Hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and the iPhone se has been of great interest
lately with a lot of news about possibly an iPhone se 2 coming out but one of the
most interesting things is Apple just started selling this again now they
actually sold out pretty quickly and whether or not they'll continue to offer
is still up in the air but the website is still live where they're selling this
with 32 gigabytes of storage for 249 dollars or $2.99 for 128 gigabytes of
storage that makes it the least expensive newer iPhone that Apple is
offering now I do believe they're offering it refurbished but for the most
part that shouldn't be an issue for most people and this phone is actually a
really great phone in fact this is only a couple years old and I wanted to see
how it holds up in 2019 and if you should still buy one so the design
itself is pretty classic at this point it was introduced with the iPhone 5 it's
got nice squared off edges it's got a nice feel to it it's got a solid
aluminum build and if we look around the outside you'll see the volume buttons
are nice round clicky buttons you've got your sleep-wake or vibrate
switch rather you've got your power and sleep/wake button on the top on this
side you've got your SIM card slot and then on the bottom we get to keep the
headphone jack which is really nice you've got your lightning adapter and
then speaker and microphone now on the back we do have a camera and a couple
bands where the antennas are which is also nice these are glass and there's
just a really nice quality feel to this phone and its size is very compact and a
lot of people really like this smaller size on the front of course we've got
touch ID which works nice and fast and many people still prefer over face ID
although not everyone and then we've got a 4-inch display this is an 11 36 by 640
display with 326 pixels per inch and if you look you can see that it does go
down a little bit it's almost like the display is not right on the surface it's
down a little bit and it's more prominent on the white-faced iPhones
where you have this little black seal or ring around it so that's something to
keep in mind if that bothers you just pick up the space grey version where
this is a lack front you won't see that now the
phone itself is quite nice it's got touch ID like I said that headphone jack
and battery life because it's running such a small display actually is all-day
and then some in fact this was one of the best iPhones for battery life of any
phone for quite a while you'll see the battery health after two and a half
years is 88% on this phone so it's doing just fine this was used every single day
all day long I just turned it back on and wiped it to do this video but the
phone itself is a great phone as far as battery life and also the speed of it is
great it's an a 9 processor which is in the iPhone 6s and 6s plus and I'll show
you some speed tests later where we'll check out how fast minecraft loads
compared to the XS Max and also will export a 4k video just to see how it
compares with the latest phones as well now on the back you have a 12 megapixel
camera it is not optically image stabilized so it is a little bit shaky
but it's 12 megapixels it takes pretty good photos and also does 4k video at 30
frames per second so if we go here maybe I'll just put the XS Max here we can
snap a photo really quickly it takes great photos except for in low-light
conditions then you'll want to use the true tone flash but otherwise it takes
really nice video and photo and the video again like I said is 4k capable
and in slow-mo it will do 120 frames per second at 1080p which some high-end
cameras still don't do so that's pretty nice as well
and also the front-facing camera is well that's so great it only has a 1.2
megapixel front-facing camera or forward facing camera so it really doesn't do a
great job but it's good enough for things like FaceTime calls and things
like that now also it has Apple pay built in which is nice so you can use it
with Apple pay and touch ID there are a few things you don't get though and the
first thing I noticed when I was using this is you don't have 3d touch so that
might be something you're familiar with but it's basically the same as haptic
touch so if you touch and hold it will jiggle the icons if we go to
notifications well I don't have any here but if you press and hold on certain
things they will open up it's really like haptic
on the iPhone XR you also have no taptic engine and that's something I
noticed pretty quickly when the phone vibrates it feels like one of the older
phones because it doesn't have that taptic engine in it like the XS and
XS Max and the newer phones do so it's just not as nice it's not a big deal if
you've never had that you won't miss it so it's just something to know
now with the display the display is nice and bright but it doesn't have true
tones so if we go here we'll go to settings on the the XS Max and you'll
see here's true tone and let's go back out to the display here and we don't
have true tone as an option like we do on the XS Max so if we turn that on
you'll see the whites get more paperwhite like if I turn it off most
people leave it off anyway because they don't care for it but it does have night
shift as well so that's something you care about it's something note it also
