At a time when the telephony market seems stagnant and manufacturers are struggling to launch poorly finished, poorly functional prototypes on the market at stratospheric pricesApple has made a surprising move with its new iPhone SE that leaves the ball in the court of the competition.
The iPhone SE has not been announced in the middle of a massive event, probably even without the current situation that has everyone confined to home it would have happened in the same way. It is not a phone that will win the award for best smartphone of the yearIt's not even going to grab big headlines or spectacular reviews. It arrives with an outdated design in the eyes of many, with frames from another era and a reduced screen size, but everyone who sees these flaws of the iPhone SE is out of its market.
If we see the big announcements of late 2019 and early 2020 we will see spectacular phones with folding screens and astronomical prices. If we are a little more rational and do not let ourselves be carried away by the fireworks, what we will have will be smartphones that now shamelessly surpass the $ 1000 barrier, the one that just a couple of years ago seemed unbreakable by anyone and that Apple It cost great criticism when he dared to overcome it with his iPhone X. Numerous lenses for cameras, "infinite" screens, more RAM than many professional laptops and a long list of specifications that try to justify the exorbitant price of the terminal, including Apple's iPhone 11 Pro and Mac Pro in this category, of course.
And in the middle of all this Apple launches its iPhone SE. Small, old-fashioned, with a single lens for your camera. an LCD screen and a fingerprint sensor in one button! No facial recognition or ultrasonic sensors to recognize your fingerprint, no dark mode for the camera, no 120Hz screen, and with gigantic frames. How can Apple dare to launch a terminal of this type in the middle of 2020?
The iPhone SE It includes the A13 processor, the most advanced that Apple has made and the same as the iPhone 11 and 11 Pro. A processor whose power is beyond doubt, in fact at the moment it is the most powerful that exists in a mobile device. Also included are 3GB of RAM, and a storage capacity that starts at 64GB. Made of aluminum and glass, with top-level finishes, and with a first-class LCD screen with a 326 dpi resolution and True Tone. Of course it includes wireless charging and fast charging using an 18W Power Delivery charger (not included) that gives you 50% charge in just 30 minutes.
The camera will not occupy the top positions in DxOMark, but it is very similar to the one included in the iPhone XR, with the possibility of using Portrait Mode (only with people) and with the same Smart HDR function as the iPhone 11 thanks to the A13 processor, which will help improve the camera to place it between the XR and the iPhone 11 thanks to the image processing. This processor is also essential for recording 4K 60fps video. Let's add to everything we have said in these last two paragraphs and add updates for at least 4 years (or more), all Apple services, its application store and everything that involves entering the Apple ecosystem in terms of privacy , reliability, etc. Now let's put $ 399 as the price tag.
Probably many of those who read this article, for the simple fact of entering a technology blog, will not see this iPhone SE as an alternative. I myself think that I would never have a phone of this type, simply because of its size and its design, but I go back to what I said at the beginning of the article: this iPhone is not for me, and surely not for you. But there are many people to whom an OLED screen sounds like Chinese, who flee from the huge screens of more than 6 inches, and who you just want a reliable phone that will last you several years and with which you can take more than decent photos and videos, without fear that within a year the phone will be a slow and painful device to use. And all this without having to pay a fortune.
And if we look for something similar in Android I only dared to say that the Pixel 3A can be up to the task, although it is made of plastic, it does not have wireless charging and it is not waterproof. Perhaps the Pixel 4A when it launches can better compete with the new iPhone SE, but unfortunately Google's phone has a sorry distribution and a lot will have to change the thing to be a real competitor for the iPhone SE. While the rest of the manufacturers will continue with their experiments and selling prototypes that should never have left the laboratory.
It only has one drawback, the battery lasts very little, it often has to be recharged. It is not a mobile to be touching it all day, it is for what it should be a phone, calls, wasap, messages, emails, period.
But this battery has a good thing, if it is like the 7 it is durable, the OS will probably be obsolete before it wears out. At least in my case, I have never had degradation or wear problems, working we have a 6s and a 7 for home automation, podcast, music, etc. and they are loaded daily.
This mobile will retire these two at home, it will be a pleasure not to have to put cables!
«Manufacturers are making an effort to launch poorly finished, poorly functional prototypes on the market with stratospheric prices» ... I am an Apple fan but whoever wrote this does not know the Android world!
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The reason the new SE is going to sell millions of units is because in a world that is going to enter a historic recession, Apple will enter it with a very cheap device for sale. They will sell everything!
They couldn't have brought it out at a better time!