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That sounds right for me. I wish it would come out sooner rather than later, especially if it is as stated here. Best regards, Carolyn -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Donald Moore Sent: Monday, April 30, 2018 3:56 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Thought I'd Share: Everything you should know about Apple's SE2 By Kevin Downey, Komando.com Do you like secrets? Do you love seeing new tech devices long before your family and friends do? Well, if you're an Apple diehard fan, you know the story. Apple has a way of leaking specs and photos of upcoming iPhones months before they hit store shelves, or at least Apple fuels the flames of the rumor mill. Rumors start to get wilder and louder before they eventually settle down into something resembling the truth. That phase is usually a few weeks or months before an official announcement. If you haven't heard, we're in that stage now with iPhone SE 2 rumors. Speculation for Apple's lower-cost, fewer-frills iPhone have been wild and fiery for the past few weeks. Now, this is what most analysts and Apple insiders know (or believe) about the iPhone SE 2. The phone is a pretty impressive update of the 4-inch-display iPhone SE that was released a couple of years ago, if rumors are to be believed. SPECS Apple's iPhone X is its top-of-the-line iPhone with its newest features, like 3D facial recognition and a 5.8-inch display. The iPhone SE 2 is a basic smartphone with fewer bells and whistles. Yet, it's a pretty impressive phone, if these spec rumors prove to be true. It's expected to run on Apple's latest operating system, iOS 11. The SE 2 will also use Apple's A10 Fusion chip. The current iPhone SE uses the A9. The iPhone SE will have 2G of RAM, according to people in the know. It will come with two storage options, 32GB and 128GB. THE BELLS AND WHISTLES The current SE has an aluminum back. The SE 2 will likely have a glass back, like the new iPhones. That most likely means it will have wireless charging. However, it will keep the older iPhone feature, a 3.5 mm headphone jack - Apple's new iPhones don't have that. CAMERA The SE 2 has pretty impressive cameras. It will have 12MP for its rear camera, comparable to the iPhone X, but a 5MP front-facing camera - the X has 7MP. PRICE The SE 2 is an affordable smartphone, certainly compared to iPhone 8 and iPhone X. The 8's starting price is $699 while the X starts at $999. The SE 2's rumored price tag is $450. That's quite inexpensive and puts it right in line with the cost of some refurbished iPhones. TOUCH ID The iPhone SE, the one currently available, uses Apple's fingerprint biomtetrics Touch ID as a security measure. There were rumors that the SE 2 would upgrade to iPhone X's 3D technology, but Apple insiders say SE 2 will stick with Touch ID. RELEASE DATE The big question surrounding the iPhone SE 2 is its release date. There are a couple of things to note here. Apple typically announces new releases in June and then at its big annual hardware event in September. But the SE 2 isn't likely to be Apple's big release this year. This is a lower-cost, fewer-frills smartphone that Apple might release a little bit under the radar. In fact, its target audience is likely to be the international market. So, what does that mean? The current rumor is that it will be released soon, before summer. That rumor is gaining steam with the increasing number of leaked SE 2 photos. The rumors about the SE 2 are starting to come into a consensus, which is a good sign something's about to be announced. Yet, other rumors say the SE 2 will not be released until this summer. Other reports even push its release all the way back to next year, 2019. http://lists-tracking.komando.com/Click.aspx?id=040013177152336875 -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any
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Everything you should know about Apple's SE2 By Kevin Downey, Komando.com Do you like secrets? Do you love seeing new tech devices long before your family and friends do? Well, if you're an Apple diehard fan, you know the story. Apple has a way of leaking specs and photos of upcoming iPhones months before they hit store shelves, or at least Apple fuels the flames of the rumor mill. Rumors start to get wilder and louder before they eventually settle down into something resembling the truth. That phase is usually a few weeks or months before an official announcement. If you haven't heard, we're in that stage now with iPhone SE 2 rumors. Speculation for Apple's lower-cost, fewer-frills iPhone have been wild and fiery for the past few weeks. Now, this is what most analysts and Apple insiders know (or believe) about the iPhone SE 2. The phone is a pretty impressive update of the 4-inch-display iPhone SE that was released a couple of years ago, if rumors are to be believed. SPECS Apple's iPhone X is its top-of-the-line iPhone with its newest features, like 3D facial recognition and a 5.8-inch display. The iPhone SE 2 is a basic smartphone with fewer bells and whistles. Yet, it's a pretty impressive phone, if these spec rumors prove to be true. It's expected to run on Apple's latest operating system, iOS 11. The SE 2 will also use Apple's A10 Fusion chip. The current iPhone SE uses the A9. The iPhone SE will have 2G of RAM, according to people in the know. It will come with two storage options, 32GB and 128GB. THE BELLS AND WHISTLES The current SE has an aluminum back. The SE 2 will likely have a glass back, like the new iPhones. That most likely means it will have wireless charging. However, it will keep the older iPhone feature, a 3.5 mm headphone jack - Apple's new iPhones don't have that. CAMERA The SE 2 has pretty impressive cameras. It will have 12MP for its rear camera, comparable to the iPhone X, but a 5MP front-facing camera - the X has 7MP. PRICE The SE 2 is an affordable smartphone, certainly compared to iPhone 8 and