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iPhone 17e

155 points - today at 2:03 PM

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  • thoughtpalette

    today at 3:38 PM

    Still holding onto my 13 mini. Dreaming of another small form factor release one of these announcements.. :'}

      • danielvaughn

        today at 8:34 PM

        People make fun of me but I'll never skip a chance to complain about how large these phones are. I hate it so much. I have a standard iPhone, not a max, and it causes real pain in my wrist if I use it too much. Was honestly thinking about downgrading to the last SE model even though it's several years out of date.

          • EduardoBautista

            today at 10:32 PM

            I have found the iPhone Air much easier to hold than the iPhone 13 Pro it replaced because of how light it is, even though the iPhone Air has a bigger screen.

              • layer8

                today at 11:01 PM

                The 17e weighs roughly the same at a smaller size, and the mini weighs significantly less. Not to mention the first SE, compared to which even the mini is heavy. Yes the Air is lightweight compared to the Pro, but that’s a low bar.

                The other thing with the Air is that you can’t really use it one-handed, which is what most people who like small phones are after, besides pockability.

            • nomilk

              today at 10:27 PM

              Funnily, the large display is the most important thing for me. I find my efficiency directly proportional to display size (which holds for laptops too).

              If a 30 second task can be done in just 20 on a device with a larger display, that's absolutely worth it for me.

              Also larger device tends to imply longer battery life too.

                • mattnewton

                  today at 10:58 PM

                  If the task can’t be done in a few taps I feel I’m better off opening a laptop anyways.

                  However the market agrees with you so I must be missing something. I used to think it was driven by media consumption on phones, and that I try to avoid, but this isn’t the first time I have heard people tout phone productivity gains from a slightly larger screen.

              • zem

                today at 9:56 PM

                I switched from a pixel 3 to a pixel 9 pro over a year ago, and I still miss the smaller form factor. the pixel 3 really was the perfect size for me and I am sad I can no longer get a smallish phone with a high end processor.

                • devmor

                  today at 8:56 PM

                  I don’t think anyone should make fun of you for it but I’m in the opposite boat. I’m so glad that they make the pro max variants because most smartphones are so small that it hurts my fingers to bend them in the unnaturally inward way it requires to hold and interact with them.

                    • foobarian

                      today at 9:12 PM

                      For me it's not the fingers, it's the eyesight.

              • alpaca128

                today at 9:34 PM

                I have large hands but the 13 Mini is roughly the maximum I can use one-handed without doing the weird finger balancing act to shift the phone around. I get why most people like large phones - media consumption - but not everyone is into that.

                I don't even mind large phones if they're done right. My favorite phone of all time is the BB Passport which you have to use two-handed, but it was actually designed around that and amazing to use.

                • apparent

                  today at 10:31 PM

                  Yeah, I wish they would commit to doing a mini every x years. Last year I bought a 16 and this year I bought an Air. I returned both after just a few days. I can't reach across the phone with my thumb, meaning I can't use it one-handed.

                  The new phones have some neat tricks (satellite connectivity comes to mind), but the on-device AI seems pretty mediocre and I value pocketability and one-handed usability more than the new gizmos.

                  When I asked myself if I would rather keep the new Air or go back to my 13 mini with an extra thousand dollars in my pocket, it was no contest.

                  • mrexroad

                    today at 10:03 PM

                    I showed my Costco membership QR code to the cashier the other day, and they suddenly exclaimed, “oh my! What a cute little phone!!”

                    It took me a second to even process why someone might say such a thing about my case-less generic 12 mini. Most of my close friends have 13 mini’s so I often feel my wife’s “regular” size iPhone is the odd one out.

                    • mikepurvis

                      today at 8:48 PM

                      I stuck with my 13 mini for a long time, and had recently put a new iFixit battery in it too. I did finally make the jump to a Pixel 10 but sign me up with everyone else who misses reasonably-sized phones.

                      • tambourine_man

                        today at 4:59 PM

                        SE 3rd gen here as my daily driver. Small form factor and Touch ID. The perfect iPhone IMO.

                        Not looking forward to having to settle for those comically large phones with Face ID for my next one.

                          • m463

                            today at 9:28 PM

                            I "adapted" to losing the fingerprint reader.

                            Wow, it has a lot of unexpected downsides.

                            I've a lot of unexpected behavior from the faceid thing. Lots of unexpected swipe-ups that drop me out of an app and put me on the home screen. Can't unlock in the dark, too close to your face, off to the side, in your pocket. Lots of "I saw your face an unlocked" that I didn't know had happened.

                            fingerprint sensor unlocked when you wanted it to, with haptics. switching apps was a button operation, not happening when you didn't expect it.

                              • lynndotpy

                                today at 10:18 PM

                                Plus, fingerprint scanners can be activated without breaking eye contact with the person you're talking to. It's very anti-social technology.

                                It makes one look completely like a tool to pull out their iPhone and stare at it for ten seconds while checking out with a cashier. Deeply embarrassing and very annoying.

