hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and the iPhone se has been out for quite
some time it was released in March of 2016 over four years ago and in January
of 2019 Apple started offering it refurbished again and so in this video I
wanted to help you decide whether or not you should pick one up or maybe get
something newer and a lot of people like this smaller phone but if you want to
jump around to any part of the video you want to see specifically where I
mentioned things like the battery the specs gaming and things like that check
the description for all of the time codes where I've linked all of the times
when I talk about those things now the first thing is the iPhone se is no
longer sold new by Apple but they started selling them refurbished like I
said but then they stopped so you can't buy these refurbished or new from Apple
at the the website or at the Apple Store however you can find them used or
refurbished at many other places and I did some research on this and was able
to find it for about seventy to a hundred and sixty dollars that's
everywhere from eBay to Amazon to gazelle and if you look online you'll
probably find it for around that price and you have options of 16 to 128
gigabytes for storage and if you want to get one for under $100 you can pretty
easily do that and get it with 64 gigabytes of storage so it's really
reasonable right now if you wanted to pick one up and it still supports iOS 13
whether or not it supports iOS 14 well I'll talk about that at the end of the
video now this was available in four different colors this is the rose gold
color and it was also available in space grey silver and gold and it's pretty
easy to find any of those colors today the design is pretty classic you've got
your overall squared off design and this was a replacement design basically for
the iPhone 4 and 4s which was a really loved design and a lot of people
including myself would love to see this design brought back with the iPhone 12
or even this sort of design but with the iPhone 5 5 s and the se they all have
this nice aluminum frame it's squared off at the edges with a nice bezel and
on the back you have glass on the top and bottom and this is to make room for
not only the camera and flash but also the antenna the
now this phone actually gets a really good reception and LTE is really good in
it there's no issues with that because of the actual design of where the
antennas are now the squared off design makes it nice to hold in your hand and
on this side you'll see that they've integrated the SIM card tray here and
then on the bottom we still have the headphone jack so if you're still
someone that wants to use the headphone jack you'll have it available here you
also have a microphone and a speaker and your lightning cable or a lightning
connector on the bottom now on the left hand side you have rounded volume
buttons which I really like I think I'd like to see Apple bring some of this
back along with the silent or vibrate switch so that works really well and
then on the front of course it's that classic iPhone design so you've got your
home button with touch ID on the bottom you've got your forward facing camera at
the top with your earpiece and your display and this display it's not a very
big display but this is sort of a phone that I think a lot of people really
still like today because of its size now it does look a little bit goofy in my
hands but a lot of people really like it especially if you have smaller hands you
can easily reach across the display and I don't know that we're going to see
this size ever again because the rumored iPhone se 2 or iPhone 9 whatever it's
called and by the time you're watching this video you may already know about it
but the phone itself looks to be as though it's going to be the size of an
iPhone 8 so the next iPhone se may be a much larger phone and we won't have this
nice small size for those that want the town back to option so we may only have
this larger phone as an option and if that's the case this will be the last
small phone that may be worth picking up now this display is four inches it's 640
by 11:36 with 326 pixels per inch so it's got the same pixel density as
something such as the iPhone XR the iPhone 8 the iPhone 11 so you've got the
same amount of pixels per inch it's a Retina display but it is lacking
a few things on the display itself so for example if I go into the display
settings will go into display and brightness you'll see there's no option
for true tone like we have on today's displays so
on the iPhone 11 pro max I have on the left you'll see we have true tone but we
do have night shift on the newer on the iPhone se along with the newer displays
as well so we don't have a know that option it's LCD and it works well it is
not HDR and it doesn't have 3d touch however it does have the equivalent of
haptic touch so you can still press and hold on icons but you won't get the
haptic feedback like you do on the newer phones and the reason for that is this
phone does not have the taptic engine the actual components inside that make
the phone shake or vibrate are different in this phone than they are on new
devices so you won't get any of that you also don't get stereo sound there's
no dual cameras I'll talk about cameras in a moment there's also no IP water or
dust resistance so if you were to drop it into water it might be a problem but
given the price of this phone now that may not be too big of a concern or you
could just use a waterproof case and then finally there's no wireless
charging option because the back is aluminum you can't charge wirelessly but
again you can use the lightning connector to just plug into the bottom
now the specs overall are actually pretty good it's the Apple a9 CPU with 2
