1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,240 I buy one iPhone, and all of a sudden, everyone at the office here was like, hey, do you wanna take a look at the new iPhone 17e? 2 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:09,480 Just because I buy one iPhone, all of a sudden I'm expected to know everything 3 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:14,480 about these devices? Well, to be honest with you, I was actually pretty excited to take a look at this. 4 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:20,560 Mainly because this phone, I think is going to be perfect for both senior citizens 5 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:24,680 who just want a phone that just is basic and entry level for the iPhone. 6 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:29,080 But I also think that a lot of people who just don't really care about their phone, 7 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:33,880 this might be the perfect device. I am very happy that we got the pink one though. 8 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:38,440 Man, the pink looks, it's almost too subtle. It's like pastel, pastel pink. 9 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:43,880 But anyways, we should look at what else is in the box here. You obviously got the iPhone 17e and our cable. 10 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:48,880 And it's about what, three foot cable? It is type C to C though, USB two. 11 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:54,120 The iPhone 17e only has a USB two port. It doesn't have a USB three like the Pro or the Pro Max. 12 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:57,760 Listen, I actually have kind of a hot take on this. I think that the amount of data 13 00:00:57,760 --> 00:01:03,920 that people are transferring over a cable from their phones, they probably don't need anything greater than USB two. 14 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:07,080 Look, so many people back things up to Google Drive now or iCloud. 15 00:01:07,080 --> 00:01:11,680 Realistically, most people just use it for charging, especially at this level of a device. 16 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:16,360 And besides, if it's a corner that they have to cut in order to get the price as low as they did, 17 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:20,440 I think it's a worthwhile corner to cut. Around the device, we have our action button 18 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:25,520 and our volume rocker there. On the top, you got nothing. On this side, you've got your power button. 19 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:29,400 And on the bottom is that USB two port and some downspiring speakers there. 20 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:33,760 Around back, you've got your single camera, which is their 48 megapixel fusion camera. 21 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:36,960 And that's just their fancy marketing term for zooming. 22 00:01:36,960 --> 00:01:40,000 But kind of like the last year's iPhone 16e, 23 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:43,400 the iPhone 17e is using the same chip 24 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:47,280 as the rest of the iPhone 17 family. It's using that A19 chip. 25 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:50,880 In this case, this one has one less GPU core, 26 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:54,440 which for some people that might be frustrating if you want a game on it, for example. 27 00:01:54,440 --> 00:01:57,560 But you also don't get the 120 Hertz display 28 00:01:57,560 --> 00:02:02,200 that you would get from the other iPhones. In that case then, you're probably not going to be gaming 29 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:06,960 at 120 Hertz because A, you don't have the screen for it anyways, and now you have the one less GPU core. 30 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:11,320 If it translates to better battery savings or just overall better performance of the phone 31 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:16,880 because it doesn't overheat, whatever it may be, having it be a cut down version of the same chip is nice 32 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:20,240 because then it's the same chip. So you can expect similar performance 33 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:23,640 without hopefully breaking the bank. And now that I mentioned battery, 34 00:02:23,640 --> 00:02:29,280 they're claiming it has 26 hours of video playback, which, man, 26 hours of battery is amazing. 