When Apple launched the new version of the iPhone SE last week, a lot of people were very disappointed. The new, low-cost smartphone was built on the iPhone 8 design, which has a 4.7-inch display. The original iPhone SE, which first went on sale four years ago, had a smaller, 4-inch screen and used the iPhone 5 design but had the guts of the more-advanced iPhone 6S.
The first SE earned a devoted following among those who wanted an iPhone that wasn’t so bulky. When rumors first leaked that Apple planned to update it, many hoped that this second-generation SE would be smaller as well. Alas, their hopes were dashed.
The new SE puts the internals of an iPhone 11 into the body of an iPhone 8, retaining the home button and Touch ID. It only has one camera lens on the back, but uses the more powerful A13 Bionic chip to do some of the cool photography tricks such as portrait mode. It starts at $399, the same price as the original SE.
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It’s a good value, but it still leaves those who prefer a smaller phone out in the cold — at least in the iOS world.
Even if you’re interested in switching to Android, the pickings are slim. Search on Google for “small Android smartphones 2020” and you’ll find stories such as one at Android Authority. On that list, all but two of the devices hardly qualify as “small.” And the two that do are outliers.
There’s the Palm Phone, a 4-by-2-inch Android device with a tiny 3.3-inch display that was initially marketed as a secondary phone you might take to the gym or on a run, leaving your bigger smartphone at home. It currently sells for $299.
There’s also the Unihertz Atom, which has an even smaller 2.45-inch display in a 3.77-by-1.77-inch body for $260. A newer version, which was funded by a Kickstarter campaign, has a more reasonable 4-inch display, similar to that of the first iPhone SE, and an impressive 48-megapixel camera. It’s not yet available for sale.
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And, of course, if you’ve got almost $1,400 to burn, there’s the Samsung Galaxy Flip z, a smartphone in a flip-phone format. It’s only 3.4 by 2.9 inches when folded, but it makes a much bigger hole in your budget.
For first-generation iPhone SE owners, these require switching to a different smartphone platform, which means you’ll need to re-buy any apps you purchased and there will be a learning curve.
For now, you’re better off holding on to your original SE. It’s still supported by iOS 13, the current version of Apple’s mobile operating system. But you’ll have a decision to make this fall if it doesn’t work with the next release of iOS. If you want to stick with Apple’s platform, it may finally be time to join the big-phone crowd.
[This story originally appeared in the Release Notes tech newsletter. Sign up for it at houstonchronicle.com/releasenotes.]
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