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It's a little bigger, but thinner, right? I also went 1st gen SE for 5 years, and am hoping my 13 mini lasts 5 as well (with a battery replacement at some point

• masklinn 5y ago
  Yes at 7.3mm the 8 design reused by the SE2 and 3 is quite a bit thinner than the SE’s 7.6mm, though it’s at least a blessing they used the 8’s shell because the 6 to 7 shell was only 7.1. The XR and 11 went way up to 8.3, but then the 12 went back down to 7.4, and the 13 back up a notch to 7.65. IME it’s not just that the edges are slipperier (though they are), it’s also that the rounded edges offer way less secure a grip than the flat edges of the 5S shell. And the phone is bigger and less well balanced, so holding it single-handed it always teeters on the edge. I currently have an 11, which replaced a 6S. I’d not seen they’d thinned the phones again so I’m quite dismayed, the 6S was an absolute horror show which I kept dropping. The 11 is significantly better, though I still drop it way more than I’m comfortable with. I miss the 4S design. Not only do I still think it better looking, it was more safer, and easier to use: picking the 6S from a table was an exercise in frustration. The 11 is better, but it’s not great. The 4S was easy, you just… gripped it. You didn’t have to claw your fingers under so it didn’t slip.