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I buy one iPhone and all of a sudden everyone at the office here was like,

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"Hey, do you want to take a look at the new iPhone 17E?"

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Just because I buy one iPhone, all of a sudden I'm expected to know everything

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about these devices? Well, to be honest with you, I was

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actually pretty excited to take a look at this. Mainly because this phone

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I think is going to be perfect for both senior citizens who just want a phone

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that just is basic and entry-level for the iPhone, but I also think that a lot

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of people who just don't really care about their phone, this might be the

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perfect device. I am very happy that we got the pink one though. Man, the pink

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looks It's almost too subtle. It's like pastel pastel pink. But anyways, we

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should look at what else is in the box here. You obviously got the iPhone 17E

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and our cable. And it's about what, 3-ft

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cable? It is type C to C though, USB 2.

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The iPhone 17E only has a USB 2 port. It doesn't have a USB 3 like the Pro or the

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Pro Max. Listen, I actually have kind of a hot take on this. I think that the

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amount of data that people are transferring over a cable from their

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phones, they probably [music] don't need anything greater than USB 2.

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Look, so many people back things up to Google Drive now or iCloud.

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Realistically, most people just use it for charging, especially at this level

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of a device. And besides, if it's a corner that they have to cut in order to

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get the price as low as they did, I think it's a worthwhile corner to cut.

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Around the device, we have our action button and our volume rocker there. On

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the top, you got nothing. On this side, you've got your power button. And on the

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bottom is that USB 2 port and some down-firing speakers there. Around back,

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you've got your single camera, which is their 48-megapixel fusion camera. And

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that's just their fancy marketing term for zooming. But kind of like the last

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year's iPhone 16E, the iPhone 17E is

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using the same chip as the rest of the iPhone 17 family. It's using that A19

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chip. In this case, this one has one less GPU core. Which for some people

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that might be frustrating. If you want to game on it for example. But you also

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don't get the 120-Hz display that you would get from the other iPhones. In

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that case then, you're probably not going to be gaming at 120 Hz because A,

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you don't have the screen for it anyways, and now you have the one less GPU core. If it translates to better

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battery savings or just overall better performance of the phone because it

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doesn't overheat, whatever it may be, having it be a cut-down version of the

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same chip is nice because then it's the same chip, so you can expect similar

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performance without hopefully breaking the bank. And now that I mentioned

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battery, they're claiming it has 26 hours of video playback. Which man, 26

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hours of battery is amazing. Going back to the point that I made in the intro

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about people who maybe just don't really care too much about what phone they

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have, that is going to be a ton. Because those type of people are going to be the

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ones that just pull it up, answer a quick text message, maybe do a quick

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Google, whatever it may be, and then don't touch their phone again. That

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could translate to longer than just a day worth of use. In my case, I know

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it's not exactly comparable with the Pro Max here. I have found myself getting

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several days worth of battery off this thing. And so if you have a less

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powerful device that is probably going to be used less, I could see the same

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thing happening. And I think Apple knows that too because right away when you turn this thing on, you can see there's

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kind of a healthy bezel around the edge here. And even that camera notch, man,

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that takes up a significant percentage of your screen. Other than the refresh

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rate which I mentioned earlier, I don't think Apple has made too many other

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compromises to the screen. It still isn't OLED. It's still super retina XDR.

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It's a 6.1-in screen, 2532 by 1170. You

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are getting the same PPI as the iPhone 17, which means content on the screen is

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going to look very very good for those YouTube videos or those movies you're

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going to watch. I do wish they went a little smaller. When I actually bought

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my wife an iPhone 17, one of the things she complained about was, "I miss my 13

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mini. Bring back the mini Apple. That was the best iPhone you've ever made in my opinion." I actually just went to hit

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it, but it's not there. You don't get the camera button on the iPhone 17E.

