iPhone SE (2020) - FULL In-Depth Review! By ZONEofTECH

This is the iPhone I see two or the IFIC 2020. Now it's the iPhone SE second-generation whatever guys. This is the cheapest iPhone that Apple currently sells. So you can give this for just $400 or 420 pounds in the UK, making it almost three times less expensive than the iPhone 11 Pro Max. However, it actually comes for the most parts when the exact same camera and the exact same specs as the iPhone 11 pros. So the real question here is: is it really worth it or are you just better off with getting an older smartphone or even a different smartphone instead from let's say, Samsung like the 51 or the 871 that have a much more modern design for pretty much the same price? Well, that's why we're all here to find out so get us next ready and enjoy my full in the review of the iPhone SE ?, covering the design that is play.

The camera performance special features, battery life and finally, the value now I'm, just going to say it right off the bat that if you already have an iPhone, 10 or newer, then the SE is overall, a pretty big downgrade. So this phone is not for you, but if you're coming from an older iPhone like the iPhone 8 or even older than that, then you've always preferred a small form-factor smartphone without breaking the bank. Then the SE is a very good choice. So in this review, I'm mostly going to focus on the upgrade that you get coming from the older iPhones further than the downgrades that you get coming from the newer ones, so sit back, relax and enjoy. If you just got your brand-new iPhone I see 20/20, and you're.

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The iPhone SE ? from now on by the way, looks identical to the iPhone 8 from 2017, the iPhone 7 from 2016, the iPhone 6s from 2015 and the iPhone 6 from 2014, at least from the front. Essentially the iPhone SE, which is a 2020 phone uses a six-year-old design which I know it really sucks like I, would have loved to see Apple come up with a brand-new design rather than recycling the exact same old design over and over and over again. You know, I think if Steve Jobs was still around- and you know that's that era is over, but I think Apple would have honestly designed a brand-new phone to come in this very, very small form-factor. But you see when, when you plan on releasing a low price smartphone like the SE is you do need to make some cuts? You need to downgrade some components in order to reach that price point and manufacturers such as Samsung, for example, they decided to go for a 2020 design, but instead they downgraded the performance and the overall user experience Apple. On the other hand, they did quite the opposite.

They went with an all design, and they kept the same 20/20 specs that their highest and expensive smartphones come with at the end of the day. It all comes to you, which one do you prefer. We prefer having a car that looks like a Lamborghini, but the engine is so weak that he have to keep pedaling manually, or we prefer having a 1920s car, but with the jet engine attached to it. I'm, obviously exaggerating both cases, but you get the idea now, leaving that aside, Apple has made some small design tweaks to the SC. So while from the front, it does look identical to all the other iPhones from 2014 onwards.

The back now has a centered Apple logo compared to how it always used to be before, and then the colors have also changed a bit. So the white model is now brighter and also comes with a black front burner and the white front that we used to get before, and the black model is now darker than the old Space Gray. The red is pretty much the same red that we had before the only difference being that a percentage of the sales generated by the product red model or actually donated towards fighting boat 19. Now, instead of HIV, so yeah, that's pretty awesome. Apple now, if you're coming from an iPhone 8 that I mention of the SHE are identical, even the weight, so all of your previous cases would actually fit DSC.

If you're coming from an iPhone 7, the SC is now 0.2, millimeter, thicker and 10 grams heavier. If we're coming from a success. The SC is now zero, pointing wheeler seeker and five grams heavier and then, if you're, coming from an iPhone, 6 vs C is zero point. Four millimeters and 19 grams heavier using the SC brought back. So many memories of me being at university and just using my old iPhone 6 and iPhone success.

It was a pretty nostalgic experience so to say, but at the same time, I honestly cannot go back to using such a small form factor device. I mean look at this thing. It's just tiny I do really like how portable it is, though, compared to my iPhone 11 Pro max, which is just humongous and heavy as well, and I can't even feel the SC at all in my pocket, like I kind of missed the days of thin light and portable smartphones that are also easily usable in one hand, but here's the thing, even though DSC just doesn't compare with any other modern smartphone from 20/20 design, wise as it feels incredibly outdated. Something that some people would absolutely prefer is that a very small and portable for a factor that ESC comes in for those of you who are indeed used to using the small form-factor. The SE is just a refresh of an old memory.

