so iPhone se 2020 review. I've had it for about two weeks pretty much since the
week it launched and for 399 dollars there's a lot of value to this iPhone SE
This is the people's iPhone but with all that computing power comes a
few caveats! stay tuned to the video
what's up people! This ya boy Vyyyper the man about tech, Captain of team Apple baby back again
for another video, and yes we are here to talk about the brand new iphone SE 2020
baby this is the review! this is the phone for
the people as I said on Twitter a few times now this phone will probably work
for about 90% of the population or most people looking for a new smartphone this
phone will definitely work but what is it about this particular iPhone that is
so alluring, so good well let's start off with something that's not so good
for me personally you know your boy got big hands big hand gang as I've talked
about in my previous videos I usually rock out with an iPhone 11 Pro max
the beast of the beasts so when you give me something like this, Im like oh my god oh my god
I mean look my hand engulfs this iPhone SE I mean look at my hand look how
big my hands are compared to this phone so this is a very small phone now I
understand that that might not be a big issue for a lot of you all because there
are very many of you that are accustomed to the form factor and size so that's not
a big deal breaker for you but for me a kind of alarming because I'm used to
using bigger phones I'm using s20 ultras iPhone 11 pro Max things like that so
this is just not on the menu not to say that this is a bad phone but it's too
small for me and if you are used to bigger displays or maybe you have bad
vision or your eyes are going bad or whatever maybe not look at this because
it's harder to see but if you want a more compact phone and a more compact
form factor you are in the building with the brand-new iPhone SE 2020
now once you get past how small the screen is you will quickly notice that
this looks like your grandmas and grandpas iPhone do you see those bezels
cuz I see those bezels but again if you use iPhones like this in the past not a big
deal but if you were more accustomed to the newer iPhone X, XS or 11 the
models then this is gonna look antiquated to you but if you're paying
$399 for an iPhone chances are you're not too concerned
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now on top of the fact that the iPhone is small on top of the fact that the
design is antiquated the display on this iPhone is very dim this is an LCD
display so I don't think LCD displays by nature are very bright I know some of
them are but it seems like all the LCD displays I've used lately are not bright
basically LCD is pretty much the standard display technology for most TVs
right now most smartphones obviously the newer more high-end smartphones use a
different display technology called OLED, but the iPhone XR and the iPhone 11
both use LCD displays and iPhones of the past like the six seven and eight also
use these LCD displays and they're just hard to see outside in direct sunlight
I mean its darn near impossible to see the phone in direct sunlight even with
maximum brightness turned up that's just an effect of it having an LCD display
its something that you have to deal with. also this iPhone brings back our
long-lost friend do y'all see that little button right there yeah that is
touch ID with a fingerprint scanner right there on the button of course this
is old but we know that the newer iPhones have moved on to face ID but
I know there's a lot of you all out there that your iPhone just don't like
your face, your iPhone and face have fights they have disagreements so maybe
you prefer touch ID well guess what if you go with this iPhone se 2020 you
got touch ID so you don't have to worry about your iPhone
having a good relationship with your face because your face is not needed to
unlock this iPhone and in some ways touch ID is faster for unlocking the
iPhone than face idea although I prefer face ID personally cause its faster for
navigating through the phone after you unlock it but unlocking the phone is
definitely faster with touch ID also with touch ID that means that you don't
get that swipe gesture navigation that you get on the iPhone X models and
newer with the notches so you get the old-school button navigation and things
like that but again I'm guessing that a lot of y'all that are considering this
iPhone are coming from iPhone 6 and 7 maybe 8 so you're already used to the
way you navigate this iPhone so that shouldn't be a too big of a deal for you
so this iPhone se is $400 and it is an absolute steal and this is a steal
because it is the absolute least inexpensive and easiest way to get
yourself into that Apple ecosystem that we talk about so much here on these
YouTube Streets! I'm talking about iMessage! I'm talking about airdrop! I'm
talking about Apple music, Apple TV plus, all the different Apple services that
they offer you can now be a part of all of it and experience all of it just for
an entry fee of $400 with your very own brand spanking new iPhone SE 2020 that
might be more valuable than the iPhone itself because a large part of the
iPhone experience is the Apple ecosystem and how many times have you heard me say
that the Apple ecosystem is still undefeated nothing has changed people
nothing has changed! the Apple ecosystem is still undefeated! It still has NO
competition there is nothing in the Android landscape like it so for $400
you can get into that vaunted undefeated Apple ecosystem now once
you're in there it's little dangerous because you might get stuck in there it's like a
maze it's like a labyrinth so be careful but hey once you're in there it
is so great I am the captain of Team Apple I have built an entire channel
on talking about Apple and it's ecosystem because I enjoy it that much and I
think that if you experienced this iPhone and that ecosystem you will enjoy
it as much as I do or hell maybe you're already in the ecosystem you alr eady
know this then! who am I talking to then? I'm talking about you Android fanboys out there
that have never experienced Apple ecosystem greatness baby now you have
your gateway in there with the iPhone se maybe turn the Android blinders off, go
pick you up an iPhone se and get with this Apple
ecosystem goodness! so this is a 400 dollar iPhone but make no mistake there
are compromises with a $400 iPhone for one you're get a single camera lens on
the back here obviously with the later iPhones you're getting at least two and
with the pro and pro Max 3 camera lenses on the back but you only get one camera
lens on this iPhone however you get the one camera lens but you've got to
remember this iPhone does have the latest A13 bionic chip which means you
are getting the same image signal processing as the newer iPhones so that
good even though this is the same camera technically from the iPhone 8 your
picture will be processed just like they are on the newer iPhone because of that
A13 bionic chip now for those that are not too heavy into tech and don't
understand technical jargon when we say A13 basically what we mean is that this
iPhone has the latest computing technology inside of it
the same computing technology that the iPhone 11 11 pro and 11 Pro max have and
