Posted by meetpateltech 19 hours ago
(Pixel 11 512GB / 16GB RAM is also £1200 - not an endorsement)
edit: and Apple Care got a huge price increase (31%) on the new Pro: the 2 year £179 option is gone - now it's £129 for 1 yr.
"On iPhone 18 Pro Max, five minutes of wired charging provides around seven hours of video playback"
Materially impactful feature holy moses! I can plug it in, brush my teeth and I'm set for the work day.
Not sure you can really extrapolate non-video battery life from video battery life. I have an ageing iPad and I can get a couple of hours of video when the battery is at 30%, but it would be gone in 45 minutes if I was browsing.
Web browsing is typically significantly harder on power. Plus these benchmarks usually mean in a perfectly dark room with the backlight at close to zero.
I bought an iPhone 11 in 2019 I think? It last until 2 years ago when I limped along until the iPhone 16 Plus. I like the big screen area. The premium for Pro isn't worth it to me. I hope to get another 3 years out of it.
What I would like is an iPhone with Touch ID as an option and no, I don't mean the small one (SE?). I want a big screen. Put the Touch ID on the back of the phone like the samsung Galaxy did.
I literally hate Face ID with a passion and it's a massive accessibility issue for people with visual impairments.
No amount of slightly better CPU and camera is going to get me to upgrade every year anymore.
https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/change-face-id-and-at...
The Mini thus, undersold, because if you were fine with the 8 then iPhones of that size were still available (2nd Gen SE). Nobody bought: So Apple thinks theres no market.
It was smaller than the iPhone 8. It was slightly thicker (0.01"), shorter (by 0.27") and narrower (0.13"). And it had a bigger display despite being overall smaller. It was bigger than the 5, though.
I did, however, take a series of photos comparing the Mini to the SE- and the packaging of the 6 (I think I gave the phone away but still had the box).
https://imgur.com/a/iphone-mini-vs-iphone-5-vs-iphone-6-case...
The SE was the one that shared the 8's dimensions, the Mini was smaller than both. That Mini appears to be in a case, so the comparison photos aren't as useful as they'd be otherwise.
(Also, it looks like I couldn't do arithmetic earlier or typo'd the number, the Mini is 0.12" narrower, not 0.13").
Maybe because it's the dark version of the phone you can barely make out the shiny apple logo, but it's there, you can see the metal edge of the phone.
It's not in a case.. obviously, that would be a stupid comparison.
"SE" is a nondescript product line and the only physical differences are the tone of the chassis and a stamp; it's a fair representation of the size of a 5.
Apple was the last hold out with small phones, years after everybody else moved to huge phones.
But even Apple couldn't resist the pressure from the consumers, and eventually yielded.
And somehow we ended up with more Pixels and not minis.
Rinse and repeat.
If you have a "known" or "expected" cycle, people can rely on that.
Wish I'd got the biggest storage size when I bought it though :(
https://photos.reportinglive.com/p/2026-09-09/f-bf86c6f5adb3...
Height
4.64 inches (117.8 mm) closed / 4.64 inches (117.8 mm) open
5.18 inches (131.5 mm)
Width
3.31 inches (84.1 mm) closed / 6.48 inches (164.6 mm) open
2.53 inches (64.2 mm)
Depth
0.44 inch (11.3 mm) closed / 0.21 inch (5.2 mm) open
0.30 inch (7.65 mm)
Weight
8.96 ounces (254 grams)
4.97 ounces (141 grams)The body shapes and cases seem to change each year anyway now, so it's not like people get to re-use cases that much anyway...
Sometimes I tell my teenage daughter “stop inventing things to be mad about”. Good advice for HN commenters, too.
And even in a case now that they have those huge camera plateaus you can still definitely tell what color iPhone someone has.