does not have HDR so if you want to watch HDR video you'll have to use a
newer OLED display for that now as far as the phone itself it's great to use
but it does not have stereo speakers so whereas in the newer phones they're
using this speaker as one of the stereo speakers you've only got one but you do
get the headphone jack so I think that's a pretty fair trade-off as far as that
goes you don't get wireless charging since this is an aluminum back you can't
charge through metal at this point so if you set this down on a wireless charger
it won't do anything but you still have the lightning cable and those charges
are available pretty much everywhere at this point you also don't get water and
dust resistance so the IP 67 and 68 water and dust resistance of the seven
and newer you don't get that with this phone and that's pretty much it as far
as what you don't get but what you do get is a pretty nice experience as for
our speed so if we go into the menus you'll see they're nice and fast
everything's pretty smooth as far as scrolling in most situations and most
things load really fast so if we take the newest phone here and we load
minecraft so let's go ahead and open that on both and I just want to use this
as a simple game representation of how quickly we can load something so you see
that opened about the same but play will create new will create a new world
and we'll create and we'll wait for it to load so I think you'll get the idea
how fast it is or slow depending on which phone it is we're already loaded
on the SE so it actually beats it when loading this game so if we walk around
can jump or whatever everything's nice and smooth on this phone but then
there's another task we can do which is going to be a little bit more taxing and
that has to do with exporting 4k video now I recorded this video in 4k 30 using
this phone to record a two-minute and 3-second video I ver dropped it to my
XS Max and I wanted to show you exporting it just to show you how fast
or slow either of the phones there and the reason for that is that is one of
the most intensive tasks you can do on any phone in and that's something that's
intense for even a MacBook Pro that I added on every day that's what I'm
recording this video in so let's go ahead and get a stopwatch going here and
then we'll export this so let's go ahead and hit done on both of these there we
go we'll share it we'll save the video and
we'll save it in 4k like I said let me get a little stopwatch going here so
that we can see what it takes so here's my stopwatch we're ready to go tap on
this and we'll see what it takes to export it and I'll speed this up so you
don't have to wait as long
you'll see the iPhone se completed it about 2 minutes and 29 seconds and then
2 minutes and 32 or 33 seconds for the XS Max and this is what I find to be
the case in every test I've run when it comes to exporting 4k video is that for
some reason the latest phones it doesn't matter which one I use are a few seconds
slower than the last generation phones and this phone is not even warm in the
back when I pick it up there's no heat mmm there isn't on this phone either but
that's a pretty impressive test to see how quickly that will export a 2 minute
and 3 second project in over 2 minutes just a little bit over 2 minutes or so
so I'm pretty impressed with that and I think most people that use this phone
will be pretty happy so if you're looking for a compact or small phone and
this one is too big for you an iPhone 8 or an iPhone 7 this is the the fastest
phone out there as far as that goes in fact this might be the fastest phone due
to the smaller display and I think most people will be pretty happy with that
and one final test I wanted to run since I get asked this all the time is will it
play Fortnight now of course if you don't want to watch this you can jump to
the end of the video but we'll go ahead and open this up and I'll wait for it to
load and now it does take forever to load on this for some reason let me set
this down here we'll zoom in a little bit you'll see we're zoomed in and we'll
wait for it to load and we'll see what it takes as far as loading it from start
to get into the gameplay the gameplay is always super smooth on this device but
many of you will want to know what kind of time frame we have here it's one of
the most asked questions I get all the time so the game is loaded up to this
point let's go ahead and hit play now I do have gigabit internet so the internet
shouldn't be a factor here when we're talking about how fast it is so let's
see how quick it match makes and then we'll see what time it takes to load so
it may take a moment
there we go it started to load and we're into the game in about 30 seconds or so
so you'll see it's nice and smooth I'm not going to play a full game here but
just wanted to show you that it's nice and smooth frame rates look good and the
actual load time is about 30 seconds or so so that's it for the iPhone se
hopefully that helps you decide whether or not you should still pick one up I
think if you like this form factor there's no reason not to pick it up like
I said good battery life great design and it's still super fast let me know
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I'll see you next time