those phones start at $1000 so you are getting the same computing power in this
iPhone as you are in the iPhones of new but again there are some compromises and
drawbacks like only having a single camera lens and the other thing about
this camera is that portrait mode does not work on anything that's not human so
if you try to take portrait mode pictures with your pets and things like
that you cannot do that with this iPhone SE
portrait mode only works on human beings so be aware of that. another drawback of this
iPhone se as far as the camera system goes, you cannot record 4k on the front
camera the camera only reports in 1080p but you do have 4k capability on the
back camera just not on the front so be aware of that
now usually this will be part of the review where I will show you camera
samples and all that jazz, video sample things like that but I did an entire
video directly comparing the camera on this to the camera on my iPhone 11 Pro
Max so I will guide you to that video check the card right there you can go
check the camera samples the video in that
particular video that I made a few days ago I'm not gonna go through it again
already made an entire separate video covering the camera so go check that
video out! so besides the phone being small and it having the A13 Bionic chip the
one big compromise that I just cannot get past with this phone is the battery
life battery on this phone is horrible now we are accustomed to iPhones having
horrid batteries well before last year anyway last year Apple finally beefed up
the battery but before last year iPhone battery life was atrocious and that
atrocious battery life makes it return now you can get through a day with this iPhone
but you will be struggling trying to get through a day you might have to do some
things like turn the brightness down or use like power saving mode or this that and the
other but battery life on the phone it's simply not that good but there are other
factors that play into the battery life and for that I'm gonna bring in my man
some gadget guy Juan Carlos Bagnell to explain you about how the a13 processor
in this iphone affects the battery life so monkeys in the truck roll the podcast
and you have brought up the concerns about having the a13 end that iphone SE
body and the way it affects the battery and things like that so can you
elaborate a little bit on that because obviously it's nice for a budget iPhones
to have the top-of-the-line processor but there are some caveats with that too I I
will be curious to see a number of things that we have kind of plagued this
form factor since the iPhone 6 will we be in for another round of touch issues
or flex damage the there's a there's a circuit board right at the top of the
phone that seems to be affected by slight bends not not like the iPhone 6
where it would literally Bend just like minor flexing of your phone throughout
the day has been a problem off and on since the iPhone 6 through the iPhone 8
so for a $400 phone I'm sure they're not reengineering a lot of that stuff
especially when iPhone 8 components can literally be swapped one for one and the
iPhone se still functions like you can make you can make that phone work off of
iPhone 8 components but but again we're hyping up a13 Bionic a13 Bionic and
then we're attaching that to the smallest battery
that we've ever seen with this chipset so my recommendations are you know if
I'm talking about someone like my grandmother who is super savvy for a
woman her age she's not hitting CPU GPU systems hard she's doing a ton of video
calling and a lot of web surfing and she's got a collection of apps she
participates on genealogy forums she likes using duo to send messages to
my my daughter on her iPad and on her iPhone she's not gonna be someone I'm
worried about with the a13 and a tiny battery but if someone is out there
thinking that because it's got an a13 that they can kind of get an iPhone 11
on the cheap then I would also recommend that that person factor in the cost of a
battery replacement sometime over the life of that phone you know we're
talking about a device that genuinely should age well over the next three to
four years except for that battery and so I do have concerns that this $399
price point looks attractive until you look at storage and you probably want to
bump up to the four to the 450 dollar model and then you probably want to swap
out the battery if you're gonna try and drive it hard longer-term and I think
that's a fair conversation so like what Juan was saying on my podcast the a13 bionic
chip was not made for this phone and it's battery but Apple packed it in
here to give you the best deal possible so if you plan on running this phone for
a long period of time maybe past two years you will probably need to replace
the battery at some point so just keep that in mind so even though this iPhone
does have horrid battery life it does support fast charging and wireless
charging if you charge this up with a fast charge
brick you can charge you from zero to fifty percent in a half an hour so
that's a good look again it also supports wireless charging so if you're
around a lot of charges or you have a wireless charging pad even with the
terrible battery life you could fill it back up pretty quickly with those
methods definitely a good look also this phone has an inferior LTE
modem which means if you live in like a very rural area you might have issues
getting a signal because the LTE modem on iPhones in general aren't the
best you're still using that Intel technology and it kind of inferior to
what Android is doing with Qualcomm so the LTE situation with iPhones is
already sketchy at best but this uses an inferior LTE modem to the ones you
get on the iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max and I can tell you from firsthand
experience that I have had issues with my LTE or my iPhone 11 Pro Max so I
expect those issues to be magnified with this inferior LTE but hey it works
you got to do what you got to do so even with those caveat that I mentioned
throughout the video with the battery life being not the best with the display
being dim and everything like that with $400
you still get entry to the Apple ecosystem you still get a brand new
iPhone you still get iOS 13 and the other thing that I forgot to mention
about this iPhone having the latest computing technology is that it will
receive Apple OS updates for the next four to five years so the next four to
five versions of iOS will be compatible with this phone which is another
advantage of it having the latest computing technology inside of here so
that is definitely legit you getting maximum support from Apple so again this
has to be the best value in budget smartphones today we are talking about a
budget iPhone SE this phone is definitely Vyyyper approved
if you're in a market for a new iPhone if you're trying to come from an iPhone
6 7 or 8 I would HIGHLY highly recommend taking a look at this Beefy budget powerful
iPhone se 2020 BUT VypNation that is my review of the iPhone SE 2020!
let me know did you go out and pick one up on launch weekend a couple
of weeks ago? if you did how are you liking your iPhone SE 2020?
are you considering purchasing a new iPhone SE?
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