                            • dilyevsky

                              today at 10:22 PM

                              I get that getting rid of touchid haptic eliminates dead space but still blows my mind they couldn't or refused to figure out screen-based touch id as an option at least. Samsung has it...

                                • daemonologist

                                  today at 10:46 PM

                                  Under-screen fingerprint readers are definitely inferior - slower and less reliable. I (Android user) wish they'd revert to back-of-device readers, which were amazing.

                                  (I also wish for smaller screens and no-adhesive battery swaps though, neither of which seems likely to happen.)

                              • frereubu

                                today at 8:45 PM

                                The thing I've come to like about FaceID on my 13 mini is that I can require it for certain apps to open that don't require it - e.g. messaging as opposed to banking which generally require some kind of auth by default - which is much better security in case someone snatches it out of my hand while it's unlocked. It's pretty seamless because I'm generally looking at the device anyway, and it's much less faff than it would be with TouchID.

                                  • jeffbee

                                    today at 9:08 PM

                                    I think the way the Pixel does it is strictly better across the board. The fingerprint sensor doesn't sacrifice screen space, and the platform offers face unlock as well.

                                • rubee64

                                  today at 6:18 PM

                                  Same. Home button is sooo much better than swiping gestures

                                    • bubblewand

                                      today at 9:23 PM

                                      The physical home button is, no bullshit, one of the greatest pieces of UI ever. No, I am not kidding, I really think that. It’s crazy to me that they abandoned it, the gestures that replace its functionality are overall-worse and cluttering the gesture system with even more of them is bad for the overall UX.

                                        • dilyevsky

                                          today at 10:20 PM

                                          Maybe you know this but it wasn't a physical button since i think iphone 7 - it was a haptic sensor.

                                  • loeg

                                    today at 6:11 PM

                                    I'm also a touchID / iphone 8 size fan, but the nice cameras/zoom in flagship models are hard to give up. At least Face ID has improved significantly from the early days of iphone 10 -- it's faster and more reliable than it was on the older models if you tried it back then.

                                • wlesieutre

                                  today at 9:07 PM

                                  Finally moved on from my 12 mini, but I still have it sitting in my office and when I pick it up I think "wow this feels like a phone from the future."

                                  Wish they made a new mini instead of the Air. A friend bought one of those, and frankly I just don't get it.

                                  The screen is too big to use it one-handed, and thickness is really the only one of the three dimension of the phone that I don't care about how small it is (within reason). They probably spent billions of dollars shaving off half a millimeter and what do we get with that technology? Phone that's too big.

                                  If this keeps up in another 5 years I'll be looking at flip phones and a separate camera.

                                  • CephalopodMD

                                    today at 9:18 PM

                                    They'll pry mine from my cold dead hands!

                                    (Until they release a new human hand sized phone at least)

                                    • conk

                                      today at 8:40 PM

                                      I moved off the mini to get satelite messaging which I use while hiking. But now that T-Mobile/starlink support satelite on the 13 mini, maybe I’ll go back.

                                      • philip1209

                                        today at 9:50 PM

                                        Same. Many developers are "desktop"-native for their work and reading-focused for their media, so they don't value the gauche pocket TV-era of phones.

                                        • llsf

                                          today at 9:00 PM

                                          Same holding on the 13 mini, love the form factor.

                                          • dont__panic

                                            today at 10:26 PM

                                            Still loving mine as well. I held out with the 2016 SE for 8 years. Sadly it's looking like I might have to do that again with the 13 mini! It boggles my mind that Apple thinks it's worthwhile to sell the 16, 17, 17 Pro, and 17e all in basically the exact same form factor. And then the Air and Max in very similar form factors. Vary it up! I don't need a new mini every year, but something in the 5.4" form factor every 3-4 years would obviously have an audience. I don't care if it's a Pro or an SE/e model, I just need something that'll keep me on the latest iOS for security updates.

                                            Sigh. Maybe the Clicks Communicator (at 13cm tall) will get my money.

                                              • dgellow

                                                today at 10:32 PM

                                                Get an SE 3rd gen!

                                            • r0fl

                                              today at 9:42 PM

                                              It always surprises me that the mini was ~1% of sales and yet the pro mini comments get so many upvotes

                                                • roughly

                                                  today at 11:05 PM

                                                  1% of iPhone sales is more people than live in most countries.

                                                  • lotsofpulp

                                                    today at 10:13 PM

                                                    The release schedule was crap, as well as the 12 mini being an objectively bad phone.

                                                    Spring 2020, they released the iPhone SE 2020, 4 years after the previous iPhone SE. This satiated a lot of the demand for people holding out for a smaller phone. Then came the surprise with 12 mini in September of 2020, except the battery life and performance sucked, garnering bad reviews.

