Calm the hyperbole. It’s just a name for an entry level phone.
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Apple Announces New iPhone SE With 4.7-Inch Display, A13 Chip, and Touch ID, Starts at $399
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Calm the hyperbole. It’s just a name for an entry level phone.
I have an SE and every app I use seems to work fine with my screen size, then again I don’t play games and whatnot.
Guess the price in Italy, folks?
€499 = $544 for 64GB model.
Way too expensive for what it is with that design AND that XR camera. There’s too much good value Android around here, and with nobody using iMessage on this side of the pond...
Not gonna fly in the EU.
€499 = $544 for 64GB model.
Way too expensive for what it is with that design AND that XR camera. There’s too much good value Android around here, and with nobody using iMessage on this side of the pond...
Not gonna fly in the EU.
Wonder if it will have the same LCD panel as the current 8's have, or will it have a smaller version of the LCD panel that the XR/11's use?
The OLED screens gave me headaches due to PWM, and the XR did for some reason as well (I think because of the brightness and size). MY hope is the SE will be effectively the same screen as the 8, which is fine.
The OLED screens gave me headaches due to PWM, and the XR did for some reason as well (I think because of the brightness and size). MY hope is the SE will be effectively the same screen as the 8, which is fine.
If I didn't already have 1 more iPhones than lines I would be tempted. $400+tax more of an impulse buy than the higher end phones. Last year I found an inexpensive SE and 6s for special use cases. The 7+ I own but am not using will probably be given away at some point if my BIL's 6 dies, or my sister's SE dies.
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Apparently not.
That’s why they have even more significant other models already in place.
This is a really good value. Seems like the same camera lens as the 11/11 Pros and same chip, plus WiFi 6 and gigabyte cellular data. It provides TouchID and smaller screen size for those that want it. With the efficiency improvements of the A13 chip, I’m assuming the removal of 3D Touch, and the small screen size, I’m really interested in seeing what the battery life and speed is like.
At an MSRP of $399, I'll be able to pick one up from my no-contract carrier for $250. Tempting.
Oh you mean the iPhone 5 that was rehashed back then. It’s just a made up name.
Same battery life as the 8, which has the same battery life as the 7. 👎
Android is by far the most popular mobile OS but obviously people have different preferences. My point is that Apple charges way more for similar (or inferior) product than the competition.
A5x phones are Samsung's second tier phones (just under S series) and they get two OS version updates and security updates for three or more years (with most of the stuff - except for core OS - on Android being updated via Play Store indefinitely).
My apps work fine too...buuuuuuuuuut they sometimes do look like they expected a larger size: lots of controls and widgets that require just a little bit of scrolling.
In fact I get the sense that it's the same for Apple's apps. Every so often I want to access something on, say, the share sheet for example. If I want to forward a web page, and I click the share button, there is a title bar, a row of recently-used shares, and then a row of option icons (AirDrop, Messages, Mail, etc.). Then there are some other options below, like Find on Page and Add Bookmark and others...but none of them are accessible without scrolling. I just get the feeling that if Apple were still optimizing for a 4" screen they would have made the layout more efficient to get more options available up front.
I don't know, just a hunch, I could be all wrong about it.
They probably know best which form factor will generate more sales, the 5 for the fourth time or the 6 all over again. Besides, it’s really more like the 8 with the glass back, isn’t it - wireless charging was not a feature of the old 6/s/7 body designs.
That's subjective. You do know that people prefer Android by a huge margin, right? Obviously phone prices go into decision making but the point being that there is no way to show that iOS is an advantage.
In Apple's Newsroom article, it mention's iPhone SE, then jumps right into iOS 13 talk about night mode in the sentence right after. This leads me to believe it would have the 11 camera.
No, it runs regular Android which is a preferred mobile OS by most people (by a huge margin).
Definitely the biggest letdown of the package... The SE I on the other hand was a jump over the 5S and was better than the 6S in some ways.
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On the compare section of Apple's website it clearly shows that the new SE doesn't have night mode.
Almost. It doesn't have the same camera lens as the 11's, it has the XR lens (so no Night Mode). They've announced that the battery life is similar to the 8, for better or worse. Still I agree, a great value and I will be ordering on on Friday!
Thought for sure it would come with an A11 or A12. This should quiet the 'I don't like FaceID' crowd a bit...
it's a combination of several models: the body of an 8, the camera of a Xr, and the processor of an 11.
Well for one, that the iPad Pro has an A12z, which isn't at all the same as an A12.