wow look at that the iPhone 16 family is
finally getting the SE treatment I mean sure it's unapologetically missing a few
things like mag safe the dynamic Island huh and the S thanks to a new totally
not confusing naming scheme but it still looks like kind of a budget Banger
especially compared to the last SC model that Apple released way back in
20122 I'm talking bigger better display
longer battery life the new action button Apple intelligence an a18
processor USBC and wait what's a C1
modem oh look at this Apple's billion
dooll purchase of Intel's modem development unit is finally bearing some
spherical fruit exciting but uh H the
price went up a lot ehy even if we adjust for inflation then I guess
considering how much everything else has gone up over the last few years like
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
difference see the last budget iPhone was the third generation iPhone SE and
this thing is kind of awesome it featured the same a15 bionic processor
as the then Flagship iPhone 13 Pro with 4 gigs of RAM and 64 gigs of storage for
just $429 but it packed all of that goodness
in an older style chassis that clearly outed you to your more affluent friends
who could afford a real iPhone which is
why I think all jokes about it aside Apple ditching the SE branding actually
makes a ton of sense here because the new one is less of a Shabby Edition and
more of an iPhone 16 Essentials Edition
with darn near the same industrial design as a just 5-month-old Flagship
device that costs hundreds of dollars more this time around then the only
obvious tells are going to be the older style display Notch the larger bezel and
single rear camera bump on the subject of the display I was actually pretty
surprised to see the entrylevel model finally get an OLED not because Apple
couldn't do that but because in the past they haven't as a way to differentiate
it I mean sure it lacks Allis on functionality and it's only 60 Herz just
like the 16 nonpr but it still supports
1200 nits Peak brightness HDR comes with Apple's outstanding ceramic Shield to
improve glass durability and has darn near the exact same pixel density as the
regular iPhone 16 when you consider how most content is mastered this thing is
going to deliver a viewing experience that most people will find
indistinguishable from a higher priced model and the same goes for performance
the iPhone 16e gets nearly the same Cutting Edge a18 chip as the non-e with
the only difference at least on paper being the loss of one of its five GPU
cores now I don't know about you guys but my auntie whose first smartphone
actually was a first gen iPhone SE back in the day she is not going to care
about that and neither will a lot of people when overall we are going to be
dealing with a device that feels remarkably responsive and we'll also
likely get 6 to seven years of software updates if Apple's track record is
anything to go by now there are certainly aspects of the 16e that don't
feel very future proof the mere 8 gigs of RAM feels pretty stingy if you
compare it to Flagship or even compare it to similarly priced Android phones
but hey at least Apple's stinginess here is the same as the rest of the 16 family
meaning that the 16e should be able to age out of new feature support in lock
step with the rest of its family members and hey at least the base model gets a
reasonable 128 gigs of storage now which should be enough for capture the moment
photographers like me but we'll certainly still sell plenty of iCloud
subscriptions to anyone who wants to shoot 4K 60fps footage with the rear
shooter on that subject the camera this time around is kind of interesting
instead of using two separate lenses and sensors for wide and telephoto Apple
claims that the 48 megap rear shooter on the 16e will deliver the same great
resolution as the rest of the iPhone 16 family and thanks to its Fusion camera
will also deliver highquality telephoto shots all from a single camera bump now
in practice digital Zoom is simply not on par with optical zoom and if it was
hey Apple wouldn't bother to include separate cameras on their higher-end
devic but with that said they're only claiming
12 megap of resolution for the telephoto shots and between cropping the sensor
and using the a8's impressive neural processing capabilities I actually
expect it to be a very competent camera they don't specifically say anything
about the microphone array being as good as the others in the family but they do
mention Dolby Vision video capture and high quality audio Neato even the
quality of life features are uncharacteristically near par with
Apple's more premium devices we get the previously mentioned action button which
in my opinion is way better than the camera button we get ip68 water
resistance we get a mere one fewer hour
