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I just bought an iPhone SE. It's not as small as the Jelly, but way more usable. It runs latest ios 11 pretty well, has a decent camera, and > 1 day battery life for my usage. I am figuring it will last at least 2 years, considering it has the same internals as an iPhone 6S. If you're looking for a small phone, the SE nails it IMO.

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It’s weird that the SE is now considered a small phone, because it’s the size of the 5s which used to be the big screen flagship.

I went with the SE myself because it’s the only normal sized phone that’s actually good. It seems these days all you can buy in the high end range are phablets.

It's also 4-6x the price of the Jelly/Jelly Pro. I don't think that's worth it.

The Jelly is $100, the iPhone SE is $350.

You can also pretty easily resell the iPhone after two years to recapture at least a third of the MSRP.

Whoops, you're right on the price. I was looking at the pre-order price. The used iPhone market is really that strong?

Much stronger than any other brand: https://swappa.com/sell/iphones

It sure is. There are plenty of people who want an iPhone but can't afford and/or simply don't need/want the latest, greatest version (being able to run 11.0.1 isn't really a big concern for most of them). A good friend of mine just upgraded to an iPhone 4 a few months ago.

Pretty much all Apple products have excellent resale value (around here, anyways).

One can't imagine any "used" market for this other sort of phone...

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