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That's something you only get with the 17 or the 17 Pro lineup. Again, same

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thing. I don't think that the people buying this phone are going to be too worried about having that shutter button

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to take photos. It's probably a worthwhile cost-cutting measure to get

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this a little bit cheaper. We should still look at the camera though. Let's open it up. But I've been told that

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there's mandatory talking points once again by Dbrand, so maybe we should do that first. Wait a minute, are they just

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reusing the exact same screen? I think they are. Let's go. Let's install it.

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They sent over their iPhone 17E grip case, which funny enough is actually the

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exact same iPhone 16E case. But because

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both of the phones are the exact same, you can reuse it. Thanks Dbrand for

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reusing and recycling. That's super cool. Just like the grip name implies,

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they're pretty grippy. Makes it nice and easy to hold on to. And you can make it even more special cuz they have over 40

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different designs to pick from and stick onto the back. This one is called their

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sketch 2D design, which kind of makes your phone look like it's coming straight out of a comic book. So if

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you're in the market for an iPhone 17E phone case or hey, any grip phone case,

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head over to mybossisveryshort.com.

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All right, let's take a photo. Let's take a photo of our kitchen set. Then

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I'm going to do a 2x and we're going to kind of zoom in on Lucky over there. Man, I have to zoom in a lot a very long

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ways before I start having issues with the camera quality. Like even that

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looks impeccable. There is just something special about iPhone cameras.

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might be a little limiting for some people to have just the one camera that

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can kind of do everything pretty good versus having your specialized cameras

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that might do their specialized focus really really well. But again, "Oh, I'm

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going to take a picture of little Billy." I want to take a selfie cuz the

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iPhone 17 has that square sensor as the selfie camera, right? It seems like a

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gimmick, but once you've used it, it's pretty cool. Reese, I need a friend.

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Don't Don't look so sad. [laughter] It didn't do the auto scaling. Maybe I

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need a better friend to help me scale it better. That's That's a little bit of a

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bummer. I mean, it doesn't mean the photo is bad. It still looks very good.

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The type of person that's buying this phone doesn't need the highest quality camera. So if that's a cost-cutting

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measure that helps get the price down, I think it's fine. I also just realized

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that those photos were on the 24-megapixel setting, which is on by

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default. We could also take our photos on the 48-megapixel. Yeah, most people

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aren't really going to care. So I think actually keeping it on the 24 megapixels

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by default is probably a good thing because a lot of people are going to be

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snapping a ton of photos with this thing, right? Whether again it's families or you're just going out for a

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walk, whatever it may be. And having only 256 gigs of storage, you kind of

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want to get your mileage out of 256 gigs of storage. So by [music] in turn

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lowering the quality of the photos, you can have more photos. And 256 gigs, I

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quickly glossed over that. I think that's awesome as an entry-level phone,

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right? Before, the 16E had 128 GB. Now

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we're at 256. And in a world where DRAM

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prices are going absolutely insane, the

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fact that Apple chose not to gouge that out of us on the entry-level model, I

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think is kind of awesome. I think it shows

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respect for consumers and their space. What doesn't show respect is 60 Hz, damn

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it. It's It's It's such a weird thing when

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you compare this to other entry-level phones, whether it's Samsung's A56 or

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Google's Pixel 10A, those phones have 120 Hz screens. Why can't Apple, damn

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it? But it's an entry-level phone. I've always thought that 120 Hz screens on

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entry-level phones seemed kind of weird anyways. At least your iPhone 17 has 120

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Hz now. But once again, going back to who the target market is for this thing,

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they don't care about 120 Hz. I I don't know, man. In a world where tech has

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become kind of shitty lately, I feel like Apple's done kind of a lot of cool

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things right. I know this isn't the app the MacBook Neo video. That's a prime

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example right there. Sorry, enough Apple glazing. Let's watch a YouTube video.

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Man, this looks good. Other than the

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big off notch. Sorry, pardon my language. That takes up so much of the

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screen real estate. You kind of can't watch it in full screen. It gets pretty

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bright though. 800 nits, 1200 nits in peak brightness for HDR stuff. It looks

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great. It's an Apple display. It's It's basically the same display as the other

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17 lineup right now, right? So it looks fantastic. This is where it gets weird.

