Just after apple's spring conference, my fruit fan friend sent a message: "This conference is so fried, how do you feel?" I replied to him, "I'm going to have the whole iPhone SE." He didn't seem to understand: "No, I mean the super M1 Ultra, with the A13 processor display, these are too good, let's talk?" 」
And I, like the seagull who wanted to go to the dock with the whole fries, replied to him once again firmly: "I just want the whole iPhone SE."
I like the big screen, and I have become a small screen party in the torrent of the times
The first time I saw the iPhone, I was moved, it was the "bigger than big" iPhone 6 Plus, but between the heart and the possession, there was a price of 6888 yuan. I didn't own my first iPhone until the iPhone 6s series was released, but not "Plus", but the iPhone 6s.
Is 4.7 inches small? Not small, it's also cheaper. However, with the development of the times, the screen ratio of mobile phones is getting larger and larger, and even the 5.5-inch "Plus" size is smaller than the small screen flagships of many manufacturers. From the 4.7-inch iPhone 6s to the 5.4-inch iPhone 12 mini, I, who once pursued a large-screen mobile phone, gradually blurred the perception of screen size: the small-screen flagship iPhone 12 mini in everyone's mouth also has a 5.4-inch large screen.
I heard that the iPhone mini series will end after the iPhone 13 mini because of poor sales. I was ready to upgrade my iPhone 12 mini to an iPhone 13 mini with a larger storage capacity for a few more years. Jonathan He silently said three sentences: "The iPhone 13 mini upgrade is not big; the high brush of the iPhone 13 Pro will definitely make you unable to go back; the far peak blue is the biggest driving force for the update."
I don't know if the short video blogger really has the ability to make men spend 180,000 yuan for her in 3 sentences, but the dear editor-in-chief he did spend 2800 yuan more with 3 sentences. But half a year later, I have the iPhone 13 Pro in my hand, and I am expecting the face of the iPhone 13 mini.
On the night of Apple's "high-energy transmission", everyone discussed which color of Yuanfeng Blue and Cangling Green looked better, looked forward to the real performance of the M1 Ultra, and ridiculed the performance of a number of flagship mobile phones that were not as good as a monitor. Only I opened the Apple Store and looked at the iPhone SE sold for $3499.
Is the iPhone 13 Pro bad? Of course not, but I know very well that the iPhone SE can meet my needs for a phone — for me, a phone is just a tool for communication and work.
In addition to work, I hardly watch short videos; although I also follow fans, I basically watch them on a tablet after work; I am a game lover, but I prefer switch to mobile games. When colleagues see my mobile phone desktop, they will ask, "Are you the main machine?" There are too few apps."
Although it is not completely without a camera, my mobile phone can meet the daily verification, scan code and WeChat sharing is enough. Every time you use the iPhone 13 Pro camera, take a smart HDR video calculated with the help of a neural network engine, or take a photo analyzed by deep integration technology, and then compress it with WeChat, there is a slight sense of guilt. With the iPhone SE, the psychological pressure is much less.
Of course, just like you can't fall in love with reading by buying an electric paper book, you won't give up hard-working games and interesting short videos because you buy a small-screen mobile phone. The iPhone SE works for me, just because I'm really not that much of a phone player.
After sending countless friends "No one will like Face ID, no, no", I officially updated iOS and supported the use of Face ID on the afternoon of wearing masks, and replaced my main machine from the iPhone 13 Pro to Apple's latest iPhone equipped with A15 bionic chips: the third-generation iPhone SE.
In addition to not being a full screen, the iPhone SE is all about the advantages
Compared to its small size, what I feel most deeply is the lightness of the iPhone SE. 144 grams of weight, packed in the pocket, always go out to check several times whether you really have a mobile phone. I used to go for a run, and I would hold my phone in my hand because it would always swing back and forth in my pocket. The weight and size of the iPhone SE are no problem at all.
If there is any complaint, it is that the pants I have been wearing recently have a relatively large pocket, resulting in the iPhone SE always falling to the bottom, and when I take it out, I have to bend slightly.
▲ This is probably the case
Sitting at my desk every day, I don't have any battery life anxiety. In addition to commuting, mobile phones are placed on wireless charging pads and are fully charged almost all day. Moreover, because it is longer than the size of the iPhone mini series, the vertical charging base with the coil relatively high can also be used normally.
