– It's here. The iPhone for every man, the iPhone SE. I'm gonna be calling this
one the iPhone SE SE. The iPhone SE Second Edition. Go ahead and get this baby unpacked because this is about as
excited as I've ever been for an iPhone in my memory. Still is gonna cost you
a cool 400 U.S dollars. Dbrand keeps trying to one up themselves to send me something so ugly, I couldn't possibly like it, and they keep sending me
stuff I think is cooler and cooler so they provided this phone, thanks to Dbrand for that. Ear pods, wired, not air pods. You'll find a regular, non
warp speed fast charger, anything like that, as well as a lightening cable. It looks and feels basically
exactly like an iPhone 8. Even internally, this phone
shares a lot of similarities with it's predecessor. Wow, face ID is gone, I didn't realize how small
an iPhone 8 would feel until I went and picked one up in 2020. Not just a small phone, but a phone with a really
small looking screen.
I guess that's why Apple
advertise it's reachability as one of the features of this device. The Haptic home button
that Apple switched over to with the iPhone 7 is obviously still here and in fact, apparently the
entire display assembly, so that would include the home button, is shared with the iPhone 8, but with a couple of caveats. One is that if you
replace the home button, you can't expect to have
touch ID functionality unless you're Apple, in
which case you wouldn't be interchangeably swapping
the screen for an iPhone SE and an iPhone 8. You're not gonna be able to use True Tone and then finally, obviously the iPhone 8 has 3D touch and the iPhone SE does not. So even though that
hardware might be there, if you put an iPhone 8's screen assembly onto an iPhone SE, it
seems like it's locked out on software because it will not work.
Other parts that are interchangeable
between the two phones are apparently the Taptic Engine, as well as apparently, both
the front and rear camera. Front one, so that's the
same seven megapixel shooter that we saw on the original iPhone 8. Hello, hello I'm taking an iPhone selfie. You don't have any 4K video recording, like you would in the iPhone 11 and no slow motion selfies or slowfies, that one seems to be
pretty much confirmed, but it's the rear camera
that there's a little bit of conflicting information on. Hey David, what's up? – [David] What's up, dog? – What's up? – [David] What? – It appears from iFixit's tear down that it's the same 12 megapixel module, but I did read another report that says, what makes it better in the iPhone SE compared to the iPhone
8, is Apple's processing.
So on a software level it might know, hey, that's an iPhone 8 camera module and it may not work correctly, so we're gonna have to
wait for the DIY community to figure out the new (mumbles) there. One other component that's, I guess, a little disappointing, is the battery. So it looks like it's
about 1800 milliamp hours and it looks like the same
battery from the iPhone 8, but because it uses a new connector, it is not interchangeable.
Let's get into what is new
and, or great about this thing. It's got three gigs of
RAM, so that's 50% more than the iPhone 8. It's got some software
improvements to the camera including portrait mode,
better video stabilization, as well as red eye removal. It's now powered by the
A13 Bionic processor. The same chip that Apple
is using in the iPhone 11, 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max. So on paper anyway, aside from RAM, this thing should perform
nearly identically to those modern flagships, at $400. One thing Apple doesn't
specify on the product page that I was really curious about, is whether the phone
supports HDR video playback. This is definitely playing back How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World in HDR but, this is only on a 625 nit peak brightness display,
which means you're not getting the full HDR experience that you would on something like an iPhone 11
or iPhone 11 Pro or Pro Max.
At least it's got support for it though, even on a 600 nit display,
it'll look better than SDR. One other feature that
shouldn't surprise me but does, is that the SE has wireless charging and IP67 water resistance. It shouldn't surprise
me that much, I guess, because the iPhone 8 did
have both of those features, but those are the kinds
of things I would expect Apple to take away as a gotcha, you know like, oh you
don't have another $300 to spend on an iPhone 11? Well, I guess you don't need
wireless charging that badly.
Really the only killer
apps for the iPhone 11 are the ultra wide camera, because the main cameras are,
as far as we can tell so far, relatively similar. The better selfie camera, so
it's 12 versus seven megapixels and of course, with 4K video recording, larger better screen,
it is a better screen and then Face ID, which for some people, is not even really a feature and they wish Apple would
just go back to Touch ID with the home button, I
mean it really is great. Touch ID is awesome, it's
super intuitive to use, I've always loved it, and that's it. If my aunt was like,
hey I need a new phone, this is it. With one gotcha. David, 1800 milliamp
power battery in change. – [David] Garbage. – Okay, I think garbage is a
bit of an over statement but– – [David] Awful.
– Is that a deal breaker for you? Could you even recommend it to someone? The iPhone 8 made it's
way down to almost $400 towards the very end of it's life cycle. This is basically that, similar battery, but way newer processor, more RAM and what are you giving up? 3D touch? I think this thing's a killer value, besides if Apple's history
is anything to go on, they're probably gonna update this thing for five years given that
it's got a brand new flagship chip in it. I think it's a great value.
As long as you're not the
kind of user who is going to expect nine hours of screen
time, 10 hours of screen time a day with some tweaks like
you made on the Android site. Would you guys wanna see
this concept repeated by Android handset makers? If Samsung was like, hey, Galaxy S7, but with a Snapdragon 865 in it, would you buy that? – [David] Day one. – Day one? – [David] Day one. – Day one, $400? – [David] Yeah, easy. – What do you guys think? Let us know in the comments below. Thanks for checking out this unboxing of the iPhone SE, the truly
unexceptionlist iPhone launch in quite some time. Don't forget to subscribe
for all that good unboxing stuff we do here. Doesn't this look amazing? Okay, guys come on, petition. Hit up Dbrand on Twitter to
offer this skin configuration officially, 'cause you know
if enough people make noise, they'll be like, oh
guys, blah, blah, blah.
We're Dbrand, we're edgy. But they'll do it..