of rated battery life NVIDIA playback and yeah okay we lose mag safe so all
your cool friends with their cool magnetic battery Banks and Car mounts
can rub that in your face but only until
you buy a third party case that has some alignment magnets in the back and then
boom you're right back up there with the Joneses that'll be it at a slower 7 1/2
watt charging rate one thing you won't be able to upgrade with a case though is
the wireless chip and I am really interested to learn more about this
thing the iPhone 16e is the first look
that we're getting at Apple's new C1 modem a 4G 5G GPS and satellite capable
Wireless connectivity chip that they developed internally in an attempt to
free themselves from qualcomm's near Monopoly on Advanced Mobile
Communications chips for those of you who haven't been keeping track way back
in 2019 Apple bought out Intel's modem
division it cost them a billion dollar but they gained about 2200 staff and
perhaps more importantly over 177,000 Wireless technology patents in
the long term it could pay off for them in a big way though it's obvious that
they still have some work to do the C1 doesn't appear to support high-speed
millimeter wave at this time so that's a drawback if you live in a dense urban
area where a millimeter wave can be found but for most people I doubt that part's
going to matter much what's more likely to matter is the 16e lack of support for
Ultra wideband spatial detection so find
my is going to be a little slower with your air tags and its lack of support
for Wi-Fi 6E or Wi-Fi 7 with their 6 GHz
band offering incredible speed and low interference from nearby devices for
users of more expensive iPhones bummer
the question on your mind right now then is probably why does Apple care enough
to spend so much on a less featured modem in order to break free from
Qualcomm well past legal disputes aside
every single time Apple buys a modem from Qualcomm they are funding the
creator of the Snapdragon s so's that power the iPhone's largest Android
competitors and Apple buys a lot of
those modems for a lot of money on the order of billions of dollars a year we
don't know much else about the C1 modem at this time Apple does claim that it
offers better power efficiency than the Qualcomm options in their other phones
and that it will be basically feature complete on the important stuff even
offering satellite SOS but as someone who daed an iPhone 4 for years I'm both
excited and also a little apprehensive about Apple's cellular engineering now
might be a good time to talk about USBC yes it is a good cable that is super
universally adaptable and used by everyone and everything isn't it Apple
seriously though massive shout out to the EU for for in apple to change their
tune on USBC and shout out to this
gorgeous shirt from LTD store.com wait is that an elephant in my pocket yes
we've got a handful of room elephants to address starting with the lack of touch
ID remember Touch ID iPhone SE users
definitely do and the 16e does a away with it finally completing Apple's
migration across their entire phone lineup now gesture controls I don't mind
I don't need the button for that but I do still feel that the lack of a
fingerprint sensor in the rear Apple logo is a massive missed opportunity for
those of us that prefer this to this and
I know a lot of SE users feel the same that is going to feel like a downgrade
for some folks the next big one is having spent the last few months daily
driving an iPhone iOS 18 it's kind of a
pile of garbage I made a whole video about this which you guys can go check
out but in a nutshell it's probably the buggiest software that I can remember
using from Apple and while Siri might be a little more tolerable thanks to her AI
personality transplant I encounter freezes and app crashes on a nearly
daily basis finally this event seems to
indicate once and for all that sorry Andy the mini is never coming back I
know this device would have been a perfect one to put a smaller screen on
in order to differentiate it from the full 16 and from the 16 Pro but instead
it's almost the exact same size sorry
everybody which doesn't mean we won't see any changes to the iPhone form
factor in the future the rumor mill has been spinning hard about the maybe
upcoming iPhone 17 air that one is supposedly only 5.5 mm thick at its
thinnest Point although that might feel like kind of a stupid boast if it still
has a big chunky camera for the time being it's only a rumor but part of me
kind of hopes it's fake and instead we finally end up with something more akin
to an Apple full old when the new phones launch probably in the fall as for right
now the iPhone 16e goes up for pre-order this Friday in two very boring colors
and then it'll be launching a week later on the 28th of February and that's all
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