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That's what I have. Actually switched to Android after the iPhone 6 was too big for me, then switched back when the SE came out.

Unfortunately the (all but confirmed) rumors for today's iPhone announcements are that it comes in 3 sizes: Huge, Enormous, and Gargantuan.

If you've held an iPhone X before, that's now the small size.

Given that the SE was a years-old manufacturing process (basically an iPhone 5) and they couldn't get it in stock consistently for months after release, I don't know why they keep doing this. But here we are.

In fact, 9to5Mac is reporting that the iPhone SE may be discontinued today. We'll find out soon.

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Well that will be hugely disappointing if it turns out to be true. I really don't want to switch back to Android.

The form factor is still better than anything else I've encountered - enough thickness for a decent grip, and small enough. The very last thing I want is a phone that's a not so small any more, but 2mm thick, tablet.

I like how Apple is adding all this Screen Time monitoring tools in iOS 12 to help you deal with phone overuse, acting like they want to help us out, then at the same time the hardware team cranks out these progressively bigger and bigger phones.

"What do you call a phone that's bigger than Plus size? We call it the iPhone XS Max."

No, Phil, the word you were looking for is "Obese."

Oh well.

iPhone SE is gone

https://www.macrumors.com/2018/09/12/apple-discontinues-ipho...

Thanks. I'm a bit surprised considering how popular it was, and the tech sites have been leaking hints of an SE 2 all year.

Leaves nothing in the range that's appealing.

Yeah, it's sad. The SE has been the nicest phone I've ever had. I can use it one handed! I'm not sure what I'll do yet. It should be supported for a few more years but now that they aren't selling it anymore I'm anticipating the inevitable "we didn't slow your phone down on purpose, honest" update.

>Huge, Enormous, and Gargantuan

A D&D playing friend advises me that the conventional size progression is Large/Huge/Gargantuan, but I think Large is underselling the iPhone XS size, so Huge/Gargantuan/Colossal may be more accurate.

> If you've held an iPhone X before, that's now the small size.

If this trend keeps up, I won't want to look at my "phone" because I'll have to put on a back brace to lift it safely.

It's emphatically a 2-handed device now, even at the "small" size. I tried an iPhone X once and even with Reachability turned on, I could do the "move the screen down" gesture and then still wasn't able to hold the phone securely and activate control center with my thumb.

Moving that to the top corner of the screen seems like a colossally stupid idea to me given the size of these things, but they ran out of gestures you can do with your thumb now that the home button is gone.

EDIT - this is possibly worse because I use my phone with my left hand (right pocket is for car keys), and you have to reach the top right for Control Center. You'd think they could improve it by giving an option to flip Control Center to the top left corner, but as far as I know you can't.

On top of that, there's exceedingly less gripping area as the screen and the edge have become one. Just having a touchscreen alone makes handling a device feel like a hot-of-the-press photo you don't want to smear with your fat fingers, now it's more like trying to hold fire without getting burned.

Augh, please no!

I agree

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