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I’m still using the first gen SE and love the small form factor. It’s getting slow as websites get bloated but otherwise still works fine including NFC for payments.

If the next gen SE is small like the 13 mini I might buy it. If not I’m sticking with this old beauty for as long as humanly possible.

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Same here! 4 inch screen - no more, no less - is perfect. I expect it to last me until about early 2040s. The closest thing to SE 1 is this Unihertz Jelly Max with 4.3 inch screen.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jellyphone/jelly-max-th...

I think the screen could be a bit bigger like the 13 mini, so smaller bezels. I’ve always used android until 2021 when my phone died and the only replacements I could find were HUGE. So then I picked my wife’s old SE from the drawer and replaced the battery.

I also have a 1st gen SE still and I did not get the 13 mini because it didn’t come with Touch ID. But now it looks like Apple is never going to bring Touch ID back anyway.