                                                    Then, finally in September 2021, they released the 13 mini, an objectively good, smaller phone. But over the previous 18 months, a lot of the buyers for the 13 mini had already bought the 2020 SE or were burned by the 12 mini.

                                                • laweijfmvo

                                                  today at 8:49 PM

                                                  Same. This would be an obvious upgrade for me, if the overall size was anywhere close to the Mini. Oddly enough, the announcement doesn't even list the screen size, but I'm sure it's 6" +

                                                    • smugma

                                                      today at 8:50 PM

                                                      6.1" vs. 6.3" on the regular 17

                                                  • freetonik

                                                    today at 4:13 PM

                                                    Have you replaced the battery? My 13 mini shows 90% battery health but I can’t use it for the full day (and I don’t game or anything, just light use). I wonder if the battery is really ok and it’s the software that is to blame.

                                                      • frereubu

                                                        today at 8:50 PM

                                                        My 13 mini on iOS 26 shows 83% maximum capacity but makes it through the day with light-ish use (Spotify (although generally offline playlists because of lossless audio) NYT games, email, messaging, browsing, Instapaper). I do have lots of accessibility settings enabled to stop things like transparency and animations though. See my comment here for more details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45544554

                                                        • embedding-shape

                                                          today at 5:05 PM

                                                          I still have my 12 Mini, changed the battery in a Apple store a year ago (and they broke the screen in the process so got a new screen too) for I think 99 EUR, now the battery still last ~2 days, easily worth it. Maximum capacity says "87%" right now although I don't know what exactly that's based on.

                                                          I'm keeping this phone until either Apple releses a new mini or until Motorola released a GrapheneOS phone, whichever comes first.

                                                            • roughly

                                                              today at 8:36 PM

                                                              > changed the battery in a Apple store a year ago (and they broke the screen in the process so got a new screen too)

                                                              Huh, I had a 12 mini and had the same thing happen at an independent repair shop I used to frequent. I've been pretty salty with the shop, but I guess it's an easier fuckup than I've been giving them credit for.

                                                          • marc_g

                                                            today at 8:35 PM

                                                            Just replaced my 13 mini battery this past week which was at 80%. Noticeable improvement. I'm not a very heavy user but did find that I was getting to the 20/10% range at the end of most days. Now its 30/40 and I'm happy! Many more years in the old steed yet.

                                                            • trenning

                                                              today at 8:24 PM

                                                              I’m down to 75% on my 13mini. I recently picked up a magsafe battery pack that gets me through the day when I’m traveling and can’t charge.

                                                              I was considering swapping out the phone battery but this is a better alternative for now.

                                                              • francisofascii

                                                                today at 8:17 PM

                                                                13 mini user here. I have 86% battery health, and it is "okay". I need to charge it about once a day. Also holding out due to the smaller size.

                                                                • abhikul0

                                                                  today at 5:03 PM

                                                                  I got the base 13 at launch day whose battery health now states 86%. While I have noticed degraded battery performance, the stated health has been stuck at 86% for quite a while now.

                                                                  I guess it's bugged out and would opt for a battery change if you're feeling the battery pains, I'm thinking of upgrading to the new base model this year for the usb c and 120hz display.

                                                              • AndrewKemendo

                                                                today at 10:51 PM

                                                                I’m exactly there with you with my 13 mini and I did realize that it’s not gonna last as we really get into the era of local LLMs

                                                                Running deepseek 6B on the Private LLM app on the iPhone 13 basically set my phone on fire

                                                                • Jonovono

                                                                  today at 8:49 PM

                                                                  If we could get a 13 mini sized phone with some better battery that would be great

                                                                  • javier2

                                                                    today at 10:20 PM

                                                                    Best phone I ever had, the 12 mini

                                                                    • joaomoreno

                                                                      today at 9:13 PM

                                                                      Just upgraded from a 12 mini to a 13 mini with more storage. I intend for it to last another 5 years.

                                                                        • subculture

                                                                          today at 10:25 PM

                                                                          One can only hope... My 13 mini's performance, especially for the Camera and Safari seem to have hit new lows with iOS 26. I'm sticking with the mini for its size, but also its weight. So far the Air is the only alternative I think I could switch to, but apparently that's also on Apple's chopping block due to poor sales.

                                                                          • mrexroad

                                                                            today at 10:07 PM

                                                                            Been thinking of doing the same. My 12 is showing its cycles, but it’s either I have a phone that lives in my front pocket, or I can go phone-less.

                                                                            I refuse to have a phone I have to constantly carry, hold, or move from back pocket when I sit. This damn thing is in my hands enough, I don’t need to increase the surface area for potential distractions.

                                                                        • scott01

                                                                          today at 9:06 PM

                                                                          Same here, just replaced the battery.

                                                                          • Alifatisk

                                                                            today at 3:51 PM

                                                                            My next upgrade if my 12 mini gives up will be an 13 mini. And from there I will probably just stick to refurbed 13 minis until a good alternative comes out.

