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I wanted to love the XR, but it was too big.

I’d prefer a 4.5” phone, but ended up with an iPhone X as a kind of cheaper, smaller, currentish iOS device.

After the XR and XS were announced I bought a used SE, and I don't regret my choice. I really hope we see an XR Mini or something like that in the future, but I don't hold out much hope.

I would like to see an SE that’s thicker to accommodate a bigger battery.

A phone as large as iPhone XR with iPhone SE's thickness would be pretty hefty…

No, no. The size of the SE but just a little thicker so the battery lasts longer. That's the only advantage big phones have in my view.

That's starting to get pretty thick…maybe it might be better if Apple made a battery case for iPhone SE?

I think 1mm would add quite a bit of capacity

The SE is already thinner than the XR by 0.7mm, and 0.1mm thinner than the XS/XS Max.

Sure, but since it's smaller it would be far more "chunky".

The iPhone XR is thicker (8.3mm) than the iPhone SE (7.6mm)

That would be great. I'm a heavy user, about two to three hours of screen-on time per day and six to eight hours of Spotify on the background. I have bad cellphone reception so it is constantly searching for signal and trying to reconnect the VPN. I have to recharge at around 17:00 on a normal day. Device is a couple months old and at 96% battery capacity.

It is large. Definitely a two handed phone even with my massive hands.

I ended up getting an 8. I love the size and after trading in a 6s was on $399. I don't game, and as fast as this thing is, it should last quite a while.

Where'd you get your iPhone X? I find the XR way too big as well, and the XS is insanely overpriced.

fyi, apple recently had some show up on their refurbished site

Huh, I never seen them show up there. Will keep checking.

Refurbs are allegedly available for ~$800

I'm still using the SE because I don't want a big phone. Kudos to Apple for making a quality technical device that's around 4 years old now but still quite capable. However, shame on them for not making a flagship 'mini' phone.

I really like my XS. After getting used to the big screen on my 7+ and 8+ i find the XS a really nice tradeoff of having almost as much useful screen area while not having the formfactor of a Hershey bar.

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