Apple iPhone SE 2020 Camera review
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It sounds a little hyperbolic but for $399 the iPhone SE 2020 seems to be shockingly good value.
I'll probably pick it up for her next iPhone, which likely will be a higher-priced one, but even at the lower end the variance reduction isn't the worst thing for a luxury item that is relatively prone to breakage.
Looking at a broken screen: $80 upfront and $30 per incident -> $110 [1] $129 out of warranty [2]
Out of warranty battery replacement is $49. In warranty is $0 (but in this scenario you paid $80 upfront) and depending on your use-case it may not qualify.
It also sucks to tie yourself to Apple for repairs. For me they've required a scheduled, in person appointment before accepting a repair. Both parts and appointments have often been pushed out weeks. Since iPhones are so common, almost any mall has a spot that will repair screens/batteries on the spot within a few hours. I wouldn't recommend it to the average person, but iFixit has walked me through doing many by myself.
The math does change if you get multiple broken screens, but they cap incidents at 2.
[1] https://www.apple.com/support/products/iphone/ [2] https://support.apple.com/iphone/repair/service/screen-repla...
As for a sibling comment’s lifespan estimation, that’s why it’s economical to dump the thing instantly after AppleCare has run out. It has the best reasonable return second hand if you sell it on eBay at the point of most risk of ownership.
I also don't like the swipe gestures. Plus having a $1k+ phone on me while biking would make me kinda nervous.
But good news on the lock screen notifications, long press for actions is back in the iOS 14 beta:
https://streamable.com/ebkhe4 (recorded on a 6s)
I’d say it’s fine at the right angle. Maybe noon is tougher.
Someone else mentioned the screen brightness isn’t great outdoors. It’s perfectly usable but my previous phone was noticeably better. It really doesn’t matter to me, though. I’m typing this without issues in direct afternoon sunlight.
That said though, the 6S is surprisingly good even today. Doesn't feel slow for normal tasks, and probably supported for at least one more OS upgrade cycle. Impressive little 5 year old phone.
† https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/4457705?hl=en
People like to think that Network X is terrible in my neighborhood, so it's terrible everywhere. That's simply not the case. The big three networks got to be the big three by buying smaller regional networks. Some of those networks were very good.
T-Mobile, for example, is excellent in the upper Midwest because it came into the market by buying Voicestream, which had huge and dense coverage.
There are places I have to visit in Nevada where T-Mobile is the only provider. Heck, there are portions of the city of Las Vegas where T-Mobile/Sprint was the only signal at all until AT&T service came in last year, and there's still no Verizon to be found as recently as February (I carry all three when I'm working).
Bring your Verizon phone to southern Ohio, and get a fraction of the coverage you would get on a Cincinnati Bell (or AT&T roaming) phone.
Cell phone networks, like politicians, vary in quality by region.
Also, I've had TMo without any sort of contract or lease for 5 years now, lived in 3 different states, and travel all over the US (and a little bit of Europe). I've never once said "Wow, if only I had Verizon". It's been really great, and the only time I don't get phone service is deep in the mountains or desert
https://www.reddit.com/r/tmobile/comments/hi8a98/reminder_ge...
Google is also very strict with their update policy, which means that after 3 years after release, the phone is EOL. I'm repeating myself on here but Nokia (HMD Global) is actually still providing my Nokia 6 from January 2017 with updates every 3 months. I recently went on a research mission for a new Android phone but noticed how bad the situation on Android still is.
The original iPhone SE released in 2016 will be supported at least through September 2021.
Only issue I had was the battery going to 1% quickly and then lasting half a day, but that seemed to clear itself too with a few full run downs.
Apple absolutely dominates mobile devices from a longevity and usability standpoint. I left Android long ago and never looked back. I’m not all in though, never was convinced by macOS, Windows is just too customizable and useful.
Friends don’t let friends throw away phones. Replace the battery.
Another fun feature of Android is you can just wait for Google to ship that one last major release that makes the phone an unusable slideshow, the way they did to the Nexus 5X.
You can run Windows 10 on a Centrino laptop from 2010 but you're not gonna have a good time.
Why not? My old boss was rocking an iPhone 6 as recently as January, and that came out two years earlier — in 2014.
While it's not my daily driver, I have a launch day iPhone 5 that I use at least once a week. It's from 2012.
You can run Windows 10 on a Centrino laptop from 2010 but you're not gonna have a good time.
The iPhone SE was launched in 2016, not 2010.
But can you do anything productive on that thing now? How is the battery life?
It was the company laptop until 2012. The company folded and they sold everything really cheaply.
It could transcode one or two 720p streams simultaneously Witt Plex.
I don’t upgrade because there is nothing wrong with these devices. And they have a jack :)
My wife is not the only one who’s holding on to hers “until Apple releases another one with the same form factor”.
(Not that this will happen anytime soon, if ever...)
But I had a Pixel 3a, it was the worst phone I ever owned. The screen coating had a defect that Google refused to fix. The body is plastic and the screen is more brittle than Gorilla glass, so it shattered after hitting the ground on its corner. In 13 years of carrying these things around, it's the only phone I ever broke.
This iPhone can't possibly be any worse.
I'm a bit behind on the times, but it seems to me that for build quality Samsung is still the best. They've always been ahead with stuff like Super AMOLED, thin bevels (even curved edges), microSD slot, etc. But software matters more to me these days which is why I like the Pixel 3a. It was dirt cheap and has decent microG support. In my own very personal, biased, subjective experience, iPhones have had mediocre build quality and the worst software.
But these scores are very subjective, so....
But an Android phone without Google is not very attractive in the western world.
11 has a wide angle camera, night sight, larger screen, latest A series chip , Face ID.
A web site focused on visual quality uses #777777/#FFFFFF for its main content, rendering a FAIL for text readability on WebAIM.
I wouldn’t have known about this new guideline if I hadn’t seen your comment above.
>Please don't complain about website formatting, back-button breakage, and similar annoyances. They're too common to be interesting. Exception: when the author is present. Then friendly feedback might be helpful.
Perhaps there should be Some rule against immediately chastising people for rules that have just been added.
Also, who's to say when an author/stakeholder in a post might be present?
So, a $399-$549 phone doesn't perform as well as a $999-$1,449 phone. Shocking.