Good morning. I just got my iPhone SE and I must say, I am delighted. Touch ID is so much better than Face ID, especially for these times. And you can't beat the price!
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iPhone SE (2016) Delighted
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Best budget smartphone on the market. disagree on Touch ID being better than Face ID. 😂
I purchased a used Samsung Galaxy S7 on Swappa and it's a dreadful device.
I also purchased a used Huawei Media pad T3 Android tablet on Swappa and its yucky too
I also purchased a used Huawei Media pad T3 Android tablet on Swappa and its yucky too
No surprise there. 🤮🤮🤮 gimmick phones at best
Well, I just mean for COVID times. I did love Face ID in the before-times.
I also took possession of an SE last week. Great phone. Traded in my 7 and re-bought a Speck Presidio Card case for a 2nd time. Best case I've ever had. It added only $10 + taxes to my phone bill for two years. (128 gig storage) Zero $$$ down.
My bill is now $65/month with 31 gig data. Never give this plan up. S
My bill is now $65/month with 31 gig data. Never give this plan up. S
It is a good phone but, to my knowledge, it isn't cat approved.
You would have to register your cat's paw to the Touch ID
Oh but it is cat approved. I can also vouch that the 12 and 12 Pro Max are also catitude approved. LOL!
My current 12 is the first time time i've had Face ID and to be honest i much prefer it, the odd occasion i need it and i've got a face mask on is far outweighed by the vast majority of the time i havent and it works fine.
I agree the SE 2020 is a great phone and I love Touch ID as well.
The Galaxy S7 was released early 2016. The iPhone 6s was the newest phone at the time, which wouldn’t give you a great experience nowadays either. Of course the Galaxy S7 isn‘t going to be great. It’s 5 years old now.
And that tablet is also 4 years old now, not to mention being a budget tablet anyway. What did you expect when you bought really old devices?
Good point! Would love to have both. Has anyone tried the 14.5 beta that includes Face ID when wearing a mask?
I would indeed like both. For me Face ID is less reliant (fails more often in situations where I would expect it to work) and is slower. Touch ID is faster but you know for sure that it would fail in certain cases (when say your fingers are wet because you just washed them or super dry).
I prefer TouchID when:
- When dark (Face ID fails for me when there are no lights on)
- When is on the table and I want to open/read something without having to pick the device up
- When outside and wearing a mask
- Browsing in Internet and having to use some passwords/authentication
- Using say bank apps and again needing authentication
While they may not be great, we have several A9 devices in the house (original SE, iPad 5th gen) and they still perform quite decently.
Meanwhile, I've had to help a coworker transfer photos from his Galaxy S7 a couple years ago and even back then, it felt sluggish. I kept tapping on icons multiple times (and ended up triggering multiple unwanted actions) because the S7 felt so unresponsive.
The 6s is still supported by iOS 14 and from what I've read, runs perfectly fine. The same can not be said for the S7, which was terrible the day it came out (I was on the test drive program and used it for about a week).
Why would someone put themselves through that torture 😳 Samsung galaxies 🤮🤮 Android 🤮
I've had similar issues needing a couple of tries with FaceID in a dark room. Of course, that's usually when I'm lying in bed so perhaps it's not so much the lighting but rather the angle. In any case, it would be nice if newer devices have both.