gigabytes of RAM it's the same processor that you have in an iPhone 6s and 6s
plus with the same amount of RAM but because you're driving a smaller display
it's actually really smooth to use most of the time so scrolling through here at
the time of this video this actually has iOS 13 point three point one on it and
despite some issues that people were having with it it seems to be okay most
of the time if you're just opening apps such as music everything seems to load
pretty quickly once your internet connection loads all
of the information for album artwork for example using it is just fine and
loading apps such as Minecraft are no problem at all so I have minecraft on
the iPhone 11 pro max here let's go ahead and load them both I've actually
never opened it on the pro max but let's go ahead and open it up so let's go
ahead and hit play will it create new on both of them create new world and then
we'll hit create and both of these are equally playable no problems whatsoever
and let's see which one loads I would expect the newest phone to load
as fast as it did we're already in and ready to go if you compare this iPhone
se with say an iPhone XS Max you may find that the results are a little bit
different the actual frame rates and everything are fine and as long as you
don't mind waiting a few more seconds for something to load you're not going
to have problems playing anything from minecraft to fortnight or anything like
that so you can play whatever game you'd like and it will work fine anything
that's in the App Store should be supported for the most part now the
iPhone se has a fairly small battery compared to today's batteries but some
of that is due to the size of the phone when you have a smaller display you
don't need as much battery to actually power it so this is a 1624 milliamp hour
battery and the current battery on this is the battery health has 90% of its
battery health so generally after two years you should have 80% of your
battery health left this is fine on average you're going to get about
three to five hours of screen on time depending on how you're using the phone
if you're actually playing fortnight or minecraft or something all of the time
expect it to be closer to three or maybe even a little bit lower and that's just
the nature of using the processor that intensive all the time so anytime you're
doing those processor intensive tasks you may get a little bit less battery
life now the camera on the back of the phone is actually pretty nice it's a 12
megapixel camera so it's the same amount of megapixels that we have and then
latest phones but the sensor is a little bit older compared to say an iPhone 11
or 11 Pro so what we have is a 12 megapixel camera with an F 2.2 aperture
it's about 29 millimeters wide and can do 4k 30 video so if you go into the
settings you still have those options to do 4k so under the camera
let's slo-mo under the camera we have 4k 30 if you want to record in that so you
have all of these fairly high-end options with the rear camera it takes
decent pictures it's nice and fast but I wouldn't expect it to be anything
compared to the iPhone 11 pro max if you're trying to blow it up onto a
larger display maybe a large picture frame or something like that
the actual camera itself is decent and I think you'll be pretty happy with it
especially if you're taking phone for Instagram or something along those
lines on this size display it's going to look great so if I go into the photo I
just took here we'll get out of this there it is
it takes live photos you can zoom in and you'll see some of the detail is lacking
there a photo like that's going to be fine on a small display but if you put
it on a large television you're going to notice the lack of detail there now as
far as the forward-facing camera this is where it has a little bit less specs
compared to everything else it only has a 1.2 megapixel camera in the front it's
enough to point for aperture so it's good for FaceTime calls the occasional
selfie but compared to anything else today it's really lacking in that area
and of course because we don't have face ID we don't have an emoji or momochi or
any of those now the important thing for a lot of people is whether or not this
will get IOS 14 and its future support Apple will of course support the
hardware if you need to get it updated there they've continued to support iOS
12 with security updates but with iOS 13 I would actually expect iOS 14 to be on
the iPhone se and the reason I say that is because they were offering it as
recent as last year and they usually support phones for about five years and
now we may or may not see it there are rumors at this current time that it will
be on the iPhone 6s and 6s plus along with the SE but this could change up to
the last minute and we won't know for sure until September of 2020 but either
way if you're looking for a reasonably priced phone with this size that you
don't have to worry about if you actually crack the display because you
can actually buy a whole new phone for cheaper than many of the other displays
on say an iPhone 11 pro max if you crack a display on an 11 pro max you could buy
two of these phones for the price of the display so you can have a budget phone
you don't have to worry about as much that runs all of the modern apps just as
lacking in a couple areas so yes I would recommend it for someone that's budget
conscious that wants a smaller phone and wants to be able to use whatever is
current right now but let me know your thoughts about it in the comments below
I really like the SE I love the design it's just a little bit small today for
me personally but again let me know what you think about it in the
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thanks for watching this is Aaron I'll see you next time