{"video_id":"WoK_wWBx73s","title":"Y’all told me I was wrong about this - iPhone 16e","channel":"ShortCircuit","show":"ShortCircuit","published_at":"2025-05-04T14:58:16Z","duration_s":854,"segments":[{"start_s":0.08,"end_s":8.2,"text":"maybe it's an expectation problem you guys were expecting the new iPhone 16e","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":5.52,"end_s":14.719,"text":"the spiritual successor of the iPhone SE lineup to be killer value at an amazing","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":11.28,"end_s":17.76,"text":"low price I was expecting Apple to hold","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":14.719,"end_s":21.279,"text":"out on us and charge a lot of money so I","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":17.76,"end_s":23.76,"text":"got what I wanted this is the 16e it's","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":21.279,"end_s":26.96,"text":"kind of like an iPhone 16 but not quite you could say 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to be made out of like a glassine paper so that's really nice to see thank you apple good job of course I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to say the same thing about the iPhone 16e itself unlike previous SE models it uses a very similar ID to Apple's current Flagship products so right here I've got my daily driver 16 plus and you can see boy is it ever similar on the bottom we get a speaker Grill and microphone Grill on this side we get our lock button ah yes missing however is the camera button though how much I use mine I can't say that I think that's going to be a problem for you because right over on the other side we've got our SIM tray maybe as well as our action button and volume rocker SL camera button that's right it doesn't have a half press but you can activate the camera with a button if you really want to which I never do anyway because it makes the device kind of shake at the top we get a whole lot of nothing and then at the back we get the first big difference the camera and by camera I really do mean camera camera just one Apple's using what they're calling their Fusion camera system here which is supposed to serve the role of a dual camera system but with a single sensor and single lens and there's kind of a solid argument to be made for this it's got a 48 megapixel sensor which is a lot more than we've seen on previous budget oriented iPhones and for that matter a lot more than we've seen on regular iPhones going back to the iPhone 14 and before and when you factor in the much more powerful Hardware including a current gen state-of-the-art neural processor in this thing I'm expecting the results to be very compelling oh already oh man oh man I forgot I do use my camera button I exclusively use it to launch the camera because I come from Android where you can double press the power button on many phones in order to launch your camera oh I would miss that I have to wake my screen then I have to long press on this also that's not working right now for some reason they always manage to get so close for me don't they what was I talking about ah yes the camera let's do a couple quick test shots shall we oh wow oh what uh Apple you doing okay there bud that is not good see my understanding from the keynote was that this was like the same camera system but just a single lens is that not the case dude dude are other people talking about this is this a thing did I just did I hold it wrong hold on no no no hold on hold on maybe it's just smudgy okay here we go here we go quick camera test oh yeah oh buddy no no it's going to nail it that looks like crap look at how much better the skin tones are on the 16 plus I wouldn't say that it's any worse in terms of clarity though so maybe maybe this is just I need to take a couple shots and it's a sampling issue that seems darn near identical other than that this one looks a little bit on the warmer side it is a smaller sensor okay well that would explain why it's a little bit noisier and it struggles with color under darker conditions but uh they also support the same spatial audio recording on this one compared to the regular 16 family that's pretty cool to see but it should be noted that because there is only a single camera element that acts as both your wide and your telephoto albeit at a lower resolution you're not going to be able to record any spatial video doesn't look meaningfully smoother here yeah it's still an iPhone buddy even with a bit of a smaller sensor okay how's that telephoto go away what is the point of having oh my God see this is the kind of thing I'm talking about what does a bar along the bottom mean Apple Andy you're a lifelong Apple user what does the bar along the bottom mean in the interface return to home it means return to home that is what that means don't put the bar there if the bar doesn't do the thing so funny watching people argue with me on Wow when I was saying that iOS 18 is buggy and they're like no within like two days I had like videos of bizarre bugs to show them here's another one it happens all the time just like I segue to our sponsor all the time dbrand oh good it's dbrand and there's a wall yeah they have a a special surprise for you everyone says you're short but how short are you dbrand sent over 15 iPhone 16 E's and we're going to command strip them to the wall and see just how short uh how tall you are now you just stand there and look pretty cuz we did it took a long time to get all the command strips on these guys so dbrand went out and bought every single iPhone 16e that anyone bought yes what were they thinking what the heck are they going to do with these I guess return them to Apple Store I don't know one 2 3 11 11 12 11 and 1 12 iPhones tall so what's the vanity URL so people can buy their overpriced stickers well they spend all this money they don't even have stickers on these embarrassing I I can't explain that one short.com or what even better 11 ion.com 1 ion.com I don't think 12 counts I also think it's valid valid I say to pull out my old note 9 because this is a similar generation device to what many folks are going to be upgrading from if they have like an old iPhone SE or something like that I mean yeah that's that's markedly better okay I think it might have just been shotto shot variance the differences in like skin tone capture and exposure like it's noisier on the 16e it's more natural this time than this time for some reason so whatever in conclusion it's no iPhone 16 but it's better than what you had already and it's not that far off if all you do is take the occasional picture what about the screen though this is another area where it falls short of the regular iPhone 16 family instead of being able to reach lofty Heights like up to 2,000 nits in HDR it is limited to about 1,200 nits in practice though I'm not expecting this to make a huge difference