New iPhone (SE, 2nd Gen)
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"My pronouns are FA/FO." - Mik, 2024
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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I still use wired earphones, just with the dongle that converts the apple plug to standard headphone jack.
By the way, I agree on phone sizes, I bought the 11 Pro and was glad to see they made it smaller than the previous versions. It's like they're slowly getting the message.
Still not as small as my 7 was, but close.
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@George-K said in New iPhone (SE, 2nd Gen):
@Mik that's right.
I have an iPhone 8. The earbuds that I use when I go outside connect via bluetooth, and they power up and connect as soon as they are removed from their charging case.
Works very well, with no fussing around.
I just bought a pair of the "Pro" airpods. Getting them tomorrow.
Also, much prior to this, I swore I wouldn't but I got an iPad again. I just can't get around how damn handy they are. They boot up instantly and they just work. The Adobe stuff I use most frequently now works amazingly well, and transferring files from an SD card is now a hell of a lot easier. For 80 to 90% of what I do, the damn tablets are still a better tool than a laptop.
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Pretty much me too; I only got the pro models because (1) active noise cancelling = cool, (2) bluetooth earbuds are AWESOME for both conference calls, and working out, and (3) well, stimulus. Gotta spend at least a little of that gummint money.
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I have the old AirPods, and for while I liked them very much.
But I learnt that over time their batteries deteriorate. After the first year, I can barely use then continuously for one hour without having to recharge the batteries. After 18 months, battery life goes down to 40~45 minutes. Near the 2 year mark, and I no longer trust them to last a ~30 minute conference calls. The batteries cannot be replaced, you can pay Apple $90 per Pod ($180 for both Pods) for "battery replacement service" but Apple is just going to give you new Pod(s). So I went back to wired ear pods.As much as I like the "active noise canceling" feature for the "Pro" AirPods, I am not confident that the batteries in them are going to fare better, so I have not buy the "Pro" AirPods and continue to use the wired ear pods.
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@Axtremus said in New iPhone (SE, 2nd Gen):
I have the old AirPods, and for while I liked them very much.
But I learnt that over time their batteries deteriorate. After the first year, I can barely use then continuously for one hour without having to recharge the batteries. After 18 months, battery life goes down to 40~45 minutes. Near the 2 year mark, and I no longer trust them to last a ~30 minute conference calls. The batteries cannot be replaced, you can pay Apple $90 per Pod ($180 for both Pods) for "battery replacement service" but Apple is just going to give you new Pod(s). So I went back to wired ear pods.As much as I like the "active noise canceling" feature for the "Pro" AirPods, I am not confident that the batteries in them are going to fare better, so I have not buy the "Pro" AirPods and continue to use the wired ear pods.
They addressed that issue after the first few batches of the old models. I'm not saying it's perfect now, just that they're aware of it and apparently made improvements.