35 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:33,400 Going back to the point I made in the intro about people who maybe just don't really care too much 36 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:37,960 about what phone they have, that is going to be a ton because those type of people are gonna be the ones 37 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:42,360 that just pull it up, answer a quick text message, maybe do a quick Google, whatever it may be, 38 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:48,960 and then don't touch their phone again. That could translate to longer than just a day worth of use. 39 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:52,360 In my case, I know it's not exactly comparable with the Pro Max here. 40 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:56,320 I have found myself getting several days worth of battery off this thing. 41 00:02:56,320 --> 00:03:00,600 And so if you have a less powerful device that is probably going to be used less, 42 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:05,720 I could see the same thing happening. And I think Apple knows that too because right away when you turn this thing on, 43 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:12,080 you can see there's kind of a healthy bezel around the edge here and even that camera notch, 44 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:15,280 man, that takes up a significant percentage 45 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:18,720 of your screen. Other than the refresh rate, which I mentioned earlier, 46 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:21,800 I don't think Apple has made too many other compromises to the screen. 47 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:24,920 It still is an OLED. It's still Super Retina XDR. 48 00:03:24,920 --> 00:03:29,040 It's a 6.1 inch screen, 2532 by 1170. 49 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:32,920 You are getting the same PPI as the iPhone 17, 50 00:03:32,920 --> 00:03:37,080 which means content on the screen is going to look very, very good 51 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:43,480 for those YouTube videos or those movies you're gonna watch. I do wish they went a little smaller. 52 00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:47,120 When I actually bought my wife an iPhone 17, one of the things she complained about was 53 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:51,600 I miss my 13 mini. Bring back the mini Apple. That was the best iPhone you've ever made in my opinion. 54 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:55,680 I actually just went to hit it, but it's not there. You don't get the camera button on the iPhone 17E. 55 00:03:55,680 --> 00:03:58,760 That's something you only get with the 17 or the 17 Pro lineup. 56 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:03,240 Again, same thing. I don't think that the people buying this phone are gonna be too worried about having 57 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:08,400 that shutter button to take photos. It's probably a worthwhile cost-cutting measure 58 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:12,040 to get this a little bit cheaper. We should still look at the camera though. Let's open it up. 59 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:16,280 All right, let's take a photo. Let's take a photo of our kitchen set. 60 00:04:16,280 --> 00:04:22,600 Then I'm gonna do a 2X and we're gonna kind of zoom in on Lucky over there. And I have to zoom in a lot of very long ways 61 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:28,560 before I start having issues with the camera quality. Like even that looks impeccable. 62 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:33,400 There is just something special about iPhone cameras. It's just magic. 63 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:38,000 I do feel like it might be a little limiting for some people to have just the one camera 64 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:42,080 that can kind of do everything pretty good versus having your specialized cameras 65 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:47,940 that might do their specialized focus really, really well. But again, oh, I'm gonna take a picture of little Billy. 66 00:04:47,940 --> 00:04:51,200 I wanna take a selfie because the iPhone 17 has that square sensor 67 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:55,160 as the selfie camera, right? It seems like a gimmick, but once you've used it, it's pretty cool. 68 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:58,840 Reese, I need a friend. So go get someone else, please. No. 69 00:04:59,840 --> 00:05:06,040 All right, we're gonna take a photo. Oh, it's just me. Hey buddy. Oh, it doesn't, don't look so sad. 70 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:10,160 It didn't do the auto scaling. Maybe I need a better friend to help me scale it better. 71 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:14,020 That's just a little bit of a bummer. I mean, it doesn't mean the photo is bad. 72 00:05:14,020 --> 00:05:18,760 It still looks very good. The type of person that's buying this phone doesn't need the highest quality camera. 