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wow look at that the iPhone 16 family is

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finally getting the SE treatment I mean sure it's unapologetically missing a few

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things like mag safe the dynamic Island huh and the S thanks to a new totally

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not confusing naming scheme but it still looks like kind of a budget Banger

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especially compared to the last SC model that Apple released way back in

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20122 I'm talking bigger better display

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longer battery life the new action button Apple intelligence an a18

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processor USBC and wait what's a C1

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modem oh look at this Apple's billion

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dooll purchase of Intel's modem development unit is finally bearing some

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spherical fruit exciting but uh H the

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price went up a lot ehy even if we adjust for inflation then I guess

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considering how much everything else has gone up over the last few years like

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haircuts I guess we shouldn't be too surprised even if it is is a tough pill

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nothing too different about the iPhone 16e but that in itself is a big

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difference see the last budget iPhone was the third generation iPhone SE and

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this thing is kind of awesome it featured the same a15 bionic processor

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as the then Flagship iPhone 13 Pro with 4 gigs of RAM and 64 gigs of storage for

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just $429 but it packed all of that goodness

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in an older style chassis that clearly outed you to your more affluent friends

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who could afford a real iPhone which is

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why I think all jokes about it aside Apple ditching the SE branding actually

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makes a ton of sense here because the new one is less of a Shabby Edition and

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more of an iPhone 16 Essentials Edition

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with darn near the same industrial design as a just 5-month-old Flagship

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device that costs hundreds of dollars more this time around then the only

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obvious tells are going to be the older style display Notch the larger bezel and

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single rear camera bump on the subject of the display I was actually pretty

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surprised to see the entrylevel model finally get an OLED not because Apple

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couldn't do that but because in the past they haven't as a way to differentiate

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it I mean sure it lacks Allis on functionality and it's only 60 Herz just

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like the 16 nonpr but it still supports

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1200 nits Peak brightness HDR comes with Apple's outstanding ceramic Shield to

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improve glass durability and has darn near the exact same pixel density as the

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regular iPhone 16 when you consider how most content is mastered this thing is

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going to deliver a viewing experience that most people will find

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indistinguishable from a higher priced model and the same goes for performance

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the iPhone 16e gets nearly the same Cutting Edge a18 chip as the non-e with

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the only difference at least on paper being the loss of one of its five GPU

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cores now I don't know about you guys but my auntie whose first smartphone

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actually was a first gen iPhone SE back in the day she is not going to care

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about that and neither will a lot of people when overall we are going to be

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dealing with a device that feels remarkably responsive and we'll also

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likely get 6 to seven years of software updates if Apple's track record is

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anything to go by now there are certainly aspects of the 16e that don't

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feel very future proof the mere 8 gigs of RAM feels pretty stingy if you

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compare it to Flagship or even compare it to similarly priced Android phones

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but hey at least Apple's stinginess here is the same as the rest of the 16 family

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meaning that the 16e should be able to age out of new feature support in lock

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step with the rest of its family members and hey at least the base model gets a

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reasonable 128 gigs of storage now which should be enough for capture the moment

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photographers like me but we'll certainly still sell plenty of iCloud

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subscriptions to anyone who wants to shoot 4K 60fps footage with the rear

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shooter on that subject the camera this time around is kind of interesting

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instead of using two separate lenses and sensors for wide and telephoto Apple

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claims that the 48 megap rear shooter on the 16e will deliver the same great

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resolution as the rest of the iPhone 16 family and thanks to its Fusion camera

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will also deliver highquality telephoto shots all from a single camera bump now

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in practice digital Zoom is simply not on par with optical zoom and if it was

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hey Apple wouldn't bother to include separate cameras on their higher-end

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devic but with that said they're only claiming

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12 megap of resolution for the telephoto shots and between cropping the sensor

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and using the a8's impressive neural processing capabilities I actually

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expect it to be a very competent camera they don't specifically say anything

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about the microphone array being as good as the others in the family but they do

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mention Dolby Vision video capture and high quality audio Neato even the

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quality of life features are uncharacteristically near par with

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Apple's more premium devices we get the previously mentioned action button which

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in my opinion is way better than the camera button we get ip68 water

