iPhone SE vs iPhone 7 Plus: Which should you buy? By Nick Ackerman

iPhone as E versus iPhone 7, plus that's coming up right. Now, let's go so what is up guys Nick here from everything tech, helping a Messier technology and welcome to iPhone SE e vs. , iPhone 7 plus now I know: I have a bunch of other phones like the Galaxy S7, but I want to begin with the SE, because I think this is a quite interesting comparison here. To start with, now, I will be putting my iPhone 7 plus in a case for this video, because that camera bump on the back does stick out quite a bit and I don't want to scratch the lens on that baby on this hardwood table. So I'll put this guy in the case just wanted to. Let you guys know that let's 50s around here and let's talk a little about them before we go ahead and do our speed test our boot up to us and stuff like that.

Actually we can go ahead and boot them up while we're talking first boot, these guys up at the same time in three two ones. So the Apple logo shows first on the iPhone SE and let's talk just a bit, so the Apple iPhone SE has an Apple A9 CPU and the Apple iPhone 7 plus has an a-10 CPU. So if we draw this out to make this easy for you to understand the a9 here and then, let's just put the a-10 up here, so the a-10, the a9 has two cores, so it has two cores here to high-efficient course: it's a dual-core processor, now the a-10 over here and I, didn't even check which one booted up. First, let me know down below in the comments I think it was the iPhone 7 plus, but I wasn't actually paying attention. So let me go ahead and put the battery off low power mode here, to make this fair, let's go to display here, put the auto lock on five minutes as well as over.

Here, let's go ahead and put the auto lock on five minutes just so these screens don't shut off while we're talking here both on five minutes, so they should stay on there. So yeah, like I, was saying over here we have the a9, which is a dual-core CPU, and this is just to make this easy. For you understand. The a-10 is a four core CPU, so it's got four cores and four is always better than two or is it so? What this is? The a-10 has two high efficient cores, so it has high efficient cores which were are not activated all times, and then it has low efficient cause so lower your efficient core. So more, how would you say, they're just they're going to come into play with daily tasks so for the most part, when you're not doing anything highly efficient or highly? How would you say just heavy tasking the iPhone 7 plus is going to run in a dual-core capacity.

So essentially it's going to run exactly the same as the a9 CPU most of the time. So when you're, not gaming or nothing like that, then the iPhone 7 plus is going to run just like an e 9 CPU now in terms of a graph like, if you guys want to, if you guys, can read this on a graph. So here's the a9, here's the a9 and here's the a10 in terms of on a spec sheet, so the a9 is right here in the a10 is right here, so the a-10 has about a 40% increase in speed according to a spec sheet and a 50% increase in GPU, so the graphics processing unit, so basically in terms of gaming you're, getting a 50% increase, and we're going to do a separate gaming test on the iPhone SE versus the iPhone 7 plus in a future video. Let's get that demonstration out of there and let's go into both phones here now, I didn't line up both applications and I do want to say that the iPhone 7 plus has three gigabytes of RAM and the iPhone SE has two gigabytes of RAM. Now that doesn't really make huge difference because we're talking about a 1080p display here and a 5.5 inch panel here for the iPhone 7 plus, as well as that p3 wide color gamut. So, if you're looking closely here on the display, you can tell that the iPhone 7 plus has a much more color rich higher contrast ratio display.

Now, it's not so big that it's going to make a huge difference in day-to-day use, but if you pick up an iPhone SE, and then you go by and 7 plus or if you buy an even a 6s plus you're, going to see the difference in the sharpness of the text here on the iPhone 7 plus now I do want to say: 1080p is still good, but if you ever looked at a 2k display such as what Samsung is doing, you can definitely see some jagged edges on the text in comparison to a AMOLED display it's night and day difference in terms of the sharpness of a 2k display and a 1080p display and I find myself reading on my Galaxy S7 much more than I'm reading on my iPhone 7 plus here. So let me go ahead and close everything out here and, let's see what happens on access, so we're going to see you're going to see here how close these really are in terms of them running in the lower you fishing core is like I mentioned earlier. Let's go into calendar on both, and you can see. Calendar was about the same as I say so. This is why you're going to see about the same speed is because they're both running as dual-core right now, let's go in the weather, and you can see the seven plus of slightly ahead there.

