I believe only the back camera is from the XR, with the rest of the internals being from the 11. The externals are from the 8, including Touch ID rather than Face ID, which is why it can’t have Animoji. Not sure how Memoji works.
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You do realize the Animoji/Memoji Part requires a Face ID/TrueDepth Camera Right, obviously SE doesn’t have FaceID but it doesn’t have a trudepth front camera
Though you can create custom Memoji which requires the A9 or later
im stubborn to like fugly design, the hideous notch. so.. im still using my 6s+.
new design doesnt mean the design is better than the old one. the new batman ear notch desing looks ridiculou and looking as it belongs to robin to reach batman.
True for some people, not for others (myself included).
It's off topic, but yeah FF6 is an awesome game! Locke is my most favorite character from that game (hence my user name and profile pic).
I have cases ordered for this, but I'm still debating. the only reason I may hold off is the new low end 12 coming out. If it gets the new design, that may sway me. Still, aside from night mode, there's no feature on the higher end phones that I miss with the SE... so then it comes down is the night mode worth the extra $300 to me? (battery wise would matter but i'm fine using a battery case for the times I'm out and about all day).
$300 seems a high price for night mode. Although you’d get some other features, of course.
If you have no need for features exclusive to the notched phones (Animoji, Memoji and Face ID) and don't mind or even prefer the home button/Touch ID and smaller 16:9 aspect radio display then it's not worth spending the extra $300 USD for the night mode. An extra $50 maybe, but $300 is quite excessive.
This! I will certainly wait for the battery test but on paper it’s already disappointing. What did they do to the freed up space from the 3D touch? Nada?
I'm holding off for the 5.4" iPhone 12 and see how that turns out before deciding between it and the new SE. I love my OG SE but I want a bigger screen and better camera now.
Hopefully the 5.4" iPhone 12 Canadian pricing isn't too crazy. The new SE is $699 Canadian for 64 GB, that's just legal robbery.
Hopefully the 5.4" iPhone 12 Canadian pricing isn't too crazy. The new SE is $699 Canadian for 64 GB, that's just legal robbery.
I do. Will never buy a phone without touch ID at this point. Was planning on keeping my 7 and switching back to android eventually until this new SE was announced.
Been lucky to get in on the Walmart $200 cash discount deal with AT&T/Verizon here in the US.
At $249 for 128GB, will just pay it off and get the iPhone 12 if I like what's announced and finances/economic outlook still permit the purchase.
I didn't buy a new iPhone specifically because no touch ID is a deal breaker. Others are with me, So, yeah it did. The new SE is literally the phone I've been waiting for.
I do not think FaceID is a bad idea, but I don't think it should be the only one. New iPhones going forward should have both.
Just wanted to add, I heavily value security, but the selling point of Face ID being more secure than Touch ID has never held any weight for me, because Touch ID already seems over-the-top secure. To me it’s just a bigger astronomical number compared to an already astronomical number. Unless Touch ID is proven to be realistically vulnerable, I just don’t see the real world value of outdoing it.
In other words, if Apple came out year after year with a better security biometric than the last, do we just automatically hand over our money? After a certain point of realistic security, it has to be just numbers for numbers’ sake.
It’s similar to screen resolution. Higher is better, but at a certain point, it’s just a number that makes no actual difference, except that it costs more.
Not me. Delayed upgrading since I wanted smallish phones and all the new ones being released are either huge or too expensive. If I could tolerate bigger phones, I'd already have an iPhone Xr or 11 despite the notch.