No it’s not. The SE line was more focused on the budget aspect by recycling old phone factors used and putting updated internals into them to cut down on costs. Nothing to do with it being particularly small 🙄
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No it’s not. The SE line was more focused on the budget aspect by recycling old phone factors used and putting updated internals into them to cut down on costs. Nothing to do with it being particularly small 🙄
9 sounds more correct than SE. The SE is the small phone, not the cheep phone.
I wish there was a dislike button
Edit; There is! I still need to figure this forum out 😅
Lol I just thumbs-downed you to demonstrate, not as a reflection of my feelings about your post.
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Lol I just thumbs-downed you to demonstrate, not as a reflection of my feelings about your post.
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no worries I appreciate it 😅😂
Count me among those that think “SE” is appropriate. I think when the first one came out, using either model description (“Small-sized iPhone” or “low-cost option based on the previous design”) were potentially valid labels. It’s this SECOND one (if indeed it is called “SE”) which turns the product line from a one-off to a pattern.
As for potential confusion, I don’t think it’s a problem.
*looks around the house at iMac, Kia Soul, Vizio TV, InstantPot Duo, SquirrelBuster Peanut and Swingline stapler*
As for potential confusion, I don’t think it’s a problem.
*looks around the house at iMac, Kia Soul, Vizio TV, InstantPot Duo, SquirrelBuster Peanut and Swingline stapler*
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You can call customer service for activation.
I worked at Sprint from 2016–2017. Trust me, our internal documents were even sloppier.
You only “activate” a brand new #/brand new service on a new provider.
Steps to make your number ring on a different phone (must be compatible with your carrier, of course):
1)remove your sim from old phone
2)place in new phone
Voila!
Similarly... the recipient of your phone must:
1)remove their sim from their phone
2)put it in the iPhone you just gave them.
Ta dah!
Apologies in advance to any mobile shop workers for demonstrating how unnecessary you are. 😉😂
One thing Apple have always struggled with - an accurate, easy to follow naming convention for their iOS devices.
Calling it the iPhone 9 is like inserting an extra hidden doctor in Doctor Who. "Oh yeah the 9 was planned all along, we just never brought it up until now."
Calling it the iPhone 9 is like inserting an extra hidden doctor in Doctor Who. "Oh yeah the 9 was planned all along, we just never brought it up until now."
Thanks! I am guessing from the phrasing of your post that going from Android to iPhone doesn't make any difference, correct?
I see your point. However having a new phone labeled as 9 already makes it sound old considering the X (10) and XI (11) have already been out. We shall see...
Though I agree with you, I think it's reasonable for users to believe that it had to do with the size of the phone, until such time that Apple does come out with another SE (perhaps this one). Once they do, then we see a pattern and we can know what they mean. Personally I agree, I expect it has to do with the spot in the price lineup and how that's achieved.
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Although I disagree (I think it'll be "iPhone SE")...it is true that Apple has named its base level "iPad" and has not done similarly with iPhone, and I was pondering why. Perhaps it's that, looking at the product roadmap, they decided that at its most basic form the most basic iPad has essentially reached its final form except tweaks. That size screen, TouchID, those size bezels, whatever. Perhaps any changes going forward are just processor, improved cameras, specs and not design. In that case I could see Apple deciding to call it "iPad" and leaving it there.
We haven't (yet) reached the same with iPhone, at least I don't think so. When they do, if this next one is called just "iPhone," my expectation is that this is it: the base-level iPhone will look like this with only processor, camera and RAM changing going forward.
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That is absolutely correct!
The only need to go to the shop was when you needed a new sized sim... now that they’re all nano, you’re good. =)
Must admit I’m surprised they haven’t started charging us activation fees here in the UK yet!
What? One has been able to activate an iPhone without going to a store for at least 9 years - when my iPhone 4 arrived on my doorstep in 2011, I didn't have to take it to a store to activate it.
My wife just had an iPhone 11 delivered on Wednesday from Apple. The Apple site contacted AT&T during the buying process, we activated it at home over WiFi.
I'm pretty sure the only thing someone might need for activation now is WiFi and possibly a connection to iTunes.
I know I've personally only had one of my five total iPhones activated in store, the rest were done at home.
Calling the expected low-cost upgraded iPhone 8 the iPhone 9 would make much more sense than calling it the SE, IMHO. I mean if the name is to be purely attached to the low cost, call it the iPhone LC! Being (as rumoured) lower-spec than the current top-end spec iPhone in every single way is not my idea of a ‘special edition’.
The SE was special, in part, because at launch it actually had few compromises from the then-top end iPhone, the 6S (basically smaller screen size/quality, but that was kinda the point... and no 3D Touch), and I believe actually out-performed it in some ways.
The SE was special, in part, because at launch it actually had few compromises from the then-top end iPhone, the 6S (basically smaller screen size/quality, but that was kinda the point... and no 3D Touch), and I believe actually out-performed it in some ways.
Just because "SE" means small to you personally, does not mean that is correct. From day one, Apple said it stood for "Special Edition". In that case, this should be called the SE. Count me as one that calling it the 9 gives off the impression it is a few years old, when in fact it contains the latest internals (chip). By calling it the SE, they are setting the tone that we will continue to see new "SEs" every 4-5 years.
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I feel pretty confident that this will out perform the 11 in some ways, simply because it is driving a less power hungry display. That was the main reason the SE outperformed the 6S at the time.
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I feel pretty confident that this will out perform the 11 in some ways, simply because it is driving a less power hungry display. That was the main reason the SE outperformed the 6S at the time.
If I had to bet between SE and 9 I'd put my money on SE, because an iPhone 9 when 11 is out sounds 2 generations old. My favourite name would be iPhone Classic, as it is the last iPhone with the original design, but I think it is unlikely they'll pick that name.
Agreed, but it doesn’t matter why. The top-end iPhone when the SE was released was the 6S. I would argue the correct comparison now is the surely the 11 Pro if the debate is how much it deserves to be called ‘special’.