Unboxing the Black iPhone SE (2020)! By Auto Technica

Finally, I've got the iPhone SE, so you guys, if you've watched the channel for any amount of time. You guys know how much I love the iPhone SC, especially the original one. This is one of my favorite phones. Apple has ever made. I love everything about it, the design, the body the feel, but most likely. I think the thing I loved the most about it was just that the idea of it of a smaller form factor phone, but an older style body, but a more recognizable, more familiar packaging that you know, allows people to experience apple, but not have to pay premium money not have to pay 700 000 to experience it.

So the iPhone SC has always just had this really special place in my heart. So when this came out in March, you know I've I've been following the rumor trains for years and when this came out in March I was so excited, but also a little disappointed because I couldn't get my hands on one. So you know because of quarantine and everything, just things didn't line up, but you know I just kept passing on it. But finally, I decided, especially since the OnePlus word has come out and the Google Pixel 4a has come out that these phones are just like this mid-range is so amazing right now I have to get it right now, so here it is the one I'm sorry, the iPhone SE in the iPhone SC 2020 is what it's officially called, I believe, but the iPhone SE 2 2020, whatever you want to call it in 128 gigs in black, so they no longer call it space gray, but I'm pretty sure it's the same color. I have my iPhone 8 plus and space gray, so we can compare if it's any different, but it's now space, gray, product red, and you get a white, but all three have a black front, which I love.

It's awesome. So let's get right to unboxing it and a very familiar iPhone unboxing feel like it doesn't feel like you're unboxing, a 400 phone which I experienced recently with the um OnePlus word, it's cheap, but the box showed it. But this is like this is the same. Unboxing experience the same box, the same quality, everything you get when you unbox a very expensive thousand, plus dollar iPhone as well. So that's just fantastic, so uh pull tab right here, as you guys can see uh.

This pull tab comes on every iPhone box, so let's just pull it off and the plastic will come off very neatly on all sides. Look at that perfect! Let me put that to the side and let's look at the box itself. Very simple: got this cool, yellow and green wallpaper could go in here, iPhone on the sides tops and uh the back. Just has the information storage, all the um. You know IMEI and other info.

So this you know the outside of the box is not that interesting. I don't have the inside isn't either, but let's check it out designed by apple in California, all right, let's lift the paperwork, put it to the side and boom. So one thing I did notice is that the iPhone 11 pros and 11 now come in facing the other way. So you see the back. The first thing you do when you open it, but this still comes facing upward.

So that's an interesting thing right pulling it out. Fantastic looks great. I love this black looks good, so it feels a little weird seeing the centered Apple logo. I completely forgot about this, so the iPhone 8 has a older style where the Apple logo is a little higher and there's iPhone written as well. So you guys can see.

This is a little different. It'll take a little of time for me to get used to, but uh this looks fantastic. Let me just put this off to the side: real, quick. You get your charger 5 watt. Of course, you get your headphones, you get your charging cable, your lightning, cable and that's about it.

The box is just the essentials, nothing else. So let me lift this up, pull it over to the side and put the box to the side. So before I do anything else, let's go ahead and listen to that amazing. Um peel. What do you call it? A peel, I don't know uh, let's get the plastic off, and it's always such a satisfying sound.

So I'm going to get my mic as close as I can to the camera. So let's go ahead and do this alright here you guys go, and there goes the plastic, always a very satisfying feeling. So let me get this mic back on and let's keep moving, and before I do anything else. Let's get a tempered glass screen protector onto this phone before I get it all smudged up and scratched up. This is the uh spy gen glass try.

I don't know the exact name but uh, it's fantastic, all right! So let's go ahead. Temper glass installed, let's go ahead and show you guys the phone, so it is so it looks fantastic. You know very clean apple, uh design, it's just a simple clean, look: um! That's what apple goes for all the time as well. So it's not very surprising. You know that it's a clean look and already fingerprinting up so just always got to have a cloth around with these uh smartphones.

Nowadays, the glass backed one, so you guys can see identical on the back, really there's nothing that differentiates them. The tops the sides. Everything is the same. The button placement, it's all just identical now. One thing I'm noticing is for sure is that this aluminum on the side is most definitely a lot darker than the eight was, which I will pull up right here.

