• WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    You don’t say? Next they’ll say the plans also include making it faster and attempts to improve battery life.

    Must be a slow news day.

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      24 days ago

      Yeah, I’d rather have my back panel fingerprint reader back than an even thinner phone, and then there’s the pointlessness of making the phone so thin that to have a remotely decent camera they have to add a huge bulge. Just… Make the whole damned thing that thick and use the extra space for, I dunno, more battery maybe?

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      26 days ago

      iPhones have been getting thicker year over year since the 11. The 15 is the largest jump in thickness over that period, too. It’s actually pretty reasonable that Apple would seek to return to at least the last prior model’s form factor.

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      26 days ago

      I had the bending iphone. Had it replaced twice under warranty. Never again.

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        26 days ago

        I had the bending iPhone. Used it for five years, never bent. At the time, I really wished it was slightly thinner lmao

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    25 days ago

    I remember when all of my friends would laugh at the iPod Nano, when it released as being super thin, due to all the people accidentally sitting on them or other easy ways in which they broke.

    I would prefer it if manufacturers made phones with smaller screens, so I can actually use it with one hand without some janky workaround (like right/left handed modes on Google Keyboard).

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    26 days ago

    I’m not going to buy any of those, and I don’t use a smartwatch at all, but I’d rather have a thicker laptop and phone with the extra space expended on a larger battery.

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      26 days ago

      The 13” iPad Pro M4 is thinner than the iPod Nano, making it the thinnest device Apple has ever made (except for the camera bump, but we don’t talk about that). It’s wild how thin it is, but it’s significantly lighter than its predecessor and is much nicer to hold.

      But it can be that thin because it’s large enough that the battery can be spread out. I wouldn’t want a phone that thin.

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    26 days ago

    Why? Phones have been thin enough for a long time that you have to put them in a case just to get a good grip.

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      26 days ago

      I want an iPhone with a larger battery so it doesn’t have the stupid camera bulge.

      Longer life and doesn’t rock when I text on a surface.

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      26 days ago

      Actually, they’ve been getting thicker every year since the 6, believe it or not.

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        26 days ago

        Exactly. I’m still on my 11pro for this reason, already had to replace the battery. I got the 15 as a work phone, it feels very large in comparison, I’m not a fan.

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        25 days ago

        I’d be happier if they push for lighter devices personally. Glass feels nice, but their Pro models can be obnoxiously heavy.

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    26 days ago

    I feel like we’re just going backwards, we stopped caring about tech getting thin enough to act like a blade like a decade ago.

    Why are we doing this again?