Let's go home, let's go into clocks, and you can see iPhone I see it. Look like there. Let's come home, let's go into settings about the same: let's go home here: let's go into App Store. You can see seven A+ ahead there, let's come home here, let's go into calculator on both devices. You could see the SD beat it there.

Let's come home, let's go into Safari and you can see how it's reading. What's the most heavy smartphone test, you can do on a smartphone. Let's go to Yahoo here, calm to do a testing, an Internet test here and let's hit go see about dead. Even there both are Rockets to the know. Both are rockets in Safari, and this is one of my most enjoyable features of iPhone in general is I.

Think Safari is highly optimized, and I've seen any internet browsers. Besides, maybe the Google phones like the Google Pixel that can really match Safari. So let's go here and go, and you can see the SE one there, so the SE is going to take some tests here, like I, say because they're written both running a dual-core and the FC is not pushing as many pixels. Let's go over here. Let's go into YouTube.

com here on the browsers: let's hit go and iPhone 7, plus they're, so iPhone, 7 plus I, would say one the browser test overall and the iPhone 7 plus features that capacitive touch key down here, which is basically not a home button. It mimics home button has a tactic engine under the device, so the iPhone SE just has a clicking mechanism and there's a 3.5 millimeter headset jack here, which was removed on the 7. So you can do this tactic engine thing and some people might not like it, I personally, don't like it too much, but I will get used to it and let's go into eBay. But with that being said, with the tactic engine that was not fair. Let's come out I have seen that one, let's go home.

I know that wasn't was fair I. Just repeated myself. I know that what whoa whoa whoa let's go into eBay and you can see the iPhone 7 plus with the head there. Let's come home, let's go into Amazon and let's write the 7 plus there, let's come home, so the 7 plus is still even though they're both running in the dual-core. It still, maybe a hair quicker, just a hair, it's very, very minor.

Let's go into Best Buy and you can see. Look like the 7 plus put that one as well until it started to ask me all these darn questions, let's color to Instagram here, and you go ahead and follow me here on Instagram underscore nick underscore Ackerman I, post all kinds of things on the channel, but that test looked about the same. They both went to Instagram about the same I did ask I Instagram earlier, which would you choose the iPhone, 7 plus or the Galaxy S7 edge. So you guys go ahead and hit me up over there. I'll get back to you quicker on it's the grand, then the YouTube.

So you can go ahead and check me out: link is down below in the description area of this video Twitter and you can see boom that was dead even dead. Even so, this click mechanism does make the iPhone go home just a little quicker. Just because it's not a's a capacitive touch and not it's not a physical press, so it does take a little longer to physical press so watch this go. That was about the same, but you could see the 7 plus, for the most part, is quite a bit ahead. One thing I, don't like about this capacitive touch.

Button, though, is that you know you can click it from anywhere on the SE, and you know that you're going to get so, for example, if you're going to go like a little on the edge you're still going to hit the button, because it's a physical press. What's this, you kind of got it sometimes you got to get your whole finger on there. So if I go to calculator here, let me you, for example: if I go right here, you can see nothing's happening. You got it literally get your hopes up on there. So that's kind of annoying, because with this, if you got nails or something like, ladies, you got those long nails you can just boom.

You know I'm talking about. You can just go like that. If you just got a little into your thumb on there, who knows maybe you're sleeping that night and you just you're picking up your phone at 2:00 in the morning, and you're like you, just want to press it like that, because you're not paying attention it'll still go home, but with this guy you got to make sure that pretty much that your thumb is covering most of it on the seven plus or the seven. So that's kind of a little of annoyance. There Airbnb was about the same on that app test.

Let's go to Spotify and oh seven, plus out with the wind. Once again, let's come home here it's going to YouTube and this is a 128 gigabyte model. This is a 16 gig that doesn't really matter, except for when you're, just writing and storing photos to a file folder on your PC or Mac. Let's go on a library, and you can see my video that looks dead even honestly, that looked totally dead. Even there, we've come home, let's go into Geek bench on boats and let's run a geek bench here on the S, II and I will pause.

