2020 iPhone SE : Review
Today we're checking out the brand new iPhone SE. It looks so much like the iPhone 8 that if I didn't know what the iPhone 8 looked like, I wouldn't even know the difference. I happen to have an iPhone 8 here so you can see how it really does look so similar. The new SE is a little bit more white, whereas this has a little more of an eggshell type color.
The iPhone name has been removed, and the logo is now centered. And my iPhone 8 is still running iOS 11. So the front bezels on the new SE, the entire screen is black, so I kinda like this because it looks very seamless, so you can't tell that there are edges around it, it does look like a full screen until you actually turn it on. Whereas the eight has the white bezels to match the white phone. I'm not really sure which one I prefer.
But this looks better off. But I also like the white. I don't know. The iPhone SE comes in three different colors, this is the white, it also comes in black, and a product red. The starting price is 399, and that's actually a really incredible price considering how powerful this little phone is. This is actually running the A13 Bionic chip which is the same chip which is in the iPhone 11. That's gonna have an amazing impact on the performance of this phone. The original SE had a starting price also of 399, and that was in 2016, so Apple is keeping that same price, yet giving it that A13 Bionic chip that is in their highest end lineup right now. This is 1.4 times faster than the original SE, and it also will give you a four times graphics boost. The display is a 4.7 inch HD retina display, and what's great about this, is this is the same size as the iPhone 8, so all of the cases that you may already have for the iPhone 8, or their out there already, will work with the new SE. This also has touch ID, and that's the thing that I never thought that I would really want back until I started having to wear face masks every time I go outside, or, basically do anything. 'Cause guess what doesn't work when your wearing a face mask? Face ID. It's also weird, I kinda missed having a home button. Like, just the haptic feedback on this alone, is just so satisfying, like I've definitely have missed that. One thing that I was very excited about though, is this does have wireless charging. A lot of times when companies are trying to cut costs with their devices, that's the first thing that goes. So the fact that this does have wireless charging is pretty exciting. So the camera is pretty impressive, your still gonna be getting 4K 30, 4K 60, from this rear camera. This is a 12 megapixel camera, the front is a 7 megapixel selfie camera, this also features a cinematic video stabilization, so even if you are shooting at 1080, that extra stabilization will help you shoot way better front-facing videos.
That's pretty stable actually. You can do all of the things that you normally would be able to do on the higher-end phones, like slow-mo, time-lapses. It even has the quick-take video which I always forget about, so if you hold this down and then swipe, this'll automatically start recording a video. I don't know why I can never remember that that's a thing, but it is. I shoot a lot of these videos in just mono audio, so when I am shooting something in stereo it's always crazy to hear the difference. So I'm gonna shoot a quick video here. All right we are testing out the video, right now I'm shooting in 4K, so you guys can see the stereo audio, so maybe if I go over here, I'm over here. So like I've mentioned you can take portrait photos on the front and the back, so let's just take a regular photo first. It's really cool though because this will actually shoot up to 4K 60, so you can still get 4K and slow down the 60, to get some nice cinematic slow-mo. So let's try that out now. This is a really bad, this is a bad demo. Good thing it's water resistant. Why is this foaming? What is happening? I didn't like that. Why does my hose look like a space ship? I don't know. I do plan on doing a way more extensive test with some moment lenses. That you're gonna be doing on your phone. This is the phone for you...
Today we're checking out the brand new iPhone SE. It looks so much like the iPhone 8 that if I didn't know what the iPhone 8 looked like, I wouldn't even know the difference. I happen to have an iPhone 8 here so you can see how it really does look so similar. The new SE is a little bit more white, whereas this has a little more of an eggshell type color.
The iPhone name has been removed, and the logo is now centered. And my iPhone 8 is still running iOS 11. So the front bezels on the new SE, the entire screen is black, so I kinda like this because it looks very seamless, so you can't tell that there are edges around it, it does look like a full screen until you actually turn it on. Whereas the eight has the white bezels to match the white phone. I'm not really sure which one I prefer.
But this looks better off. But I also like the white. I don't know. The iPhone SE comes in three different colors, this is the white, it also comes in black, and a product red. The starting price is 399, and that's actually a really incredible price considering how powerful this little phone is. This is actually running the A13 Bionic chip which is the same chip which is in the iPhone 11. That's gonna have an amazing impact on the performance of this phone. The original SE had a starting price also of 399, and that was in 2016, so Apple is keeping that same price, yet giving it that A13 Bionic chip that is in their highest end lineup right now. This is 1.4 times faster than the original SE, and it also will give you a four times graphics boost. The display is a 4.7 inch HD retina display, and what's great about this, is this is the same size as the iPhone 8, so all of the cases that you may already have for the iPhone 8, or their out there already, will work with the new SE. This also has touch ID, and that's the thing that I never thought that I would really want back until I started having to wear face masks every time I go outside, or, basically do anything. 'Cause guess what doesn't work when your wearing a face mask? Face ID. It's also weird, I kinda missed having a home button. Like, just the haptic feedback on this alone, is just so satisfying, like I've definitely have missed that. One thing that I was very excited about though, is this does have wireless charging. A lot of times when companies are trying to cut costs with their devices, that's the first thing that goes. So the fact that this does have wireless charging is pretty exciting. So the camera is pretty impressive, your still gonna be getting 4K 30, 4K 60, from this rear camera. This is a 12 megapixel camera, the front is a 7 megapixel selfie camera, this also features a cinematic video stabilization, so even if you are shooting at 1080, that extra stabilization will help you shoot way better front-facing videos.
That's pretty stable actually. You can do all of the things that you normally would be able to do on the higher-end phones, like slow-mo, time-lapses. It even has the quick-take video which I always forget about, so if you hold this down and then swipe, this'll automatically start recording a video. I don't know why I can never remember that that's a thing, but it is. I shoot a lot of these videos in just mono audio, so when I am shooting something in stereo it's always crazy to hear the difference. So I'm gonna shoot a quick video here. All right we are testing out the video, right now I'm shooting in 4K, so you guys can see the stereo audio, so maybe if I go over here, I'm over here. So like I've mentioned you can take portrait photos on the front and the back, so let's just take a regular photo first. It's really cool though because this will actually shoot up to 4K 60, so you can still get 4K and slow down the 60, to get some nice cinematic slow-mo. So let's try that out now. This is a really bad, this is a bad demo. Good thing it's water resistant. Why is this foaming? What is happening? I didn't like that. Why does my hose look like a space ship? I don't know. I do plan on doing a way more extensive test with some moment lenses. That you're gonna be doing on your phone. This is the phone for you...
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