iPhone SE (2020) vs iPhone 11: Don’t Make A Mistake By Jon Rettinger

We haven't seen something like this in a long time. So when you look at the brand-new iPhone SE, the iPhone 10 R and the iPhone 11 there's a handful of future differences that separate these phones, of course, a little hardware as well, but it does mark a monumental change. It's one of the first times you can get three phones from Apple for under $1000 and now as a consumer. You can pick which of those features are important to you, and so I wanted to compare the three and see which one is the right phone to get, so Capital design language is kind of pre, iPhone, 10 and then post iPhone 10, and you look at the 11, and you look at the 10 are there's a certain post iPhone 10 world I've got the notches face ID'd. They look close enough to the current flagship iPhones, but before that iPhone 10 was the iPhone 8, which Apple is obviously using here for the iPhone SE, it's more of the classic look. It's got a physical touch, ID button.

It's got a forehead and chin. Furthermore, it's really that smaller size at 4.7 inches, and this is a design that Apple has perfected and, as sap was made more and more of these they've got the cost to wade down. So if you look at the iPhone SE, and you're wondering why they didn't just do a few things, why doesn't it have faced ID? Why didn't they make the bezels a little smaller? The answer is that would have raised a cost and I thought was clearly trying to get the best iPhone at the lowest price with the iPhone SE. So obviously just looking at these phones, there are a ton of visual differences things you can see, but underneath that these phones are a lot more similar than you might think. So, I've got on record as saying that, at least for me, the screen is one of the most important spec elements of a phone.

It's your portal to everything it can do it doesn't matter how good or fast the phone is. If you can't see that goodness and speed, it's not gonna, be that useful to you and if you look at these phones it would appear the iPhone SE has a vastly inferior screen to the 10 R and the 11, but in reality it's really not the case. There kind of surprisingly similar, so the SE has a 720p screen, and you're. Probably thinking not the best resolution. Certainly more resolution is better, but it does have a PPI of 326, which is, coincidentally, the exact same pixel density as the 10r and the iPhone 11.

So the screens are essentially the same as far as the pixel density. If the colors look pretty bright and vibrant, despite them not being OLED panels, they're all LCD, the black still look really black. What this is going to boil down to is what size do you want? Do you want 4.7? Do you want to go larger to 6.1? You have choice here when it comes to these three devices, and it's nice there's consistency across all of them. So you look at that.399 price point: it's its easy to forgive a lot of things yeah! You wish the phone was OLED, but that's easily forgivable here to get under that $400 price point I think the trade-off that Apple made is really a good one. They perfected these LCD panels.

They may not be the best screens out there, but they're definitely going to be amongst the best screens for the price. I think that themes kind of holds true for pretty much everything about the iPhone SE. So, aside from screen, I think camera is perhaps the biggest reason that people buy phones and the narrative used to be that if you were getting in an expensive phone are usually going to get a less quality of a camera and that narrative is kind of change over recent years and it kind of continues with the iPhone S II. You are still getting a perfect camera, starting at the four-hundred price point so with the 12 megapixel camera and as far as we can tell it's the same physical camera hardware that we have with the iPhone 8. Just with now the processing power of the 13 Bionic, that's also found in the iPhone 11, and you might not think that processing power is going to make that big a difference.

But you couple in a bit older optics with modern processing power, or you get is a perfect combination. So you look at all of these three phones. It's probably not gonna, be much of a surprise that the most expensive, iPhone 11 is gonna. Give you the most from hardware perspective. It's got two cameras.

We've got more versatility in there, but the iPhone SE and the iPhone 10 are we're surprisingly similar and if you could say one thing about apples, cameras on all their phones, they've been pretty consistent, they're generally, some version of good in almost every setting. So one big omission with the SE is a night mode. If you said something, that's important to you, you are going to want to go for the iPhone 11. It's only one of the three then offer it I'd be happy to make that trade-off, though, for the price pretty much. Every picture here came out.

Looking good, if you're in high light situations, you're outdoors you're taking pictures of your kids photos are going to look really amazing. You see some artifacts in low-light I think that situation, where you start to see that perhaps this isn't a flagship camera at least flagship by 2020 standards, but any other situation. These look good. So video is kind of interesting story between these phones and Serve. Keeping with that theme of photography, the iPhone 11, the most expensive option is going to give you a bit more.

