I’d rather be seen with an older Pro model than with a newer non-Pro.
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Apple's Next New iPhone to Debut in the Spring: What to Expect
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That may change this year.
The iPhone 14 will very likely be discontinued when the new SE launches. The 15 may even be discontinued.
I have mine as a Shazam button and it’s awesome!
Regarding Face vs Touch ID on the next SE…I’ve recently purchased the new iPad Air with the Touch side button, and also an iPhone 16 which is my first Face ID device. I’d much much rather have Face vs Touch if I were buying the next SE.
Having just traded in my SE 2, I’ve long been a Touch ID fan, but the side button implementation has been a bit of a struggle. I’m using the pin far more than usual. The side button doesn’t work as well as the old Home button. I dismissed people complaining that Face wasn’t included in the latest iPad Air, but I think I was wrong.
Having just traded in my SE 2, I’ve long been a Touch ID fan, but the side button implementation has been a bit of a struggle. I’m using the pin far more than usual. The side button doesn’t work as well as the old Home button. I dismissed people complaining that Face wasn’t included in the latest iPad Air, but I think I was wrong.
is the only difference between an iPhone 16 and the rumored iPhone SE a notch vs Dynamic Island?
I am convinced the “Camera Button” is the incomplete vision of what the Action button was meant to be. The Camera button should be customisable. For example if you assign Shazam to the Camera button, you should be able to touch it to initiate Shazam, then scroll to select a music service, press to purchase/download/add to library or Playlist. Something like that.
Mini didn't sell well primarily for its marketing name "mini". I've had this conversation with a few people where they asserted they did not want a "mini" iPhone. Only because I had one and had a feeling the name was putting them off did they get to hold my 13 mini and try it out and were surprised that "it's not really mini". I'd bring the size up to 5.6" from 5.4" and I'd drop the mini name.
I have my doubts that Apple will risk cannibalizing the recently launched iPhone16 with a much more economically attractive phone just for Apple Intelligence reasons. I'd bet it will come with an A16 Bionic, rather than the brand new A18, and potentially the 8GB RAM, although I think we'll be stuck with 6GB. Still the SE4 would be a very good machine.
Yeah thanks, likewise. Bonus: we don't have yet another guy polluting the thread complaining about mini users. Good riddance!
Not gonna happen. This will leave a $300 gap in their lineup and would eat into their margins.
- notch instead of dynamic island
- no action button
- no camera shutter
- no ultra wideview
Otherwise identical. Who would buy an iphone 16, 15 or 14 against those specs, at (almost) half the price?
My bet is still on a 5.4-5.8" screen, and the A17 at the max. They are selling A15 (i14), A16 (i15) and A18(i16/i16pro) so there is a gap in their processor line-up. Furthermore, the A17 is also AI compatible.
i am willing to pay MORE money for a SMALL phone. small doesn't mean cheap, Apple, it means convenient and premium. smaller phones used to be more expensive because it required higher quality tech to build them, then we got into the era when big flashy screens became "premium" and it's sucked ever since.
I guess at this point iPhone 14 will be discontinued, so we will have iPhone 16, iPhone 15 and this new SE in the lineup?
Apple have tried it with 12 and 13 minis, but the market said “Nope”.
Nah, dude. We are well past that handy-comfortable smartphone age! It hurts, but we all should move on now. If anything postive we should take from this is the fact they are sticking to 6.06" for the next few years for the SE.
I've only had single camera cameras IPhone 4S, 5S, SE and my current phone the SE 2nd gen. The photos they take have always impressed me with just a single camera. I also like the sleek look with no huge camera assembly on the back
Only a few YouTube reviewers care, tbh.
- Dynamic Island vs Notch
- Brighter Display in iPhone 16
- M14 OLED Material vs M12 OLED Material
- Dual Rear Camera vs Single Rear Camera (Possibly no 2X Sensor Crop)
- Ceramic Shield 2.0 vs Ceramic Shield/No Ceramic Shield at all
- U2 Chip vs U1 Chip (UWB) (Possibly)
- A18 vs A18 Binned (Possibly One Disabled GPU Core or Underclocked across the board)
- Slightly bigger battery in iPhone 16
- Upto 40W PD vs Upto 20W PD Wired Charging
- Qi2 vs Qi (Gen 1) Wireless Charging (Possibly)
- No MMWave Module (Apple's 1st Gen 5G Modem is rumored to support only Sub-6 5G Module)
- No Satellite Comunication Module
- No Camera Controls (New Haptic Button)
Possibility of color-infused rear glass panel is low but can't be ruled out at this point, since it makes sense for Apple for multiple reasons.
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Addendum- They'll most likely put several artifical restrictions like No Night Mode etc. in the software side of things and some stupid omissions to make the iPhone 16 look better to justify its price. :/
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Except it's likely the opposite. Everyone here complaining did actually buy it.
Unfortunately, not very many people outside of here bought it.
The last 2 SE models have Magsafe charging so they won't remove that. 3 colours are standard for SE's - a variation of Black/White/Red. They've also always used the chip used in the current normal iPhone model, so I doubt they'd hobble it (especially as they want it to work with Apple intelligence)
Flashlight mainly. I know a flashlight shortcut is on the screen, but it's more convenient to feel the button and push it without having to look at the screen. I use my phone as a flashlight multiple times per day, although generally just for brief times to check something out.
The button is certainly not lifechanging but it is a button I use regularly. Before I'd just ignore the toggle switch because I keep my phone in silent mode 99% of the time so for me it was a wasted switch.
If I didn't have the 16 Pro, I'd probably use it as a camera button. Since there is the very useful (to me) Camera Control button, it opens up the action button to other functions.
I set it as the flashlight for a while and am now trying out different functions to see what I use the most; I currently have it set to a ChatGPT voice chat. I don't think I'll keep that for very long, but I like trying new things.
I can see how Apple would still do that. By the time the SE releases in spring, the 16 series will already have sold most of what it's going to sell (contract extensions aside). After the SE launches, people waiting for a cheaper phone - likely to upgrade from an older device like the iPhone SE 2/3 or iPhone 11, X etc. - will find great value in the SE. It'll be very close to an iPhone 16, but a couple of months later the iPhone 17 will have more obvious differentiating factors like a 120 Hz display.
Pairing the A18 with only 6 GB of RAM doesn't make any sense as the power of the NPU would kind of go to waste because Apple Intelligence requires at least 8 GB. It's either A18 + 8 GB or it's A16 or older + 6 GB. They won't pair the A18 with less RAM.