The only iPhone SE that does not adapt to magnetic charging from MagSafe and does not support magnetic charging allows me to no longer blindly put the phone before going to bed, and I am careful not to throw the phone under the bed. While MagSafe solves our problem of not allowing wireless charging pads to some extent, I think the most versatile solution is AirPower.
The biggest difference between the iPhone SE and other iPhones of its generation is the non-full-screen design and Touch ID. When I first got started, I was stunned by the interface of sending red envelopes for two seconds, and then I remembered to press the Home button, which simulates the home button of tactile feedback through vibration, which is still amazing after many years. If you add 3D Touch (3D Touch), it will be killed, but unfortunately it can't be added.
Click back to the desktop, double-click to enter the multitasking interface, tap twice to turn on one-handed mode, the Home button works as well as ever.
One thing that bothers me about the full-screen gesture is that every night after entering sleep mode, you need to light up the screen and swipe up twice to unlock your iPhone. But the iPhone SE has the Home button, and you can unlock it by pressing it directly. Although it is not a very practical feature, it is really comfortable to use.
However, the addition of the Home button also brought a small problem, that is, I could not exit the video by swiping the screen, and I would only remember that I was not using a full-screen iPhone after I swiped out of the control center again and again.
With a 4.7-inch screen paired with a one-handed mode, the iPhone SE may be the only phone in this year's new machine that can truly be operated with one hand. Especially on the subway, I can still use one finger to walk on the full keyboard, efficient water group.
Starting with the iPhone X, because the bangs take up too much space, iPhone users slowly learn to recognize the meaning behind each status bar icon. When the iPhone 13 series narrowed the bangs, we all expected the status bar to display more information, but it didn't.
Fortunately, the apple icon is very recognizable, an arrow, through the hollow, solid, purple, gray a variety of collocations, can represent different meanings. Well, I'm really complimenting on it.
So how does the iPhone SE indicate status? The answer is to display "AutoNavi Map is actively using your location information" directly in the status bar, a total of 16 words.
Even normal, signal strength, carrier, 4/5G, time, alarm clock, Bluetooth, battery, battery, mode... I'm not targeting the iPhone 13 Pro, I mean all the iPhones with bangs on the screen, the amount of information displayed in the status bar is not as good as the iPhone SE.
Daily use, smaller screen, in the same screen information capacity, iPhone SE is indeed larger than the screen size of the phone, but when we use the phone to browse information, in addition to simulating the real book page of the app, the eyes will actually only focus on the center of the screen (so some people will say that when using the phone do not pay attention to bangs and wide borders), browsing Weibo, Zhihu, Douban, iPhone SE experience is not much worse.
▲ IPhone SE on the left
Of course, even with the A15 chip, I wouldn't say the iPhone SE is a gaming device. In the case of Original God, for example, the game interface can operate more than 20 buttons. Blame me for my fingers are too thick, the technology is too poor, such a small screen to play the game, it is really a little difficult.
The larger mobile phone screen can indeed make us more comfortable when living, working and playing. But there are always some people who take pictures and videos just to take pictures, and don't care so much about shooting well; they can install "Enterprise WeChat" and "DingTalk" to meet office needs; listening to podcasts and brushing Weibo is enough entertainment.
As I said when I experienced the iPhone 12 mini, more and more mobile phones have become an all-round "machine", but there are always people who care more about the "hand" part of the "mobile phone".
It's a new, old phone
One day, I took a screenshot — the screenshot of pressing the Home button and the power button for a long time — and shared the interesting content I saw with my friend, but the friend did not comment on the screenshot content, but said:
The aspect ratio of the screenshot is really incompatible with 5G
"Out of place" is not only the "5G" icon on the status bar, except for the A15 bionic chip, the iPhone SE is lagging behind this era everywhere. The first is the 16:9 aspect ratio, although this ratio will not have much impact on daily use, but it may be that the liu hai screen has appeared for too long, and various app manufacturers have forgotten to adapt to the size of 16:9.
Adaptation problems mostly occur near the status bar, and as a WeChat status enthusiast, I also found the WeChat status function, and I did not adapt to 16:9.
