hi everyone aaron here for Zollotech and the iPhone se has been out for a couple
of weeks at this point and i've been using it on and off and i
had my sim card in it for a few days and so i wanted to share my overall
impressions of it and help you decide if you should pick one up now there are a
lot of good phones out there right now and
i asked you what was most important in a good phone
and so i did a poll on twitter and what you had to say
is specs and then price were the most important thing
and so with the iphone se you have the latest specs
and you have a fantastic price and so this particular phone
at 399 is an incredible buy as far as what you get internally compared to what
else is out there now the actual phone itself design wise
obviously isn't anything new and i used it on and off for the time
it's been out and used it full time for a few days as well
and it's basically like going back to an iphone 6 or 6 s
7 or 8. only you have the glass back on the back of the phone just like the
iphone 8 that allows for wireless charging
but the outside is identical so for example on the right hand side you've
got your familiar sleep wake button followed by your sim card tray now the
good thing is this is a dual sim in the sense that you have a single sim
card here and then you can use an e sim to
set up another carrier as well on the left hand side of the phone
you have your volume buttons you've got your silent switch and on the top you
don't have anything at all now on the bottom you have your
lightning port along with your speaker and microphone
and there is no headphone jack now of course you could use wireless headphones
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glass like i said before apple has moved the logo to the middle
which is just a nice touch i suppose and then we have our camera microphone
and our led flash now on the front of the phone that's
where it's a little more striking it's a little bit older looking since we don't
have an edge to edge display we have larger bezels with touch id
and for those that like touch id this is super fast
it's very convenient in fact i know people that prefer touch id to face id
and i'm sort of up in the air about it i kind of like either one it just depends
on the situation i think touch id is much faster to get
into the phone but with things like passwords and
things i think face id is better so it really just depends on what you like
most now the large bezels may be striking to some it may seem
antiquated at this point but i don't think as many people mind especially for
the people that will purchase a phone in this price segment so i don't think
people care about that as much they care more about
price and specs like i said now the front-facing display is over 300 pixels
per inch which is the most important thing resolution sort of
scales with the size of the screen and and is less important than pixel density
for example the new ipads pro everyone loves that display but it's
below 300 pixels per inch but because you're holding it far away
you don't necessarily need a higher pixel density the resolution scales with
the size of the device and that is less relevant than the
actual display and its quality and pixel density
so its viewing angles are great and it will even play 1080p
youtube videos so in my youtube video here you can see we have the option of
1080p now the display is closer to 720p but
the os handles this and scales it appropriately
so that you get the most out of your display so it's just scaling that image
whether it be 720p or 1080p or even below that
or higher than that it will scale it to fit the display and use the available
pixels that it has so the only complaint i would have about
the display is it may be a little bit too small for some people that like
larger phones such as the iphone 11 pro max and that's where we talk about the
size a little bit here because the size is perfect for some and not
perfect for others so for example for me the iphone se is a
super tiny phone now i've used a phone this size in the past for quite some
time all the way back to the original iphone
but now it just feels super small the iphone 11 pro max in my hand to give
you an idea my hands are very large so the 11 pro max works best for me
because i can wrap my hand around it where as i can
do more than that with the iphone se so it just depends on what works for you
as far as the size goes but for some this is going to be the perfect size
phone for others not as much now overall usability is
great the phone never feels slow in fact if we go back
into minecraft i had this open before just has to reload here quick since i
rebooted the phone and we can get into this nice and fast
and we'll wait for it here and there we go and once it loads you'll
see it's nice and fast and that's because it has
apple's a13 bionic cpu so when you're playing a game like this maybe we'll
exit out go into music scroll through
maybe we'll go back here wait for it to resume it will take a second to resume
and we're back in so you really won't experience any issues as far as playing
any of the most recent games running 4k video apps maybe you want to
export video render video or even edit video on this
smaller display you can do that and it will handle it with no problem
now it does only have three gigabytes of ram and that's not really an issue
because the iphone 10r has three gigabytes of
ram as you can see here and running cpu and gpu compute tests