The video and I will be back once the score is done on the SE, as well as the seven plus years, so we're going to run both on here, but by the way before I pause, the video the SE is collecting at one point, eight five gigahertz- and this is clocked in at two point: three four gigahertz. So basically what that means is that it's just a higher clock to be meaning the processor that is clocked higher for more performance. That's the best way. I can put it, and it's showing a little here, so I'm, going to pause that and show you the scores when they are both done. Alright, guys, so they're just about done here.

These seven plus is going to finish here in just a second on the geek bench and I expect the seven plus to crush it in these scores, and it does 34:56 in a single cord and 5774 in the multi-core. These are extremely impressive scores here for the Apple A10 here, and we're talking 2489 on the benchmark here for single core and SE and 4200 so absolutely destroys the IC and Geek bench. However, it's not really destroying it in everyday use as you're seeing right here. That's just due to the nature of iOS being so well optimized and so efficient, and I know some people can that's not really a objective or a subjective opinion. Like that's pretty much fact now, Apple iOS is very optimized.

I think most people would agree all right guys. So let's go into speed test here, so the iPhone 7 plus looks to load that one first, let's begin the test here on the iPhone as E and if you remember correctly, I did do iPhone.7 vs iPhone SE a while back here and I, will leave that link down below in the comments section or in the description area of this video and the iPhone 7 was pretty close. The SE was pretty close to it, but for some reason the settlement process is doing a better job against DSP and I would say absolutely. It is beating it not by a lot, but it is beating it, but is it beating it by let's say 500 bucks or so now that that's a question that I'm going to leave up to you guys the answer? Is it beating it by 500 bucks or so because I could tell you one thing: I could get about 3 iPhones as he's 4, 1, 7 + new, so not, not new in the store but like on the second rate like on eBay or something you get like: 3 SES for one new iPhone 7, plus, basically an SV for your whole family. Let's go over here on the F e, and we got 14 point 8, 9 or 91 on the up on the download, and we got ten point.

Eight zero on the upload, so that's for the iPhone SE II right there and over here on the iPhone, 7 plus eighty-nine point, six eight on the download and let's see what happens on the upload, so I, don't know what happened there with the SE pulling in crappy. Wi-Fi speeds there for this test. But let's see what happens on the upload here for the iPhone 7 + same Wi-Fi network as well as you can see, 12 point three: four on the upload for the iPhone 7 plus and the iPhone 7 plus, does have actually faster Wi-Fi and LTE speeds than pretty much any other phone on the market here. So yeah, that's pretty much the speed. So let's do it multitasking test now, so you can see both multitask extremely well.

I! Think the seven plus was it's 8:10. It looks a little faster when you just do this hopping into the apps. It's so quick, like the apps kind of like twitch is so fast, so let's go into YouTube and you can see right here. If you can, if you look closely like it, does like this little twitch, it's so quick, it's pretty nice to see, let's go into Spotify and you can see so multitasking is about the same on both not any differences here and in terms of happening out of apps. None of neither one of these are going to have to reload apps.

You have a blazing fast device on either device here in terms of the control center. I didn't I, just missed that on iPhone 7 plus it didn't lag. You can go down here and go up over here, and you go like this. Speeding, speeding right through on both like nothing like nobody's business, just really fast here, so I'm, pretty much done talking about the speed here. I just want to talk about the SE advantages in these 7 plus advantages, and we're going to wrap up this iPhone SE vs.7, plus video, and hopefully this helps you to decide which phone you're going to pick up between these two. So the SE has the advantage of a few things.

Sighs now we're going to say sighs for the 7 plus 2, but it has the advantage of size for people with small hands. Now, if you don't have huge hands like me, haha you see. Look at it. Look at these keys. These are ball pairs right here.

Well, I say ball pairs. These are bear paws here, but you can see you size here.4-inch screen, yet it's small, but if you have small hands the screen starts to not feel too small. After all and yeah it could be a little annoying. Sometimes if you want to watch videos and stuff, it's not the most immersive experience like a 7 plus or such, but it's so portable. So if your person constantly on the go all the time outside, you got an Apple Watch, you don't really use your phone for video watching you just want to click reply to text you want to make calls.