However, also because of the screen ratio, the app icon at the top of many app screenshots is gone. Some people may think that this is a good feature to tell others about the source app of screenshots, but in my opinion, the 16:9 screen ratio makes the major apps one less advertising space.
▲ There is no app icon on the top of the iPhone SE
When Face ID was first introduced, many people said that Face ID was not convenient enough to unlock it by putting the phone on the desktop and wearing a mask. To this day, there are still many people who want Touch ID to return, but... Is Touch ID really better than Face ID?
Probably because Apple's headquarters are in California, which has a Mediterranean climate, engineers haven't encountered wet hands unlocking phones. Now Guangzhou has one rain a day and the next day. Even with an umbrella, your fingers will inevitably get wet, and Touch ID will fail.
It may be that everyone's enthusiasm makes Apple engineers think that Touch ID is perfect, and the iPhone SE does not support the use of Apple Watch to unlock, in contrast, the iPhone 13 Pro that supports wearing a mask to unlock is better to use.
Face ID must be face-to-face, Touch ID cannot be wet, fingerprints on the screen cannot be full screen, and 2D faces do not support payment. Nowadays, every unlock/payment method has one kind or another defect, and at this stage, the Face ID after the iPhone 12 series is indeed a relatively easy choice.
The iPhone SE camera is enough for my daily verification, scanning and sharing, but I have to admit that the iPhone 13 Pro's three cameras allow me to discover some new angles of life that the iPhone SE can't see, especially macro. I really like macro shooting too much, but the iPhone SE takes away my only pleasure in photography.
▲ The iPhone SE (top) is much farther in focus
Although with the blessing of the A15 bionic chip, intelligent HDR4, deep integration technology, photography style, portrait mode, portrait lighting effects, so that the iPhone SE has the strongest single camera system, but the iPhone 13 Pro photos, obviously more details and higher brightness than the iPhone SE photos.
Even if it's just a circle of friends to share, I want to make life look better.
▲ The upper is the iPhone SE, and the lower is the iPhone 13 Pro
Recently, during the epidemic in my hometown, my parents were isolated in two places. Video chatting with them every day becomes a small thing that children in the field can do. But after an hour and a half of WeChat video calls, the iPhone SE had only 35 percent of the electricity left, and it was only 11 a.m. I also tried not to charge for a day at work, and when I got home at 9 p.m., my phone was only 5% charged – if I hadn't charged it for a while before I left work, I wouldn't have been able to open the health code for the subway.
I don't get anxious every day, but the battery life of the iPhone SE always makes me anxious.
In addition, I also encountered some small problems when using it, the first of which was the accidental touch. As a full keyboard user, I often press the wrong button, and when I want to delete the error, I will press a string of "l".
▲ After getting used to the keyboard of the iPhone 13 Pro, it will take some time to adapt to the SE
With the iPhone 13 Pro, I can tap the screen to see notifications, but with the iPhone SE, I can only pick up or press the Home button. It's not a big deal, but it's not very easy to use.
A15 Bionic chip, 5G, computational photography, iPhone SE is new; single camera, Touch ID, 16:9 ratio, iPhone SE is very old. The third generation of the iPhone SE is such a brand new old phone.
Summary: It sells a lot, and it has a poor reputation
According to Counterpoint, a well-known data research company, the previous generation of iPhone SE sales... Oh no, why does every review of the iPhone SE mention the sales of its predecessor? Huge sales do not change the fact that it is not easy to use compared to the iPhone of the same period, and the sales can only prove how many people buy it, not how worth it is.
Can the third-generation iPhone SE be used as a workhorse? Although there are some small flaws in use, whether it is daily communication, work life or photo entertainment, it can meet my needs, so the iPhone SE can be used as the main machine; now that IPhone, recommend iPhone SE? I wouldn't recommend it.
The lowest-priced third-generation iPhone SE, in addition to performance, is completely behind the official website of other models on sale. If you're a second-generation iPhone SE user, or want to get a small-screen iPhone, I recommend the iPhone 13 mini or last year's iPhone 12 mini, which is the (or even the only) small-screen flagship of this era.
The third generation of iPhone SE is aimed at a more niche group of iPhone users after all.
This morning, I switched the main machine back to the iPhone 13 Pro, and when a colleague asked me why I didn't use the iPhone SE, I turned my head and looked up at the sky: "I left it in the old times."