it handles it just fine it's super fast and
it's basically some people are saying maybe the cpu is scaled down
but the single core scores and multi-core scores are very close to that
of the iphone 11 pro max and should be because it has the same cpu inside
now one thing that cpu does with its neural engine is allows for better
augmented reality and better camera or photo ability
and so for example on the back of this we have a typical 12 megapixel camera
from the iphone 8 but because we're using the neural
engine it's actually a much better camera in many ways
so for example this entire video is being recorded with an iphone se
and just an external microphone so the beginning of the video was recorded
just with the sc without an external mic but this part is completely recorded
with an iphone se and so this should give you an idea of
overall quality now as far as video options we have up to 4k
60 but because we're running at 4k 30 we get a little bit better image because
it's processing the image in real time as we're using the video camera
using that neural engine to calculate all of the different changes to give us
the best video available and so you do have
options such as portrait mode but it's only for people but it will blur the
background in real time as you can see here
around my face it's blurred around the outside
and also you have portrait mode on the rear camera but you don't have the
ability to do that with objects so if i put the iphone in here you'll
see it says no person detected if i put a person or a bobble head here
it will it'll send a person i'll be able to snap the photo
and you'll see that it took the photo no problem so
we have that option just for people just like the iphone 10r
now here's a few samples of video and photo in real world
just to give you an idea of what it looks like
now the speakers are quite good as well so we'll turn this on here
play my video turn it up this is every phone that apple currently
sells new on their website they go nice and loud and they're nice
stereo sounding as well so you have both a top speaker and a bottom firing
speaker to give you a nice stereo sound they're really quite good and you should
have really great sound from this if you're
using it just to play audio or of course you could use it with
headphones and things like that now this phone is fantastic but there are two
things that you may want to consider when
picking this up if you're coming from an iphone 6s or 6s plus or one of those
phones you will no longer have 3d touch in fact
the chipset that handles the pressure sensitivity of the display is no longer
there so you can haptic press and you'll still
get the same options except for when you're in notifications
so if we go into a notification if we press
it's not really doing anything sometimes it does sometimes it doesn't it depends
on the different apps and it may be a deal breaker for some
people for me it's not personally but if you're really using 3d touch all over
the place this just doesn't have it and no modern
iphone has it the iphone 11 series don't have it the iphone 10r doesn't have it
so just keep that in mind one other thing to consider is the size of the
battery the battery in this phone is literally half the size or smaller
than that of the iphone 11 pro max and that's simply just due to physics
there's not enough room to put a larger battery inside the iphone se
since it's a smaller phone it takes up about this entire side
of the phone so it will get you through the day for most people and in fact let
me show you my battery life when i used it full time here
we'll go down to battery life and the days that i used it full time i had
three hours and 32 minutes of screen on time 33 minutes of screen off time
the next day i got two hours and 20 minutes now this was not the entire
battery it was 50 to 75 percent depending on
which day it was so most people are getting four to five
hours of screen on time four and a half to five and a half it just depends on
how you're using it but you'll see i used it pretty heavily
with email and youtube and twitter and that was my normal battery life and
then i wirelessly charged it at night place it on the wireless charger and
it's charging so as you can see here let's place it back
on the charger and now it's charging so you have that
option which is nice especially if you're coming from a phone that doesn't
have a wireless charging capability and in general this is a great phone
especially if you like small phones for me personally it's a little bit too
small and the display is harder to read because of its size but if you really
like a small phone this could be for you for me the
11 pro max works best but it's not any different as far as the
experience the only difference is you've got triple
cameras on the the larger phone and a little bit better front facing
camera otherwise it's basically the same so the iphone se is for those people
that still want a small phone but also want all the newest features
so for a low price you get the latest chipset
you've got a good camera in it and a decent microphone good speakers
and just in general it's a great phone for the price
but let me know what you think in the comments below and if you picked one up
or if you'd rather have a larger phone maybe an
se plus if they come out with that later on let me know in the comments below of
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