iPhone SE (2020) Review -- Affordable Power By AppleInsider

Welcome everyone to Apple, Insider, Apple's iPhone SE was a cult favorite in it. Finally, after four long years had the much-awaited successor that people have been clamoring for, but is this the successor that everyone was expecting here's the Apple Insider review of the 20/20 I phone SE. Now the phone looks familiar. You probably already know why and that's because Apple is recycling a lot of the design of the iPhone 8 here for the updated iPhone SE, which means it has a larger display rather than the 4-inch display in the iPhone 5s style body. It's now a 4.7-inch LED display LCD inside the iPhone 8 body, but why go with the iPhone 8 style design? Well likely a few reasons. The iPhone 8 is newer.

An Apple likely still has a lot of iPhone 8 stock and stuff already running through production in these matches. The current design of the higher-end handset, if Apple, would switch to a new flat side for the iPhone 12 Pro, then this one would look very similar to it. Still this one got a lot of nice upgrades, including wireless charging. Haptic touch on the display. Still retaining that touch, ID home button, better cameras on both the front and the back and much more now that home button is very important to a lot of people.

Some people just prefer the home button and others just can't use the home button, possibly because of what they're doing for a profession like if you're a nurse or a doctor, you have a mask on all the time. It's a lot harder to be able to unlock your phone with face ID that way, and it becomes exhausted them. So it's good to have this physical alternative to rely on the most recent iPhones have all ditched, 3d touch, and the same goes for the new iPhone SE.3D touch is gone, but it was replaced with haptic feedback. That just still seems a little odd. You can't look into notifications on the notification that Center, for example, you can't 3d touch or haptic touch into them.

With that long press, you can still use everything else. At haptic touch is known for such as getting that extra information from icons or previewing links, but it still just not quite the same thing as 3d touch was I. Think we're still going to miss that for a while, even though haptic touch is the new norm inside these phones, Apple did not skimp whatsoever. It is using the latest a 13, my on in processor, the same processors that are found in Apple's highest end phones that include the iPhone 11 Pro in iPhone 11 Pro Max. They did drop the memory a little going with only three gigs, but it doesn't seem to have too much of an issue in day to day work depending on what you're doing it may or may not be all that important.

You need to have a million apps running in the background that you can resume instantly likely not and I. Think people are willing to make that compromise purse. That's a cheaper phone that still packing such a powerful processor. If we compare these scores to say the iPhone 11 Pro Mac's, that are very spot on our graphics core was within only a couple of points of one another, and we see the same thing on geek bench here. The iPhone SE 20/20 is getting that 13 34 compared to the 13 30 on the 11 Pro, and we're going to the multi-core you can see is roughly the same thing 30305 or says 33 24.

Now these numbers vary, and we have got once as low as one-third below the iPhone 11 Pro, but for the most part they are very within range of one another. One of the biggest benefits of that better processor is the camera. The camera is amazing on this phone, even though it's lacking the ultra-wide and the teller lens that you see on the iPhone 11 Pro and the ultra-wide that's found on the iPhone 11, there's just that one 12 megapixel camera on the back, but has a lot of functionality baked in their photos, look great because the faster processor you can do things like use, quick, take video or switch to recording or burst mode. Videos. Look amazing to up to 60 frames per second in 4k or 240 frames per second slo-mo in HD.

You can see here, as our dogs jump down the stairs just bound over those steps. Slow motion looks absolutely amazing in full 1080p. There is no tell aligns on here, as you mentioned, which can be a bummer if you're trying to really zoom in on something you're a little limited in what you can do only having a very small degree of zoom when you do, it starts to get a little grainy depending on your shot. So this is really just bad for general purpose. Photos not really jumping in super close, but people don't do it all that much and computational photography is, you know, likely take you the rest, the way their apples going to continue to improve that we saw a big improvement with like the iPhone 10, when it launched and portrait mode coming as a beta and a subsequent update, and we won't be surprised to see photos and video improving on the iPhone SE for years to come.

Overall, especially when it came to video, we were impressed with this phone. This 4k footage here we shot looks great slow motion is really fun and just the fact that you can do such a high rate of the high frame rate on a cheap phone is outstanding now. Another great feature here is portrait mode is coming to the iPhone SE, even though there's only one lens on the front as well as one lens on the back. Normally it's using two lenses to create a stereoscopic image and get that depth map. But here it's able to just use computational photography to isolate the subject from the background and overall it does a great job.

You can apply to all these different effects to it. You can even go in and change the aperture opening. So right now it's been I default at a four point, eight or a two point eight, but you can drop that down. So you can watch the background of this image, switch over to our aperture control mode, and you can watch that background plant that palm has Lee become more or less blurred, depending on how much you're adjusting that both and your f-stop pretty great. Considering there's only one lens on here, and this is an entry-level phone.

There is a drawback though, and that is with portrait mode and pets or objects. In general, we actually saw this limitation in other phones at Apple's had like the original I believe iPhone 10 R, that launched with portrait mode, but it only worked with people. Not pets not objects. Fortunately, there is a solution, so here we have Cosby, I can't get a great shot, but if I use the hell I to camera app, and I'm sure there anymore coming down the line, these were just the first ones to support this feature, but I took a photo here in the stock camera app of my ROG Cosby, and you can see it here. This is what it looks like notice.

The background there's little to no blur, but I take the same shot here and halite, and I'm able to actually get that nice background. Both effect now Cosby does look a little dopey here and a better pose in that for a shot. But just looking at the background, you can see my PS4 and some candles going on the blanket that looks so much nicer when we compare the two shots again: here's the stock camera app, no background depth. Portrait fact at all- and here we are with the ha. It was a great job of capturing that depth data and blurring out that background.

So it is a deficit that this phone cannot do pets because that's what we take a lot of portrait modes of, but it is great that you can add that functionality back through third-party apps, such as halite, even here with objects, it works just taking a quick vote of a lens, it's a lesser degree, but that background gets more matte less blurred, as you turned that depth and portrait mode on or off the iPhone. Se is an interesting phone and one that a lot of people. Don't really understand the iPhone. Se was never about being a small phone, it was being about the best, a budget phone that Apple could make, and that's what they've done here. They prioritize the things that are important, such as the OS with iOS 13, support, and they're, including a really fast processor.

That's guaranteeing is going to work for years and years and years to the future, and they're, focusing on the camera making the camera. That is they're the best as possible, while leaving off the higher end cameras for the iPhone 11 and the iPhone 11 pros, and you have that whole lineup of cameras based on what it is that you're looking to do. Even developers can include extra features such as whole ID with portrait mode for pets. This phone is doing exactly what it was meant to do and Apple absolutely nailed it. If you were to grab an iPhone SE for yourself, you can find the link down below in the description.

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