                                                                              • mini13mini13

                                                                                today at 4:20 PM

                                                                                I highly recommend hunting down a 13 mini now (with a lot of battery left) so you can switch when you have to. I did last summer and was glad I didn´t have to organize one on short notice. And if you avoid ios26 - make sure the ios18 on the device is updated because now you no longer get updated within ios18

                                                                                  • Kreutzer

                                                                                    today at 10:21 PM

                                                                                    I’m currently on iOS 16 with iPhone 12 mini. I don’t even see an option to update to anything but iOS26, so I’m staying put.

                                                                                    My worst is buying a 13mini that is already updated to IOS26, then I think I would be screwed.

                                                                                • mikestew

                                                                                  today at 3:56 PM

                                                                                  Where are you finding refurb’ed 13 Minis? Apple only goes back to 14s now on store.apple.com in the U. S.

                                                                                    • Alifatisk

                                                                                      today at 4:12 PM

                                                                                      refurbed.com and swappie.com, I don't know if they do it on all phones but some of them get their battery changed to a fresh one aswell!

                                                                                        • moralestapia

                                                                                          today at 8:32 PM

                                                                                          Hey man, this is great!

                                                                                          Thanks.

                                                                                          (I'm also looking to "refresh" my iPhone 13 mini)

                                                                                      • dmitrygr

                                                                                        today at 4:11 PM

                                                                                        FB marketplace and/or eBay.

                                                                                • mikestew

                                                                                  today at 3:58 PM

                                                                                  Maybe the iPhone Fold won’t be two 8” slabs of glass glued together, I think that’s the only hope for those holding out for another Mini.

                                                                                    • alpaca128

                                                                                      today at 9:47 PM

                                                                                      That's true, some foldables like that exist. The problem for me is that I don't want to pay for the folding part, not interested in that.

                                                                                  • MysticFear

                                                                                    today at 6:04 PM

                                                                                    Wow, I thought I was the only one.. or very few. Bring back small phones please

                                                                                    • lurking_swe

                                                                                      today at 8:35 PM

                                                                                      my wife upgraded from a 13 mini to an Air and she loves it. She thought she hated the larger size of new phones, but after holding the Air in her hand she realized the weight and thickness was the issue for her!

                                                                                      It’s a tough call though because the Air has a lot of pros and cons! My wife never takes nature photography or macro photography, so she was OK with the 1 camera compromise.

                                                                                      If you truly want a shorter phone, my condolences lol. Apple seems to be ignoring this user segment.

                                                                                        • apparent

                                                                                          today at 8:49 PM

                                                                                          I tried the Air and went back to the mini because of the camera compromises. One big issue for me was losing Cinematic video, which I use all the time.

                                                                                          • frereubu

                                                                                            today at 8:51 PM

                                                                                            Now imagine an iPhone Mini Air. I'd be all over that, camera compromises or not.

                                                                                            • laweijfmvo

                                                                                              today at 8:50 PM

                                                                                              for me it's the comfort/ability to put the thing in my pocket.

                                                                                                • lurking_swe

                                                                                                  today at 9:01 PM

                                                                                                  I can relate. I actually used to be jealous of the ladies because they always have a convenient purse to put things in. These days I wear a light weight cross-body “sling” bag, and i’m happy as a peach.

                                                                                                  Easy way to bring my phone, sunglasses, wallet, keys, etc with me. Pockets can be pretty annoying.

                                                                                                  Maybe 2027 will be the year of the mini? :)

                                                                                      • aetherspawn

                                                                                        today at 9:38 PM

                                                                                        Waiting for the first pro line phone with both the Apple modem and Apple wifi/BT stack in it. Battery life is always a struggle when the phone gets older.

                                                                                          • znpy

                                                                                            today at 10:16 PM

                                                                                            Exactly. I guess it’s time to replace my trusty iphone se 3rd gen. It’s been a great phone though, best one i ever had.

                                                                                        • brikym

                                                                                          today at 10:28 PM

                                                                                          My mother still has an old iPhone because it fits her hand. They don't seem to get this anymore.

                                                                                            • cactusplant7374

                                                                                              today at 10:30 PM

                                                                                              Smaller phones aren't great for older people because of the increased font size that they use. They can barely fit a sentence onto the screen.

                                                                                          • giwook

                                                                                            today at 9:30 PM

                                                                                            I'd love to have a smaller/cheaper phone but I continue to hold onto my Pro from a couple years ago is for the high end camera, particularly the telephoto lens.

                                                                                            No, I don't need it all the time.

                                                                                            But when you do need it, it's invaluable.

                                                                                              • gs17

                                                                                                today at 9:34 PM

                                                                                                I have the same issue with my Pixel. It's nice to be able to use a real zoom when I need it, but that means I can't get the one that's otherwise what I really need.

                                                                                            • wps

                                                                                              today at 4:24 PM

                                                                                              I think the most valuable part of this “e” lineup is the in-house developed modem. The power and security benefits are probably enormous.

