Business card-sized Japanese phone bucks the giant-phone trend

Re:Business card-sized Japanese phone bucks the giant-phone ... by graeme on Saturday October 20, 2018 @06:50AM (#18262684)

A lot of iphone SE users just bought it because it was cheap though. That's the "niche of a niche" comment above.

I like smaller phones, so we'll see how much people care about them now that the iphone 8 is the smallest good phone apple sells. Am hoping they do make a smaller iphone X style phone, but....we'll see.

Btw, for anyone reading this, popsockets go a long way to making larger phones more comfortable.

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Re:Business card-sized Japanese phone bucks the giant-phone ... by blattimwind on Saturday October 20, 2018 @07:12AM (#18262720)

> A lot of iphone SE users just bought it because it was cheap though. That's the "niche of a niche" comment above.

The SE was not a cheap phone. It might be considered so in some high-income bubbles, but for most people it isn't/wasn't.

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Re:Business card-sized Japanese phone bucks the giant-phone ... by wilsonnb3 on Saturday October 20, 2018 @08:39AM (#18263004)

The SE was a cheap phone. $399 or ~$16 a month.

In the US, that’s a cheap phone.

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Re:Business card-sized Japanese phone bucks the giant-phone ... by mgkimsal on Saturday October 20, 2018 @10:31AM (#18263442)

It started at $499, IIRC, then was downpriced in its second incarnation(?)

There was a period where storage was doubled, but IIRC it seemed that options went down again in the SE (maybe when the price dropped)?

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Re:Business card-sized Japanese phone bucks the giant-phone ... by mgkimsal on Saturday October 20, 2018 @01:17PM (#18264263)

Can't edit - but I was thinking of the larger size(s) - the original base price was $399...

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Re:Business card-sized Japanese phone bucks the giant-phone ... by graeme on Saturday October 20, 2018 @02:18PM (#18264615)

Yes, but it was the cheapest iPhone. That was my point. There are some people who are iPhone people, but cost conscious.

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