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But with Android you get much more features for the money. All Android phones are bezelless for instance, even the cheapest budget phone. The SE still rocks the

But with Android you get much more features for the money. All Android phones are bezelless for instance, even the cheapest budget phone. The SE still rocks the iPhone 8 design from 2017 with all its drawbacks. Personally I don't use Apple because I have far too many things I can't do on it (mostly due to their restrictions in the app store, like using open PGP keys over NFC). But if I did I'd never consider the SE.

abledon 4y ago
its the only iphone model with a physical front button. it will be my replacement come december!
- nordsieck 4y ago
  > its the only iphone model with a physical front button. It's definitely a great feature if you wear a mask often. I find I only have trouble with it if my finger is wet.
  - TurkishPoptart 4y ago
    I wish Apple would bring back the fingerprint scan. Once my iPhone 8 plus bricks they won't sell me a new 8. Face scanning is too dystopian and violating for me, but any iPhone after 8 requires it. I tried buying the SE to resist this practice, but it's designed to be intentionally tiny and inconvenient to force us neo-Luddites into the current corpo-dystopian era
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    - aeontech 4y ago
      I miss having TouchID as an option too… but, you can also, you know… just use a passcode and not set up FaceID…? Also, just curious, what’s the problem with FaceID?
reiichiroh 4y ago
Why is bezelless a “feature” or improvement?
- nordsieck 4y ago
  > Why is bezelless a “feature” or improvement? I mean, it makes the phone smaller for the same screen size. That's an improvement for me. Not enough for me to drop $$$ on an iPhone-mini, but I'd be happy if Apple put future SEs into an "iPhone 13 mini" body (presumably with a single lens camera).
- GekkePrutser 4y ago
  Because it's optimising the usable surface of the phone of course. The bezels don't serve any purpose other than they were technically necessary during the first years of smartphones. On a tablet you can use them to hold the device but a smartphone is small enough to grip by the edges only. And OLED really is a total must-have for me these days.
SxC97 4y ago
If the discussion is around phone for kids, I think a second hand SE is still a great choice. Kids don’t really care about the features that you or I would care about.
mojzu 4y ago
The screen size/battery size would probably be larger on a price competitive Android phone then the SE, however I doubt you'd get as fast a processor/as many years of software updates either so it really depends what you prefer. I may be biased though having the SE, think I'll only bother to upgrade it when Apple finally switches to USB-C

abledon 4y ago

its the only iphone model with a physical front button. it will be my replacement come december!

nordsieck 4y ago
> its the only iphone model with a physical front button. It's definitely a great feature if you wear a mask often. I find I only have trouble with it if my finger is wet.
- TurkishPoptart 4y ago
  I wish Apple would bring back the fingerprint scan. Once my iPhone 8 plus bricks they won't sell me a new 8. Face scanning is too dystopian and violating for me, but any iPhone after 8 requires it. I tried buying the SE to resist this practice, but it's designed to be intentionally tiny and inconvenient to force us neo-Luddites into the current corpo-dystopian era
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  - aeontech 4y ago
    I miss having TouchID as an option too… but, you can also, you know… just use a passcode and not set up FaceID…? Also, just curious, what’s the problem with FaceID?

reiichiroh 4y ago

Why is bezelless a “feature” or improvement?

nordsieck 4y ago
> Why is bezelless a “feature” or improvement? I mean, it makes the phone smaller for the same screen size. That's an improvement for me. Not enough for me to drop $$$ on an iPhone-mini, but I'd be happy if Apple put future SEs into an "iPhone 13 mini" body (presumably with a single lens camera).
GekkePrutser 4y ago
Because it's optimising the usable surface of the phone of course. The bezels don't serve any purpose other than they were technically necessary during the first years of smartphones. On a tablet you can use them to hold the device but a smartphone is small enough to grip by the edges only. And OLED really is a total must-have for me these days.

SxC97 4y ago

If the discussion is around phone for kids, I think a second hand SE is still a great choice. Kids don’t really care about the features that you or I would care about.

mojzu 4y ago

The screen size/battery size would probably be larger on a price competitive Android phone then the SE, however I doubt you'd get as fast a processor/as many years of software updates either so it really depends what you prefer. I may be biased though having the SE, think I'll only bother to upgrade it when Apple finally switches to USB-C