Apple iPhone SE (2020) Review! (Real World Review) By Real World Review

Apple is well, you know, a company that makes a bunch of products, but focus is now on phones, expensive ones, but this is a little different. Four years ago, Apple came out with a small iPhone called the iPhone SE. Four years later, we have the same idea, but a bigger small design both cost four hundred dollars, which is refreshing when compared to the $700 iPhone eleven in the thousand dollar iPhone 11 Pro, but it is cheap for a reason. If you don't know by now, my name is Matt, and this is real world review. I feel that this style of review is a little special, so it seems fitting to review the iPhone SE, which can also be called the iPhone special edition, or my favorite name, the iPhone sloppy Edition anyways. Let's talk about it.

This 4.7-inch screen is unacceptable by 2020 standards, even at a $400 starting price. The screen is just disappointing. Well, on paper, at least this is a 4.7 inch, IPS LCD, with the screen resolution of 750 by 1334 and a screen ratio of 16 by 9. That last part confuses me, because there will not be a single flagship phone this year with a 16 by 9 ratio, because no one uses that anymore. It is the same exact screen as the iPhone 8, with the 3d touch layer omitted just like the iPhone 8.

There is no tap to wake, because the home button with the touch ID sensor, is still on this phone, but I'd rather take face ID. Let's be honest, the screen is bright, but not by flagship standards being dimmer than even last year's OLED screens. This is a retina HD display with the HD part being a really tough sell at 750 P at 326 pixels per inch for a flagship. The screen is not acceptable, but in real world usage, okay, it's pretty much the same. The screen washes out awful in sunlight.

So when we're able to go back outside good luck and with the Sun out, it heats up the phone and dims the screen even more, but when you're inside, like you should when this video comes out, the screen looks good. The colors are clear and accurate, as you would expect on an LCD, especially coming from Apple. It is disappointing for me or someone coming from pretty much any OLED device, but at this price point it is acceptable still 750 P in 2020 come on Apple. This is another disappointment for me. Remember that this phone has an 13 Bionic chip in it with three gigabytes of RAM, just like the iPhone 10 are with this said, there's barely any heat dissipation in this iPhone 8 look-alike.

So when the phone gets used a lot, there are some heat issues. One of them is the battery. This phone is superfast, so when you use the phone for tasks, it's easy to get in and out and go back to sleep mode. However, if you're using social media a lot of playing games and so on, your battery will not appreciate that on days when I didn't use my phone, that much like at work or with friends and family, the battery lasted a whole day easy on days, where I didn't have to work or didn't have much to do. I would stick to my phone and the battery would drain really quickly.

I keep my screen at full brightness all the time, but I expected to get more than three hours of screen on time. Out of this battery I would estimate a max of four to five hours of screen on time before a drained battery happens, which isn't entirely the best, especially for 750 p screen. This may be because Apple decided to put a more powerful processor in this phone when compared to the iPhone 8 or because they left the iPhone 8 battery in this phone either way they got rid of 3d touch, which is supposed to make more room for a bigger battery. But I was right. It never did and if you want to see those Geek bench for battery test here, you go it's not that good.

Now, with that said, this is a $400 phone, so sure one day battery life is accepted, but Apple puts a 1821 William battery in this phone, just like they did with the iPhone 8. The 129 dollar Motorola g7 Play, has a weaker processor in a 3000 William battery, so Apple really doesn't have any excuse for putting a better battery in this phone. It just means that if Apple does put a better battery in this phone, it will be a much better Buy which doesn't sound bad at all. Now, here's the redeeming quality for this phone, or even the reason why this phone will even sell the cameras. This single 12 megapixel camera sounds weak, but it's pretty much the same thing as the iPhone 10 are, and it takes amazing shots during the day.

But night shots need some work. There's no wide-angle sensor, no telephoto sensor, but shots still come out looking as nice as you would expect on a flagship, Apple device, but in a 400 or package, then again the Google Pixel 3ei did the same thing at the same price. So it's not the first time it happened, and I guess technically the original iPhone SE did the same thing. It does portrait mode, but only on faces just like the iPhone 10 are with this said. Most of the portrait mode is software and hardware, the processor, but it doesn't have night mode which heavily relies on the processor.

