I’d rather they hit the camera bump on the head. And the sides while they’re at it; flatten those edges a la 1st gen SE. Then I’ll buy it.
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I’d rather they hit the camera bump on the head. And the sides while they’re at it; flatten those edges a la 1st gen SE. Then I’ll buy it.
Originally Apple planned for 30-40 million. With the pandemic, maybe more like 50-60 million.
Same here. I got the 1st gen SE with 64GB and still have 30GB available on it. Apps are offloaded right now and I have tens of thousands of photos and videos in iCloud Photo Library, iTunes Match now switched to Apple Music, bunches of documents and things in iCloud Drive and synced to iCloud documents on my Mac. I very much can’t justify buying 128GB just by comparing to my current usage.
Yeah I’m boring with no big games and other usage. I use my iPhone to get things done. 🙂 I also got 5th gen iPad mini, similar specs; 64GB and tied into all the iCloud bits above. Kinda funny to think that of each of the devices, I got the smallest-of-the-smallest of each. Hah. They probably hate that a little bit.
iPhone 4/5 design? Sounds like you want the same old thing again after all.
Why are people repeating this? Apple thought of this. Settings - FaceID - Alternate appearance
I don’t have a FaceID phone and I know this..
Folks used the same desktop and wall phones for 40 years - but a 5-year-old design is "so old"....what a bunch of ninnys... VW made the Beetle for most of last century, but now a classic time-tested design is "old" after just a few years...Has everyone gone nuts?
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Many people want change for the sake of change. The mindset is rampant here.
Well, I just took the leap and pre-ordered my basic black SE. Looking forward to better battery life and better camera than my 2016 SE.
i thought the bump was required, but on the se and 6s it wasn't really; the SE had no bump and used the same camera as the 6s.
It makes me think the bump was an artifact of the manufacturing process and the industry copied Apple for no reason.
He must have done something to piss off Apple. Not surprising, he seems like a bit of an ass. Good luck to him, Apple tends to have somewhat of a long memory. They don’t tend to reward those they think have done them wrong.
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The bump is there because of the physics of camera optics. As the iPhone got thinner and thinner, it got thinner than the camera needed to be to produce high quality photos.
It could be said that Apple might just keep the bump even if the phone gets thicker: if they do then the optics get better and we’re already used to it already.
I’m no fan of the bump otherwise, but I’ll be using a case anyway so it’s not really an issue. At least keeping the phone thinner mitigates the added size of the case!
It was the inane zeal for thinness, and rounded edges, then the pointless “curved glass edge” because it scored #NerdPoints. Camera lenses can only be but so small.. light is a fixed constant (Einstein defined it as ‘c’ after all. Heh.) but yeah, the bump irritates me so much I traded my 6 for the SE for that explicit reason. The 1st gen SE used the 5S thicker body so it was more roomy for lenses, thus laid flat.
The metal edges of that bump also get scratched bad, and it scratches the table when it’s moved across the surface. I got a scratch on my table from it.
It was so slippery to pick up, especially in NC winter climate when the air is dry and your hands are dry.. no juice to grip the device, no grab points, no leverage. I had to be soooo so careful with my 6. It felt so flimsy, too, like a saltine cracker. Felt like it was gonna break any day. Moronic design.
Given I had a 6 at the time, the SE was a double-plus upgrade for everything I needed and wanted (plus Apple Pay with TouchID and Watch support for my future AW I knew I’d get). It was perfect at the time. AND it is 4” Rose Gold; the only 4” phone in that color ever made. An instant antique. 😆 original 5 and 5S didn’t have that color.
I love my SE. irrationally-so 🤣 I’m seeking professional help for that...
The SE was thicker than the 6s, maybe that’s why it didn’t need a camera bump.
That would look awful and very off brand for Apple. Not in agreement at all, and clearly Apple's engineers and design team, or frankly the new reviewers as well, weren't either.
It's true you can set up an alternate apearance, but with a mask it kicks back a "Face Obstructed" error. Someone found an imperfect way to fool it, by wearing half the mask at a time, but it's not perfect and definitely not a deliberate feature.
Face ID technically shouldn't officially work with a mask anyway:
- It may not recognize you if you don't always wear the same kind of mask.
- Other people wearing the same mask may be able to unlock your phone. Since they're effectively wearing a part of your "shape."
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The advantage with the home button, (in respect to the haptic home button for 7 and above), is it invokes actions quicker.
If you look at the iPhone 6s, (which was the last home button to support a ‘spring tensioner’), The iPhone 7 Haptic home button took all the issues with the spring loaded home button and made it better. Especially with the haptic feedback, I can see why the home button gained favorability when it graduated from the spring loaded home button from the 6S and below.
Think this.
Apple is the biggest tech company on the planet. And this isn't "crazy cheap" at all - just cheap in Apple-world.
They could easily have mad a few changes to the design and still made this phone at this price point.
I think it's rather a very well thought out conservative design decision. They have stuck to a VERY recognizable design - tried and tested and it's not really a bad thing... If you want something more flashy/new/future looking they have that as well
Never really used the 6s for the camera, run a few apps, nothing major. This will sit a lot better upgrading from a 6s with a few quid back on the old phone (if they agree the value). Awaits battery life report, that will be the deal breaker for me. I am fed up of not getting through the day without a re charge on basic use.
Any news on the RAM?
Any update on the screen over iphone7 or 8?
I really need iphone 7 to SE comparison, and what I am going to miss from the iphone 11.
I was going to complain that the bezels look ugly large considering the newer slimmer/bezel-less phones then I realized you need it for touchID or have asymetirical bezels which will probably look uglier.
This phone is a real steal and I hope the sales shatter Apple expectations, the value to offer is amazing, I hope the message goes through we don't want notch and we don't want faceID. I am surprised they put in the latest chip I am only guessing its cheaper to produce more of the modern chip than keep the older ones around.
I have never imagined myself buying the lesser phone, always the greatest, but here we are. I don't need 3-camera phone and a notch that can graph facial features.
Any update on the screen over iphone7 or 8?
I really need iphone 7 to SE comparison, and what I am going to miss from the iphone 11.
I was going to complain that the bezels look ugly large considering the newer slimmer/bezel-less phones then I realized you need it for touchID or have asymetirical bezels which will probably look uglier.
This phone is a real steal and I hope the sales shatter Apple expectations, the value to offer is amazing, I hope the message goes through we don't want notch and we don't want faceID. I am surprised they put in the latest chip I am only guessing its cheaper to produce more of the modern chip than keep the older ones around.
I have never imagined myself buying the lesser phone, always the greatest, but here we are. I don't need 3-camera phone and a notch that can graph facial features.
3 gig ram
same screen as 7-8
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Haptic like iPhone 7
ah that’s something Apple might should address then.
I sit, loungingly, corrected. (and I made up a new word!)