After the XR and XS were announced I bought a used SE, and I don't regret my choice. I really hope we see an XR Mini or something like that in the future, but I don't hold out much hope.

I would like to see an SE that’s thicker to accommodate a bigger battery.

That would be great. I'm a heavy user, about two to three hours of screen-on time per day and six to eight hours of Spotify on the background. I have bad cellphone reception so it is constantly searching for signal and trying to reconnect the VPN. I have to recharge at around 17:00 on a normal day. Device is a couple months old and at 96% battery capacity.

A phone as large as iPhone XR with iPhone SE's thickness would be pretty hefty…

The iPhone XR is thicker (8.3mm) than the iPhone SE (7.6mm)

No, no. The size of the SE but just a little thicker so the battery lasts longer. That's the only advantage big phones have in my view.

That's starting to get pretty thick…maybe it might be better if Apple made a battery case for iPhone SE?

The SE is already thinner than the XR by 0.7mm, and 0.1mm thinner than the XS/XS Max.

Sure, but since it's smaller it would be far more "chunky".

I think 1mm would add quite a bit of capacity

It is large. Definitely a two handed phone even with my massive hands.

I ended up getting an 8. I love the size and after trading in a 6s was on $399. I don't game, and as fast as this thing is, it should last quite a while.

Where'd you get your iPhone X? I find the XR way too big as well, and the XS is insanely overpriced.

fyi, apple recently had some show up on their refurbished site

Huh, I never seen them show up there. Will keep checking.

Refurbs are allegedly available for ~$800

I'm still using the SE because I don't want a big phone. Kudos to Apple for making a quality technical device that's around 4 years old now but still quite capable. However, shame on them for not making a flagship 'mini' phone.

I really like my XS. After getting used to the big screen on my 7+ and 8+ i find the XS a really nice tradeoff of having almost as much useful screen area while not having the formfactor of a Hershey bar.