“the display size will increase from 4.7 inches to 6.1 inches”
This is the only reason my wife liked the SE, for many women a small compact phone is key.
Tim Cook’s Apple still can’t understand that my hands are the same size they were in 2007.
I NEED to use my phone with one hand and I can barely do that with the current SE as it is. Making the SE bigger is an immediate deal-breaker.
If the hone button design must die, use the iPhone mini chassis. Otherwise, this signals the end of me buying new iPhones.
RIP my home button whenever my SE3 bites the dust
Neat. Wish they had kept the button. The old SEs were great phones for older people.
4th?
Yup, 1st gen was 2016, 2nd gen was 2020 which had the A13 chip and 3rd was in 2022 with the A15 chip.
Totally missed 1 gen. Damn time flies.
Is the face ID optional or are the customers the product?
Face ID is also fully encrypted and 100% local, plus scans in 3D to be a lot more secure. I meme on Apple a lot but it’s genuinely one of the best features I’ve seen on any phone, period - fast, instant, secure, and private access to your shit. Third party apps can use it similarly to PAM in Linux, where they only get the Boolean result and no data about your biometrics, and the decryption key is stored in some apple-specific chip that’s only accessible at the root level iirc. I’d literally sell my soul to get them to open source Face ID; I haven’t seen another implementation yet that’s as good and even on Linux with a beefy-ass gpu I can’t replicate the wake/unlock speed even old iPhones can manage in my own algorithms. It works with sunglasses on, different facial expressions, while brushing your teeth - the fuckin thing even recognizes when you’re looking at the screen vs when someone’s just pointing your phone at your face. I’ve literally tested it with someone else holding my phone towards my face trying to get Face ID to let them in, and as long as I don’t glance at it (with my pupils alone, no head movement) it won’t let them in. Before it ever got to that point anyway, you can just press power+volume up while the phone’s locked to disable biometrics and require a passcode - this is one feature that’s seriously well thought out for privacy. My trust does not come easily to closed-source for-profit companies’ “privacy” features, but this isn’t your usual google or Microsoft bullshit that’s a thinly veiled attempt to get more of your data. I dislike apple’s walled garden bullshit, but I gotta admit it lets them focus on making baller features like this one instead of needing to steal data or show ads in all their shit like Samsung or google.
Anyway there’s like a million valid things to shit on apple for, just pointing out that this isn’t one of them lol. Promise I’m not a shill (I’m just as likely to do a rant hating on their bullshit as I am to defend them), I’m just way too passionate about Face ID.
Obligatory source on the privacy aspectsI am in the same boat when it comes to corporations and their walled gardens though it is always good to give credit when credit is due.
Its good that it can tell the difference between someone looking at the screen vs someone pointing it at your face. Also the timing is a bit of a coincidence since I just saw what microsoft are planning. https://web.archive.org/web/20240520230534/https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/microsofts-new-recall-feature-will-record-everything-you-do-on-your-pc/
Both FaceID and TouchID are opt-in features, if that’s what you mean.
Which one you have at your disposal depends on which phone model you buy. Zero iPhones have both.
Every iPhone has a passcode option.
With all the corporations forcing ai and features regardless of if people want them or not. I wast sure if they were replacing passcodes. Thats good that its opt-in.
