- Apple just released the iPhone SE 3.
However, they forgot to mention.
- Actually they intentionally left out.
- A lot of really important details about this phone.
But to get the whole story,
we need to go back to the iPhone SE 2
which was released in 2020.
- The biggest complaint
about the second generation iPhone SE was battery life.
It has this small battery, it's a small phone.
1821 milliamp hours.
And it's the same amount as the iPhone 8
which was the previous generation of the iPhone SE
- Yes, so when apple announced the iPhone SE 3
they said it'll have better battery life.
- IPhone SE has even better battery life.
With the efficiency of A15 Bionic, integration with iOS,
our latest battery chemistry and internal design updates.
- So it is sure the A15 Bionic chip
will make it a more efficient phone,
should cut down on battery life.
Additionally, Apple said the battery is going to be bigger
than the iPhone SE 2.
But how much bigger, we don't know,
especially because the form factor is the same.
- But that's not all.
- But that's not the whole story,
we need to go back even further.
- Into the future.
(air whooshing)
We need to talk about a great new feature
of the iPhone SE 3 5G.
- Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.
- 5G and battery life don't get along.
- Nope.
- The 5G is a battery drainer,
especially in the newer phones
that's why there is smart data mode.
Because they know that the battery's gonna drain quickly.
Although the A15 is faster
and even if the battery's a little bit larger
it's not like they're gonna make a miracle
and stick a huge battery in there.
Even if it's a little bit larger,
it's still gonna have problems with battery life.
But that's not the whole story about 5G either,
is it David?
- Yeah, Apple said it as 5G.
What they didn't say is that it doesn't have
millimeter wave 5G.
- And we're bringing 5G to our most affordable iPhone.
- Millimeter wave is the fastest 5G
that they're always bragging about.
It doesn't go through walls or windows
and it only works outside and very limited range.
We don't love it.
But I'm just saying here that they're saying it has 5G
but it doesn't have the same 5G
as the iPhone 12 and the iPhone 13 do.
It's not nearly as fast.
And that's not even the whole story.
- Well, and we should also say I mean,
that might be good for battery life
but it doesn't have the millimeter wave 5G.
- Yeah, and what I noticed about the phone
and the reason I actually went on Apple's website
to look this up
aside from just being generally very smart
is that the shape of the phone is like the iPhone 8
and the iPhone 6, essentially.
And I was thinking to myself,
how are they gonna stick the antennas,
the high band antennas that are in the iPhone 12
behind this window here in the 13 in this phone.
And the answer is they didn't. - They didn't.
- They left them off the phone.
But that isn't the whole story either.
Next we're gonna talk about MIMO,
which stands for what David?
- Multiple input and multiple output.
- So the way antennas work on phones now
is that they, to have multiple antennas
and then they sort of combine the signals
both in and out to get more bandwidth.
The iPhone 12 and 13 have a four by four antenna array.
So four in, four out.
The iPhone SE 3 has a two by two array.
Worked for Noah
but is it gonna work for this phone?
Not as well, not as fast.
So the 5G on the iPhone SE 3
it's just not nearly as fast
- But that's not the whole story.
- But that's not all.
If you wanna stay up to date with the whole story
because we've said many times today
that that's not the whole story.
But we know the whole story,
at least we think we do.
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just saying, that would be really cool of you.
- We also pre-ordered an iPhone SE 3
to try it out ourselves and get a hands on experience.
I almost feel like this phone came out two years too early
because the C-band just isn't there yet.
I think the 5G battery issues
combined with just the smaller battery are gonna be problem.
- And if you didn't understand what he just said
definitely subscribe to our channel
where we talk about things like C-band.
(indistinct) C-band's not there yet.
- Let's talk about the physical battery of this phone
for a second.
So Apple did say it's going to be larger,
they didn't say how much.
The iPhone SE 2 has an 1821 milliamp hour battery.
We've seen some rumor mill websites say
it'll be around 2200 milliamp hours.
Not so sure about that.
- Yeah. I mean that's much bigger.
But how do these batteries compare
to the other iPhones that are in the lineups
like the iPhone 10, 11, 12.
Much smaller.
- So 2200 milliamp hours is 500 less than the iPhone 10
which came out a pretty long time ago.
So it's a lot smaller than even some older iPhones.
- Right, it's like 25% less almost.
But that's not the whole story either, is it David.
- Nope.
- If you watched the event,
you saw some very interesting graphics
about the CPU performance and the GPU performance.
But on that graph, something was missing.
Let's see if you can find out what it is.
- The four core GPU is great
for graphics intensive use cases
and delivers a monumental improvement for people upgrading.
- What's missing from this graphic is the iPhone SE 2,
the previous generation.
How much faster is it than that phone.
- 1.2
- 1.2 times faster.
It is on Apple's website.
So it's not like they're totally hiding it
but it would've been a much less impressive graph
for the presentation.
- I mean, a lot of people aren't going to these specs pages
like we are though and actually seeing,
lining things up.
Well think oh, that's fishy.
There's something fishy about that.
And then we go and do some research
and sure enough.
They can't lie, lie.
It's a lie of omission rather than commission.
- Yeah.
And you know that's not even the whole story
about this phone.
There is some other things that we both noticed
about this phone that it's lacking compared to newer phones.
So no ultra wide band for spatial awareness
that's used for directional tag tracking.
- Right, if you wanna track your own air tags people,
your own around like this and find them, can't do it.
- Apple said that this iPhone
has the strongest glass of any iPhone, which might be true
but it doesn't have ceramic shield.
- It doesn't?
- Nope.
- Unbelievable.
'Cause I thought that was it.
I didn't think there was anything more.
- No, ceramic shield not with this phone.
Also no mag safe.
- Mag safe is pretty cool.
By this point I think we should
be getting it now on all the phones, just saying.
- So it feels like this phone is just kind of lazy.
I actually watched MKBHDs video on this
and he pointed out that SE stands for special edition.
But this is like the most predictable bland phone ever.
It's like oh, iPhone SE 2.
We're gonna give it 5G and a slightly better.
Slap a 429 price on and call it a day.
- What phone is this really?
The iPhone 6s, S7, S8, SE 2s.
So that's six s.
- It's not great.
- It's the same as the iPhone 6,
just a lot faster, different internal components.
- Right.
So we're not gonna say don't buy this phone
'cause we're actually gonna take a look at it.
- We're actually buying the phone.
- We did buy the phone.
- But we have an ulterior motive.
- Yeah, we're gonna test it out
and do some settings videos with it.
Don't upgrade your SE 2 for this,
it's not worth it.
- No, it's not.
- And you might not even want to upgrade
your iPhone 10 to this or anything like this.
If you have an iPhone 10 or newer or an SE 2,
not worth the upgrade.
You know who else is not gonna upgrade to this phone?
- Sigrid Gee, Faith Schaafsma.
Dee Smith, it's the letter D.
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- They said it has 5G,
they didn't say that doesn't include the millimeter...
They said it has 5G.
What they didn't say
is that the iPhone SE 3 doesn't have millimeter.
I did it again, millimeter
- But that's not the whole story about 5G either.
But that's not the whole story about 5G either.
See, I was so good before.