On March 31, 2016, the iPhone SE arrived on the market, a renewed interior of the iPhone 5s that came to cover that market in which Apple does not have a presence, that of the mid-range of mobile telephony. With a price quite distant from the current models, it became an almost instantaneous best seller despite criticism, however, it was soon affected by the size of its screen and its limited autonomy.
Apple has just presented the iPhone SE (2020) the worthy successor to the iPhone SE using a formula that the company has already received successes. We tell you everything you need to know about the new iPhone SE (2020), its price, its features and all the news.
Design: The Formula for Success
If it worked at the time, we can't find any reason why it can't work now. We are obviously referring to the fact that Apple wanted to recycle the design of the iPhone 5s in the iPhone SE years ago. Obviously this supposes a very important saving in the costs of design and manufacture of the device, What inevitably results in a significant reduction in price, is that Apple usually uses the highest quality materials in the manufacture of its devices and designing them is not exactly easy.
For its part, this iPhone SE (2020) inherits the design of the last iPhone that had a Touch ID button. On the outside it is practically identical, Apple takes a step back in the integration of Face ID but it does not leave only the iPhone SE (2020), and that is that the iPad 10.2 follows the same pattern of frames and Home button. For its part we have aluminum for the chassis, a glass rear and a single sensor in the camera, as happened at the time with the iPhone XR. The device It will be sold in white / silver, space gray and a characteristic red of the company's Product (RED) campaign. Of course, all devices share the front in black.
Regarding the water resistance, The iPhone 8 from which this version inherits the design featured IP67 certified water, splash and dust resistance, something that is presumed remains in this new edition of the device. Definitely, at the design level Apple has not risked much, and although it continues to show itself as a product certainly adequate in manufacturing quality, we have mixed feelings about returning to a panel of those dimensions with frames and a physical button, have we turned back years suddenly?
Hardware: Lamb on the outside, wolf on the inside
This iPhone SE (2020), as it happened in its day with the iPhone SE, houses much more inside than we could imagine, and that is that Apple not only manufactured this device to welcome new users reluctant to invest four figures in a device, but also makes them to last, like everything they make. That is why Apple has decided to put at the heart of this iPhone SE (2020) the Apple A13 processor, the same one that mounts the iPhone 11 Pro and the iPhone 11 Pro Max.
Power in abundance in the absence of memory data RAM that Apple saves so suspiciously but that everything indicates that they are 3GB as in the case of the iPhone XR. For its part, we will have three versions of storage starting from the 64GB, an intermediate model with 128GB and a higher one with 256GB that will increase their price in a totally proportional way. This is also an advance over the storage that the iPhone 8 was offering in its catalog so far, starting from the 32GB base, clearly insufficient for everyday use today. Needless to say, as usual, we don't have memory expansion.
Well known screen and camera
We have in the back a single 12MP sensor with 1.8nm f / 1,4 aperture and the classic Dual-Tone Flash that the Cupertino company has been building for a long time. Obviously we have optical image stabilization and Smart HDR to improve the quality of the content. We have some software features shared with the latest Apple models as well as 4K 60FPS recording. A sufficient camera, but no frills. The same is said of the front of 7 MP with f / 2.2 aperture and 1080p recording at 60FPS.
The screen of 4,7 inches has HD resolution as it happened at the time in the iPhone 8. It inherits all its features like the True Tone, the Haptic Touch capability (we lose the 3D Touch) and it is still one of the best LCD panels on the market in terms of color reproduction and brightness. At these levels, the iPhone SE (2020) does not advance practically anything in terms of the iPhone 8 if we talk about screen, sound and autonomy. We do not have specific data on the mAh that the iPhone SE battery mounts (2020) but we presume that it will be around 2691 mAh of the iPhone 8, or will Apple have managed to increase it?
Introductory price and availability
Apple has had to make a "presentation" very sideways on this occasion due to the current market situation and the restrictions of the global health emergency that we are experiencing. For these reasons we can already fully access the information about the device and its purchase through the official Apple website. Be that as it may, you will not be able to physically go to the store to get your unit, so it may be that for the first time in many years the photographs of the many lines in the Apple Store will be avoided with each of the launches.
The iPhone SE (2020) can be reserved on April 17 and the first deliveries will be made on April 24. These are the expected prices:
- iPhone SE (2020) - 64GB: 489 euros
- iPhone SE (2020) - 128GB: 539 euros
- iPhone SE (2020) - 256GB: 589 euros
Both the iPhone 8 screen protectors and the covers with the current model will be compatible despite the slight aesthetic adjustments to which the device has been subjected as has happened previously with other devices of the company. Now it only remains to see if the iPhone SE (2020) really becomes the best-seller that can be expected from it. We take this opportunity to remember that You will get a free year of Apple TV + for the purchase of this product.