Apple iPhone SE (2020) review
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Anonymous, 04 May 2020$400 isnt exactly mid ranger . $200 are .for 200 you can barley buy a normal phone, not a midranger (I am from europe). And if you want or not, apple is still considered as premium brand where you are also paying this (desktop, laptop, headphones, ...). it is not as easy to find such phone, it has body of ca. 5,3" what is nowadays considered as small phone :) you have enough power to work with it and it has ordinary camera not good not bad ... it is not a bad phone and lot of people will buy it.
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Anonymous, 05 May 2020Name one.https://www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?nYearMin=2020&nDisplayDensityMax=300
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Findecanor, 05 May 2020Neither your nor my eyes have got higher resolution since 2... moreApple want everyone to think so.. but if 326 ppi is enough so why i11pro has more? Can you explain it?
My friend has iphone 8, i had galaxy s7 set to 1080p. I watched some vids on youtube in 1080p and the difference was obvious. More detail on s7. Galaxy had 5,1 inches by the way. Apple simply sells overpriced old garbage hardware. I would be impressed if they created 5" phone with small bezels or small notch for a reasonable price.. but no. Apple is not innovative. They figured out how to sell old parts stuck in their factories.. and there you go.
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Refurbished, 05 May 2020Nailed it, Nick.
I am SO close to giving up on GSMArena ... moreI feel the same as you too. the fanboy-ism is kinda killing this blog. plus the continuous pushing towards Chinese phones from moderators and unprecedented hate towards apple/iphone.
these people never understood that the need for every person is different. seems like they are intertwined in the display resolution+size/ram size/battery mAh whirlpool.
the bashing on the blog is on a whole new level. no one either apple or xiaomi or whatever is forcing anyone to buy their product. if company X is selling something for $1 doesn't mean company Y is obligated to sell a similar thing for $1. its that simple.
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jtrogr, 05 May 2020I can see the difference in resolution clearly on a Note 10... moreNote10+ and ip11 pro both have very close ppi which is well above 400. Also both are above fullhd and below 4K. Can you specify what content you watched and the resolution for that content.
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- Anonymous
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- 05 May 2020
Findecanor, 05 May 2020Neither your nor my eyes have got higher resolution since 2... moreRetina is ,what apple says it is ; it's their term after all and they have redefined themselves many times for different pixel ratios.
"Le 326 ppi" is a meme invented apple customers satisfied with whatever resolution they were offered.
Pre-2010 iPhones had inferior resoulution of 320 x 480 pixels compared to 480 x 854 pixels of competition. They were sharper , smoother and showed more detail. And Apple of course was feeling heat.
The they just doubled resolution to match them and then pulled out some study to make stay that for years , until they themselves gave up.
That's the whole retina for you.
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- Anonymous
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- 05 May 2020
peter lac, 04 May 2020it has over 300ppi, it is enough for midranger ... you have... moreName one.
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- Nick Tagataka
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- 05 May 2020
Anonymous, 04 May 2020There are Android phones with 5.5 inches above screen size ... moreBut then those phones that are similar to iPhone SE in form factor but have a larger display will be running on Android, which may become a dealbreaker for people looking to buy SE. To break down what I said earlier about the target audience of this phone:
-People who wants to make a switch to Apple ecosystem => Obviously no Android in this case.
-Kids whose friends also use iDevices => Non-iPhones don't benefit from iMessages or FaceTime their friend use to communicate with each other, so Android isn't an option.
-Those trying to replace their older compact iPhones => iPhone SE will provide an IDENTICAL usability, form factor and the display aspect ratio as iPhone 8, 7, 6s and 6. Basically they don't have to change their habit in any way to adopt to this new iPhone. Android phones with taller aspect ratio might give you more screen real estate for the similar form factor, but everything else including UI will be different. So unless they are sick of small display and iOS, then Android will be unlikely a viable option for them.
-Android users who need iPhone for various reasons => Why bother getting another Android phone when they need iOS?
And again, time will tell if you're making a correct guess or not.
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Findecanor, 05 May 2020Neither your nor my eyes have got higher resolution since 2... moreI can see the difference in resolution clearly on a Note 10+ and my ip11 pro. Its night and day when you watch some content on the device.