                                                                                                • jeffbee

                                                                                                  today at 8:58 PM

                                                                                                  If the 17e had that chip, wouldn't it have Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6? It has neither of those.

                                                                                                    • alwillis

                                                                                                      today at 9:34 PM

                                                                                                      The modem chip (the C series) and the N series are two different chipsets.

                                                                                                      For example, the 16e has the C1 modem but the standard Broadcom (or whoever) Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chipset.

                                                                                                      • varenc

                                                                                                        today at 9:24 PM

                                                                                                        From the press release:

                                                                                                        > iPhone 17e also features C1X, the latest-generation cellular modem designed by Apple

                                                                                                        But the 17e iPhone seems to lack the Apple developed N1 chip that provides Wifi 7 + Bluetooth 6. So presumably they're using off the shelf components for Wifi and Bluetooth in the 17e.

                                                                                                    • specialist

                                                                                                      today at 6:09 PM

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                                                                                                  • paxys

                                                                                                    today at 8:49 PM

                                                                                                    I'm happy for the existence of the e line mainly because it forces them to bump up the specs on the base iPhone. 17 is so good now that there's very little reason to get the 17 Pro.

                                                                                                      • alwillis

                                                                                                        today at 9:38 PM

                                                                                                        Yes, the baseline 17 has almost all of the features of previous Pro models.

                                                                                                    • joshstrange

                                                                                                      today at 3:47 PM

                                                                                                      I'm glad they added MagSafe with this version, that was my biggest "issue" with the 16e. Thankfully you can add a ring to the back of the device to "give" it MagSafe (the magnets part at least, if not the faster charging).

                                                                                                      • today at 8:45 PM

                                                                                                        • conk

                                                                                                          today at 8:38 PM

                                                                                                          I really want to like the lower cost e phones, but the lack of ultrawide band support is a deal breaker. Does adding this feature really increase the cost, or is this a calculated move by Apple to ensure those who use this for air tags or keyless entry continue to buy higher end phones.

                                                                                                            • mattmaroon

                                                                                                              today at 8:54 PM

                                                                                                              Probably both.

                                                                                                                • alwillis

                                                                                                                  today at 9:41 PM

                                                                                                                  The conventional wisdom is Apple believes anyone for whom ultra wide-band is an important feature wouldn’t be interested in a bargain iPhone.

                                                                                                          • kykat

                                                                                                            today at 9:01 PM

                                                                                                            709 euro in Austria (828.89 us dollars), a 38% increase in price...

                                                                                                              • rafaelmn

                                                                                                                today at 9:12 PM

                                                                                                                US prices don't include sales tax so 20% of that is VAT

                                                                                                            • 1970-01-01

                                                                                                              today at 3:33 PM

                                                                                                              $599 still feels like they're setting whatever price they can get away with. It's been 20 years, why don't we have sub $500 new iPhones yet?

                                                                                                                • gbear605

                                                                                                                  today at 6:55 PM

                                                                                                                  Taking inflation into account, a $599 iPhone in 2026 would have been $380 in 2007. Given that the actual launch price in 2007 was $499, that's a pretty hefty drop.

                                                                                                                    • thatfrenchguy

                                                                                                                      today at 8:40 PM

                                                                                                                      $499 with carrier subsidy too

                                                                                                                  • joezydeco

                                                                                                                    today at 3:48 PM

                                                                                                                    It's a luxury brand. You don't sell cheap and risk losing the people that are happy to pay $1400 for a new iPhone.

                                                                                                                      • NetMageSCW

                                                                                                                        today at 3:58 PM

                                                                                                                        It’s not a luxury brand, it is a quality brand. There is a difference.

                                                                                                                          • AmbroseBierce

                                                                                                                            today at 9:37 PM

                                                                                                                            The keyboard-doesn't-trigger-the-tapped-key-sometimes brand, just awestruck at their quality https://ios-countdown.win/

                                                                                                                            • joezydeco

                                                                                                                              today at 4:07 PM

                                                                                                                              So is Mercedes-Benz. But they don't sell a $20,000 commuter car.

                                                                                                                                • NetMageSCW

                                                                                                                                  today at 4:14 PM

                                                                                                                                  No, Mercedes Benz is definitely a luxury brand. They don’t want to sell to everyone. Apple (Steve Jobs) has explicitly stated that as one of their goals.

                                                                                                                                  • cromka

                                                                                                                                    today at 8:44 PM

                                                                                                                                    Oh but they do: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Automobile

                                                                                                                                      • charcircuit

                                                                                                                                        today at 10:14 PM

                                                                                                                                        >aimed at producing Smart-badged cars

                                                                                                                                        The brand is "Smart".

                                                                                                                                    • tencentshill

                                                                                                                                      today at 5:05 PM

                                                                                                                                      It’s not a quality brand, it is a luxury brand. There is a difference.

