"/>Two-minute review The iPhone SE 2020 is built around one goal: lớn launch a new iPhone for less money than ever, & it achieves that well. For just $399 / £399 / AU$679 you can have a brand-new handset from táo – it’s one of the best iPhones ever created & you can pick one up for less than half the price of a new flagship phone.
The kiến thiết of the phone is going lớn be familiar lớn anyone that’s used an iPhone recently – unless you’ve not held a handset from apple since 2013, you’ll have seen this 4.7-inch frame before, complete with bezels top và bottom & a home button with a fingerprint scanner built in.
(Image credit: Future)Price and release date Design and display Performance Cameras Battery life Should I buy it?
This isn"t the newest điện thoại cảm ứng from hãng apple - that"s the iPhone 12 series, including that phone, the iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 12 Pro & iPhone 12 Pro Max. You can find reviews for each of them by clicking the linked names, but they"re all pricier và more premium devices than the SE. Pretty soon, we"ll have the iPhone 13 models khổng lồ consider when they arrive in September or October, but none of them are expected khổng lồ be as affordable as the iPhone SE (2020), so it will still be the cheapest modern iPhone you can buy.
The iPhone SE (2020) is seen as the ‘smaller’ iPhone khung factor given the all-screen designs of the more recent models, and it’s both more lightweight & pocketable than any other modern táo phone besides the iPhone 12 mini, which is marginally smaller (despite packing in a larger screen), but also pricier than a mid-range phone.
The SE is pleasingly water resistant, but does have some drawbacks: it lacks a tai nghe jack at the bottom, & because the display technology is slightly dated (as it comes from the iPhone 8) it can suffer in bright light when you’re trying lớn watch videos or the like.Apple might have stuck with the same thiết kế as the iPhone 8, but the innards are much improved – notably the new A13 Bionic chipset inside, which adds speed nearly everywhere & really does improve the performance over the older 4.7-inch models. It’s not quite at the màn chơi of the iPhone 12 range, but it’s not far off – and getting the recent silicon means the iPhone SE has years of game ios updates head of it.
(Image credit: trungvietlaptop.com)That A13 chipset has improved the camera performance too, despite no discernible change to lớn the specs of the sensor since the iPhone 8 (there’s just a single lens on the iPhone SE 2020).
It takes decent, bright photos that will please most people, although it doesn’t quite offer the same màu sắc reproduction or clarity as the iPhone 11 Pro Max, for example, let alone the iPhone 12 Pro Max.
The portrait mode doesn’t work as well as on phones that pack a second, depth-sensing sensor for precise bokeh effects , and as a result you can be left with some odd-looking fringing around the edges of subjects. But overall the camera – and especially for the price – takes impressive pictures in most scenarios.
Battery life is probably one of the biggest issues we found with the iPhone SE 2020 – it’s not going to lớn easily last you a day unless you’re a light và sedate user.
Given the number of power-hungry apps available that will make the most of all that power nguồn provided by the A13 chipset, we would have liked khổng lồ have seen at least an all-day battery in there, even for the lower price.
However, don’t let that detract from the fact that the iPhone SE 2020 follows on from its predecessor by bringing you a new iPhone, with not a lot of compromise, for less money than you might expect.
While it doesn’t hit many heights in terms of power or performance, it more than offsets that by being the cheapest iPhone táo bị cắn has ever launched while still packing refined và useful hardware, making the new iPhone SE a splendid option for those either on a budget or just wanting lớn find an easy route into the táo apple ecosystem.
iPhone SE price and release date The cheapest iPhone ever at $399 / £399 / AU$679 New iPhone SE release date was April 24, 2020 Easily available now in the US, UK & Australia The iPhone SE is available now around the world including the US, UK & Australia. The release date was April 24, 2020, with pre-orders going live the week before.
Although it was rumored to lớn be called the iPhone SE 2, the iPhone SE is the official name that táo khuyết opted for for its 2020 device. You won"t see it referred khổng lồ as the iPhone SE 2020 on Apple"s website - that"s just our way of distinguishing it from the năm nhâm thìn device.
The iPhone SE price starts at $399 / £399 / AU$679, which is a slight price drop in some regions from its launch price of $399 / £419 / AU$749 / Rs 42,500. The base mã sản phẩm comes with 64GB of storage, with 128GB & 256GB models also available for a higher price.
The 128GB mã sản phẩm costs $449 / £449 / AU$759 while the 256GB one costs $549 / £549 / AU$929.
In the US, táo khuyết is offering the new iPhone SE at $16.62/month through its financing plan or, if you have an older iPhone lớn trade in, you can get it for less.