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- Anonymous
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- 05 May 2020
Findecanor, 05 May 2020Neither your nor my eyes have got higher resolution since 2... moreRetina..... Haha
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Just Some Time, 04 May 2020do you know how small 4.7 inch display is and it even come ... moreYou're missing the point of this phone, it's not for people who care about all the new tech. Its for people who want to enter the Apple ecosystem or simply want to upgrade their older iphones like iPhone 6s,7...etc. Its also aimed at app developers who just need a cheap iPhone with the latest processor. It is simply a refresh just like last years, and trust me there are thousands of people who prefer the older design.
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Anonymous, 03 May 2020I owned ios until last year, but started learning the confi... moreMay I ask why you have come to hate iOS, personally I prefer it over android any day, but I do like android due to customization.
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Dominique, 04 May 2020Were you even for once an Android user who also download ap... moreYes, I've been an android user for a good few years, my first phone was an android, my last phone before my iPhone 11 pro max was the Honor 10. I loved the phone but as i was comparing it to my iPhone, there are a lot of apps that were badly optimized on the phone, considering it had then, Huawei's best SoC, the Kirin 970. For example, Instagram, was horrible compared to the ios counterpart. It relies on JAVA for its apps and JAVA as a programming language has its limitations owing to its resource intensive nature.
iOS on other hand has its own native runtime and the apps written for it are written in Swift which is based on Objective-C. Unlike JAVA there’s no virtual machine layer between the system and the app, when your run an app it runs on the OS utilizing native runtime libraries, so there’s substantially less resource overhead.
Also, android apps are more likely to get infected from bugs and malware as compared to iOS apps because one main reason behind that is the approval process for developers, which is pretty fast and insecure in Google as compared to Apple's policy.
Lastly, app dev's simply prefer iOS over Android, behind why app developers prefer iOS platform than Android. In which one of the biggest reason is that it’s much easier to develop attractive apps on iOS then android because design plays a key role in iOS apps. App developers can earn more profit from iOS apps, meaning they simply put more effort in to the app. I am not saying that all apps are bad on android, but it is a fact that a lot of apps and games simply run better on iOS rather than android, and there might be cases
of it being the opposite but in android there is just too much hardware to optimize, there is too many variables on androids side of things to get it very nicely optimized.
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unixes, 04 May 2020Two main issues for me: small screen & no dual camera. ... moreThat’s why it’s only $399 bud
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Nick Tagataka, 04 May 2020It's hilarious that many of those in this website can be th... moreNailed it, Nick.
I am SO close to giving up on GSMArena as a community. Reading all the cry-baby Android fans on every single Apple article is getting very tiresome. And they do not comprehend any of the points made when argued with, they just continue barking out the same, tired cliches that every other Android fan baa's out.
I work in I.T. and am a tech enthusiast - this phone is absolutely perfect for non-tech enthusiasts as well as tech enthusiasts - it's certainly on my radar if my current iPhone SE 2016 dies (unlikely, given the far FAR superior build quality compared to any other phone manufacturer, sans Sony)
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Anonymous, 04 May 2020so 326 ppi from 2014 iphone 6 ......... very impresive indeedNeither your nor my eyes have got higher resolution since 2014.
If you have a PPI above "Retina", you only waste processing power and battery.
326 PPI is at the limit of what your eyes can perceive at 11 inches.
There is a web site called "Is This Retina", which you can use for comparing different devices' resolutions.
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- 04 May 2020
Two main issues for me: small screen & no dual camera. For almost 500 euros european price you can buy an used but in perfect condition iPhone XS Max.
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Wily2020, 04 May 2020” so 326 ppi from 2014 iphone 6 ......... very impresive in... moreYeah.... my iphone 6 is more than enough . iphone 11 or whatever SE is rubbish .
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Anonymous, 04 May 2020so 326 ppi from 2014 iphone 6 ......... very impresive indeed” so 326 ppi from 2014 iphone 6 ......... very impresive indeed”
326 ppi is more than enough for this sized screen. There’s no need to add useless extra pixels to make performance worse.
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Nick Tagataka, 04 May 2020"No average user, Apple or Android wants to downgrade to 4.... moreBut when you retain the body size while downgrade to smaller screen is a downgrade .