After Apple announced the characteristics and prices of the new iPhone SE, comments immediately flew in the spirit of “why do you need SE when you can buy an iPhone XR for the same money.” Good question, let’s think about it.
Why is it so expensive
IPhone XR sales are breaking records, it is by no means the cheapest phone, yet it sells better than any other smartphone in the world.
The smartphone was one and a half years old in April 2020, but it remains relevant, loved and in demand even after the release of the more technologically advanced iPhone 11.
However, the comparison of a completely new iPhone SE costing 39 rubles for a version with 990 GB of memory with the iPhone XR, which costs about 64 rubles for a version with the same amount of memory, is not entirely correct.
In the case of the iPhone SE, we take the price shown for the Apple online store. By the way, there the iPhone XR costs 49 rubles, the difference is significant.
Where do the interesting options on the iPhone XR come from, then? For example, operator promotions: MegaFon has a model on the Tmall platform from time to time with discounts, an excellent offer. I think that over time, the iPhone SE will also appear there, but today it is a super novelty and you should not wait for discounts.
Apple is selling us the old design again!
The situation with the iPhone SE repeats the story of the first iPhone SE. Only now it is 2020, and then it was 2016. And it was exactly the same when Apple rolled out the iPhone SE in the iPhone 5s design, only adding a new rose gold color.
There were exactly the same reproaches from commentators on the Internet: we have already seen such a design, again a small screen, no one needs it, it is so expensive and in general it is better to buy an android for the same money.
Interestingly, no one forces you to buy an iPhone SE in the old design. For 40 rubles, there are a lot of options, you can buy almost any last year’s flagship on Android, and buy it for health.
The feature of the iPhone SE is a combination of a top processor at the time of the phone’s release and a small size. I bought it once and went with him for three or four years, or even five years, receiving regular updates. Alas, Android does not differ in such stable support. Even the top-end and flagship ones.
So which should you choose: iPhone XR or iPhone SE?
I have not yet held the new iPhone SE in my hands, and without touching it, it is difficult to assess how good the smartphone is. Therefore, while we have to evaluate in absentia. I think that if speed and small size are important, then the iPhone SE will remain a unique proposition for a long time. Because immediately after the iPhone SE appeared on the Apple website, the iPhone 8 disappeared.
The leftovers will still be on sale, as in the case of the iPhone 7, but these are already old models. “Seven” works quite briskly, not to mention the more powerful iPhone 8, but they are seriously inferior in the quality of shooting to more recent models, and the battery life is not so impressive.
So it turns out that if you need a modern, small iPhone with a good camera (here it is, apparently, like the iPhone XR), good autonomy (iPhone 11 and 11 Pro with the same Apple A13 chip work for a very long time), well, long-term updates, the choice is obvious: you need to take the iPhone SE.
In the same case, if the dimensions do not play a special role, but on the contrary, you want a bigger screen, the Home button under the screen has already been forgotten and you do not want to return to the past at all, then look at the iPhone XR, this is an excellent phone.
