Apple released the second-generation iPhone SE earlier today, which is basically an iPhone 8 with the iPhone 11 processor. It officially substitutes for the first iPhone SE launched by Apple in 2016 and stopped selling for some time in 2018. Now, the second-generation iPhone SE released with the new face.
It has been a bad year for lovers of small phones. It’s no secret that the average size of new smartphones has significantly increased in recent years. Yet this year it seems like you’d really want to use the concept of a tiny phone as a primary tool (read: not something the Palm phone wanted to be a couple of years ago) is very dead and gone.
The new SE shares the attractive price point of the original. And then, the home fingerprint scanning button but it is a much larger device. Compared to the four-inch screen of the original, it has a 4.7-inch display and the entire phone is nearly 30 per cent bigger.
Sure, the latest SE is smaller than the majority of the current Apple lineup. In addition, it is smaller than any Android phone you can buy now. If you held out for something very low, along the lines of the original, that’s not what you are waiting for.
What was High in 2014 is Small in 2020
It’s easy to see why Apple opted for the latest phone with the larger design: the company says this version is the most common iPhone ever produced. It’s easier to fit components into a larger frame than a smaller one on a technical level.
Plus, Apple has years of experience with this basic shape factor, going back to the iPhone 6. In fact, if you cast your mind back to that time, you could remember that the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus were blockbusters worldwide, since Apple finally met the demand for big phones. What was big in 2014 is small now in 2020.
