TNW 375: Apple's New iPhone 16e

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I’ve said this many times before, but the fact that they’ve taken away the home button limits my interest in the phone. They could easily have put a notch at the bottom of the phone containing a pill-shaped button for the Touch ID/Home button.
Sure, visual intelligence is nice, but then you can use Seeing AI or take a photo and upload it to ChatGPT yourself, so I’m not sure I care about that,
I also don’t care about increasing the storage to 128GB since you only get 5GB free, so you will keep transferring old photos to your laptop.
Having the 48MP sensor is nice, but if you want to replace your prosumer camera with a phone, are you not going to pony up the extra money for the 16?
Overall, I think Apple has missed the mark on this one. Not to mention that 6.1 inches is just too big for a phone.

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