New 2020 iPhone SE is here, starting at £419/$399
Three Colours: Red 
, White 
, Black 
Huh, that’s about the same price I paid for my current SE.
Why the same name, rather than SE2 or something? Is it like a car?
Probably old enough that it doesn’t matter?
Like 2020 iPad isn’t the iPad Pro 2 or which ever version it’s on now. They’ve been doing that naming for a while on a lot of devices it seems.
But they had like the 7, and 7 plus, then the eight and stuff?
Sorry, I don’t really Apple much.
I should probably get one of their laptops or something, and see if I spontaneously grow a beanie, and if my jeans roll up and become skinny… 
I thought that was one plus 
Their phones have been using numbers, but nothing else has if I remember right for some time now.
Added the specs.
This isnt a phone for me (im not getting one for a while anyway), but my feeling is this will sell like toilet roll in a pandemic.
Oh and if you keep the phone for the life of the phone (about 5 years of support from Apple), you could expect the total cost of ownership to be around the following:
£419 for the phone
£49 for one battery replacement about mid life of the phone
£468 or about £93 ($116) a year
As much as I don’t like Apple, giving this the A13 Bionic makes it more powerful than 98%+ Android phones out there, especially at the price. Qualcomm and Samsung need to step up their game.
I definitely see this being a popular phone model. Smaller screen so easier for smaller hands. Price is very attractive. And you are right. Having the A13 is going to be a very capable phone. Might have to get one for my oldest if she behaves. Currently she has my retired 7 and I’m using a XS
I remember reading somewhere that they were going to implement the ability to limit charge in iOS. I dont have a device to know if its available yet but if they do that, I’m probably not going to buy another android again. Thats too big of a useful feature to forget about.
What do you mean?
I know that they have a “optimised battery charging” option that’s enabled. It learns your charging pattern and stops charging past 80% until you need it then charges the last 20% not long before you normally take it off the charger.
What is limit charge? Like make battery stop charging when it reaches like 90% and not start until it is lower than 80% or whatever? So it doesn’t chew through battery cycles like a windows page file chews through SSD’s?
I’m not so hip on the learning my patterns part. I just wanna set it for 85% and let it stay there no matter what. This is what I do on my nexus 6p currently.
This is where i see a big uptake. I think almost every parent would likely buy this phone for their children. That’s a lot of phones.
Then people who want a no big thrills iPhone, those who want smaller phones, i think make up a small percentage but will probably like this option as well.
In that case aren’t you just better off charging it and not worrying. 15% battery loss out of the gate is a lot of uptime.
for perspective, last I checked Apple replaced batteries for free if they went under 80% over two years.
not really. that last 15% is 66% of the wear cycles on the battery.
That’s me!
A phone that gets good support, is adequately powerful, and decent battery life. That’s all I want.
I don’t want a phone bristling with cameras, a screen larger than a textbook, or has more RAM than Watson.
My largest detractors from this device right now are the Lightning connector and I’m not sure it would work on my carrier.
Wow, that all looks quite reasonable, compared to todays typical specs. The only thing I can’t quite figure out is wifi 6.
wifi 6 is bae
Yeah, I get this.
Honestly i think the lightning connector is objectively the better physical connection of the two. But Type-C is here to stay.
I’ve not found it a huge fuss for the most part though, i have a wireless charger and just plonk my phone on it most of the time.
Model A2296*
- FDD‑LTE (Bands 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 25, 26, 28, 29, 30, 32, 66)
- TD‑LTE (Bands 34, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 46, 48)
- CDMA EV‑DO Rev. A (800, 1900 MHz)(Japan location only)
- UMTS/HSPA+/DC‑HSDPA (850, 900, 1700/2100, 1900, 2100 MHz)
- GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)
All models
- Gigabit-class LTE with 2x2 MIMO and LAA4
- 802.11ax Wi‑Fi 6 with 2x2 MIMO
- Bluetooth 5.0 wireless technology
- NFC with reader mode
- Express Cards with Power Reserve
What about it?