                                                                                                                                      • slaw

                                                                                                                                        today at 8:08 PM

                                                                                                                                        Mercedes-Benz sells commuter cars in Europe.

                                                                                                                                        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_A-Class

                                                                                                                                          • kube-system

                                                                                                                                            today at 8:39 PM

                                                                                                                                            > The Mercedes-Benz A-Class is a car manufactured by German luxury automaker Mercedes-Benz

                                                                                                                                            "luxury" is more of a marketing and product positioning term, it doesn't really have anything to do with engineering or quality practicalities

                                                                                                                                            • orangepanda

                                                                                                                                              today at 8:33 PM

                                                                                                                                              And this is the Mercedes-Benz commuter car I want to see more of.

                                                                                                                                              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_Citaro

                                                                                                                                          • lotsofpulp

                                                                                                                                            today at 4:26 PM

                                                                                                                                            Toyota is a quality brand, Mercedes is a luxury brand.

                                                                                                                                        • alwillis

                                                                                                                                          today at 9:57 PM

                                                                                                                                          > It’s not a luxury brand, it is a quality brand. There is a difference.

                                                                                                                                          It’s an attainable luxury brand. There aren’t many products that a high school kid has in common with billionaires, superstar athletes and movie stars—the iPhone is such a product.

                                                                                                                                  • tech234a

                                                                                                                                    today at 7:48 PM

                                                                                                                                    At least they increased the base storage to 256GB

                                                                                                                                    • mrweasel

                                                                                                                                      today at 5:59 PM

                                                                                                                                      Last time I complained about the pricing of the iPhone, people pointed out that inflation included the prices wasn't to far of from the original iPhone.

                                                                                                                                      Still, I don't care that the phones are faster, have larger screens, better camera, FaceID, AI, are thinner light and what have you. The iPhone design peaked in 2015, from there they could just have release the same phone year after year, making it cheaper and cheaper and I'd still be happy with it.

                                                                                                                                      The prices are, in my mind insane, and I'll be buying used, but those are also overpriced.

                                                                                                                                        • thebigman433

                                                                                                                                          today at 9:30 PM

                                                                                                                                          > Still, I don't care that the phones are faster, have larger screens, better camera, FaceID, AI, are thinner light and what have you. The iPhone design peaked in 2015, from there they could just have release the same phone year after year, making it cheaper and cheaper and I'd still be happy with it.

                                                                                                                                          This obviously isnt relevant generally though, this is not how the general public feels at all.

                                                                                                                                          • unsupp0rted

                                                                                                                                            today at 6:12 PM

                                                                                                                                            No, they couldn’t, because then the company would stop existing due to lack of sales.

                                                                                                                                              • nancyminusone

                                                                                                                                                today at 8:36 PM

                                                                                                                                                Bell System released about 10 models over 110 years, worked out just fine for them.

                                                                                                                                                  • BoorishBears

                                                                                                                                                    today at 10:31 PM

                                                                                                                                                    And now you see why they want to grow their services business so badly

                                                                                                                                        • stephenboyd

                                                                                                                                          today at 4:37 PM

                                                                                                                                          The iPhone SE was only $400.

                                                                                                                                          • dmix

                                                                                                                                            today at 5:56 PM

                                                                                                                                            I'd argue that is worth the money if you're going to be using a phone every single day of their life. People will drop a few hundred on fancy shoes and wear them once a month, but they treat phones as cheap commodities.

                                                                                                                                            • today at 3:38 PM

                                                                                                                                              • ortusdux

                                                                                                                                                today at 6:07 PM

                                                                                                                                                Can mess up the price ladder!

                                                                                                                                                • lenerdenator

                                                                                                                                                  today at 5:59 PM

                                                                                                                                                  Because they know people will pay it.

                                                                                                                                                  • JohnTHaller

                                                                                                                                                    today at 6:47 PM

                                                                                                                                                    Global crazy tariffs, supply chain issues, and RAM and storage shortages due to AI hype betting. Also greed.

                                                                                                                                                • kittikitti

                                                                                                                                                  today at 10:30 PM

                                                                                                                                                  Ironic that there are so many iPhones but such little diversity in the design. It went from "Think Different" to "Conformity & Comfort".

                                                                                                                                                  • TrainedMonkey

                                                                                                                                                    today at 9:00 PM

                                                                                                                                                    Apple seems to be pushing for accessibility and volume. Cheaper phones, mac minis, and entry point mac that will be introduced on Wednesday.

                                                                                                                                                      • mrexroad

                                                                                                                                                        today at 10:09 PM

                                                                                                                                                        Tbh, feels like the market is pushing for that and Apple is responding.

                                                                                                                                                    • varispeed

                                                                                                                                                      today at 10:22 PM

                                                                                                                                                      Why they don't mention that the phone is essentially a brick when new iOS will require handing over your ID?

                                                                                                                                                      • zamadatix

                                                                                                                                                        today at 3:44 PM

                                                                                                                                                        Seems like a decent deal for what it has and getting the full support lifecycle out of it instead of used. Does anyone know if this gets $50 off with the education discount?