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resistance we get a mere one fewer hour

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of rated battery life NVIDIA playback and yeah okay we lose mag safe so all

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your cool friends with their cool magnetic battery Banks and Car mounts

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can rub that in your face but only until

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you buy a third party case that has some alignment magnets in the back and then

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boom you're right back up there with the Joneses that'll be it at a slower 7 1/2

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watt charging rate one thing you won't be able to upgrade with a case though is

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the wireless chip and I am really interested to learn more about this

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thing the iPhone 16e is the first look

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that we're getting at Apple's new C1 modem a 4G 5G GPS and satellite capable

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Wireless connectivity chip that they developed internally in an attempt to

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free themselves from qualcomm's near Monopoly on Advanced Mobile

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Communications chips for those of you who haven't been keeping track way back

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in 2019 Apple bought out Intel's modem

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division it cost them a billion dollar but they gained about 2200 staff and

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perhaps more importantly over 177,000 Wireless technology patents in

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the long term it could pay off for them in a big way though it's obvious that

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they still have some work to do the C1 doesn't appear to support high-speed

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millimeter wave at this time so that's a drawback if you live in a dense urban

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area where a millimeter wave can be found but for most people I doubt that part's

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going to matter much what's more likely to matter is the 16e lack of support for

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Ultra wideband spatial detection so find

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my is going to be a little slower with your air tags and its lack of support

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for Wi-Fi 6E or Wi-Fi 7 with their 6 GHz

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band offering incredible speed and low interference from nearby devices for

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users of more expensive iPhones bummer

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the question on your mind right now then is probably why does Apple care enough

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to spend so much on a less featured modem in order to break free from

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Qualcomm well past legal disputes aside

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every single time Apple buys a modem from Qualcomm they are funding the

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creator of the Snapdragon s so's that power the iPhone's largest Android

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competitors and Apple buys a lot of

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those modems for a lot of money on the order of billions of dollars a year we

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don't know much else about the C1 modem at this time Apple does claim that it

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offers better power efficiency than the Qualcomm options in their other phones

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and that it will be basically feature complete on the important stuff even

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offering satellite SOS but as someone who daed an iPhone 4 for years I'm both

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excited and also a little apprehensive about Apple's cellular engineering now

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might be a good time to talk about USBC yes it is a good cable that is super

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universally adaptable and used by everyone and everything isn't it Apple

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seriously though massive shout out to the EU for for in apple to change their

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tune on USBC and shout out to this

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gorgeous shirt from LTD store.com wait is that an elephant in my pocket yes

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we've got a handful of room elephants to address starting with the lack of touch

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ID remember Touch ID iPhone SE users

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definitely do and the 16e does a away with it finally completing Apple's

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migration across their entire phone lineup now gesture controls I don't mind

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I don't need the button for that but I do still feel that the lack of a

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fingerprint sensor in the rear Apple logo is a massive missed opportunity for

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those of us that prefer this to this and

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I know a lot of SE users feel the same that is going to feel like a downgrade

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for some folks the next big one is having spent the last few months daily

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driving an iPhone iOS 18 it's kind of a

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pile of garbage I made a whole video about this which you guys can go check

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out but in a nutshell it's probably the buggiest software that I can remember

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using from Apple and while Siri might be a little more tolerable thanks to her AI

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personality transplant I encounter freezes and app crashes on a nearly

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daily basis finally this event seems to

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indicate once and for all that sorry Andy the mini is never coming back I

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know this device would have been a perfect one to put a smaller screen on

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in order to differentiate it from the full 16 and from the 16 Pro but instead

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it's almost the exact same size sorry

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everybody which doesn't mean we won't see any changes to the iPhone form

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factor in the future the rumor mill has been spinning hard about the maybe

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upcoming iPhone 17 air that one is supposedly only 5.5 mm thick at its

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thinnest Point although that might feel like kind of a stupid boast if it still

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has a big chunky camera for the time being it's only a rumor but part of me

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kind of hopes it's fake and instead we finally end up with something more akin

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to an Apple full old when the new phones launch probably in the fall as for right

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now the iPhone 16e goes up for pre-order this Friday in two very boring colors

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and then it'll be launching a week later on the 28th of February and that's all

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