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iPhone SE Tops Customer Satisfaction Survey Despite Shift Towards Larger Screens
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GIVE us OLED bezel free iPhoneSE 4" -- take my money!! it would be most practical phone ever!
anyone else agree?
anyone else agree?
I am a happy owner of the iPhone SE. It was the phone I waited for after my 4s. I just don't like these huge phones. And of course a reasonable price tag helps too. Best of all the iPhone SE has a good battery life, the camera is quite good too, the processor is powerful enough for general use and what more can you ask for?
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I'm very happy with my SE. After one year of heavy use everyday the battery is not lasting too long but for size and features it suits my needs. I like an iPhone I can put in any trouser pocket.
I would have upgraded to 128GB model if they had put the second iteration of Touch ID on but now it seems I'm going to have to go for iPhone 8 or wait and hope that the SE gets a second iteration in 2018.
I would have upgraded to 128GB model if they had put the second iteration of Touch ID on but now it seems I'm going to have to go for iPhone 8 or wait and hope that the SE gets a second iteration in 2018.
I am also holding to my 5, i shaped the battery and iOS 10 works very good on it. I also have a MI android phone.
Go on, I'll bite. Clearly that was the purpose of your post anyway.
The reasons why I chose to get an iPhone SE was due to the fact that I was particularly unimpressed with the larger phones. I store my phone in my trouser pocket and that size of the SE is perfect. The new features, apart from a faster Touch ID, are of no use to me. I don't play games on my phone, I use it as a tool.
I regard myself as a 'tech savvy' individual. I made a decision based upon my needs, rather than buying in to a more expensive concept that was above my requirements. It's all well and good throwing the term 'flagship' around, but how many people actually use their phone to its full potential. I see this in a lot of tech these days. I've lost count of how many times people think they need to fully loaded a MacBook Pro just to have more windows open. If you can afford it then that's great, but buying in to the latest and greatest doesn't necessarily make you 'tech savvy', buying something that will fill your needs and requirements without haemorrhaging money everywhere?! Well perhaps that wouldn't immediately set you in the category 'tech savvy' either...but 'savvy' none the less.
I still think they should have stayed with the 3.5 phone. It's better for one handed use.
I bought a 64GB SE a few weeks after the 128GB model was released. I don't need the 128GB model as I still have a 128GB 6S+ if I really need that much space. I wanted to get the 64GB because it was more then enough space and cost less then the 128GB model and there is no other difference in specs between the two.
Anyways, I'm still using the 6S+ as my daily and have only used the SE at home so far in these two months.
I love how fast it is compared to my my 5S. I loved that phones size so much that I had to get the SE no matter what.
i'm also still caught up in a personal battle between using my 6S+, 6S, SE, 6S and my S7 Edge, Note 5 and even my Note 4 with it's replaceable batteries.
Anyways, I'm still using the 6S+ as my daily and have only used the SE at home so far in these two months.
I love how fast it is compared to my my 5S. I loved that phones size so much that I had to get the SE no matter what.
i'm also still caught up in a personal battle between using my 6S+, 6S, SE, 6S and my S7 Edge, Note 5 and even my Note 4 with it's replaceable batteries.
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In the future they might make a bezel free SE version, it would be the size of iPhone 4 with a display even bigger than 4'' I guess
Or they could make it the same size of SE and put a bigger display, I don't know
I got a newer, bigger iPhone, but went back to my old iPhone 5 very quickly just because of the size. I hope there will soon be an OLED model with a 7 size screen and SE size body, or even better an SE size screen in a much smaller body.
I'm one of those people who is extremely satisfied with the iPhone SE. Its been the best iPhone I've owned.
You are forgetting 3 things:
-price is also taken in consideration with this survey. So an high end, more expensive smaller iphone, would not have scored this high.
-the consumer base of this iphone is smaller than for the iphone 7/6s. That is sold in much higher quantities than the iphone se.
Conclusions:
business wise a solid choice from apple to go with a bigger screen.
A high end 4 inch iphone with a higher price wouldn' t have scored this high.
It is not a sign that all consumers want smaller iphones than the current 4.7 and 5.5. Since they are outselling the 4 inch despite that it is cheaper.
It's been my job title for 30 years. I have never heard anyone refer to product design as industrial design except on this board, where I see it constantly.
We don't say "I'm going to industrial design this cockpit/bike frame/furnishings set". It's ridiculous.
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You have a lot of phones! And yet no iPhone 7, interesting. I assume though you won't be able to resist the iPhone 8. Is that right?
If the price rumors are correct, I may skip it and buy the 7 when it is set at a lower price.
It's been several years now since I feel that I have to have the latest and greatest iPhone. I started skipping every other year with the iPhone 5 and bought my first Android back then. I've also skipped the 6, and of course the 7.
I think the Pixel is still thought of as a geeks phone even though it was marketed as an every mans phone. The Pixel is still a few years from being mainstream and showing up on charts like this, but I do like my Pixel a great deal and wouldn't trade it for any other phone.
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I think that satisfaction rate reflects the fact that the SE is a bit of a unicorn, you really do have to seek it out in a sea of look alike me too phones.
perfectly stated. I still use a phone for the basics - email, texting, a little social media, and banking. It is not a media consumption device (youtube, Netflix, etc).
I have always been the type to own a new phone every 3-4 months, and I have been using the SE since launch. Easily the best phone I have owned to date. I really hope they keep it around. My only complaint is the actual screen....it could definitely be better.
The SE (like earlier models before the 6) has a lock button that is not directly opposite the volume buttons. Since the 6, the lock button directly opposes the volume. The easiest and most logical grip when pressing either of those buttons is to place pressure on the opposite side of the device. On the 6 and later versions this logical grip causes pressure on both sides of the device making it easy to adjust the volume, when intending to lock the screen or lock the screen when intending to adjust volume. I think this is nuts and I'm amazed that I haven't seen complaints or a design change to eliminate this problem. Am I the only one that doesn't like this and believe that it is an obvious flaw?
Maybe not as a verb, but it does appear to have some popularity outside of this forum, for example among the Industrial Designers Society of America. As far as I understand, the phrase technically only refers to the designing process, not what the end result looks like, so that is something that often goes wrong in popular usage -i.e. "the iPhone's industrial design" would actually mean some designing process performed by the iPhone, not what the iPhone looks like. But usage can change meanings, and it may very well end up where people seem to want it.
That being said, there is certainly something faddish about the phrase's popularity in recent times, similar to forum.words-of-the-month like "fragmentation" and "skeuomorphism", but maybe a bit more enduring than those.
That's an odd statement. The MacRumors community is more tech savvy than the average iPhone owner. We deliberately chose the SE over "the flagships" knowing full well the differences. You can't dismiss that and claim some variation of "ignorance is bliss" as the explanation for the SE's high satisfaction rating.
What is your definition of "better"? Are you simply running down the spec sheet to count pixels and processor speed benchmarks? If so, that is not a particularly tech savvy way to compare devices.
Having a car that can do zero to 60 in 4 seconds is irrelevant if all you do is drive in downtown L.A.
No, I felt that way from the beginning. One of the many things I liked about going to the SE from the iPhone 6 was the placement of the sleep/wake button.
As others have said, my "dream" iPhone would be a near bezel-free iPhone SE with updated internals and treated like a first class citizen. I don't expect to ever buy another phone with a larger form factor than the SE in the future.