Other iPhone SJE (Steve Jobs Edition)

[MCHS2001]

It is possible to create an iPhone 4 or iPhone 5 with all the power and features of the iPhone 8? Call it the Steve Jobs Edition. I would pay $1000+ for this phone. I will never buy a huge $1000 gesture based iPhone. Can the 8’s 3D Touch, 2nd gen Touch ID, haptic engine, 256 GB memory, 2 GB ram, and iPhone 8 level Bluetooth and modems be scaled into a 4 or 5 body? This feat would be a legitimate excuse for no headphone jack.

 

[keysofanxiety]

That’s a hard nope from me dog.

 

[cableguy84]

I would buy a SJE but it would need to be a plus sized phone.

 

[44267547]

Can the 8’s 3D Touch, 2nd gen Touch ID, haptic engine, 256 GB memory, 2 GB ram, and iPhone 8 level Bluetooth and modems be scaled into a 4 or 5 body?

Scaling and implementing are two different things. Can some of those features be implemented into a 4 inch iPhone? Yes, The whole reason Apple didn’t include those features was to keep that phone cheaper. What you’re asking for is something likely the general market isn’t interested in with a 4 inch iPhone with all those features, even though I see the attraction and so do others On here, Apple doesn’t, because the consumer market has spoken that they like larger phones with more battery life.

 

[SalisburySam]

It is possible to create an iPhone 4 or iPhone 5 with all the power and features of the iPhone 8? Call it the Steve Jobs Edition.

I think the closest you’re going to get is the iPhoneSE, which isn’t a bad iPhone and does have lots of the features you mention. But it isn’t an 8...yet.

 

[tranceking26]

If it had a headphone jack and was sized between the 5s and 6s I'd consider it for my next phone in a few years.

 

[Newtons Apple]

It is possible to create an iPhone 4 or iPhone 5 with all the power and features of the iPhone 8? Call it the Steve Jobs Edition. I would pay $1000+ for this phone. I will never buy a huge $1000 gesture based iPhone. Can the 8’s 3D Touch, 2nd gen Touch ID, haptic engine, 256 GB memory, 2 GB ram, and iPhone 8 level Bluetooth and modems be scaled into a 4 or 5 body? This feat would be a legitimate excuse for no headphone jack.

Not going to happen. The costs for engineering new circuit boards, alone, would be more that what the phone would make. These tiny phones are a dinosaur and no one makes them anymore due to lack of demand.

 

[axboi87]

They're supposedly debuting a 5.4" phone next year that is almost the same size as the 5/5S/SE but with an all screen design like the newer Face ID phones. This might be an ok compromise, but my main thing with my SE is the fact that I can easily and quickly use it one-handed and fly through tasks using just my thumb. I worry that even with a phone roughly the same size as the SE, an all-screen design would mean my thumb can't easily reach the corners. Oh well, beggars can't be choosers I guess? The good news is that IOS 13 performs even better than IOS 12 on older phones, so an SE will still be a great performing device for roughly 3 more years. After that? I guess we'll have to jump to the 5.4" phone...

 

[now i see it]

very very few people want to use an iPhone the size of the 4. I have an old one. It's rediculously small. Fonts are microscopic

 

[Falhófnir]

As others have said, in general people want larger screened phones. There's a reason they went on the larger size for the XR where they don't offer two size variants. Looks like the 5.4" might be about as good as anyone preferring a smaller form factor can hope for.

 

[1rottenapple]

It is possible to create an iPhone 4 or iPhone 5 with all the power and features of the iPhone 8? Call it the Steve Jobs Edition. I would pay $1000+ for this phone. I will never buy a huge $1000 gesture based iPhone. Can the 8’s 3D Touch, 2nd gen Touch ID, haptic engine, 256 GB memory, 2 GB ram, and iPhone 8 level Bluetooth and modems be scaled into a 4 or 5 body? This feat would be a legitimate excuse for no headphone jack.

If it transforms into bubble bee vw beetle I’d be in on the SJ edition iPhone.

 

[44267547]

If it had a headphone jack and was sized between the 5s and 6s I'd consider it for my next phone in a few years.

The latter of the two being a smaller iPhone seems likely, but the headphone jack is not a reality anymore. And I’m not picking on your post, it’s just Apple made that very clear it’s not coming back, and we’re now almost 4 generations of iPhones ahead of when they deleted it with the iPhone 7, I think that’s fairly evident Apple has clearly left it.

 

[tranceking26]

we’re now almost 4 generations of iPhones ahead of when they deleted it with the iPhone 7, I think that’s fairly evident Apple has clearly left it.

Very true but "classic" for me would have to be home button and headphone jack.

It won't ever happen.

 

[AustinIllini]

Steve Jobs was a huge "focus on the future" guy. His iPhone would have to be the most futuristic model. Even then, they should never do it

 

[joningi]

Scaling and implementing are two different things. Can some of those features be implemented into a 4 inch iPhone? Yes, The whole reason Apple didn’t include those features was to keep that phone cheaper. What you’re asking for is something likely the general market isn’t interested in with a 4 inch iPhone with all those features, even though I see the attraction and so do others On here, Apple doesn’t, because the consumer market has spoken that they like larger phones with more battery life.

But still, when the last batches of the SE sold out earlier this year much faster than Apple anticipated for a three year old phone, they found that the main reason people were buying the SE was due to its smaller size but not the lower price. They should be fully aware now that there’s real demand for a smaller phone that still has the latest technology.

 

[44267547]

But still, when the last batches of the SE sold out earlier this year much faster than Apple anticipated for a three year old phone, they found that the main reason people were buying the SE was due to its smaller size but not the lower price. They should be fully aware now that there’s real demand for a smaller phone that still has the latest technology.

You forgot to indicate, when the last batch of the SE’s sold out this year, they were discounted on Apple‘s clearance site for $250. Apple didn’t anticipate anything, they were trying to offload overstock from phones that were being sent back from carriers to their warehouse.