This thing is just a portable little beast monster right here and the iPhone I see. Another advantage is price: let's just buy the highest value, and this is why I love the iPhone SE I think it's just a great value: smartphone, you get the power of pretty much the 7, plus the 6s plus, and it's in such a pretty affordable pack cheer for most people, and if you go use route, you can get these guys under 300 bucks. Now so pretty much. Everyone has a decent chance of getting into the iOS operating system on a modern smartphone such as DSE don't be fooled just because the casing looks like the 5s and e5. This is not a 5 or 5s in no way shape or form.

Besides the way it looks on the outside, so the ergonomics too I think is a positive of DSE. It's very easy to reach across all the corners on the SE and I find it to be. It can feel snappier because, because of the reach on the iPhone 7 plus it takes a second to reach that account. You see I got to kind of jiggle my hand through some Hamm gymnastics, so I got to do some hand gymnastics over here and jiggle my hand up to get there, whereas what the SE, if I said, let's open up calendar I'm not going to be in calendar because I don't have to jiggle my hand around I'm in there I'm in there, but over here, if I'm holding the phone like this I got to come up here so by the time I have to come up here. The person with the S II is already in the calendar because they don't get to reach all the way across the screen.

Now another advantage of the SE is going to be that 3.5 millimeter headset jack. Now this is totally subjective. Obviously, but I think most people would agree that having two options might be better than one I know going to simplicity is cool, but I think that having the option to have Bluetooth headphones, lightning headphones as well as 3.5, millimeter headset jack is better than having Bluetooth and some little dongle. That goes on the end of the iPhone 7 plus, and this thing I don't like this thing at all and knowing it just feels undone like you have this beautiful, iPhone, 7 plus, and then you have this little, this little things freaking hanging from it. It's just not cute, so let's go over there and that's pretty much the advantages of the SE.

So what are the seven plus advantages the size? So just like the sizes' portability, the size of the iPhone 7 plus, is an advantage because it has a beautiful large screen. You can watch movies in Chris PhD, it's really great for people who are running a business on their smartphone. So if you're a creative person, you do any kind of self-employment work or even, if you work for companies that requires you to use your phone a lot such as GPS, your Uber driver, your list driver. You do any of these things. That requires you to use your phone a lot.

The seven-plus is the way to go water resistance. Also, if you're outdoors a lot- and you drop your phone- a lot you're pretty reckless- this is ip67 certified. So this cannot be submersed in water, it's dangerous to do that on the 7 plus, but this can be splashed. This can get pretty wet here, and it'll still be pretty good the screen, so the screen is that p3 display it's. That cinema grade display here on iPhone, 7 plus, and it is a stunner and also one advantage also of the iPhone 7 plus- is the landscape mode.

This mode makes this feel like a little iPad. So if you wanted a pad get to 7 plus you won't even need an iPad. It's pretty much the same thing with that a landscape mode right there so going over here. If I put on rotation lock, you can see that we also have the reachability mode, and that does not make up for the size, though it's still easier to reach the iPhone SE, even with apples included, reachability mode, which is quite useful though, and another advantage of the iPhone 7 plus is the front firing speakers and also the cameras. So the camera on the front and the rear are not amazing, they're, not incredibly better than the SE.

Don't get me wrong, they are better, but I, don't think they're so far, better that you would choose the iPhone 7 plus just for as camera. Now, if you are a photographer, then absolutely iPhone, 7 plus I would tell you to choose over the SES, but if you're, just an everyday consumer, just taking pictures here and there, the 7 plus this camera is not four hundred dollars better than the SE $100, better. Yes, four hundred dollars, but her now and that's pretty much the advantages. So you have to weigh the pros and cons between these two. If it was my money I'm going with the iPhone, 7 or 7 plus, just because I like to be an innovative side, if it's for a value proposition, you just see the foam and just saying you just need a phone, and you want a good price phone.

The SE is going to surprise you in that it gives you more than what you expect for the money here. So if you're, that person go ahead and pick up the SE, if you got small hands, forget about the 7 plus go with the 7, and that is pretty much my assessment of the iPhone SE versus the iPhone, 7 plus I know this video is a little longer, but I wanted to get more in depth in this one. If you guys enjoyed this video, do me a favor click. The like button for me down below it does help the channel out a lot of share this video with a friend and comment which phone you would go with down below in the comment section of this video. This was Nick here up in the masculine technology, I will catch you all in the next one be sure to be well and pay.

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