Jess Kelly, Newstalk's Technology correspondent joined Pat on the show this morning with a review of the new iPhone SE.
Review Notes
Screen
If there’s one thing that makes the iPhone SE an ‘entry level’ smartphone, it’s the screen. At 4.7 inches, this is one of the smallest smartphone displays you can now buy, despite the overall handset being physically longer and wider than the 5.4-inch iPhone 13 mini,
Engine and power
Its A15 Bionic chip pushes it to a performance that is at, or in some cases above, an iPhone 12 Pro. That’s despite Apple keeping the Ram memory level to a modest 4GB.
Camera
The iPhone SE’s big limitation is having just a single rear camera lens. That single rear camera is its standard 12-megapixel, wide-angle (or ‘1x’), f1.8 aperture lens system. On testing, it is a relatively high-performing set-up that delivers pretty excellent results.
Design
This is the lightest and thinnest iPhone you can buy, despite being slightly longer and wider than the iPhone 13 mini. That makes it very pocket-friendly.
Battery
Apple says that it has added around two hours of typical daily battery life (up to around 10 hours of streaming video playback) per charge to the iPhone SE, thanks to a physically larger battery and the more efficient A15 Bionic chip.
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