Who wants an all-glass phone? I get that the designers want this, but do actual users really want something so fragile? I've only ever had phones with plastic or metal backs, and I've never bemoaned the fact that they weren't breakable enough.
I'm pretty careful with my phone, but I've dropped it in a way that I'm sure would have done serious damage if I hadn't had a case. Three times that I recall off-hand. So there is no way I'd not have a case on this.
Which bugs me because my 6s+ is still awe inspiring when I take it out of the case... but my case is a bit rugged, and the feel and thinness of the phone are completely lost with it. Yet I feel compelled to use it... too much risk of serious damage otherwise.
In my car I hate dealing with cables.
And even if they were somehow mutually exclusive, I'd still take a non-fragile back over the ability to wirelessly charge.
Back when phones were hand-sized they were a lot harder to drop.
It's funny how Apple is calling this an all-new glass design when other phones on the market have a similar design and Apple themselves had this design five years ago.
It's technically true, it is all new. No other phone was the same (just very very damn similar). Yes, it's a cheap marketing phrase that's meaningless, kinda par for the course with an Apple keynote.
still does it really matter? how many phones are not in cases?
I'd actually switched over to Android after the iPhone 4S, to an Xperia Z3 compact from fall 2014. That was competing against the iPhone 6 when Apple had apparently abandoned what I consider to be comfortably sized phones.
With the iPhone SE I was happy to come back.
The SE should be part of the yearly refresh.
Not saying there is anything wrong with that... my moto x had a faux leather back. really cheap, but the phone was nice.
No way Apple would put plastic or rubber bodies in their devices.