73 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:23,200 So if that's a cost-cutting measure that helps get the price down, I think it's fine. 74 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:27,720 I also just realized that those photos were on the 24 megapixel setting, which is on by default. 75 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:30,880 We could also take our photos on the 48 megapixel. 76 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:35,320 Yeah, most people aren't really gonna care. So I think actually keeping it on the 24 megapixels 77 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:39,840 by default is probably a good thing because a lot of people are gonna be snapping 78 00:05:39,840 --> 00:05:42,840 a ton of photos with this thing, right? Whether again, it's families 79 00:05:42,840 --> 00:05:48,460 or you're just going out for a walk, whatever it may be. And having only 256 gigs of storage, 80 00:05:48,460 --> 00:05:51,860 you kinda wanna get your mileage out of 256 gigs of storage. 81 00:05:51,860 --> 00:05:55,540 So by in turn, lowering the quality of the photos, 82 00:05:55,540 --> 00:05:59,220 you can have more photos. And 256 gigs, I quickly glossed over that. 83 00:05:59,220 --> 00:06:05,340 I think that's awesome as an entry-level phone, right? Before the 16e had 128 gigabytes. 84 00:06:05,340 --> 00:06:11,700 Now we're at 256. And in a world where DRAM prices are going absolutely insane, 85 00:06:12,020 --> 00:06:15,220 the fact that Apple chose not to gouge that out of us 86 00:06:15,220 --> 00:06:19,300 on the entry-level model, I think is kind of awesome. 87 00:06:19,300 --> 00:06:24,900 I think it shows respect for consumers and their space. What doesn't show respect is 60 Hertz, damn it. 88 00:06:25,900 --> 00:06:30,060 It's such a weird thing. When you compare this to other entry-level phones, 89 00:06:30,060 --> 00:06:33,340 whether it's Samsung's A56 or Google's Pixel 10a, 90 00:06:33,340 --> 00:06:36,860 those phones have 120 Hertz screens. Why can't Apple, damn it? 91 00:06:36,860 --> 00:06:40,060 But it's an entry-level phone. I've always thought that 120 Hertz screens 92 00:06:40,060 --> 00:06:45,220 on entry-level phones seemed kinda weird anyways. At least your iPhone 17 has 120 Hertz now. 93 00:06:45,220 --> 00:06:50,260 But once again, going back to who the target market is for this thing, they don't care about 120 Hertz. 94 00:06:50,260 --> 00:06:54,700 I don't know, man. In a world where tech has become kinda shitty lately, 95 00:06:54,700 --> 00:06:59,460 I feel like Apple's done kind of a lot of cool things right. I know this isn't the MacBook Neo video. 96 00:06:59,460 --> 00:07:03,780 That's a prime example right there. Sorry, enough Apple glazing. Let's watch a YouTube video. 97 00:07:03,780 --> 00:07:07,980 Man, this looks good. Other than the big fuck off notch. 98 00:07:07,980 --> 00:07:11,940 Sorry, part of my language. That takes up so much of the screen real estate. 99 00:07:11,940 --> 00:07:18,380 You kinda can't watch it in full screen. It gets pretty bright though. 800 nits, 1200 nits in peak brightness for HDR stuff. 100 00:07:18,380 --> 00:07:22,000 It looks great. It's an Apple display. It's basically the same display 101 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:25,180 as the other 17 lineup right now, right? So it looks fantastic. 102 00:07:25,180 --> 00:07:29,380 This is where it gets weird. I just complained that I wanted a smaller phone, but when I'm watching content on it, 103 00:07:29,380 --> 00:07:34,140 it feels really small. Man, consumers really don't know what they want, right? 104 00:07:34,140 --> 00:07:37,260 Anyways, we need to listen to the speakers on this bad boy. 105 00:07:37,260 --> 00:07:40,820 Smaller devices mean worse speakers, typically. 106 00:07:41,700 --> 00:07:45,100 Oh, I hope you're a bass head. 107 00:07:45,100 --> 00:07:49,100 I can hear the bass pretty aggressively on this device. It sounds really good. 108 00:07:49,100 --> 00:07:52,680 It's just very bass heavy. And for being such a small device, 109 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:57,280 I'm surprised at how loud it gets. I'm gonna go back down to 50% volume here. 110 00:07:58,500 --> 00:08:03,220 Oh, even that, I can hear the bass like crazy. Yeah, they sound good other than the bass. 111 00:08:03,220 --> 00:08:07,020 Well, I have to wait for a game to download. I might as well talk about some of the other specs that come with this phone. 112 00:08:07,020 --> 00:08:11,820 It has Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.3, and it has Apple's new C1X modem, 113 00:08:11,820 --> 00:08:15,140 which is the exact same modem that was in the iPhone Air. 114 00:08:15,140 --> 00:08:18,380 And the iPhone 16e had the C1, right? 115 00:08:18,380 --> 00:08:23,340 That was the first time that they had moved over to Apple's in-house developed modems. 116 00:08:23,340 --> 00:08:27,300 A lot of people attributed the great battery life of the 16e to that modem. 