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Re:The iPhone SE was the best phone Apple ever made, and now... by vbezhenar on Friday September 14, 2018 @07:29PM (#17991921)
I recently bought iPhone 8 256GB. I paid a lot for it. I would buy iPhone SE, but it's hardware is too old, its fingerprint reader is old and it lacks force-touch. If there was iPhone 8 mini or something with identical hardware, I would buy it for the same price.
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Re:The iPhone SE was the best phone Apple ever made, and now... by jhayward on Friday September 14, 2018 @08:04PM (#17992081)
What circumstances do you find force touch to be helpful for? It seems to be the only thing really lacking on the newly announced XR phone.
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Re:The iPhone SE was the best phone Apple ever made, and now... by vbezhenar on Friday September 14, 2018 @08:26PM (#17992170)
I never had first-hand experience with force-touch before, so I thought it would be an useful feature. I'm using it mostly for moving cursor and occasionally to preview web pages by force-touching the link. Also you can force-touch notification and e.g. type answer immediately, I don't actively chat, but I imagine that there are people who will find it useful. Anyway now I don't think that it's a very useful feature, but it's nice to have it.
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