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From left to right: iPhone SE, iPhone 8, iPhone XR
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The teardown also confirms reports that the new iPhone SE has a 1,821 mAh battery capacity, identical to the iPhone 8.
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The 8se seems like a sore thumb. Why didn't Apple continue selling the prior generation at a cheaper price? This strategy of the 8se now seems like the marketing dept overdosed on something.
Just selling the iPhone 8 at $399 would have been lazy. Better to give it the SE treatment and upgrade the SoC to the current A13 (with 3GB of RAM). WiFi 6 is a nice touch.
$6-8/month for an iPhone that’ll be good for 4-6 years. That’s the whole point of making an SE.
Didn’t the iPhone 11 Pro got 4hr extra from the XS a12 chip? Why is the SE still the same usage time as the iPhone 8? iPhone 8 had a a11 but no battery usage improvements.
Whilst some gains were made due to efficiency, the majority of the extra battery life for the 11series of iPhones was in physically larger batteries.
you only Show your Lack of Expertise in High quantity Production. A bigger battery costs almost nothing in design and production, just a slightly thicker body.
cheaper existing battery, can’t believe you really wrote that, ?
So much wrong about this, but the bigger lack of understanding here is your use of random uppercase letters.
They didn't bother to change the camera sensor. They didn't utilise the extra space from removing the 3D Touch sensor.
I know, I know, $399 phone and all (don't forget that sales tax kiddos), but they're not even trying at this point!
They are trying – they are trying to keep it cheap.
That means you don’t retool and redesign unless there are big benefits.
And while it is simple in principle to talk about “just make the battery bigger“, that may well affect not only battery costs (since they have already driven the cost Way down of the existing battery) but other things related to fit in the Design and manufacturing of the phone.
So yes, a bigger battery was entirely feasible and would have been very nice, but it also would’ve increased the cost.
And they cannot forget that that also would make it more of a competitor with their premium phones.