117 00:08:27,300 --> 00:08:30,580 We should probably see similar results 118 00:08:30,580 --> 00:08:35,160 in terms of battery longevity with this one, if it's using similar architecture and similar design. 119 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:39,220 We don't have those full numbers today because we just got the phone, I think, basically today. 120 00:08:39,220 --> 00:08:42,940 So we didn't quite run battery tests just yet. I'm sure that once they're done though, 121 00:08:42,940 --> 00:08:46,980 they can be up on the lab site. In some of our stress tests, mainly in Geekbench and 3DMark, 122 00:08:46,980 --> 00:08:50,700 it performed basically exactly where you'd expect this to line up. 123 00:08:50,700 --> 00:08:54,560 Better than last year's 16e and worse than the iPhone 17. 124 00:08:54,560 --> 00:08:58,820 So at least it's not over-punching or under-punching, and it is an upgrade from last year. 125 00:08:58,820 --> 00:09:02,140 That's exactly where I'd expect it to land. So I don't know why I'm surprised 126 00:09:02,140 --> 00:09:05,940 or even talking about it this long. They're still using the ceramic shield two glass 127 00:09:05,940 --> 00:09:09,620 that the iPhone 17 uses. It's very interesting to me that they managed to get this device 128 00:09:09,620 --> 00:09:12,760 just a couple hundred bucks cheaper than the base model 17. 129 00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:16,100 And on a lot of cases, make it feel the exact same. 130 00:09:16,100 --> 00:09:21,940 I do think that some of the cost-cutting measures that they did actually were smart. 131 00:09:21,940 --> 00:09:26,140 Whether you want 120 Hertz or not, I think if cutting it down to 60 Hertz 132 00:09:26,140 --> 00:09:29,420 is what makes it cheaper, and let's go for it. I mean, I'm in game right now. 133 00:09:29,420 --> 00:09:32,460 And at 60 Hertz on this size screen while playing, 134 00:09:33,300 --> 00:09:37,280 this feels fine. Where's the lock? There it is, found it. 135 00:09:37,320 --> 00:09:41,040 It's still got MagSafe, that's awesome. So hypothetical here. 136 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:45,520 You're giving your kids a new iPhone for their Christmas. You already have been a long-time iPhone user. 137 00:09:45,520 --> 00:09:49,480 You have built up your MagSafe army. They can use it now. I think it's kind of cool 138 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:55,040 that they still managed to get MagSafe built in unlike the 16E, which I guess if I'm talking about price, 139 00:09:55,040 --> 00:09:59,840 it's finally time to mention it. It's 599 US, which is more expensive 140 00:09:59,840 --> 00:10:02,840 than a lot of other phones entry-level devices. 141 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:08,960 Like I mentioned earlier, that Samsung A56 or even the Pixel 10a, for an entry-level phone, 142 00:10:08,960 --> 00:10:12,760 it's expensive. For an entry-level iPhone, it's cheap. 143 00:10:12,760 --> 00:10:17,480 And I think that's where this is going again, right? This is going for your family members 144 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:21,200 that you want to have on iPhone because maybe your family's already an iPhone family. 145 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:26,160 Or maybe you just don't want to give them an Android because there's some things you don't like about it. 146 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:30,400 It might be a little complicated for your relative. Whatever it may be, this is the device 147 00:10:30,400 --> 00:10:37,360 that's gonna be perfect for that. Perfect for kids' Christmas gifts. I think that the compromises that the iPhone 17E makes 148 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:41,260 is worth it to get it down to that price. I wish they could go a little bit cheaper. 149 00:10:41,260 --> 00:10:44,440 Maybe if they made it a mini. Less material, eh? 150 00:10:44,440 --> 00:10:47,880 Cheaper? I think right now in a world where devices feel 151 00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:51,880 like they're getting more and more expensive, things are kind of terrible in the tech space. 152 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:55,240 I am giving Apple a gold star here. It's still expensive as a budget phone, 153 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:58,880 but between everything that they announced in the last couple of weeks here, 154 00:10:58,880 --> 00:11:04,560 who would have thought that Apple's RAM pricing and SSD pricing ahead of the curve, baby. 155 00:11:04,560 --> 00:11:07,680 But let me know what you guys think down below. If you guys enjoyed this video, 156 00:11:07,680 --> 00:11:13,200 go check out the complete opposite end of the spectrum, the S26 Ultra that I just unboxed on ShortCircuit. 157 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:18,320 I tried to compare it to my flagship iPhone and it's a phone. 158 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:22,280 I think Samsung made more compromises on that than Apple did on this spoiler alert.