iPhone SE (2016) Put a new battery in 5s or buy current-gen SE?

[jeyf]

figure plan b
than order a battery replacement kit and replace the battery your self as plan a.

if a < b buy another iPhone whatever.

 

[44267547]

After a couple of days thinking I'd buy current-gen SE if a new one isn't released on Tuesday, I'm back to thinking I might just paying for a battery replacement. I just don't rely on my phone for much more than its camera, music and podcasts. The 5s handles all of those fairly well, even if it's slower than ever.

Obviously it’s your decision , but I think once you experience the SE, you would greatly appreciate the differences over your 5S. Especially in terms of what I already mentioned previously with the camera and processor improvements. I’m not sure if you are up-to-date with your current iOS, but the 5s likely won’t see iOS 12 and iOS 11 does fairly well with SE.

 

[Paddle1]

I know the official word is that the 5s does not get throttled, but I noticed a huge difference between the way my 5s worked on iOS 10 (great) vs iOS 11 (terrible). Maybe that's simply due to more demanding software.


After a couple of days thinking I'd buy current-gen SE if a new one isn't released on Tuesday, I'm back to thinking I might just paying for a battery replacement. I just don't rely on my phone for much more than its camera, music and podcasts. The 5s handles all of those fairly well, even if it's slower than ever.

Yes, iOS 11 is generally more demanding than iOS 10.

 

[jeyf]

i recently had a iPhone 5.0 & Ios10. My 5.0 worked fine. Its not like it would play a movie in slow mo. Not that it was any slower to vpn in to my house as my current phone. That is with Ios10

you can have a personal conspiracy theory on what and how apple chose to cripple older iPhones:
Likely the 5.0 / 5s had no way to remotely slow down emulation. Installing Ios11 onto the 5s was the bad. You just dont know but in review of known previous Apple behavior if they had a plan for the slightly newer phones they considered slowing down the whole product line.

the cell phone market is mature. Right now Apple can sell you:
a new cell phone every year
a portable computer with a bad keyboard
a watch; forgive me if baby boomers still wear watches
homePod; it sounds better than anything ever did in the past.

so there.

 

[japanime]

I went ahead and bought the SE. The speed improvement was well worth the extra money I had to spend (compared to replacing the battery on my 5s). Thanks, everyone, for their feedback.