The latest iPhone.

MissAdventure

I'm trying to dispel the myth that poor people have "the latest" iphone" which is trotted out with regularity here.
Hence, I'm asking who could tell without removing it from the poor person and comparing/contrasting it.

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My iPhone’s an SE 2020 and DH’s is a 6, which I passed on to him when Apple stopped security updates for that model. He only uses his phone for texts and Wordle so doesn’t need them.

Yes, I can tell the difference instantly just by looking at them, because his is in a blue case and mine’s in pink. Otherwise, I’d have no idea.

All this about younger people and those on benefits “having the latest phones” is maddening. It must be nigh on impossible to manage without a mobile at all these days, but there aren’t that many who see them as status symbols.

Mine’s an iPhone 11 (just had to go into settings to check!). It’s got 2 camera lenses on the back along with the flash, I think the more expensive & later iPhone models have 3 lenses, & the earlier ones have 1????
Got mine in Sept 2020 when the “motherboard” (apple shop lingo) went on my old phone & it wasn’t fixable, & treated myself. It’s bigger than my old one so I can use it without my glasses ?

You can't really tell by looking at what someone else has in their hand. Most modern mobiles look similar and you absolutely wouldn't be able to tell if it was the latest or an older model unless you were very near or handled it. Many people only have mobiles not land lines now. For anyone who trots out these myths - what a judgemental thing to say. Why shouldn't "poor" people have mobiles of whatever age? In our family as in many others they get passed on. The youngsters get new and us oldies get the cast offs which work well enough. All our phones look new from a distance.

Oh, I'm cross before I've even listened!

It was Huggy Leaver. You can listen to him here about 4 minutes in to 8 minutes including the developer.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b07gfjhr

He sounds a nice sort!
I'd love it if someone from the housing association put a name to that voice.

I like Apple products but keep them until they break so my phone is an elderly SE. I take very litte notice of what phones other people have, couldn't say if they are latest model or not.

I agree with Mamie. Some people like to think that everyone else is feckless and undeserving. Off topic, but earlier I relistened to a 2016 File on 4 programme about selling off housing association properties. One man, a bit part actor, said he couldn't afford to buy his London 2 bedroom home but was doing a deal with a property developer who would put up the money so that he, the actor, could buy and then sell on the house at a tidy profit for himself whereupon the developer would redevelop the plot into a four bed luxury house that he could also sell for a good profit. Asked by the interviewer if he thought this was ethical, he replied that if left as a housing association property, once he no longer needed it, it would go to a family "who wouldn't deserve it". How and why would he think that? Did he think he didn't deserve the house when it was first rented to him?

I don't think it is really anything to do with iphones though MissAdventure.
I think it is just a long line of examples of people trying to making themselves feel better by blaming the feckless poor.
Like iphones / flatscreen TVs / video recorders / record players / bingo / wirelesses / perms / gin / nights out at the music hall etc

People here care.
As I've said, people feel obliged to point out that others (poor people) have the latest model.

Nothing here to convince me of that, though.

I have the iphone SE 2020 and the Apple Watch SE. Both much cheaper than the top of the range, but do everything I need them to do. You could spot the difference if you were an Apple nerd, but who cares?

My phone opens by swiping the screen.
Samsung.

Go into settings
tap ‘general’ then
‘About’
And it will tell you the model
Mines iPhone 7 Plus I think the latest is up to iPhone 13 so I m way back but it’s fine for me and does everything I need it to do and syncs with everyone else in the family for photos and things and with my iPad

I suppose it depends on what size individual bars of chocolate are?
Mine is a,bit bigger than a,bar I think.

silverlining48

Calendargirl, we seem to have the same phones, so do they have face recognition? How would you even know?

If a phone uses facial recognition to open it, then you would have been asked to stare into a circle thingy on the screen while it mapped the features of your face. You then merely have to look into your phone when you first open it for it to operate.

iPhones are different and savvy people can tell the difference. My iPhone, the XR, does not have a home button, it is operated by swiping the screen so pretty obvious which model it is.

I've got a 2016 Iphone SE, and luckily it is still being updated, and I can access my banking app.

It's about the size of a bar of chocolate, I don't want anything bigger so when I upgrade will probably get the Iphone 12 mini.

When I moved here I couldn't get a signal with 02, so researched and found that '3' offer wifi calling as PAYG SIMS. Lucky I did as I'm nearly always on wifi calling, the castle at the end of my road blocks the signal most of the time. I pay £10 per month.

I thought my charity shop had one in this morning - but it was an Iphone 4 My home button is starting to break.

silverlining48

Calendargirl, we seem to have the same phones, so do they have face recognition? How would you even know?

You would know when you set up your phone in order to use it.

It would ask for you to put in a code to open the device and the later models will
also ask you to set up finger print or facial recognition.

I just googled the answer as to whether I have face recognition.

I'm always losing my glasses, grannygravy.
It would have to have a good memory for all my 99p spare pairs!

Calendargirl, we seem to have the same phones, so do they have face recognition? How would you even know?

MissAdventure

Just looked it up.
My phone has face recognition.

Mine doesn’t recognise me if I change my glasses or leave them off ??

Just looked it up.
My phone has face recognition.

Xd post MissA. Re your last post, those who just want the latest anything will always recognise it where most others probably wont. An example I had a very wealthy friend who could recognise any high end designer bag /shoe/ jacket from across the other side of a shop, me? I didnt have a clue.
The other thing is dont they put phones into holders so everything apart from the screen is hidden in which case no one can tell what it us...unless its someone like my erswhile friend who knew the cost of everything but the value of none.

I can do that on my old, old Samsung, I think.

MissAdventure

I'm trying to dispel the myth that poor people have "the latest" iphone" which is trotted out with regularity here.
Hence, I'm asking who could tell without removing it from the poor person and comparing/contrasting it.

The other way to tell the difference is if you need a code to unlock, or a finger or the latest iPhones have face recognition and Apple Pay (tapping your iPhone instead of a debit/credit card)

I dont know much but here we go.....iPhone is a smartphone ios system made by Apple and Samsung is android is a different make. Still good and does much tye same i think but not an Iphone which seems to be the most popular ( and expensive).
Iphone cant have more memory increased but Samsung can.
My iphone is small and old, a but like me i suppose. Its an SE 5 and dh bought it years ago for £££ and i have it on pay as you go. I hardky use ut. I prefer our ipad ( again Apple) tablet whuch is bigger and easier to manage ( fat fingers).
I know people who pay less than £10 a month contract but i dont yse it that much so stick with Pay as you go.
Most people change their phones regularly and leave the old one in a drawer, gatgering dust, so why not ask you gss or anyone you know if they are gettingva new one soon and can you have their old one, ,which will not be old at all of course.
We used to get dds old ones until the gc were old enough to have them so I am stuck with my tiny one forever while the 12 year old has a much more up to date model than us.
Not much help I suppose. Good luck.