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Re:Apple resumes selling iPhone SE at lower $249 price on it... by adzm on Saturday January 19, 2019 @05:27PM (#18949604)
Some people have small hands and/or short fingers. If you don't, it's hard to sympathize. Imagine trying to use a nine inch tablet with one hand.
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Re:Apple resumes selling iPhone SE at lower $249 price on it... by geofft on Saturday January 19, 2019 @05:37PM (#18949669)
I have, I think, relatively large hands (I'm a 5'11" cis guy / I can comfortably play a 9th on a piano and uncomfortably play a 10th) and I still find the SE as large as I can manage. I want to be able to hold the phone in one hand and reach everything with my thumb. I can't do that on the 6 or anything larger. (I'd prefer the iPhone 4 form factor, with one fewer row of icons, if possible.)

A couple years ago they called large phones "phablets." We've lost that word now.

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Re:Apple resumes selling iPhone SE at lower $249 price on it... by AceyMan on Sunday January 20, 2019 @03:45AM (#18951983)
> A couple years ago they called large phones "phablets." We've lost that word now.

The correct term is tablone <grin>.

I loved my SE until I bricked it jumping in our local pool not feeling it was still in my pocket — one of the downsides not yet mentioned. I brought my previous Nexus 6 out of retirement since there aren't any phones, Android or iPhone, that is worth new pricing right now.

Plus, I demand a 3.5mm headphone jack — dropping that was the most annoying design choice I can remember in a long time, in any consumer device.

Grrr.

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