So you guys can see. This is space gray and that's aluminum, and it is definitely darker. So there is a difference in color and the back. You know, I think, if you were very carefully paying attention, you could say it's a little darker on the iPhone SE, but really it's more or less the same. The sides way more noticeable that I can tell right off the bat.

This definitely reminds me of the iPhone 7 black more than anything else, so yeah, this phone definitely feels perfect in hand. The eight has always just been. You know that perfect size, whoever uses it they've, always loved it, and I think that this is a great size. So let me boot it up and then set it up, and I'll give you guys my initial impressions on the iPhone SE 2020 all right guys, so I just spent uh the last couple of minutes setting the phone up playing around with it, comparing it to the iPhone 8 and there's a lot to talk about, but before I do any of that. Let's talk about the spec first things.

First, the display same exact thing: the design is very much so the same as well. There's not much to differentiate between the two. You know they can, they're literally identical to each other. There's nothing changed about the design on both of these. They are very identical and that's not a bad thing at all.

You know, because it's a very good design, in my opinion, uh the uh there's a few changes uh mainly consisting of hardware. So this the iPhone SE 2020 comes with an Apple A13 bionic chip. That is the same chip that you find in the flagship, iPhone 11 and 11 pro a fantastic, fantastic addition. I think it's going to be a very powerful, very long term reliable device, and this is not under powered in any way. It is very, very equal, they haven't slowed it down, or you know, reduces capacity in any way to make the, or you know the more expensive phones uh have a little of an edge.

No that's not going on it's a full powered apple. I o uh the eye of the a13 bionic chip. Moving on. Let's talk about storage options, you get 64 128 and 256 gigs of storage on this. All of them come with three gigs of ram standard, but I think that that's a little of a cut a letdown I would have.

I would have liked to see four gigs of ram, because right now, iOS does good with optimization, so it'll be okay right now, but two years down the line this is going to be struggling. You know, apps are huge, now they're very intense, and it really this. This phone would have benefited with a little more ram, especially as it ages and that's one part where I think the android competitors are going to have a big edge because they have six eight gigs of ram standard, and it's just you know ram is the lack of hardware will start to show at some point here with the iPhone SE. Moving on. Let's talk about the cameras.

The cameras are identical on both the iPhone 8 and the iPhone SE 2020, but the iPhone SE 2020 does have the iPhone 11's image processing. I will explain what that is later, and I'll show you guys examples of why that's important, but let's move on and talk about battery now battery is an it's its something that I think is going to be the weakest, weakest link on this phone and because that's because it's a very tiny, 1, 821 William hour battery, it's that's just tiny. I think they should apple- should have somehow found some space to bump that up. It's just not enough, especially with you know, competitors like the OnePlus word that have a 4 000 William hour battery. It's just crazy right, even if I don't care how optimized you get.

The lack of hardware is going to show itself at some point, and this is going to be one of those areas. I think, and then you know, I think everything else beyond that, there's really only positives uh. It's got ip68 water and dust resistance that very few phones at this price range. Have it's got a wireless charging which none of its competitors. I mean direct competitors at least the iPhone SE, and I'm sorry, the OnePlus word or the Google Pixel 4a have- and this is you know it supports fast charging.

It's got all the goodies, it doesn't come with a fast charger in the box, but that's a different story altogether now. Moving on. Let me talk about the camera, so I told you guys I was going to talk about this and while these two have the same sensor, people have a misconception that more megapixels or a newer camera is going to give you better photos. That's not really the case. I'll show you right now.

Both of these have the same exact camera, but let me load up this photo now. This is exact same photo, taken same exact time on these two phones and if you guys see I'll put these uh images on screen for you guys to compare, because you're not gonna, be able to see them clearly from here. If you guys notice the iPhone 8, the can of sprite just looks, fuzzy and kind of fuzzed out, whereas the SE is a lot clearer. The details are a lot cleaner, and it doesn't have as much noise and that's a consistent trend. You'll notice just look at this next image of my microphone.