iPhone X. The 8's starting price is $699 while the X starts at $999. The SE 2's rumored price tag is $450. That's quite inexpensive and puts it right in line with the cost of some refurbished iPhones. TOUCH ID The iPhone SE, the one currently available, uses Apple's fingerprint biomtetrics Touch ID as a security measure. There were rumors that the SE 2 would upgrade to iPhone X's 3D technology, but Apple insiders say SE 2 will stick with Touch ID. RELEASE DATE The big question surrounding the iPhone SE 2 is its release date. There are a couple of things to note here. Apple typically announces new releases in June and then at its big annual hardware event in September. But the SE 2 isn't likely to be Apple's big release this year. This is a lower-cost, fewer-frills smartphone that Apple might release a little bit under the radar. In fact, its target audience is likely to be the international market. So, what does that mean? The current rumor is that it will be released soon, before summer. That rumor is gaining steam with the increasing number of leaked SE 2 photos. The rumors about the SE 2 are starting to come into a consensus, which is a good sign something's about to be announced. Yet, other rumors say the SE 2 will not be released until this summer. Other reports even push its release all the way back to next year, 2019. http://lists-tracking.komando.com/Click.aspx?id=040013177152336875 -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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An American Cyber-Column iPhone - R.I.P. Rich Galen Monday April 7, 2014 http://www.twitter.com/richgalen [t_logo-a.png] Twitter Everyone has heard stories of someone who fell into a lake with their cell phone in their pocket; who left their cell phone on the picnic table while running for cover in a thunderstorm or who dropped it into a - how to put this delicately - receptacle, while using their cell phone in an inappropriate place. Every one of those people (with the possible exception of the third example, especially if his clumsiness had been witnessed by others) has gone into CELL PHONE RECOVERY MODE. That includes turning off the device immediately, removing the battery as quickly as possible, wiping all the external water off (except for  that guy), and then letting the device sit in rice for 24 hours to let the rice absorb the water inside the device. If you Google iPhone water rice you will come up with a significant number of hits that describe in great detail how to (a) turn off your device, (b) remove the battery, (c) wipe off any external water and, (d) plunge it into rice (uncooked, I found out) and (e) leave it alone for 24 hours. In most postings the writer celebrated resurrection of his cell phone happily returning to long years of post-immersion service. Here's what I did. As it was Friday, I was wearing jeans. In the office I work out of, Fridays are casual days and my choice of casual clothing was jeans, sneakers, and a standard button-down shirt. SIDEBAR Years and years ago I worked for a company named Electronic Data Systems - EDS. It was the organization that had been begun by Ross Perot although by the time I got there it was owned by General Motors. Perot had come from IBM which had a well-known dress code for men: White shirt and tie, suit, black shoes with laces (not slip-ons because they are known as loafers). It came to pass in the mid-nineties that the authorities at EDS decided that casual Friday was the order of the day and so instituted that policy. While the white shirt rule and the lace-up shoe rules had long since been abandoned, the suit-and-tie rule was well in force so during the week there were wide varieties of suits, shirts, ties, and shoes on display in the hallways and cafeterias. Except for Fridays. On casual Fridays almost every male employee of EDS wore khakis, a button-down shirt a V-neck sweater, and loafers. Thus, the casual clothing on Fridays was more of a uniform than that worn during the other four days of the week. Engineers. END SIDEBAR After dinner on Friday night I decided to drop my jeans in the washing machine on my way to my bedroom. I had worn that particular pair of jeans on a terrific trip to T. Boone Pickens' ranch earlier in the week, so even though no horses, guns, fishing poles, nor bales of hay were on my personal program I decided they could use laundering. I started the machine, added liquid detergent, and trundled off to bed happy in the knowledge that my jeans would be Springtime fresh by morning. In the morning I realized my iPhone was nowhere to be found. This is not a particularly uncommon occurrence. I leave things everywhere, to the point that in my family the concept is known as Rich Droppings. Apple has provided a very useful app called Find my iPhone that uses the GPS system to show, on a map, the phone's location. Sometimes it's in my car. Sometimes it's in the den. Sometimes it's at my favorite restaurant, Landini's. This time, when I fired up the Find my iPhone app on my iPad it said my iPhone was offline. Drat. Foiled again. I retraced my steps from the night before - including dropping by Landini's - but my phone was nowhere to be found. I  wondered. I went to the laundry room, pretending to myself I was going there to move my jeans from the washer to the dryer, only to find my iPhone sitting at the bottom of the tub. I didn't have to turn it off, because it was already off. I didn't take out the battery because iPhone batteries are not easily reachable by consumers. I didn't wipe off the excess water because it had been through the spin cycle. I did pour rice into a baggy, dumped the phone in, and let it sit for about 24 hours. I plugged it in, waited for about an hour, then pressed the power button. Nothing. Nada. Bupkis. I now have an iPhone that is d.e.a.d, but very clean. I'm blaming it on Obamacare. --END-- Copyright ©2013 Barrington Worldwide, LLC _ -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at
