Referring to my OP I'm now the owner of an S10e, and with regard to the points made here I'm very happy I've made the right choice.
Its smaller that I expected - about 3mm taller yet 1mm thinner than my work iphone8 - and lighter that I expected but with a powerful spec, large & expandable storage. The display is large and very awesome. When you place that spec against the SE at £469 the S10e is marginally better throughout, and massively better from on the screen perspective. IMO unless you're determined to stick with iOS, get the SE10.
From a battery perspective I would expect a small reduction in a week or so as it learns/copes with my average use, but its been off a charger since 08:30 (now 12:00), has been used for interbanking, WhatsApp and instagram and is sitting at 94%.
Has anyone got their hands on one of these?
Still hovering over the buy button and want opinions especially from android users who have switched.
There don't really seem to be any benefits over an iPhone 8 so I am sticking to my old SE until it breaks or get past the point of not getting updates anymore. I will then just buy an A+ condition iPhone 8 for £200
@bez I don't doubt that, and I pay scant regard to benchmarks in any case. But every PR piece for the SE trumpets the "fastest processor" line when that's far from the whole story.
Mine got delivered this morning, it's replacing an old SE where the TouchID no longer works on it.
It doesn't seem much bigger than the the SE it's replacing though I'm not planning to set it up until the case/screen protector get delivered on Monday.
Typing this from my new SE. As mentioned earlier in the thread, this is replacing the old SE. Only had it running for an hour or so but I like it. Using with a Speck Presidio Pro case. Used to love a Speck pixelskin case I used to have and this is similar.
The handover from the old phone to the new one was amazingly simple. This has probably been a thing for a while but it was news to me - just needed to have the old phone in range of the new one and everything just sync’d over in about 20 mins seamlessly.
Felt a bit big at first but getting used to it already. Seems quick. Camera probably the most noticeable other improvement. Seems waaaaay better. Portrait mode takes some lovely pics of the kids. Will obviously need more time with it but first impressions good.
because most people who like small phones aren’t big spenders.
You've met mrs_oab then.
Well, I caved. Toyed with the free BeatsX offer at Three, but Quidco popped up with 5% cashback at Currys and then I remembered I get 8% off Currys vouchers via a work scheme, so I've bagged a 128GB one for roughly the list price of a 64. Won't be an exciting step up from my 7 but it'll last longer, I can keep my Moment cases and fisheye lens, and it'll be nice to have a box-fresh phone for once.
And if I can manage to change the batteries myself on our old SEs then that saves me about £70 over what I was planning to spend on those.
Re iPhone battery replacement and @mashr - can you recommend a reputable battery supplier please? Seem to be loads of kits on Amazon and hard got tell what’s good and what’s not..
Thanks!
Been a while since I did one I’m afraid, can’t remember where I got the last one from.
Typed from a new SE..... feels a bit like a bigger, thinner phone
I ordered a pair of OEM batteries last night from Replacebase. Supposedly from Apple’s supplier and to the same spec, and Replacebase seem to have a decent reputation. The batteries were still less than £10 each though (impressively or unnervingly, depending on how you look at it). The only other reliable-looking source I could see was iFixit, for a few quid more.
Got mine yesterday to replace my old se. It’s not life changing, it does what it says on the tin. Process to swap data from my old phone is a doddle. And it still fits in my pocket 😄