This was not, you know a complicated shot anyway, it was just my microphone was lying there, so I took a photo, and that was that- and you guys can see, there's just so much more detail on the SE compared to the iPhone 8, and this is again same exact sensor. So the real difference is the image processing and that's an important thing. Another thing, look at dynamic range, dynamic range is also an important aspect that um you know the. The thing is all this needs a lot of processing power, so the 813 can do this. The a10 on this can now look at this photo both of them at first glance.

Look very similar. However, when you look at the iPhone SE you'll notice that there is a lot more dynamic range. That means that the exposure of the light behind me is done properly. It hasn't overexposed and made everything just wash out, whereas look at the iPhone 8 everything literally above my head is washed out. It's just a huge white like I want to say, like just flash.

Furthermore, it's not clear at all, there are no details behind it and that shows very clearly that the processing does a big part in showing what photos can be. The sensor can be amazing, but if the processing isn't great, you'll get poor results. So that's a fantastic, fantastic addition, I'm glad they did that and winding up. Let's talk about all the other small things, so I did notice that the uh speakers are just a little better on the iPhone SE um the quality is very similar, but what is better is the uh like the volume output, so this is a little louder than the iPhone 8 and the iPhone 8 by no means is bad at all. It's like it's a perfect speaker.

I'd, say one of the best you can get you know. So this is this. This having an improvement is just a big thing. It's I think it's it wasn't needed, but it's very welcome. Uh and the body the weight everything feels very similar, and that's the thing about this phone.

This wasn't meant for enthusiasts. This wasn't meant for people who um enjoy tech or who know or understand tech. This phone was made as a utility a tool. This wasn't made to be an um, an enthusiast's dream right and I think people, especially as enthusiasts very often forget that most consumers don't care right. We care way too much about small stuff that people don't even know so having an iPhone option where you can walk into a store and ask hey, I want an iPhone.

What can I get and having an option for 400 that came out this year? That'll last five years? It's a very hard argument. You know to battle it's like wait. I can get this iPhone for you know four hundred dollars, and then it will run as it does, and from a lot of people like they can still use the same cases and accessories they have as well, if they're on the iPhone 8 or the iPhone 7. That's just another icing on the top and I think that's exactly why Apple did what they did. They kept everything so familiar.

They definitely cut the corner on the display here they could have improved this, but it's not it's just what it is. The display, though I will say, there's nothing to complain about on this display right. The only thing you can complain about is that it's not an AMOLED, or it's not something that's higher quality, or you know, there's no active complaint about this display. It's good. It gets more than bright enough.

Furthermore, it's got good colors. The clarity looks perfect, like I can't really see. I if I saw this display- and you told me it was a 1080p full. You know just like a perfect car. I wouldn't doubt you because at first glance it looks awesome, and it is you know: I've been using the iPhone 8 for a very long time and the display is perfect, and it carries over to this.

So I know it's not the best display. This is definitely a corner, they cut, and you can most definitely count that against apple. But I personally think that this was the right call. I don't mind it. Yes, I would have preferred a better display, but I think that they made the right call here by saving money up here and putting it into the a13 chip instead.

So that's it for this one guys. Let me know what you guys think about the iPhone SE um. I know this video ran a little longer than I wanted it to, because I just wanted to give you my initial impressions uh, the unboxing part. You know it's very similar to every other iPhone, but the ethos of this phone and the way it's built, especially comparing it to the competition like the OnePlus word, is a very interesting, unique thing, and I'm just like I'm very much looking forward to how this range goes out, and I definitely want to see how it stacks up to the Google Pixel 4a as well. So that's it for this one guys if you have any questions or ideas about future videos for the iPhone SC 2020.

If you'd like to see me, compare it to some other phones, please let me know down in the comments below I'll definitely be comparing it with both the iPhone 8 and the OnePlus word. So that's coming for sure, but if you have any other questions or ideas feel free to leave them down in the comments below or hit me up on social media. I'll have all the links to my social media over here. Go check me out. Send me a message.

There check out all my posts and stuff. I do a lot of behind the scenes stuff and oftentimes. You guys will have an idea of what video is going to come next. If you follow me there and be sure to subscribe to the channel for more iPhone SE and OnePlus word content coming very soon in the future, that's gonna! Be it for this one guys I'll catch you in the next one. You.

Source : Auto Technica