• Horsey@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I really wanna see how successful this model will be. I’d never accept thinness as a trade off.

    • acosmichippo@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I’m interested. Thinness isn’t as much of a draw as weight to me. I have a 16 Pro now and am kinda tired of how heavy it is. As long as the battery gets me through a 16 hour day that’s all i need.

      Also if I need extra battery life, they brought back the magsafe battery which i can keep in a backpack. Best of both worlds.

      Also brought back bumper cases which I loved.

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      They are making stupid big phones to set themselves up for when they invent the folding screen models in 2026. Folders are great, but others have been making them for years.

  • kate@lemmy.uhhoh.comOP
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    1 year ago

    Only the 1 camera? And still the full width camera bump? And it’s a full width camera bump that won’t sit flat

  • Tiger Jerusalem@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Leave it to Apple to put a small phone battery, to sell another battery for you to stick it outside the case, and kill the inside battery faster by using the most inefficient energy transfer technology. This must check all the money related boxes for their accountants. Bravo.

  • over_clox@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Camera bump madness!

    By the way, for everyone that says you’re supposed to buy a case for it, well hear me out…

    Being expected to buy a case in addition to the separate purchase of the phone, well that means the phone itself isn’t even complete. And it was literally engineered that way, some extra parts and assembly expected on your part.

    But if you do opt for a phone case, well that case also holds in heat and makes it get even hotter while charging or in use, which itself is also not good for the device.

    A properly designed device shouldn’t have a camera bump, but should rather have a flush uniform and sturdy enough screen and shell that you shouldn’t particularly even need a separate phone case in the first place.

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      EU should mandate removable back phones like we used to have. Not this hot glued shit, save that for Tesla trucks.

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    1 year ago

    so smaller battery (meaning you will need to replace it earlier, which is bad), larger screen than the base model while having a smaller capacity (making battery life even worse…) compromised cameras (no ultrawide and no telephoto, “optical quality” crop in does not count…), compromised speakers (only the amplified earpiece speaker?), possible durability issues (which may be partially remedied with a case, but that defeats the point of a thin phone…), worse thermals (esp. with the “Pro” chip, albeit one less GPU core, also will make battery life extra worse. iOS 26 is sure to make the thermals worse too…), and more expensive.

    For what, a phone that’s a few mm thinner?

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      1 year ago

      To me the only purpose of this is to beta the thin design before a folding phone. Other than that, it’s kinda dumb.

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      For what, a phone that’s a few mm thinner?

      so you drop it faster, so then you have to buy a thick rubber case. Smart phones are stupid.

  • blitzen@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    After seeing this model was getting the A19 Pro, I was half expecting the Pro to get the M5. Honestly, depending on thermals and size, that could work.

    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      people who think owning apple is a status symbol. that’s who.

      and it’s the majority of consumers. apple has a very high attachment rate/image for the US consumer. especially among the upper middle class where not having an apple product/iphone is considered a mark of poverty.

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        1 year ago

        This, unfortunately is universally true. It’s pure superficial nonsense, but such is a large % of humanity.

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      They tried for a few years and it obviously didn’t sell very well. People want large screens.

      Personally, as much as I like the idea of it and missing my iPhone 5, I couldn’t bring myself to buy a Mini.

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        1 year ago

        The mini was quite a compromised phone. And I get it, they have to make it look good. They don’t want some thick ass small phone with an apple logo on the back. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what I want.

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      For every person who likes small phones, there’s a thousand people who’d rather buy a 7" behemoth. I’ll be using my 13 mini for as many years as I can, but we’ve lost the battle :(

      At least the Air is probably more comfortable to use than the others