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The 5S is still the perfect iPhone.
by als0 6y ago
The 5S is still the perfect iPhone.
- Tepix 6y agoIf the 5S is perfect, what's the iPhone SE (2016)?
- nbzso 6y agoThe last iPhone that I use.:)
- Tepix 6y agoI have one also. Love it as a secondary phone
- saagarjha 6y agoNot chamfered :(
- jdhawk 6y agosure they are, they're just matte finished.
- rosstex 6y agoMy current phone.
- gumby 6y agoThe price is definitely right -- cheaper than an upgrade!
- encom 6y agoThe last iPhone with proper headphone support.
- mikepurvis 6y agoI love the 5S form factor as well. I only updated from it earlier this year to get iOS 13 to use the COVID Alert app here in Canada (and my upgrade was buying a smashed-screen iPhone SE for next to nothing, of course, and swapping the old phone's screen onto it).
- CalChris 6y agoWhat's in your back pocket? Seriously, love my SE. I just got the battery replaced, $49 taken from a MacBook trade-in value, so basically free since I can't use that money any other way.
- als0 6y agoA replica.
- ezekg 6y agoHow do you still have one that's running OK? My Apple products almost always "die" after a few years. I had the 5S but one day it crashed and would not turn back on no matter what I did. The iPhone I had before that did the same thing.
- snazz 6y agoIs that a common issue? I've certainly heard about devices losing battery life and cameras progressively getting worse, but complete death is very uncommon unless you use it without a case and drop it all the time or something. I still have a working iPhone 5 (no S) with a home button that spins and a slightly broken screen bezel but no other issues.
- CuriousSkeptic 6y agoI have a 4S still running. At one point I thought it died permanently. But it turned out to only be the screen dimming to much. In bright light it auto adjusted enough to be visible, allowing me to rise the brightness.
- wiredfool 6y agoI had a 5s die at one point, it got reset to the point where it needed to activate, and couldn’t.
- reaperducer 6y agoHow do you still have one that's running OK? My Apple products almost always "die" after a few years. Consider yourself unlucky and never buy a lottery ticket. Apple is well-known for making products that last longer than most others in the industry. I have a launch day iPhone 5 that gets daily use and still works fine as of this morning. Launch day was in September of 2012.
- hbbio 6y agoThe list of old Apple devices that still work well is impressive: I still have one original iPad, an iPhone 3GS, several iPhone 4. Same goes for the more recent ones, with the exception of the few devices that I dropped on hard floors over the last 10 years...
- bradlys 6y agoWell, let's not get crazy. It's fine (I'm using it currently because my Samsung S9 died) but it's definitely no perfect phone. It doesn't even have water resistance and the screen to body ratio is pretty bad, IMO. Only upside is the thing is built in such a way that it has barely taken any damage from the years of abuse I put it through. I'm likely getting an iPhone 12 Pro Max very soon and will continue to only use the iPhone 5S I've had since 2013 as a backup.
- radicaldreamer 6y agoYou're going from a 5s to a Pro Max? That's almost a jump across product categories... like switching from an iPhone to an iPad Mini.
- philistine 6y agoOr from a Commodore 64 to a first-generation iMac.
- silly-silly 6y agoI remember the first generation imac, but i dont remember them being that bad.
- samoa42 6y ago> the screen to body ratio is pretty bad, IMO if rated against _my_ body, the ratio is damn near perfect
- chews 6y agoThe 12 mini is gonna be my next daily driver.
- ChrisMarshallNY 6y agoSame here. I write iOS software, so I have a whole bunch of test units. My "low-end" test unit is an iPod Touch (last gen). Basically, a skinny SE (Apple doesn't even have an iPod simulator -you're supposed to use an SE sim). My regular daily phone is an Excess Max (XSMax). I'm sick to death of it. I don't have much use for all that screen real estate, and it's a big honkin' monster. Every time I use my Touch, it makes me envious. I'll be placing an order for a Mini, tomorrow.
- texasbigdata 6y agoSome YouTube gadget reviewers agree with you and predict some “revivals”.