it's here the iPhone for every man the
iPhone se I'm gonna be calling this one the iPhone se se the iPhone se 2nd
edition go ahead and get this baby unpacked because this is about as
excited as I've ever been for an iPhone in my memory still is gonna cost you a
cool four hundred US dollars deep brand
keeps trying to one-up themselves to send me something so ugly I couldn't
possibly like it and they keep sending me stuff that I think is cooler and
cooler so they provided this phone thanks to D brand for that earpods
wired not earpods you'll find a regular ngon like you know warp-speed fast
charger or anything like that as well as a lightning cable it looks and feels
basically exactly like an iPhone 8 even
internally this phone shares a lot of similarities with its predecessor Wow
face ID is gone I didn't realize how small an
iPhone 8 would feel until I went and picked one up in 2020 not just a small
phone but a phone with a really small
looking screen I guess that's why Apple advertisers reach ability as one of the
features of this device the haptic home button that Apple switched over to with
the iPhone 7 is obviously still here and in fact apparently the entire display
assembly so that would include the home button is shared with the iPhone 8 but
with a couple of caveats one is that if you replace the home button you can't
expect to have touch ID functionality unless your Apple in which case you
wouldn't be interchangeably swapping the screen for an iPhone se and an iPhone 8
you're not going to be able to use true tone and then finally obviously the
iPhone 8 has 3d touch and the iPhone se
does not so even though that hardware might be there if you put an iPhone 8
screen assembly onto an iPhone se it seems like it's locked out in software
because it will not work other parts that are interchangeable
between the two phones are apparently the taptic engine as well as apparently
both the front and rear camera front one so that's the same seven megapixel
shooter that we saw in the original iPhone 8 hello hello I am taking an
iPhone selfie you don't have any 4k
video recording like you would in the iPhone 11 and
no slow-motion selfies or slow fees that one seems to be pretty much confirmed
but it's the rear camera that there's a little bit of conflicting information on
hey David what's up what's up it appears
from iFixit stare down that it's the same 12 megapixel module but I did read
another report that says what makes it better in the iPhone se compared to the
iPhone 8 is Apple's processing so on a software level it might know hey that's
an iPhone 8 camera module and it may not work correctly so we're gonna have to
wait for the DIY community to figure out the nuances there one other component
that's I guess a little disappointing is the battery so it looks like it's about
1800 milliamp hours and it looks like the same battery from the iPhone 8 but
because it uses a new connector it is not interchangeable let's get into what
is new and or great about this thing it's got three gigs of RAM so that's 50%
more than the iPhone 8 it's got some software improvements to the camera
including portrait mode better video stabilization as well as red eye removal
it's now powered by the a13 Bionic processor the same chip that Apple is
using in the iPhone 1111 Pro and 11 Pro
Mac's so on paper anyway aside from RAM
this thing should perform nearly identically to those modern flagships
at $400 one thing Apple doesn't specify on the product page that I was really
curious about is whether the phone supports HDR video playback but this is
definitely playing back How to Train Your Dragon the hidden world in HDR but
this is only on a 625 nits peak
brightness display which means you're not getting the full HDR experience that
you would on something like an iPhone 11 or iPhone 11 Pro or pro max at least
it's got support for it though even on a 600 nits display it'll look better than
SDR one other feature that shouldn't surprise me but does is that the SE has
wireless charging and ip67 water resistance it shouldn't surprise me that
much I guess because the iPhone 8 did have both of those features but those
are the kinds of things that I would expect Apple to kind of take away as a
gotcha you know like oh you don't have another 300 dollars to spend on a nice
phone 11:00 well I guess you don't need wireless charging that badly really the
only killer apps for the iPhone 11 are
the ultra wide camera because the main
cameras are as far as we can tell so far
relatively similar the better selfie camera so it's 12 verses 7 megapixels
and of course with 4k video recording larger better screen it is a better
screen and then face ID which for some people is not even really a feature and
they wish Apple would just go back to touch ID with the home button I mean it
really is great the touch ID is awesome it's super intuitive to use I've always
loved it and that's that's that's it if my aunt looks like hey I need a new
phone this is it with one gotcha
David 1800 milliamp hour battery and
change okay I think garbage is a bit of
an overstatement but like is is that is
that a deal breaker for you could you even recommend it to someone the iPhone
8 made its way down to almost $400 towards the very end of its lifecycle
this is basically that similar battery
but way newer processor more RAM and
what are you giving up 3d touch I think this thing's a killer value besides if
Apple's history is anything to go on they're probably gonna update this thing
for like five years given that it's got a brand new flagship chip in it I think
is a great value as long as you're not the kind of user who is going to expect
you know nine hours of screen time you know ten hours of screen time a day with
some with some tweaks like you made on the Android side would you guys want to
see this concept repeated by Android handset makers if Samsung was like hey
galaxy s7 but with a snapdragon 865 in
it would you buy that day one they want
$400 what do you guys think let us know
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