The display is pretty much identical to the iPhone HD display, so it is a 4.7 inch panel when it's 16 by 9 at the ratio, meaning that you will have no black bars when watching 16 by 9 YouTube content. However, the resolution of this display is 1334 by 750, which means that you won't be able to watch 1080p YouTube content at all, and it will essentially max out at 720p natively as there aren't enough pixels to push for it's an AP image, but nonetheless this is still a redhead display with 326 pixels per inch. So, from the normal viewing distance, you won't be able to see any pixels at all. We also have a truther functionality which adjusts the call temperature of the display so that it matches the ambient flight around you, making it so much easier on the eyes. Essentially, we get exact same display that we got on the iPhone 8 from 2017, except 3d touch, which has now been removed entirely, so the display can no longer feel actual pressure, but no worries the 3d touch functionality that one is still.

There is just that you now have to hold longer on an icon or an end press harder if you're agreeing from an iPhone 7 true tone would be the new feature here, if you're upgrading from an iPhone, 6s or Nikon 6 you'll notice that the SC actually has a much more colorful display- and this is a DCI p3 panel, and it is also brighter at 625 minutes versus 500 nits. Overall. This is honestly one of the very best LCD panels that I've ever seen on smartphone. It wouldn't be nice for this to be OLED as even the low end. Samsung phones, even though, is come with an OLED display now.

So that's a shame, but are in that. This is an outstanding LCD. Now the cameras, a bit interesting, you see, the SC has the same camera system as the iPhone 8 from 2017. So that means that we have a single Carroll module on the back or than the dual or the triple modules that the iPhone eleven's come with, and this is a 12 megapixel F 1.8 camera. The sensor itself is actually smaller than on the iPhone 11, so it won't be able to capture as much light.

However, it can indeed shoot 4k 60 video, just like the iPhone 8 could and then on the front. We have a 70 megapixel F 2.2 aperture camera, which is quite a bit lower resolution than the 12 megapixel camera that we have on the iPhone Elevens now, but it's still pretty decent. The video recording on the front, however, is limited to say, maybe 30 compared to 4k 60 on the iPhone 11s. So this is a pretty big downgrade. Okay.

So, so far the camera system is identical to the icon, 81 and that's great, but you see Apple is actually using the same ISP or image signal processor as on the iPhone Elevens, so the software processing the HDR tone mapping. All of that is exactly the same as on the iPhone 11 and the iPhone 11 pros. So here are a few sides by side. Shots versus the eye fell upon pro max a phone that cost three times more than the iPhone SE does, and also a phone would arguably the very best camera on a smartphone, especially if you take video performance into account and as you can see, the iPhone SE photos look pretty much identical to the ones taken with the iPhone 11 Pro max. Now sure you do have the ultra wide-angle module on the 11pro, as well as the telephoto module, both of which DSE lacks, but in terms of the quality of the main module they look almost identical, and I would say that that's pretty insane, even when it comes to video recording they both record in 4k 60 and, as you can tell actually can even tell which one is which, if it weren't for the labels above them, so yeah daytime photo and video quality is pretty much on par with yak 11 Pro max now when it comes too low in performance.

Unfortunately, this is where we can see a pretty big advantage that the iPhone Elevens have, so DSC does not have a night mode at all, which is pretty unfortunate and because of this, the iPhone SE is quite bad. In low-light, the iPhone 11s are mild better fun fact, since the ice peas are the same and the processors are also the same which I'll get to in just a second. The fact that the SE doesn't have night mode is purely a decision that Apple made the SC pulley has the hardware to support it, so it seems like Apple, decided against adding it in order to give you more incentives to go for the more expensive, ? 11 s now. Another reason why you might want to upgrade here: ? Levine, is the front-facing camera, while the image processing is almost identical between the SC and the iPhone 11 Pro Max, the pro max does have a sharper image thanks to the increased resolution and when it comes to comparing front-facing video well, this is a pretty massive difference between the two. We have 4k 60 versus 1080p 30, but I would say that for the most part, this is still an outstanding camera, especially for how little disk phone costs.

Now, if you're upgrading from the iPhone 8 aside from the new ISP, which does make a pretty big difference when it comes to image processing, even on the exact same hardware, when you get quick, take video, so you can just hold the shutter button to start recording a video which is pretty cool again. It's the software thing so that can easily be added in a software update to previous iPhones. Apple hasn't done this, and then we also get extended dynamic range when it comes to recording 4k video at 30 frames per seconds. A pretty much HDR video, but limiting to 30 fps- and probably my favorite thing here, is that, even though we only have one camera module on the back and no face ID camera on the front, the iPhone SE features portrait mode on both the back and the front. Everything is done through software now, so here's a few side-by-side comparisons versus the iPhone up and Pro max and, as you can tell, there are extremely close now.