in content consumption since most HDR content is mastered for around a thousand nits at least so far today oh yeah buddy here we go well it may only be 60 HZ just like the regular versions of the iPhone 16 which is going to turn off a number of buyers but in terms of the content enjoyment experience if I'm not running anything that goes higher than 60 frames per second it looks great and in our testing managed to reach about the same levels of peak brightness that Apple advertised it did fall a little bit short but not in a way that would raise serious alarm bells for us since we're talking about the screen a lot of folks were disappointed to find out that Apple will not be bringing back a more mini form factor obviously it's smaller compared to a plus model but compared to the regular iPhone 16 it's not a huge difference it's 6.1 in and about the same body size as a regular 16 or 16 Pro I'm holding the pro in my hand so you can see that uh yeah the bezels are a little bit on the thicker side but in my opinion that's not the kind of thing that is that important to day-to-day use like you still get ip68 water resistance you still get Apple's really tough ceramic shield glass I don't think any of the 16e detractors are going to be too concerned about that no the big issues are the lack of their Ultra wideband chip which makes it a lot easier to find missing air tags and I believe it's also supported by the airpods Pro 2 USBC charging case right yeah yep but what it doesn't have is the alignment magnets built into it so that you can use mag safe accessories be they portable battery Banks or Car mounts or whatever the case may be I mean they're really useful in a production environment just being able to clip your phone onto a camera rig there are workarounds for this you can get a case for your phone that has the magnets in it that will allow you to put a 16e onto a MAG safe compatible device but it won't charge any faster and it is a bit of a downer that it's not included in the device by default but as someone who lives my life without magsafe I don't actually find that it is in complete without being able to stick my phone to things and I think some of the stuff we get in return is pretty compelling we get silicon and RAM that is on par with Apple's current Flagship and I posed this question during our podcast and no one was able to come up with an answer I asked hey look I know it's $600 and it's missing these features but at this price can you show me another phone that has a flagship Cutting Edge Flagship s so in it for $5.99 they were not able to this has a 3 nmet processor in it yeah they cut off one GPU core but when you look at the performance numbers you're getting almost an iPhone 16 in everything but gaming where it still performs quite well at what is higher but still the lowest entry level price for a brand new iPhone what that means is that over the long term as Apple continues to provide software updates for this family the 16e is not going to be at a disadvantage it even has has the same amount of system memory which should allow it to run all the same Apple intelligence features that you get from the rest of its siblings that doesn't mean there's no compromises uh while the body is the same as the rest of the family the dynamic Island goes away and we get the ugly classic Notch I don't use it that much I do like to be able to access media that's playing in the background whether it's video or audio but is it that much more work to just open up the now playing app in the control center I mean I mean it's yeah it is more and that's kind of a Down I guess I also use it for timers set a 10-minute timer and you can like your your little you know timer will go away and it'll kind of like be up there that's pretty cool um talking to the folks here some of them use it for travel as well as for sports updates and the like it was not life-changing for me though so make of that what you will I know not everyone's going to agree with me about this but what I think we can agree on is that the fact that the battery life of the budget iPhone is about on par with the regular one is an absolute plus now it should be noted that we had some issues with our battery life testing it seemed to be interrupted by UNT turnoff notifications and whatnot so we can't give you an exact number but what we can say is that the inconsistent numbers that we got were the same between the regular iPhone 16 and the iPhone 16e at least in the same range and part of this apple claims is due to the efficiency gains that they found with their new C1 modem this is the payoff for Apple spending $1 billion on most of Intel's modem development efforts back what was it like five or six years ago and the good news is that the consensus for now is that while it doesn't support millimeter wave so you're not going to get any of those like ridiculously Benchmark busting speeds in Den cities the regular reception is about as good or I think Dave 2D actually got better performance of the C1 than the traditional Qualcomm modem it doesn't support Wi-Fi 6E or Wi-Fi 7 which personally I find to be a pretty big deal not because I need to download a video faster to my phone but because that means no support for 6 GHz which is way way lower interference and is a much better experience somewhere like a crowded apartment building but it does support Bluetooth 5.4 just like the regular 16 family and has Apple's emergency SOS satellite functionality which is kind of a big deal so bottom line I understand why a lot of people are upset about the price $600 at the entry level that's a freaking ton of money but the one thing Apple does really well regardless of whether it's a flagship device or their entry-level device is support it via software and when you look at the six to seven years that you're going to get out of this thing if you buy it right out of the gate what are you paying for your phone eight bucks a month you know everything is a subscription world and how much you're going to use this thing it doesn't seem impossible to justify there are a lot worse values out there like man it was frustrating hearing from the Android Fanboys guys I you I love you and everything but like when you tell me yeah this Android is like $450 and it has like a 4 nmet chip that's like almost as good and it's like yeah but it isn't and that phone gets three years of Android updates when we look at total cost of ownership over the lifetime of the device if you're are a non- Enthusiast you got to remember who this is targeting you're a non- Enthusiast who's going to used this thing for years and years and years that software support is more important than saving a couple bucks today just like uh you're going to save a couple bucks if you subscribe to ShortCircuit so you don't miss any of our great videos I don't know if you'll save money by subscribing but you'll like it anyway"}