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I have the SE 2020. It's awesome. Battery life and screen brightness outdoors is the only weakness. Perfectly smooth, processor is amazing.

I also don't like the swipe gestures. Plus having a $1k+ phone on me while biking would make me kinda nervous.

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I agree... and what annoys me also is i can't quickly "tap and hold" on notifications on the lockscreen, for example to complete reminders. There seems to be no (hardware related) reason why this would not be possible. (on the X and 11 this is done with 3D-touch.)

iPhone 11 doesn't have the 3D touch hardware, and iOS 13 retroactively killed it on older devices.

But good news on the lock screen notifications, long press for actions is back in the iOS 14 beta:

https://streamable.com/ebkhe4 (recorded on a 6s)

Ah! I thought of buying one and using it as bike computer on my bike, do you think the screen brightness would be an issue for this use case?

Well it’s the same as the 7, 8, and I believe 6s.

I’d say it’s fine at the right angle. Maybe noon is tougher.

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