If you're coming from an iPhone 7, you get all the improvements over the 8 plus 4k, 63, recording and supposed to 4k 30, as well as a more powerful flash here, are a few side-by-side shots versus the iPhone 7 and, as you can tell, the SC is a pretty noticeable improvement. If you're coming from an iPhone 6s, you get all the improvements over the eight and a seven plus a larger F 1.8 vs f/2, going to aperture optical image, stabilization on the back, as well as a 7 megapixel camera compared to the 5 megapixel front-facing camera that you had on the iPhone 6s. Here's a few samples versus the iPhone 6s, so yeah pretty noticeable difference here as well, and finally, if you're up running from an iPhone 6, this is where you'll see the biggest improvements. By far as you can probably tell from these images right here, aside from all the improvements already 8 to the 7 and the 6 says, we also get seen 12 megapixel resolution on the back versus the 8 megapixel camera on the 6. We also get a 4k 60 video versus 1080p 60.

We also get a 7 megapixel front-facing camera over the 1.2 megapixel camera of the iPhone 6. Furthermore, we get a TP 13 video on the front or 720p 30. Furthermore, we get a retina flash, so front-facing flash, essentially thanks to the screen lighting up, and then we also get slow-motion video in 1080p 240, as opposed to 720p 240, as well as anyhow, true tone flash on the back. Here's the same photo now taken on all these iPhones, so feel free to pause. The video, if you wanna, take a closer look at how these cameras have be evolved over time and now here is another shot, but this time in low-light on all these iPhones, so you and redeposit you compare the light performance over the years, and now we have the same selfie and all these iPhones.

So again we can see a pretty nice improvement that all of these iPhones have gotten since 2014 pretty nice. Now when it comes to the actual performance, this is quite interesting. You see the original iPhone SE from 2016. It had the design of the iPhone 5 from 2012, but the same camera and the same specs as the iPhone 6s from 2015, the most modern iPhone that Apple was selling. At a time the iPhone SE was released and Apple has done the exact same thing again on the iPhone SE 20/20.

As this one all features the same Apple 813 processor that the iPhone Elevens come with. Now, that's just nuts because you see the Apple a 13 chip is so powerful that it even outperforms some laptop processors from Intel, most of them actually and I, never believed that Apple would actually put his chip inside the second generation iPhone. Se I was expecting Apple to add. Maybe the a-10 that the entry-level iPod features a 13 is just an overkill, but hey I can't complain. Performance on this iPhone is just outstanding, so I've cloned, my iPhone Kevin pro max and used the iPhone SE too over the past few days, and it honestly felt even faster than my eyeful of and Pro max did likely due to the fact that a screen is 3.33 times lower in resolution and then the GPU because of this has 3.33 times fewer pixels to push. However, if we do a side-by-side Geek bench comparison, even though Geek bench clocks, the CPU adds 2.66 guards on both phones, the SC actually scored significantly less on the multi-core side compared to the iPhone Kevin Pro max, more than 1,000 points less the GPU compute scores on the other hands were actually in favor of the iPhone SE scoring quite a bit more than the feel have been Pro max every single time. Now, when it comes to the RAM, while we do get four gigabytes of RAM on the end, 2011, the iPhone SE only comes with three gigabytes, which means that ESC won't be able to keep as many apps open.

In the background as the iPhone eleven's can surge wise. The SE comes with 64 gigabytes of storage as the baseline, which interesting enough is the exact same as the iPhone Elevens, and then you can further bomb the storage to up to 256 gigabytes. So if we compare this to you, let's say the iPhone 8, we get a 1.4 time faster, CPU and a 2 times faster GPU and the same amount of RAM. Now compared to the iPhone 7, we get a 1.8 times faster, CPU and a 2.8 times faster GPU, as well as 3 gigabytes of RAM, compared to 2 gigabytes around converts to the 6s. We get a two point, four times faster, CPU and a four times faster GPU, as well as three gigabytes of RAM compared to two and finally, compared to the iPhone 6.

We get a four times faster, CPU and a 10 times faster GPU, as well as three times the amount of RAM three gigabytes compared to one gigabyte, so yeah, a gigantic performance improvement if you're coming from the iPhone 6, but probably the best part when it comes to performance on Yes, is in terms of software updates. You see even the first iPhone SE, which came out in 2016. It had 2015 Hardware, so essentially a five-year-old spec device is still fully supported in the latest version of iOS 13 today, meaning that it got five years or four years. In this case of software updates, the SE 2020 comes with an even more powerful processor and is likely going to be supported for at least four years or not even more in terms of updates. Ok.

