I have (had) a gold color iPhone SE 1st gen 64GB. For years. Fantastic device. The killer App on it is that it makes phone calls. Wild thought I know. It works fine, but isn’t getting updates anymore and has no room left for anything and the second battery is about done. $69 to fix or get a new iPhone. Humm. It’s in nice shape too so I decided to turn it into an iPod Touch instead. Yesterday I went to the Apple visitor center in Cupertino, ya the round disk building. It’s 20 miles from me. Pretty place. And I bought a brand new Starlight 256GB iPhone SE 3 direct from the mother ship. WOW ! What a difference. Bigger and brighter screen, more space, home button that is not a mechanical one (way better), and crazy fast bump up from an A9 CPU to a whopper A15. And it runs iOS 18 (factory installed) really well. Super fast. Still small to easy to carry. I know about the next version is coming but really it isn’t a next version. I don’t care. It will be totally different. The SE 3 is still a proper iPhone, just better in every way FOR ME. Best $579 I’ve spent since my still nice 1st gen SE. The other iPhones are nice but too much $$$$. And too big.
But I’m looking forward to reading about the new “SE 4” as I did about the SE 2. I don’t have any issues with OLED but honestly an iPhone doesn’t really need that. At least for me the LED/LCD style display that Apple has on all its devices except the iPad Pro and other iPhones is just fine. Further, taking photos on the iPhone is convenient but I don’t need it to be its primary purpose. All that fancy stuff just makes the iPhone excessively expensive and big for me and my new SE3 was expensive enough at and $631.83 after tax. Its primary purpose is making phone calls and its biggest feature is being portable and easy to use. WOW, I sound just like Steve Jobs. How the iPhone has changed since him. . . .I guess I’m a unique user, but I do have a few apps extra beyond what Apple bundles with a new iPhone so I guess I’m not weird.
No remorse here though.
Damn the A15 is fast compared to the A9.