You've got HDR and video with 4k 60, which is certainly nice to have. If you sort of pull that out, all three phones can shoot 4k 60, and do it really well in the video is where I think the iPhone SE is going to absolutely decimate the competition that is out there. Apples always done video really well, but now bringing that video prowess to that under foreign dollar price point is absolutely awesome. So, looking at these three phones now that we've seen camera and video capabilities, there are 200 bucks that separate the base I phone, SE and 10 are and 300 that separate the base SE and the base iPhone 11 is that a price premium that you were willing to pay the iPhone SE to ten are based just on camera prowess is not a $200 difference. Look at the difference from the SE to the iPhone 11.

Then it becomes a choice. Do you want that? HDR in video? Do you want night mode? Do you want that extra wide angle? I could see that being useful to a lot of people. I like having wide-angle shots. Furthermore, I could probably just fight a lot easier for the 11 versus the SE. Then I could from the 10 R versus the SE.

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But what you are getting is a really powerful, fast phone. That's not going too be much of a surprise right. Apple phones are generally fast. You couple their flagship processor, with a lower resolution screen and now plenty of RAM, and you get a really fast experience. You have the older processor at the 12 in the 10 R, which is still extremely capable.

What you're getting with the iPhone S II, is the presumed five years of software update, which is amazing and kind of can nae at a phone at that price point. But looking at these phones, the biggest difference and the trade-off there, you have to decide. If you want to make, is touch ID versus face ID an apple is perfected, touch ID! It's perfect! Here, it's the best version of a physical fingerprint reader on a phone now, ordinarily I would give a big knock to the iPhone at sea. I prefer facial unlock I think it works great for third party authentication. It's fast, what's important that you don't have to think about it, but I'd be hard-pressed to not say you know what I could happily give up face, ID to get a phone that capable and that powerful as the iPhone SE.

The other differences here, two smaller things you might not notice so IP rating, the iPhone SE and the iPhone 10 are- is ip67, whereas the iPhone 11 is IP 68, the iPhone SD and the iPhone 11. Actually, both support gigabit LTE. We don't get that with the iPhone.10 are that's also true with Wi-Fi 6, which is on the SE, not on the 10r, but also on the 11. So Apple is sort of spatial awareness chip, the u1. How you can sort of point your phone that things and makes airdrop a bit easier? It's in the iPhone 11, it's not in the 10r and the SE, so I think Apple is pretty well known for good battery life.

There, at least like standby time, has been awesome on all of their phones. Now the battery in the iPhone SE to get it that thin and light. It's not that big, allegedly it's just under 2,000 million power, so we'll test that a bit more, but you can use the iPhone 8 as a judge. It should easily get you through a day and the iPhone 10 are, and the iPhone 11 have really stellar about your life. Even for the most power users, you can generally get through a full day doing almost anything.

That is one of the benefits of having that low resolution screen it's not as power-hungry as a higher resolution. Displays tend to be so for the first time in the iPhone world in a while the price, the phone that you want to buy. It can determine the features that you want. If camera is the most important thing to you want a versatility of wide-angle, and you shoot a lot of stuff at night. The iPhone 11 is a great choice to go.

If you want the fastest phone out to the most modern processor, then you can go for the iPhone SE or the iPhone 11, as I went through this whole process. It kind of became apparent immediately that the iPhone 10 R was kind of the odd man out with the same pixel density, but the lesser processor, a more expensive price becomes harder to recommend the iPhone 10 arm had a wager. It'd, probably be the next phone on a plus charge and I find it interesting that Apple is competing, obviously against the whole Android world, but also competing with themselves. You've got three choices of phones to buy and suppose of Apple figures. If they're going to be cannibalized by anyone, it might as well be themselves and I give them credit for using what appears to be a stale design with the iPhone SE, because the price to manufacture that was so low that they're giving users I think for the first time.

I can remember not a basic to complain about price, especially for an iPhone. So what I can say with some degree of certainty is look past sin the 10r I, don't think that's the iPhone to buy anymore, despite being still Apple's, most popular phone. If you don't need that extra wide-angle camera you're, not shooting a lot of phones at night, I think the iPhone S II is kind of the perfect phone for almost everybody.

Source : Jon Rettinger