                                                                                                                                                          • busymom0

                                                                                                                                                            today at 5:14 PM

                                                                                                                                                            Here in Canada, both the education pricing and regular pricing are at "From $899". So no edu discount.

                                                                                                                                                        • beAbU

                                                                                                                                                          today at 9:24 PM

                                                                                                                                                          > and double the starting storage at 256GB

                                                                                                                                                          Is massive storage on a mobile device really still a thing that's important?

                                                                                                                                                          I'm saying this as someone with 512GB, but I just checked and I'm using 85GB at the moment, including the OS.

                                                                                                                                                          Photos and videos are the likely reason why the phones have so much storage, but these days both apple and google offer decent cloud backup solutions which negates the need for massive on-device storage. I'd rather the storage be smaller, and the savings going toward more battery or whatever.

                                                                                                                                                          Am I the only one?

                                                                                                                                                            • ansgri

                                                                                                                                                              today at 10:49 PM

                                                                                                                                                              Unfortunately yes. Some mobile games are 30+ GB (and this is probably the major reason for increasing minimum storage), high-res videos take any amount of space and are slow to sync with cloud, in-app downloaded data caches are routinely 2-5 GB each in addition to apps themselves.

                                                                                                                                                              • prmoustache

                                                                                                                                                                today at 10:07 PM

                                                                                                                                                                Cloud storage do not help you sharing that old photo album with friends spending the night in a cabin far from the closest cell phone coverage.

                                                                                                                                                                Also, cloud service typically move your older stuff to colder/slower storage which are painfully slow to retrieve whenever you decides to do it. I realized this when browsing some old pictures before closing a google account I had not been using for years except emptying the gmail inbox every few months.

                                                                                                                                                                I personally prefer having a local copy of my files and syncthing them to my NAS at home (which is itself backuped in a storage in the cloud).

                                                                                                                                                                • kccqzy

                                                                                                                                                                  today at 9:57 PM

                                                                                                                                                                  Both third party developers and Apple have increasingly become terrible at respecting the user’s disk space. Recently my iPhone started crashing as it ran out of space. I found that Apple Maps was using twenty gigs. Fortunately the fix is simple as the issue is widespread and it has become the first search result. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/256084682?sortBy=rank

                                                                                                                                                                  If you have 512GB I don’t think you really experience the worst of it. A lot of bugs are just Apple creating humongous temporary files before they are deleted as they age. Unless you check every day you don’t really know how much is really being used. You don’t really experience these crashes.

                                                                                                                                                                  • valleyer

                                                                                                                                                                    today at 9:28 PM

                                                                                                                                                                    I don't think it's inherently impossible, but Apple at least seems to do a really poor job at local cache management on iOS for Photos and Messages attachments. I am constantly amazed to find my non-tech-savvy relatives deleting stuff from their phones to free up local storage.

                                                                                                                                                                    • ljoshua

                                                                                                                                                                      today at 9:36 PM

                                                                                                                                                                      I've had at least 256GB on my phones for the last couple of generations after having had to deal with storage issues beforehand, and it's been much nicer.

                                                                                                                                                                      But I picked up a 16e for my son a few months ago, with 128GB, and yes, we're running into issues with storage space when it comes time to do an OS update. Between local music and photos storage, base storage, and the image for the new update, two or three times now we've had to delete stuff temporarily in order to get the update going. So I'm happy the new base is 256GB, at least that will probably last us a couple more generations before ~~640KB~~ 256GB is enough for everyone.

                                                                                                                                                                      • BoorishBears

                                                                                                                                                                        today at 10:33 PM

                                                                                                                                                                        If you've never used an iPhone near it's storage limit, I wouldn't wish it on you.

                                                                                                                                                                        Performance nosedives, then it starts bootlooping randomly, and eventually you can't even delete stuff because there's no space to delete things.

                                                                                                                                                                        You resort to randomly trying to remove apps, but sometimes that fails because of the stability issues.

                                                                                                                                                                        -

                                                                                                                                                                        The only reason I replaced my 12 Pro was storage, and I made up my mind never to skimp on storage again.

                                                                                                                                                                        That phone lasted me 5 years and could easily have gone several more, so I see it as an extremely cheap investment across the lifetime of the phone.

                                                                                                                                                                        • brendoelfrendo

                                                                                                                                                                          today at 9:29 PM

                                                                                                                                                                          Cloud backups are great for keeping your photos long-term, but if you want those photos on your phone so you can show them to people or share them, you need to download them anyway.

                                                                                                                                                                          I need storage because Honkai: Star Rail is 32gb and I like being able to have more than one game on my phone.

                                                                                                                                                                            • beAbU

                                                                                                                                                                              today at 9:59 PM

                                                                                                                                                                              I know good network connectivity is not a privilege that everyone has, but on google photos I can scroll back all the way to 2007 when my digital photo collection started (I uploaded everything I had manually), and it's as if all those photos are local on my device.

