Re:The iPhone SE was the best phone Apple ever made, and now...
by redisman on Friday September 14, 2018 @09:06PM
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Phones are at the saturation point that laptops have been for a while. A 2015 phone and laptop work great for everything I do. Google Maps, Podcasts, email, texting and calling and web browsing are not gonna suddenly need a new generation CPU to work supremely smoothly. I honestly don't understand why people keep buying new phones every year unless they play a ton of high end games.
Re:The iPhone SE was the best phone Apple ever made, and now...
by kayamon on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @01:04AM
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Hah, as if.
I had to upgrade from an iPhone 3G to a 4S and now an SE, and it wasn't because the phone was damaged. The software gets slower every year. Things that used to work fine will one day get "updated" (which btw is irreversible) and overnight will become slower and jankier, forcing you to eventually give in and buy a new model just so you can get back the same performance you used to have before.
Welcome to the future.
Re:The iPhone SE was the best phone Apple ever made, and now...
by brandon272 on Sunday September 16, 2018 @09:52PM
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From what I have seen, something about the phone necessitates a decision for replacement of one or more problematic parts (usually screen or battery) or upgrade to a next generation and most people I know seem to choose the latter.
Re:The iPhone SE was the best phone Apple ever made, and now...
by 29083011397778 on Saturday September 15, 2018 @01:41PM
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Hell, I could (and have) gone back to 2013 and survived easily. Even a Nexus 5 is perfectly adequate for me, with a comfortable screen size to boot!
For me it’s not an issue of being able to use it with one hand. It’s an issue of having a phone that itself is just small. It fits easily in my pocket where I barely notice it. I don’t want a phone that feels like an iPad in my pocket. I don’t want something that feels way better than my wallet in the keys+phone+wallet combo that I always have with me when out in public.
It is light to carry around and I can throw a case on it and it still a reasonable size.
Absent the introduction of another smaller model, I guess I will be forced to upgrade to a larger phone in the future if I want to stay with iOS (which I do) but I will be doing so with no enthusiasm.