Many iPhone SE will seem very familiar.The phone received the 5s chassis and became the 3rd generation of Apple smartphones, in which the same design was used. However, with external similarity, the model underwent a major modernization. The processor frequency has increased to 1.85 GHz, the amount of RAM has doubled, the resolution of the camera has increased to 12 Mp.
Even without photos, the design of the Apple iPhone SE 32GB smartphone is easy to imagine. In fact, it has not changed since 2012. Perhaps, only about the HTC One M7 you can say something like that.
From an aesthetic point of view, the chassis style of the iPhone 5,5s and SE still remains one of the best solutions for smartphones. Flat edges, beveled edges, round volume adjustment buttons and antenna pads - all this looks elegant and, according to many, better than the 6th model with built-in plastic antenna lines, oblong buttons and camera shoulder. On the other hand, the ergonomics of the phone has definitely improved. Although the flat surfaces and bevelled edges of the SE provide the device with an elegant design, the rectangular shape does not fit well with the human hand.
Externally, in the smartphone iPhone SE 32GB almost nothinghas changed. Dimensions remained the same, and the mass grew only by 1 g. You can find only 2 differences. Firstly, logos disappeared from the back panel, and secondly, the brilliant chamfer on the edge was replaced by a matte finish, corresponding to the rest of the chassis. In addition, there was a new version of color - pink gold.
Such conservativeness has its advantages andshortcomings, which often turn out to be sides of the same coin. For example, due to the fact that the manufacturer did not seek to make a relatively inexpensive model thinner, it left more room for the battery and saved the camera's projection. The old design has a large width of the frame on the left and right sides of the screen, and the black space between the white front panel and the actual display is much thicker than on the new models.
IPhone SE 32GB Gold has become part of the overall trendDo not change the design until the market is ready for it. In many respects, a change in design means that there are significant shortcomings that required new solutions. A good design is durable and requires only small changes to accommodate new functions and a constant reduction in the thickness of the device.
As expected, the characteristics of the iPhone SE 32GBcorrespond to the performance of the model 6s. Compared to the 5s model, the improvement was significant, about twice the performance of the predecessor: in the 3DMark Sling Shot Extreme Unlimited test, the phone dials 2038 points.
NAND memory also works no worse than the iPhone6. Reading data in a random order is faster (27 vs. 23.33 MB / s), and recording is almost on par with (2.21 and 2.22 MB / s). Consecutive reading is slightly worse (378.36 and 404.39 MB / s), but the recording is at the same speed (165.33 and 165.55 MB / s). Minor differences can be attributed to the variance of testing and it is safe to say that the memory performance of SE corresponds to the model 6s.
With the test of web surfing on a Wi-Fi connectionthe smartphone is doing very well. When Apple announced that SE has a large web resource for offline work than 6s and 6s Plus, some were surprised, although in fact this is a natural result. SE is equipped with a much smaller LCD display with lower resolution than other models, which significantly reduced its overall power consumption. The increase in battery capacity compared to the 5s model also contributed to an increase in battery life. According to Apple, the smartphone iPhone SE 32GB can function for 2 hours longer than the 6th model, and users confirm this. Web surfing on a Wi-Fi connection can last 9 hours and 16 minutes.
LTE-connection works for 3 hours longer than for 6s, and for a couple of hours is inferior to the previous test.
4-inch iPhone models in the GFXBench test alwaysshowed low results. Here, SE shows the shortest battery life - only 1.46 hours. The phone, of course, is better compared to 5s, even though its results in this test are half an hour less, because by the end of the test, the iPhone SE demonstrates a 6-fold increase in performance due to a greater degree of thermoregulation of the A7 processor.
Like the iPhone 6s Plus, the SE comes with5-watt charger. Such a low power for a large model would be problematic, but for a small capacity battery it is quite enough. The charging time of SE from 0 to 100% is 1 hour 40 minutes.
The display provides the greatest advantagesmodel, but not because of its characteristics. IPhone SE 32GB replaced the 5-th model with the same 4-inch IPS-screen resolution of 1136 x 640. Although it can not be confirmed that the panel has remained the same, you can be sure that they are quite similar.
Apple estimates the brightness of its 500-nit display. SE at the peak brightness reaches 598 nits. This is more than the iPhone 6 and 6s, the specifications of which are higher.
Black level at maximum brightnesshigh enough (0.69 nits). Part of this is due to the bright backlighting of the screen, but in the end, even with a large peak brightness, the contrast is significantly behind the characteristics of other phones, and even in comparison with 5s it is quite low. It is important to note that Apple rarely uses displays with a contrast ratio of 800: 1, but if you put the phone side by side with modern IPS matrices of smartphones like the iPhone 6 and LG G4, the black color looks like dark gray.
The screen of the phone very accurately transmits shadesgray. As usual, a blue shift is observed, but it is small, and the average value of the color temperature is below 7000 K. The gamma is fairly straightforward, and in the end there are no shades of gray with DeltaE> 3, which is usually required. With an average DeltaE = 1,87, there is no need to wish for better.
The color transfer of the IPhone SE 32GB is differenthigh accuracy. For many flows DeltaE <1, i.e., the error is invisible, even if the reference color is put side by side. In extreme cases saturation with DeltaE = 2 is achieved, which is quite impressive. On average, DeltaE = 1.24, and there is practically nothing to improve here.
Given that the accuracy of the color mixture is onlysaturation accuracy and gray scale accuracy, it's no wonder that here the iPhone SE shows good results. There is no error with DeltaE> 3, and, in general, most of them are in the range between 1 and 2.
