, when the power button is held immobile with a finger and the iPhone is shaken after removing the case, you can hear the round volume buttons rattle too. Gotta hold it near the ear and shake vigorously, though. All three of these buttons are mounted with a "give" on the phones, as they are pressure buttons that are designed to move minimally to maintain contact on pressure. Apple could've designed these to be immobile buttons, yet the rattle is elicited in mine only with abnormal shake.

The power button on the iPhone 4s also rattles, while the volume buttons do not even at extremes.
 
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