Now when it comes to special features compared to the iPhone 8, the SE 2020 does indeed have a few. For example, it features Wi-Fi 6 with 38%, faster Wi-Fi speeds, as well as 60%, faster Silver speeds of up to 1 gigabit per second now, who needs 5g when you have those speeds like really, we also get dual sim. NATO SIM and IOM, as well as express cards, would pour reserve which allow you to use Apple Pay on public transports. Even when your iPhone is fully it is charged, and it won't even turn on. So that's that's pretty cool compared to the iPhone 7.

You get all the improvements over the eight plus two point. One times faster is Hillier speeds, Bluetooth, five versus Luigi 4.2, as well as double the base storage to 64 gigabytes compared to 32, and we also get wireless charging, which is pretty, pretty awesome now compared to the iPhone 6s. We get all the improvements, and we got over the eight and a seven plus three point two times faster: solar speeds, ip67 water resistance force, immersion of up to one meters of death. Up to thirty minutes, we get four times the base storage of 64 gigabytes compared to 16 gigabytes. We also get your speakers with the earpiece being a speaker in itself, and we also get had two responses in the OS with a brand new haptic engine, but unfortunately we do lose the headphone jack.

If you're upgrading from the six, you get everything that I mentioned before plus 2.7 times faster Wi-Fi 6.5 times faster seller speeds, Bluetooth, 5.0 vs.4.0, a much faster second generation touch ID, as well as a haptic engine which the iPhone 6 didn't have at all. So, overall, we do get some pretty big special features, especially if you're coming from the iPhone 6s or the iPhone 6 now I would say that the biggest advantage that ESC has over pretty much any other smartphone at this price is that you get things such as well as charging water resistance, your speakers and even yes, even an advanced haptic engine, all of which are usually features that are reserved for higher and smartphones, and this is something that, for example, we don't get on the Samsung, a 51 or a Samsung, a 71, both of which are around the same price as the iPhone SE. They have a much better design and display than yes see, but they do lack in terms of performance and features. Now when it comes to the battery life, the SE comes with a fairly small 1821 million power battery the same size as on the iPhone 8. By the way, now in terms of my usage, I have to be honest: I don't really use my phone as much as you would expect, or you would think I'm pretty much on my laptop most of the day.

The only time when I actually is my phone all day is when I'm traveling and, of course, that do to your car lock down. I couldn't really do that, but I did set up my SE with all my stuff and from my I feel up and Pro max, and I've used it over the past weekend and the battery life was pretty bad, at least when compared to my eleven Pro max. It kind of reminded me of the battery life on the iPhone success. Maybe a bit better but yeah definitely doesn't compare to the iPhone eleven's, mostly because of how small the battery really is. And finally, when it comes to the value, is the iPhone SE 20/20 worth it? Well, if you have an iPhone 8, an iPhone, 10 or anything newer, I would say no I mean, especially if you're coming from nine from ten.

This is a pretty big dumb rate. I mean yes, the camera is better, and the performance is also better, but going from an OLED display to an LCD is, is a pretty massive downgrade, not even to mention the design, the stainless steel frame that you get and the overall build quality and the larger display, and all of that the iPhone 10 comes with, and you don't get any of that on the iPhone SE. Now, if you do have an older iPhone, such as a 7 or even older, and you want to buy a new iPhone without spending way too much, and you also prefer the smaller form factor, then the iPhone is C.2020 is actually an amazing choice: you're pretty much upgrading the internals and keeping the same chassis so to say, while also getting new things such as wireless charging and water resistance. If you're coming from iPhone, 6 or success, I would say that, aside from this, the iPhone SE is also worth buying for your grandparents or your aunt or uncle someone who's, not really that into tech. Someone, that's not tech, savvy and just needs a good iPhone that can last them for a good number of years.

I. Do you really think that's? The SE is also the perfect phone for a young child that needs a modern iPhone that can get all the software updates and all the apps, and all that, and also you know, a phone. That's very small and very easy to use. I think that yeah I only see it's basically the perfect phone smartphone for children, so yeah overall, the SE is definitely not for everyone, but for those who it is, it is definitely an amazing Buy and if you want to buy one yourselves, definitely consider using the affiliate links below that. You support a channel.

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