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Apple Announces New iPhone SE With A15 Bionic and 5G (macrumors.com) 32

Posted by BeauHD from the new-and-shiny dept.
At its "Peek Performance" event, Apple today announced the third-generation iPhone SE, featuring the A15 Bionic chip, improved battery life, 5G connectivity, a new camera system, and more, all for a starting price of $429. MacRumors reports: The new iPhone SE features the same 4.7-inch display as the current model, but now offers the toughest glass in a smartphone on the front and back -- the same as on the back of the iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Pro. The device's new 12MP Wide camera system offers a range of improvements and computational photography features including Deep Fusion, Photographic Styles, Portrait Mode, and Smart HDR 4.

The new iPhone SE contains the same A15 Bionic chip from the iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Pro. [...] The A15 Bionic also gives the new iPhone SE longer battery life than the previous-generation and older 4.7-inch iPhone models despite having a compact form-factor and 5G connectivity. It continues to support fast charging and be compatible with Qi-certified chargers for wireless charging. Along with the new iPhone SE, Apple also unveiled the all-new Mac Studio and Studio Display, flagship M1 Ultra desktop processor, and updated iPad Air.
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  • does there really have to be a new post for every single barely-incremental thing Apple announces in their promotional event today?
    • Yes... Quit hatin

    • does there really have to be a new post for every single barely-incremental thing Apple announces in their promotional event today?

      OK fine, I'll ask...when compared to previous hardware launches, is THIS really unexpected?

      After a decade of dealing with half-assed product launches, I don't know what demonstrates fucking stupid more; those assuming a different outcome, or those expecting it.

    • Start your own website then, since you seem to be an expert.

    • Re: (Score:3)

      by erice ( 13380 )

      does there really have to be a new post for every single barely-incremental thing Apple announces in their promotional event today?

      This is one of those cases where the lack of big news is actually big news. The new iPhone SE has the same 4.7" inch screen as the last generation. That means it will still be possible to buy a fully modern and functional phone that isn't a phablet.

      If there were a fully functional IMAP client for IOS I would probably buy an iPhone SE rather than continue to nurse my aging and slowly failing Experia XZ2 Compact.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by sconeu ( 64226 )

        Apple's Mail app.
        Outlook

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by erice ( 13380 )

          Apple's Mail app.
          Outlook

          Neither is even close.

          No ability to subscribe and unsubscribe folders. No polling of non-inbox folders.

          • Go have another look. It may not be described as such, but you can certainly include certain folders on update and exclude a mass of them.

            Of course, after a while I switched my work to Outlook because we have a server that doesn't natively do POP3, IMAP, SMTP Or Exchange Mail the way a standard setup does and I was sick of looking at it.

      • Not sure what's driving your argument more; the lack of "big news", or the lack of half-assed technology to appease the lazy masses, for profit.

      • I gave up on pure IMAP a long time ago though it was really nice when it worked via fastmail's cyrus implementation

        I largely just use gmail and the web client even though it's a bit unpleasant because it's generally quick, reliable, the ios client is pretty solid in most respects

        also, fwiw, I still use my iPhone SE 2016 which is likely about the same size as yours and hasn't shown much signs of aging besides having to, painfully, install a new battery last year...

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by necro81 ( 917438 )

        The new iPhone SE has the same 4.7" inch screen as the last generation. That means it will still be possible to buy a fully modern and functional phone that isn't a phablet.

        If compact is what you're after, then the iPhone 12 mini is actually a touch smaller than [google.com] the iPhone 8 / SE 2nd gen, with a larger screen to boot. It's not quite as compact as the iPhone 5 / SE 1st gen, though.

        • I'm still deciding if I like Face ID more than Touch ID. I'm sure my experience is affected by starting to use an iPhone 12 mini while wearing masks in most POS situations, but I am considering going for the iPhone SE 3rd generation to get Touch ID back. From a security perspective I feel less good about Face ID than Touch ID.

    • Yeah, because Apple posts are polarizing and make for good flamebait. In other words, they're perfect modern-day Slashdot material, along with Microsoft bashing and crypto shill posts.

    • The M1 Ultra chip seems worthy discussing on a news for needs site.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by tlhIngan ( 30335 )

      does there really have to be a new post for every single barely-incremental thing Apple announces in their promotional event today?

      Do you really not know how the Internet content industry works?

      More clicks == more $$$.

      The simple way to get more clicks is to post more content, so if you can split content into multiple posts, that multiplies the clicks.

    • Yes. It's /. - we post apple until a mob with pitchforks and led torches show up.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by pacinpm ( 631330 )

      Wake me up when I can finally freely move icons around main screen on iPhone.

  • The case originally contained a core 2 quad, the keyboard is from a late 90s Tandy (‘member them?), and it’s got a vestigial blu ray burner that I can’t remember the last time I’ve used.

    But it has a 10th gen intel i7 now, so it’s “modern”, despite looking like something that encountered a Star Trek temporal anomaly.

  • Like the last SE, does this $429 phone beat the $1000 Samsung flagship in performance?

    • The A15 beats most modern desktop chips in single thread, let alone competing ultra low power chips...

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Misagon ( 1135 )

      In battery performance: not even close, but you can't get a Samsung phone this small.

      I haven't seen battery specs yet, but in otherwise it is identical to the 2020 model in everything but the SoC. The 2020 model has a 1821 mAh battery, whereas most phones these days have 3500 mAh or more.

      Google had managed to stick a 3140 mAh battery into the Pixel 4a, at only a little larger size and at smaller weight than Apple. But Google's newer phones are not that small.

  • My Nexus 10 from 2012 also had an A15 [wikipedia.org].

  • So to get a Mac 27" setup equivalent will end up costing $4000-5000 ! Holy SHIT !
  • I just took time to look down the specs of the new "entry level" phone from Apple.

    You know what? I think they get it. It's probably going to have 5-7 years of service updates (OS etc.), the trimmings basically remove the advanced camera features. Sounds like a good entry level phone

    Is this a huzzah moment? No. We post about all kinds of one-off products we never see, and when someone says they're hosting a release in meta verse or something . . . that crap isn't news either

    What MAY be good about th

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