So it competes favorably with the Google Pixel 3, released in 2018.
† https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/4457705?hl=en
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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
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.
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.
Friends don’t let friends throw away phones. Replace the battery.
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...)
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.
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....