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The price point is nice, but my wife, who is holding on to her SE for dear life, will be disappointed in the increase in size. I still think if Apple had made an SE 2 with a 4.7" all-screen phone, which would be closer to the dimensions of the original SE, they would've made a lot of people very happy.

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As a former SE user (used it for a couple years till the it was too bent/damaged to repair) my problem was that increasingly newer apps are made for larger phones & if you don't have a 20 year old's eyesight the screen is too small for comfort sometimes.

"Accept our cookies" popups taller than the screen (and with scrolling disabled), such that you can't press OK, are getting increasingly more common.

I always appreciate them telling me not to waste my time with them, that way.

This is the reason for Safari's reader mode.

Yeah I always thought the screen-size on my 5 was perfect, but a week after buying an XR I fully came around to living with a large phone. It really was just a massively better experience.

I would have bought an updated SE if they had been available at the time, but I don't regret the XR purchase.

You can turn the font size up across the board on iOS. It probably won't help you now, but I figure it's worth stating for anyone else who may have one in this thread.

It's a shame they aren't making that size anymore, it was such a nice elegant size. But I'm sure they looked at the data and know that they'll sell even more of these with the 4.7" because for most people on a budget it's their primary computing device.

I'd prefer 3.5" like iPhone 4S. It was perfect size. Nowadays it's almost impossible to find even Android phone of this size with good hardware and quality.

I went down this road, trying to look for an alternative to my SE with one hard goal: Support Guarantee (The SE was released in 2016 and is still supported).

I looked at _all of the Android One_ devices, which have guaranteed EoL timelines, and the smallest device was still 5+". The smallest was Sharp S3 at 5", but only available in Japan (and released in 2018). The smallest 2019 Android One global release was the Nokia 2.2 at 5.71". There has only been one release in 2020 (Nokia 8.3 - 6.81").

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_One#Products_by_year_o...

what about the pixel 3/4/upcoming 4a?

Not in the same price-range as SE. If I switch back to Android, I'd like to avoid the stupid premium pricing and get something cheaper, hence Android Once exclusively.

Xperia 5 is tall but narrow. It is an unusual, but great looking phone. Specs are good, but software does fall short.

It's not "almost impossible," it is impossible. The only decent Android phones on the market are 5.5+".

Ditto, the 4-inch form factor with the original SE was perfect for one-hand use. If they removed Touch ID and made the SE full screen, I would switch from Android to Apple in a heartbeat.

I've done some calculations and if it's true that the next iPhone X styled phone in September will be slightly smaller the rumored dimensions will be almost the same as the SE while being edge-to-edge. I'm holding on to my SE too waiting for this phone to drop.

Same here. The iPhone X design in iPhone SE size would be a dream device. One handed usability and fairly recent hardware would be just a lovely device I’d pay a fortune for and stay with for quite a few years!!

I like the idea of a all-screen 4.7" phone, or even 5" is maller than 99% of smart phones in the market (this is my vague estimation). It's because I can use the phone with 1 hand.

I use a SE privately and have an iPhone 7 for work. This seems like a "least bad" option if my SE were to break, but not much more.

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