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huh look familiar this is the newest iPhone this is the iPhone se it looks familiar because it's the iPhone 5s body with all the same features from the iPhone 6s so it's this four year old flagship on the outside and an eight month old flagship on the inside and with this phone Apple is basically answering the call for a small flagship smartphone all the high-end phones these days are big phones do a lot screens got bigger and I see in the comments all the time like people talking about it on Twitter what's the best small smartphone you can get that doesn't make any compromises will be cool to see more of those well this phone is definitely small so it looks like it's kind of trying to fill those shoes so yeah it really is the iPhone 5 and 5s body and all its rectangular chamfered glory the 5s was my first iPhone ever so I kind of liked this squarish design it's definitely easier to hold with those flat sides then the round iPhones we have now I still would have liked to have seen a new design though for a brand new compact phone in 2016 instead of a recycled one but this is what we got so the only way you could tell you have an iPhone se and not an iPhone 5 is the rose gold color or that little SE badge on the back which apparently stands for special edition that's it otherwise it looks exactly the same unless you add any skin or case to it of course I'll link this one below but when I first got the se out the box I've been using you know big phones for the past few years so seeing a tiny phone that just gets swallowed up in my hands was like nope no way no way I could use this phone every day and do all the same stuff that I'm used to doing on a bigger screen but it actually turned out to be not that bad thanks to the high-end specs and now I feel like I want to see more high-end smaller Android phones too first of all a smaller phone makes it easier especially for people with small hands to reach all four corners of the display and that's important to be able to do that without adjusting your grip it's comfortable so it's great for all those top left corner buttons in iOS and then the smaller phone is just generally easier to handle it's less phone in the pocket less in the hand when you're on a call it's also a little bit lighter I mean I just kind of started getting used to it like I got you two bigger phones but there are definitely downsides though the display is the biggest one or I guess the smallest one this is still the four inch Retina display from the iPhone 5 so 11 36 by 640 and when your sub 720p you can never quite match the viewing experience or the gaming experience or anything of a phone with a big display and front-facing speakers no matter how good the performance is but I'm happy to report that performance is not a problem at all the iPhone se like I mentioned has most of the same features from the newest iPhone so including the specs so you get an A 9 ship and 2 gigabytes of RAM for a low res display so basically performance is a breeze here everything is smooth multitasking is great that's what you would expect and the camera upgrade is also from the iPhone 6s so a new 12 megapixel sensor and a slightly smaller aperture has this taking very similar photos and 4k videos to the iPhone 6s now there's no optical image stabilization but everything else is on point the autofocus is super quick there's a quick shutter that you used to from other iPhones I'll go right ahead and say this is the best camera in a small smartphone so that's got that going for it and the front-facing camera unfortunately didn't get the same upgrade treatments so you're getting a pretty weak 1.2 megapixel shooter here it's not awful but sorry selfie people and there's other little things that just set it back a little bit like it has touch ID but it's the older first gen touch ID so it feels just a little bit slower and there's no forced touch pressure sensitivity again from the newer iPhones so no force touching shortcuts and stuff like live photos uses a long press instead now I think again if Apple had designed a new small iPhone for 2016 they'd have both of those things they'd have the new touch ID and force touch but again since they recycle the old body there's not quite enough room for that and there you have it it's pretty much everything you need to know about using an iPhone se the one thing that surprised me actually was battery life it is a small phone and it has have a small 1642 milliamp hour battery but the life is actually very good and I guess I'd attribute that to the a9 chip everything else fell right in line where I expect it it's just a really freaking small phone so for 400 bucks should you buy it uh it's not for everyone that's for sure plus you're only getting 16 gigabytes at that price and I'd pretty much never tell anyone to buy a 16 gig phone so for 500 or 600 bucks you'd have to really want a small phone after using it for a while especially for reach ability I kind of get the desire for smaller phones not saying I could personally do it forever she's not my thing but I get it thanks for watching and I'll talk to you guys the next one peace