                                                                                                                                                                      • satvikpendem

                                                                                                                                                                        today at 3:11 PM

                                                                                                                                                                        Sad it doesn't have the dynamic island, was going to pick up one of these for testing for iOS app development. Everything else looks fine however, as expected.

                                                                                                                                                                          • NetMageSCW

                                                                                                                                                                            today at 3:58 PM

                                                                                                                                                                            I would recommend the base 17 for that.

                                                                                                                                                                              • satvikpendem

                                                                                                                                                                                today at 7:45 PM

                                                                                                                                                                                For just testing I'd rather just get a used 14, 15, or 16.

                                                                                                                                                                                • loeg

                                                                                                                                                                                  today at 6:12 PM

                                                                                                                                                                                  Or one of the older models? 15/16 have it too.

                                                                                                                                                                          • LoganDark

                                                                                                                                                                            today at 4:56 PM

                                                                                                                                                                            It looks like the only changes are 256GB, OLED, MagSafe, A19 and C1X. Anything else of note?

                                                                                                                                                                              • hamdingers

                                                                                                                                                                                today at 10:41 PM

                                                                                                                                                                                Pink!

                                                                                                                                                                                • klardotsh

                                                                                                                                                                                  today at 5:40 PM

                                                                                                                                                                                  16e has OLED, the new thing with the 17e screen is the ceramic coating on the glass.

                                                                                                                                                                              • lysace

                                                                                                                                                                                today at 4:12 PM

                                                                                                                                                                                No mention of the amount of onboard RAM. (In this press release or in https://www.apple.com/iphone-17e/specs/.)

                                                                                                                                                                                  • alwillis

                                                                                                                                                                                    today at 10:05 PM

                                                                                                                                                                                    Going back to the 2007, Apple doesn’t reveal the amount of RAM for the iPhone in their marketing.

                                                                                                                                                                                    Occasionally there’s a feature that requires a minimum amount of RAM like Apple Intelligence but that’s the exception.

                                                                                                                                                                                    • anshumankmr

                                                                                                                                                                                      today at 4:43 PM

                                                                                                                                                                                      Assuming it has Apple INtelligence, 8 gigs seems plausible?

                                                                                                                                                                                        • alwillis

                                                                                                                                                                                          today at 10:07 PM

                                                                                                                                                                                          Every phone since the iPhone 15 Pro has the minimum 8GB to accommodate Apple Intelligence.

                                                                                                                                                                                  • mentalgear

                                                                                                                                                                                    today at 3:17 PM

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                                                                                                                                                                                      • NetMageSCW

                                                                                                                                                                                        today at 4:22 PM

                                                                                                                                                                                        So the LCD TouchID single camera Lightning iPhone is the same as the OLED ProMotion FaceID multi-camera + LIDAR UWB USB-C + MagSafe iPhone?

                                                                                                                                                                                    • xvxvx

                                                                                                                                                                                      today at 2:07 PM

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                                                                                                                                                                                        • ofcrpls

                                                                                                                                                                                          today at 2:49 PM

                                                                                                                                                                                          Thought that was the entire point of the e line.

                                                                                                                                                                                      • irenetusuq

                                                                                                                                                                                        today at 3:45 PM

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                                                                                                                                                                                        • lofaszvanitt

                                                                                                                                                                                          today at 4:53 PM

                                                                                                                                                                                          The new iPhone 17empty. Bland design, same old shit repackaged again.

                                                                                                                                                                                          • amelius

                                                                                                                                                                                            today at 5:56 PM

                                                                                                                                                                                            Still no support for "actually owning your device." Disappointing.

                                                                                                                                                                                              • brk

                                                                                                                                                                                                today at 6:55 PM

                                                                                                                                                                                                Considering that no major phone or carrier has embraced that model why would you expect it to suddenly appear here?

                                                                                                                                                                                                  • amelius

                                                                                                                                                                                                    today at 10:09 PM

                                                                                                                                                                                                    Someone told me that this company "Thinks different".

                                                                                                                                                                                                • flykespice

                                                                                                                                                                                                  today at 5:59 PM

                                                                                                                                                                                                  Thanks for saving me a click

                                                                                                                                                                                              • prmoustache

                                                                                                                                                                                                today at 9:58 PM

                                                                                                                                                                                                The example photos are so bad it is laughable.

                                                                                                                                                                                                  • shhsshs

                                                                                                                                                                                                    today at 10:02 PM

                                                                                                                                                                                                    I'm trying to understand what you mean by this. Are you saying they're "bad" in terms of resolution, or artistic value, or something else? They seem good enough (far from "bad") by any definition I can think of.

                                                                                                                                                                                                • mihaaly

                                                                                                                                                                                                  today at 8:31 PM

                                                                                                                                                                                                  No Touch ID? Too bad.