hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and this is the iphone se for 2022. this is apple's third
generation iphone se and i want to talk about the good and the bad to help you decide if this phone
would be right for you now i've been using this full time with my sim card in it for about four
to five days so i could get an overall feeling what it's like to use full time is my phone so i
took my sim card out of my 13 pro max transferred all of my data and i've been using it full time
now the first good thing is the price it starts at 429 dollars for 64 gigabytes
and some people may say 64 gigabytes is not enough but it was actually more than enough for me and
that's what i'm using now but for 50 more dollars you can step up to 128 or for 579 you can get 256.
at that price i'm not sure it's a great deal but with the trading offers you may even be able to
get this for close to free if not free overall so just depends on your carrier what deals they have
and those sorts of things so for the price overall i think that's a good thing about this phone
the other good thing is touch id and in an era where we have to wear masks at certain
places still while traveling or in different countries it makes it super simple to unlock
your phone so just place your thumb down or your finger and it immediately unlocks i know
a lot of people really like touch id it's something i still appreciate and in general
it's great to use just for everyday use because it's fast and you don't always have to look
at your phone to unlock it take it out of your pocket at the same time and unlock it like that
the overall familiarity of the design is nice too we've had the same design since the iphone 6
updated with the iphone 8 with the glass back and that's a good thing for some people and
not so much for others one thing i found is that it's very slippery coming from a 13 pro max with
squared off edges to the rounded corners of this se putting a case on it of course would definitely
solve that issue but one nice thing about it is when you move your finger from edge to edge you've
got that rounded corner i forgot about that when i've been using the squared off 13 pro max so that
was very nice it's a nice smooth transition when you're going between apps and different screens
it's really nice to use that but it is a bit slippery and my hands are huge so it's a little
small and sometimes i almost dropped it but i was able to manage not to drop it after using it
for those days now the overall speed of this of course is no compromise it's got the a15 bionic
with four gigs of ram just like the iphone 13 and 13 mini so it's as fast as the latest phones
it just zips through everything no problem you want to open the camera you've got the camera go
back out maybe go into the app store wait for it to load here we'll give it just a second i haven't
opened it in a while it loads going to music to go back out go back to the camera it's just super
fast all the time whether that be for apps or the latest games there's no slow down and of course
you'll be able to play whatever you'd like another good thing is the display the display looks great
it has good viewing angles and of course we've had it for a while and being that it's an lcd
it has no pwm or pulse width modulation to control brightness meaning that it flashes the
display faster or slower to control brightness this phone does not have that because it's lcd
so apple's oled phones the latest 13 13 mini 13 pro and pro max use that to control brightness as
you bring it down and up it's flashing the screen at different rates and that can cause people to
feel nauseated or give them eye strain and so this doesn't have it you don't have to worry
about it if that's something you're sensitive to however it's very few people and about 1 in 10
so even the pro and pro max do a better job of that this time around with some dc dimming
this doesn't have any of that so it's fine for that it also has decent viewing angles
and goes up to 625 nits of brightness and allows you to use hdr as far as video goes
so here's one of my youtube videos you'll see here if i go into the settings we have up to 4k or
2160p hdr so we can watch hdr video on here just knotted its max brightness above a thousand nits
the speakers sound pretty good so you have one on the bottom like you normally do and one at the top
they have a good stereo sound let me go ahead and hit play so you can hear them as well
now the speakers overall sound pretty good they're not incredibly loud but they do get
a little bit muddy at the highest volumes but they sound good as far as stereo sound
and they definitely do the job well now with this year's iphone se we do have 5g with the
sub 6 version of 5g but not millimeter wave and you'll see currently i'm on lte
it will switch back and forth where i am right now let's put it on airplane mode turn that back off
and see what we've got and we'll probably get some 5g as you can see here so two bars of 5g
uc and this does seem to do a better job as far as overall reception and switching between 5g and 4g
as compared to my iphone 13 and 13 pro what the difference is i'm not sure but it definitely seems
a little better so let's go ahead and run speed test we'll see what we get with two bars of 5g
