- Is a small compact
phone the future?
For some people it is for some reason.
And finally Apple accepted
that with the new version
of the cheap iPhone SE.
See my review with pros, cons
and price plus one great
alternative and two poor.
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I'm a sucker for phones with big displays.
I've said that before and
I'll say it again: a sucker.
But I was still excited to see
what the new iPhone SE could offer me.
Well, not much I'm afraid.
Most reviewers have concluded
that the new iPhone SE
is the iPhone for most people.
I disagree completely.
The iPhone SE 2020 is a
true copy of iPhone 8.
I'm a fan of using things
over and over again
but when you pay big money
for a phone I guess you want something
that is a bit different.
One thing I must grant all the
reviewers - is it's more handy
than any other phone on the market,
unless you have an iPhone
8, 7, 6 or 5
or an Android phone from 2010.
It feels well built, it's waterproof,
it's small, it's light.
It's perfect if you want
a small phone that's easy
to use with one hand.
iPhone SE comes with the newest iOS 13
and can be operated to at least iOS 17
and maybe also iOS 18.
Combined with the powerful
A13 bionic chip set,
you have a phone that can easily
last for four, five years.
Of course you have to change
the battery a few times
during these four, five years but still.
It's easy to make fun of
the A13 bionic chip set.
Why put such a powerful
processor in such a small phone?
So you can open iMessage extremely fast?
Well it's actually a stroke
of genius from Apple's hands.
It's for Apple a cheap phone
and with this processor you
can actually use it for many years.
Normally I criticize this phone
with only 64 gigabyte memory
but in this case I guess it's okay.
You're not going to use
the phone for heavy gaming
or video recording or load
it with heavy apps and games.
So I guess the memory capacity is fine.
I'm in a good mood right
now so I put the camera
in the pro section.
There's only one camera
on the back and it's easy
to see the advantages with two
and three cameras on the back.
There are not as many
possibilities with just one camera
and the picture quality is not amazing.
But it's actually quite good.
Pictures taken in broad
daylight have nice colors
and sharpness.
Portrait photos looks great thanks
to nice software manipulation.
Zoom and wide angel is
not a thing on the phone
and pictures shot in the dark looks poor.
There's no night vision.
The new iPhone SE has a price
level around $400 or €350.
Yes, you heard right.
A brand new iPhone for around $400.
That sure makes it a cheap
iPhone but it's not a cheap phone
and there are still some big issues.
The display is simply too small.
It's too small for a modern
phone user being online,
streaming movies and games,
reading books and magazines
and so on.
The display is 4.7 in spec and as nice
as this make the format
and the size of the phone,
just as awful is it when using the phone.
The battery has an
embarrassing low capacity
and an awful battery life.
1861 milliamp-hours is low even
for a phone with a small display.
Tests have shown that the
battery gives only less
than five hours media
playback while all our phones
in the same price level can play
for around seven and eight hours.
Poor battery capacity, poor battery life.
The charging speed is also terrible.
There is only a five
watt charger in the box
and it takes two hours and 45 minutes
to charge a phone zero to 100%.
It does support fast charging but you have
to buy a fast charger yourself.
The sound value is very
high and much higher
than on most other phones
and the internet quality still
sucks as always on an iPhone.
And since you probably won't
get a poor mobile coverage
unless you live in a concrete building
or have environmentally
friendly windows in your house
or apartment.
In the outskirts with long distance
between internet base
stations there's a high risk
of losing the connection which
means poor or worse quality
and slow data speed.
The poor internet quality
also means that the phone
has to use more power to stay connected.
This means using more battery.
There are not many
alternatives to iPhone SE
when we only talk size.
Actually there's only
one great alternative,
the Samsung Galaxy S10E.
And then there are a few poor ones.
(electronic music)
iPhone SE is not a good
phone but it will do the job
for people who don't use
their phone for many things,
mostly talking, texting,
some light reading
and a few camera stuff.
The rest of us, we go for this size.
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