2020 Apple iPhone SE Review By MobileTechReview

This is Lisa from mobile tech review, and this is the 20/20 iPhone SE otherwise known as the iPhone SE 2 or some people call it. The iPhone 9 a lot of names for one little phone so not too long ago, Apple refreshes the MacBook Air their most affordable, laptop and made it not such a bad deal, but with the iPhone SE, it starts at 399 and that's actually a perfect deal. We're gonna look at it now. So what is 399 gets you 64, gigs of storage, which is the same as you would get on an iPhone 11, not bad there. The Apple, 8 13 Bionic CPU, again the same that you would get on a fellow 11 pro Macs and level. You get the idea nice for the price, and this is currently the 8 13 is the fastest mobile phone chip on the market, sorry, Qualcomm and Snapdragon.

It is true, you also get updated LTE. So if you're thinking about finding an iPhone, 8 and buying that well, I would suggest getting this one. Instead, you get gigabit LTE. You get bands 71 coverage for a T-Mobile, which is a nice thing to have. The casing, obviously, is the iPhone 8, so the look isn't any different there.

The camera module may or may not be identical. It's pretty close, but with the new CPU and the new image processing software. That Apple has it's certainly going to blow the previous iPhone SE anyway, and to my eye, does a little better than the original iPhone 8, which wasn't a slouch as cameras go. It is just a single lens: it's a 12 megapixel camera on the rear. So there's no white angle, there's no telephoto, it does have portrait mode.

It only does portrait mode on people, sorry, cats, dogs and other things. You could use third-party software to get around that, but I have noticed that when taking portrait like shots of my cat and flowers and other things said, it does have a kind of natural both effect in the background anyway. So you also don't get night mode, which is too bad so, if you're into night shots, this might not be your first choice for a camera, but overall I was pretty impressed with the Cameron. How company is, of course, like again the iPhone 8 was a pretty good camera phone in and stay, but they're definitely tweaks to the image processing and all that sort of thing, because these photos are looking pretty darn good. Certainly for this price range for video recording, it does have optical image stabilization and it's not as good as the latest models from Apple or even the iPhone 10 family of phones.

I could see some movement and bobbling opposed to the impossibly smooth. Looking video that you get from the latest iPhones again, that's fair for the price, Institute 4k video up to 60 frames per second, it can do slow motion. Video 240 frames per second, the usual stuff, pretty much like the iPhone. It could do just like other recent iPhones and supports the HEV, see more efficient. Video recording Kodak takes up less space, still good quality and also the CTIF format.

It's a new format for JPEG replacement. If you wish to use that as well and as ever, there's always icons. So if your phone starts running out of space, it can automatically just ship stuff up to the cloud and bring it back down when you want to reference it. But if you're, a big-time, video shooter again go for that 128 gig model to make sure you got some cushion there front. Camera is 7 megapixels and looked a little more hazy and a little less defined to me versus something like the iPhone 10 RR, the iPhone 11.

It is what it is. It's decent, it's not a classical anything. Furthermore, it's not priced like a class-leading phone. We have QI wireless charging onboard. If that's your thing, and also the phone is a little more memory than the iPhone 8 had it has three gigs around versus two gigs on the iPhone 8.

So if you're talking about memory of you talking about storage options versus the past SE, it's a huge jump ahead. The screen is also bigger at 4.7 inches. It still apples, retina resolution, which means 326 PPI. The resolution is a little higher than the previous iPhone SE, because the screen is bigger. The, although is only four inches.

So yes, this phones a little bigger than the previous iPhone SE, but by today's standards it's darn tiny. When I picked it up. I said God is so small granted I do prefer big screen phones, this wouldn't be the phone for me as a result, but I know a lot of people actually prefer a smaller phone in their pocket in their hand, not to mention the price tag by the way. If you do want more storage, you can go up to 128 gigs, that's $50, more, not a bad deal that one and if you want to go up to 256 gigs, then it's fine 50 at that point. I might start looking at an iPhone 11.

The display on this is not OLED in is IP. Yes, just like iPhones of old, but it's a very nice-looking display. You don't look at it and think. Oh, it's drab, but it actually looks quite nice. It's wide! Damn it p3.

It has a good 1,400 to 1 contrast ratio, the brightness isn't great compared to the iPhone 11 family of phones, but I, guess that's fair for 399, and so this does around 625 nits a brightness versus over a thousand on the iPhone 11 family, or even the tennis and tennis Maxim. If you use it outdoors in bright sunlight, a lot, that's something to keep in mind. It is still visible. I had no problem seeing it, but it wasn't as easy to see the phone is technically dual SIM because as an e SIM and a NATO SIM card slot. So if one of your two carriers support season, you can use it with two sims.

It's also ip67 water-resistant, which means down to one meter or three feet of water for up to 30 minutes for those who are into fast wired charging. It does support 18 watt fast wired charging, just like the iPhone 11 family. But of course, just like the iPhone 11 family. The fast charger is not in the box, just the standard, small charger. So that's an extra spend.

It has touch ID, obviously, and not face ID. So for those who are more comfortable with that, there you go, the gestures are, of course different. It was a little trip down memory lane to remember that you swipe up from the bottom to get to control center. You use the touch ID button for multitasking that sort of thing it does have Apple Pay and FC Wi-Fi, six, which is another upgrade versus, say, buying an iPhone 8. Instead, it might be a little guy, but the stereo speakers are pretty good.

I mean Apple typically does a good job with these, so you have one in the earpiece up top and one on the bottom for stereo sound, not bad at all. There is no headphone jack. We are talking Apple and there hasn't been one for quite some time with them. You have the enlightening connector on the bottom. Some wireless headphones are enlightening to 3.5 millimeter adapters. What you're going to need if you want to use wired, 3.5, millimeter headphone on this the battery life on this is pretty much just like the iPhone 8, no surprise, 1800 Williams, which is just what the iPhone 8 had different connector, though on the battery, which is interesting. If you were to take it apart and service it for most people probably would like to moderate use.

This is an all-day phone charge it by 10 o'clock at night. If you're going to use it heavily, not so much compared to the iPhone. Even though this is a smaller lower resolution, display I thought it didn't have as much stamina, but again something this teeny. You can only fit so much battery, and it's fair for the price and I think most people will do okay, going through a day when it comes to high quality with a fast processor. A pretty nice display, a decent camera kind of phones in this size range and in this price range, there's very little competition.

The pixel of three, the last generation pixel comes to mind, and- and photography is really your thing, then that is still a solid buy there. It's going to be a little bigger though, but okay other than that. Not a lot I have to say about Apple, even if there were competition, I think that they have done a very good job. With this phone I'm Lisa from mobile tech review be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel for more cool tech. Videos hit that notification bell and like if you did like the vid.

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