we'll give it just a moment and you'll see we're over 200 megabits per second right now
so to 150 now it's going back down so it varies greatly depending on where you are of course
but we did go pretty fast especially for being kind of in the middle of nowhere so we got 144
there but it did spike and we're getting between five and six megabits per second i've seen this
much higher depending on where we are but in general you can expect good speeds from it
but that 5g will use a little bit of your battery so you could turn that off if you wanted to
as far as the camera goes well you've been seeing the camera from the iphone se this entire video
the entire video is filmed with the iphone se both the front facing camera and 1080p goes
up to 1080p 30 and the rear facing camera goes up to 4k 60. now we don't have hdr like we do on the
13 pro and pro max but we do have all of the a15s capabilities built in so the a15 bionic takes care
of the background takes care of my face make sure it's lit properly and it looks much better than i
think most people think it would now we also have great microphones in fact you've been hearing the
microphone from the iphone se this entire time i'm not wearing an external mic it's just coming
straight from the phone so if you want to put it on a tripod or whatever hand held it hand hold
it or just walk along like this it looks great so i think it's going to be a great small phone
for a lot of people as long as you don't need the latest features so you don't have telephoto zoom
you don't have ultra wide and you don't have night modes but you do get portrait modes
and it does a pretty good job you don't have macro of course that's a pro and pro max option but it
does much better than you would think and i think it's very surprising as far as the quality from
the cameras now overall battery is definitely not as good as i had hoped if we go into the settings
go to battery wait for it to load here i use this you'll see full time for four days and then i've
used it on and off so if we go back here you'll see on this day this was my best day three hours
and 44 minutes of screen on time seven hours of screen off time with a lot of background activity
now some of that did complete but i didn't manage to get better battery life so if we went to
maybe the last day i used it two hours and 31 minutes of screen on time and then three hours
and 23 minutes of screen off time and i used about well 100 percent of my battery so it was not great
depending on the day it did not get me through the day most of the time usually by about 7 pm i would
need to plug it in my iphone 13 pro max will be at about 50 percent by the time i go to bed around
2 a.m so it definitely doesn't last me throughout the day but if you're a light user it will and if
you have an iphone 8 or an earlier sc it will get you better battery life than that it just depends
on how you use it but i used exactly the same as my 13 pro max so all of the same apps all of the
same social media as the key to my car and more so that's probably the first bad thing for me
others may have had different experiences i heard some getting five to seven hours
i just wasn't able to see that now you can charge it wirelessly but you don't have mag
safe so that's one of the bad things you don't have mag safe which is really nice
but you can of course charge it wirelessly or also through the lightning port as well
we also don't have the gestures this is something that took me a while to get used to
if you're coming from a touch id phone it won't be a big deal but maybe you're from a face id phone
where you can typically swipe between different apps and things it's something that i wasn't used
to for a while where you have to double click and go between apps so switching took me a little bit
it's not a huge deal but it was something i had to get used to and then also the control centers
from the bottom not the top so those are kind of the negatives about the phone other than it being
a similar design that we've had for a long time without a refresh i was really hoping they'd put
the touch id button on the side and maybe give us a larger screen but in general it's a super
fast phone and of course we'll get ios updates for years so it has the latest processor you can
expect to ios 20 maybe even 22. we don't know as apple doesn't say but typically they'll support
their phones for at least five years so you'll get updates for years of course you'll probably
need to replace your battery before that point five years out or something along those lines or
maybe you'll get the next version of the iphone se so no issues with that and it's a super fast phone
that i recommend to people that are looking for a phone that's less expensive and has touch id
typically if you're looking for something with the latest features i would opt for maybe an iphone
13 or the 13 pro line but if you want something that's a third or half the cost this will work
fine especially if you don't need the latest features i'd love to hear what you think about
the iphone se in the comments below and whether or not you're picking one up or maybe you'll pass or
maybe get something like an iphone 11. i'd love to hear what you think about it in the comments below
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