So what's up with that Apple the camera also shoots 4k at 60 frames per second, which isn't too surprising because that's what the iPhone 8 could do. But if you take a phone like I, don't know the pixel 3xl, which can't even do 60 frames per second consistently on any video quality. You will see that this is a nice feature, especially for that price point, not to mention that stability looks really similar to the iPhone 11 Pro, even at 4k 60 frames per second, you still have slow motion only on the back camera, not on the front camera, and it is able to capture 1080p, 120 or 240 frames per second and 720p at 240 frames per second 1080p at 240 frames per second is cool, but it's kind of gimmicky for me, but it may be useful for some. You also get the software features similar to the actual on 11 models, but again, no night mode kind of annoying. But what are you going to do the front? Camera is boring to me, it's the same as the iPhone 8, a 7 megapixel shooter that takes decent shots and shoots video at 1080p 30 frames per second, that's it.

You do get portrait mode on that, and it works. It could be better, but it works overall. You get a nice little setup with the cameras could be better but again $399. Now you may think that I'm being hard on this phone and I kind of am for an iPhone. This is a weird design to me, or maybe even a special design.

If you may give this price point, this is an awesome design, I'm, not a fan of the screen or the battery, but the rest of the phone is pretty awesome. First, this is a dual SIM phone, which is good for traveling and not what the iPhone 8 was not to mention that you get gigabit class LTE which isn't 5g, but it's faster than most LTE phones with a six core processor. You get three gigabytes of RAM, which sounds low, but it's the same as what the iPhone 10 in 10 are. Have you got fast, 18 watt charging, along with 7.5 watt wireless charging, which works really fast? With that small 1821 William battery? You also get Bluetooth 5.0, which is normal, but it also has Wi-Fi 6, which is being put into newer flagship phones. However, there's? No? U 1 chip, which is found in the iPhone 11 and 11 Pro, and it's used for faster peer-to-peer transfer with local phones like using airdrop.

You also get water resistance and stereo speakers, just like the iPhone 8 on the outside. You have the same aluminum frame and a glass back which says nothing and has a centered Apple logo. Besides that everything looks the same as the iPhone 8, except for the white phone has a black screen by the way all these upgrades, and it still weighs the same as the iPhone 8, but it is missing that thin in light 3d touch layer. This small frame can be frustrating for people not used to small phones like I am, but for those that are you'll love. The little upgrades to your favorite phone, the other upside, is that all your iPhone, 7 or iPhone 8 cases will work with this phone and that's actually pretty cool or lazy on Apple's part I've been bugging you about the price throughout this video, but there is a good reason for it.

This phone starts at 64 gigabytes at 399 dollars and goes to 256 gigabytes at 549 dollars. These are not bad prices, especially considering that you can get a $1000 phone processor and cameras into this $399 body, but is it really? The battery comes from the old 404 I phone 8, the processor, LTE and Wi-Fi 6 come from the $699 iPhone 11, the rear camera comes from the $599 iPhone 10 R and the rest seems to be from the iPhone 8 as well. Just like the screen. This is price perfectly for people wanting to upgrade their iPhone 6 6 s, 7 or 8, or someone who wants to get a cheap and small iPhone at this price. Point I would think, there's a lot of people that would consider this phone if they are low on storage, their battery sucks or their phone is slow.

This is not the phone for someone like me who uses flagship and large phones. All the time I mean this phone makes. My iPhone 10 feel big when it's kind of a smallish phone to begin with I, don't like this phone for that reason, but it doesn't mean that you can't this is a perfect phone for Apple to sell just like the original iPhone SE, but that one seemed to be a better upgrade than what we got with this year's iPhone SE, even small things like the black and white screens on the 2016 SE, while the 2020 SE only comes in one, which is black, even the phone colors for colors on the iPhone SE 2016 3 on the iPhone SE 2020. Another thing is quality control. Now this phone is the only one that I've seen with this issue, but it seems to me that the screen isn't lined up properly.

Who knows if this happens on anyone else's iPhone SE, but it would make sense, given the price point and that's it for the review of the cheapest iPhone, you can buy as much as I. Don't like it. This isn't a bad phone. It is a good way for Apple to get people in their ecosystem, just like they do with the $329 iPad in the $999 MacBook Air. This phone isn't for everyone, but at 399 dollars it is a good way for Apple to get people talking.

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