(Image credit: trungvietlaptop.com)Design and display A very familiar (read: old) design Retina HD display is fine, if a little dark iPhone SE 2020 comes in black, white & red The iPhone SE has exactly the same design và display as the iPhone 8 from 2017. Using this form factor & screen hardware allowed táo khuyết to keep the cost of the device as low as it has, as it didn’t need to invest in a whole new manufacturing process.
It feels lượt thích the iPhone world has moved on in three years though – now the 4.7-inch screen with the chunky bezels above và below feels lượt thích it belongs to the past.
In that time the flagship iPhone range has moved lớn an all-screen thiết kế – barring a notch at the top, you’re presented with barely any bezels – while with more premium aluminum inside, things have got a little weightier in recent years.
So returning to lớn the iPhone 8 design means táo is bringing back its more lightweight phone, bridging the gap between the older iPhone SE và the behemothic (but impressive) iPhone 11 Pro Max, for example.
Indeed, picking up the new iPhone SE , the first thing you’ll notice is how lightweight it is. Again, some might not notice the change if they’re coming from a smaller phone from 2016/17, but trust us: it could have been a lot worse, as the devices in the newer all-screen iPhone ranges are a lot heavier.
While the iPhone 8’s kiến thiết might feel lượt thích an archaic choice for a new iPhone, it makes a lot of sense in the iPhone SE 2020 – & for some who don’t particularly care for the latest features, this more familiar design will be a lot more desirable.
One suspects that if táo had rebooted the original iPhone SE shape, with the smaller 4-inch screen & clickable trang chủ button (the new iPhone SE 2020 features a haptic button that doesn’t move), it would still have sold well; but the larger 4.7-inch LCD screen is more useful for today’s apps, which make good use of the extended display.
(Image credit: trungvietlaptop.com)One thing that many will miss is the 3.5mm tai nghe jack. We’ve been lamenting its loss for many moons now, but as the original iPhone SE (or other cheaper phones that are 2-3 years old, that you might be upgrading from) had this feature we can see it might still cause consternation.
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While some phone buyers might have accepted this loss by now (barely any handsets are being launched with the port now) it might still be something of a shock for those using phones from a few years ago, in spite of the plethora of true wireless earbuds.
Apple has put its EarPods in the iPhone SE box, which use the phone’s Lightning connector in place of the 3.5mm tai nghe jack, but those who already have wired headphones that they’re happy with will need to lớn spend $9 / £9 / AU$15 on an adapter. Otherwise, you could use a pair of wireless earbuds.
The display on the iPhone SE 2020 might not be the most feature-rich, but it’s fine. Given the target market this phone is aimed at – those who want a new iPhone, but don’t want lớn spend a huge amount of money on one – there’s not really an expectation of a fancy OLED display here.
The resolution of the iPhone SE screen might not be top-end (it’s far less sharp than more recent iPhones, or even a number of cheap app android phones), but it’s not something that’s really that obvious in most use-cases.
The only thing that we would lượt thích to see improved is the brightness of the display: in the years since the iPhone 8 launch the color and vividity of the screens on phones has improved hugely, and they appears brighter at mặc định settings – & forcing the brightness right up has a strong (and negative) effect on the battery life.
That brightness does need to be increased a little too often as well – there’s no escaping the fact that this is an older display on offer with the iPhone SE 2020, và there were more than a few occasions when we needed khổng lồ shelter the phone from brighter light lớn see what was on the screen – something that isn’t an issue with newer iPhones.
(Image credit: Future)A13 Bionic chipset Much more powerful than the iPhone 8 Can mở cửa apps with good speed Even manages to go toe-to-toe with the iPhone 11 Pro at times The big change with the iPhone SE 2020 (and we don’t use the italics lightly there) is the upgraded engine from the iPhone 8. While the external design is nigh-on identical, táo bị cắn dở has supercharged the insides, with an improved chipset running the show.
That extra power is designed khổng lồ allow the new iPhone SE khổng lồ rival the iPhone 11 range in terms of speed when flipping between apps, and editing snaps & video, & should also improve the camera performance (thanks khổng lồ upgraded computational power nguồn from the new chipset).
(Image credit: trungvietlaptop.com)Apple looks to lớn have implemented some serious performance improvements while keeping the cost of this phone down, và that impression has been borne out in our experience with the iPhone SE: it matched the iPhone 11 Pro Max for speed when exporting an iMovie, và actually compressed a 1080p four-and-a- half minute clip at an almost identical speed.
We compared it to the older iPhone 8 Plus with the same test, và when compressing & exporting a movie down lớn a smaller size, the iPhone SE 2020 managed the task so much quicker.