Overall, the IPS display of the iPhone SE 32GB reviews is praised.1136 x 640 is far from the highest resolution on the market, but Apple does provide the best in its class color accuracy, and the density of 326 tons / inch is quite high so that no additional smoothing is required.
Like the iPhone 6, the SE is equipped with a 12-megapixel 1/3 "sensor andlens with diaphragm f / 2.2. The A9 chipset includes the same ISP processor, so theoretically the photos should be identical. This is a huge improvement compared to the 5s, which used the first 1/3 "Apple sensor with a resolution of 8 megapixels. Transition to a sensor with a higher resolution allowed to record UHD video, and the new ISP provides slow motion video with a resolution of 1080p and a speed of 120k / s, and also supports the function of Live Photos.The results of photos and videos from SE and iPhone 6 are the same.
According to reviews, the iPhone SE 32GB allows you to getgood photos. They are noticeably sharper than frames made at 5s, which is due to a combination of a higher resolution sensor and an improved image processor. As expected, because of the same camera and ISP, the image quality, in fact, is the same as that of the 6s and definitely the best among phones cheaper than $ 400.
Night shots are identical to those of the 6s model.But the price of the iPhone SE 32GB is $ 250 lower. The quality of daytime photographs is not bad, but in low-light conditions it is inferior to 6s Plus due to the smaller sensor and lack of image stabilization. Obviously, the quality of the camera was sacrificed to a lower cost. But SE has the best image sensor in its price range.
The Android world has long given up smartphones withdiagonal 4 ". While Apple still used 3.5 ", competitors' phones moved to the screen with a diagonal of 4", 4.3 ", 4.5", etc. Currently, the standard flagship Android phone has a display size of more than 5 inches, and 4, 5 "screen is considered tiny. Of course, there are other factors related to the size of the device, for example, whether there are physical or on-screen buttons and how large the panel is, but the screen diagonal still defines the window borders on the Internet and in all applications.
When moving from 5 "to 4" smartphone reallyseems small. After some period of addiction you can enjoy the possibility of using the phone with one hand. With a 4-inch screen it's much easier to work with one hand, without fear of dropping the smartphone and not shifting your hand to get to the top left display area.
On the other hand, the 4 "screen seems prettyclose, even after getting used to its small size. With the default settings, the density of information is absolutely ridiculous, and it is almost impossible to use the phone without setting a minimum font. Therefore, users who need poorer eyesight need larger letters, iPhone SE should be immediately deleted, if you do not want to constantly scroll. Even after the changes, the display can not contain everything you need. On the main screen, there are fewer shortcuts per line, the Mail application shows fewer emails, there are no avatars in the messaging application. Similar abbreviations are repeated in other applications of Apple and third-party manufacturers. Programs such as the Control Center contain only half the whole page of the iPhone 6s.
All of these changes are just a function of the size of the display, and although they seem obvious, it is difficult to understand to what extent they are changing the experience of using the phone.
Of course, the characteristics of the iPhone SE 32GBare the best among 4-inch smartphones, and you can ignore all the specifications, as this is the only offer of this size. Android manufacturers refused to create small phones, and most of them did not produce top-level models of this size for several years. By 2012, the emphasis was on 4.5 "and more, and at the end of 2011 Samsung introduced 5.3" Galaxy Note. The idea of a compact Android phone is something similar to the Xperia Z5 with a screen of 4.6 ", which is slightly smaller than the display of the iPhone 6s. A further reduction in size means a transition to cheap smartphones, such as Moto E, but this is a completely different part of the market.
If to compare with the least modernphones of high class on the Android platform, it's easy to see that the characteristics of the iPhone SE 32GB put it on the first place. Apple A9 still remains one of the fastest chips, and it goes without saying that the Snapdragon 810 in the Xperia Z5 Compact is not comparable with it. According to reviews the camera also has no equal in phones of this class. It does not reach the flagships, but using the 6th model allows you to get really beautiful photos and the best 4K-video that you can get on your phone.
4-inch IPS display iPhone SE 32GB Blackperfectly calibrated, and its resolution is enough to avoid anti-aliasing, although it is clearly not as clear as on many Android smartphones. According to the feedback from users, the main disadvantage of the screen is low contrast and high level of brightness of black, which is noticeable when used, when compared with more modern phones or any AMOLED panel. The screen is probably one of the weak points of the SE, although in general this is a good IPS display.
The fact that the design of the phone has not changed sinceThe iPhone 5s, in the opinion of the owners, is not its drawback. The design is reliable, and there is no reason for arbitrary modification of the product in each generation. SE became a necessary update of the Apple's 4-inch model, given that it has been more than 2 years since its introduction. The fact that the user receives the same camera performance and display calibration as the 6s model is quite attractive, considering that the device costs $ 250 less. The duration of autonomous work, depending on the situation, is better or worse than in the 6s, but it definitely improved compared to 5s. The faster LTE and the much faster Wi-Fi connection are also pleasant changes, like the Apple Pay. It was difficult for the manufacturer to include something else without cutting its margin, and this would raise questions about why 6s is significantly more expensive.
According to some owners, dailyusing SE, they intend to switch to models such as Nexus 5X and iPhone 6s, since a small display is not very suitable for them. But the fact that Apple sells 32 million 4 "devices per year, speaks of the great demand for a small phone with high performance. Moreover, after the announcement of the 8th model, the price of the iPhone SE 32GB dropped to $ 349.