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I just complained that I wanted a smaller phone, but when I'm watching content on it, it feels really small.

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>> [laughter] >> Man, consumers really don't know what they want, right? Anyways, we need to

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listen to the speakers on this bad boy. Smaller devices mean worse speakers

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typically. Cool.

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I hope you're a bass head. I can I can hear the bass pretty aggressively on

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this device. It sounds really good. It's just very bass heavy. And for being such

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a small device, I'm surprised at how loud it gets. I'm going to go back down

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to 50% volume here. Wow, even that I can hear the bass like

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crazy. Yeah, they they sound good other than the bass. Well, I have to wait for

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a game to download. I might as well talk about some of the other specs that come with this phone. It has Wi-Fi 6,

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Bluetooth 5.3, and it has Apple's new C1X modem, which is the exact same modem

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that was in the iPhone Air. And the iPhone 16E had the C1, right? That was

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the first time that they had moved over to Apple's in-house developed modems. A

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lot of people attributed the great battery life of the 16E to that modem.

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We should probably see similar results

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in terms of battery longevity with this one if it's using similar architecture

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and similar design. We don't have those full numbers today because we just got

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the phone I think basically today. So we didn't quite run battery tests just yet.

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I'm sure that once they're done though, they can be up on the lab site. In some of our stress tests, mainly in Geekbench

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and 3DMark, it performed basically exactly where you'd expect this to line

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up. Better than last year's 16E and worse than the iPhone 17. So at least

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it's not over-punching or under-punching and it is an upgrade from last year.

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That's exactly where I'd expect it to land. So I don't know why I'm surprised

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or even talking about it this long. They're still using the ceramic shield 2

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glass that the iPhone 17 uses. It's very interesting to me that they managed to

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get this device just a couple hundred bucks cheaper than the base model 17 and

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on a lot of cases make it feel the exact same. I do think that some of the

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cost-cutting measures that they did actually were smart. Whether you want

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120 hertz or not, I think if cutting it down to 60 hertz is what makes it

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cheaper, then let's go for it. I mean, I'm in game right now and at 60 hertz on

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this size screen while playing, this feels fine.

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Where is the lock? There it is. I found it. It's still got MagSafe. That's

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awesome. So, hypothetical here. You're giving your kids a new iPhone for their

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Christmas. You're already have been a long-time iPhone user. You have built up

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your MagSafe army. They can use it now. I think it's kind of cool that they

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still managed to get MagSafe built in, unlike the 16e. Which, I guess if I'm

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talking about price, it's finally time to mention it. It's $599 US, which is

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more expensive than a lot of other phones' entry-level devices. Like I

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mentioned earlier, that Samsung A56 or even the Pixel 10e. For an entry-level

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phone, it's expensive. For an entry-level iPhone, it's cheap. And I

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think that's where this is going again, right? This is going for your family

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members that you want to have on iPhone because maybe your family's already an

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iPhone family. Or maybe you just don't want to give them an Android because

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there's some things you don't like about it. It might be a little complicated for your relative. Whatever it may be,

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this is the device that's going to be perfect for that. Perfect for kids' Christmas gifts. I think that the

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compromises that the iPhone 17e makes is

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worth it to get it down to that price. I wish they could go a little bit cheaper.

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Maybe if it they made it a mini, less material, uh cheaper? I think right now in a world

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where devices feel like they're getting more and more expensive, things are kind

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of terrible in the tech space. I am giving Apple a gold star here. It's

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still expensive as a budget phone, but between everything that they announced

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in the last couple weeks here, who would have thought that Apple's RAM pricing

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and SSD pricing, mm, ahead of the curve, baby. But, let me

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know what you guys think down below. If you guys enjoyed this video, go check out the complete opposite end of the

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spectrum, the S26 Ultra that I just unboxed on ShortCircuit. I tried to

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compare it to my flagship iPhone and uh

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it's a phone. I think Samsung made more compromises on that than Apple did on

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this. Spoiler alert.