If you’re going khổng lồ tax the phone lớn its limits, then the iPhone 11 Pro handsets are more able khổng lồ handle graphically intensive tasks và apps - but even when playing more powerful games like Pascal’s Wager, we didn’t feel the new iPhone SE losing any performance. The average user will notice little difference unless intentionally trying khổng lồ tax the SE 2020.
Of course, the newer iPhone 12 range has it beat whatever you"re doing, thanks to lớn an even newer A14 Bionic chipset, but the iPhone SE 2020 isn"t far behind.
What"s interesting is the way that the iPhone SE has been "angled" by táo bị cắn dở in terms of nguồn output. Our benchmark testing showed that the newest iPhone doesn"t quite have the raw grunt or tốc độ of the iPhone 11 range, suggesting that apple is balancing power output đầu ra with battery performance.
Those benchmark scores saw an almost identical single-core (for low-impact tasks) score of 1300 for the iPhone SE, và 3100 for the multi-core test. That"s less than the 3500 for the iPhone 11 Pro range, but not far off the standard iPhone 11.
All the benchmarks we ran painted a similar picture, proving that the iPhone SE 2020 doesn"t have the raw grunt of the Pro range, perhaps designed to lớn provide the most battery life possible.
(Image credit: trungvietlaptop.com)You can see the same thing on the iPhone 11 vs the iPhone 11 Pro - small differences in benchmark scores, likely in a bid khổng lồ make sure each experience is tailored to different target users.
Those interested in the Pro model will want the absolute max power (which is why there"s a larger battery khổng lồ compensate) but the more "regular" user might be fine with more of a balance - the new iPhone SE also has 3GB of RAM, rather than the 4GB the iPhone 11 and iPhone 12 are packing, likely again to lớn minimize costs.
We experienced very little in the way of slowdown during our time with the new iPhone SE – apart from in the camera, where the phone took a second or two to lớn process each image we took. That’s not a huge problem in the grand scheme of things, but if you want lớn instantly kiểm tra out a snap you’ve taken it takes the shine off somewhat.
It’s hard khổng lồ know what else khổng lồ say about the upgraded chipset (which will have an impact on the performance of some apps in the future), but based on side-by-side comparisons we couldn’t fault the power of the new, cheaper iPhone.
The iPhone SE launched with tiện ích ios 13.4 on by default, but it"s received numerous updates since then, including a major one to quả táo 14 - with the latest available version for the phone at the time of writing being ios 14.4.
(Image credit: trungvietlaptop.com)Camera 12MP single sensor, imbued with advanced image processing Good photos, but not market leading High range of đoạn clip recording options In our view, the make-or-break feature for the iPhone SE – và so the key focus of this review – is the iPhone SE camera & how well it performs in day lớn day use – given that there’s ‘old’ hardware on offer here, táo bị cắn dở has taken a gamble that it can improve photo quality using image processing powered by the A13 Bionic chipset.
Spoiler alert: the gamble has paid off handsomely. The new iPhone SE can often stand up to lớn the iPhone 11 Pro Max in terms of general snapping, & only struggles when it comes to the areas where the hardware is lacking.
We’ll explain more about that in a moment, but we’ve compared the iPhone SE 2020 to lớn the iPhone 11 Pro Max, the iPhone XS Max và the iPhone 8 Plus, & it holds its own well.
Before we go into more detail about the camera’s performance, let’s look at the hardware: the iPhone SE camera is basically using the same phối of lenses, and megapixel count, as the iPhone 8, with a 12MP camera, a six-element lens & a sapphire glass cover for strength.
We don’t know the exact sensor that’s being used - táo bị cắn dở wouldn’t confirm whether it had upgraded the hardware there - but the same 12MP camera và f/1.8 aperture remains, so it seems that there’s very little change to the sensor.
However, táo bị cắn has kept the same hardware specs for the ‘normal’ wide-angle lens on the iPhone range since the iPhone 8, but hugely improved the quality of the pics – which suggests the processor is doing a lot of the heavy lifting. So just how much difference does imbuing the iPhone SE with the same A13 Bionic chipset, complete with that improved image signal processor inside, make?
The short answer is: a lot. Put photos from the iPhone SE 2020 next khổng lồ snaps taken with the iPhone 8 Plus, for example, & you can instantly see improved sharpness, more accurate color reproduction, and an overall ‘better’ photo whether taken in brighter or darker conditions.
Apple’s ‘tuning’ of images from the new iPhone SE – the way it thinks a photo should look – is interesting, with the processing appearing to follow in the footsteps of that in the iPhone 11 range, favoring a cooler-looking scene.