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Four years after the launch of the original, Apple announced the new one iPhone SE back in April. I imagine smaller phone fans jumping together for joy while listening to the news. The iPhone SE that looks like one iPhone 8 but has the iPhone 11is powerful A13 chipsetuses a 4.7 inch display.
Apple claims it is a "small" phone. And it is The smallest (and cheapest) iPhone currently available in the Apple range. It is also relatively compact for today's phone standards, especially when compared to the popular Samsung Galaxy S20that has a 6.2 inch screen.
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At 4.7 inches, the iPhone SE 2020 is about 20% larger than the original iPhone SE with a 4-inch screen.
If you've chosen something really tiny, the iPhone SE 2020 isn't suitable in this regard. Apple's decision not to build a brand new 4-inch phone is significant. It signals that the company is unlikely to ever bring that back tiny iPhoneno matter how much people long for it. That doesn't mean Apple won't cut the size of some of its upcoming phones. Rumor has it that the iPhone 12 series has a phone with a 5.4-inch screen, but that's not a small phone.
Personally, I'm all for it. Because we're in 2020 and I want a big phone. And because large screens simply provide a better and more comprehensive user experience. For me, "portability" takes a back seat compared to these advantages. From credit card payments to joining Zoom calls to follow a banana bread Recipe on YouTube, I spend more time than ever in front of my phone, for better or for worse.
And when I use my phone for hours, I want to enjoy it. At the very least, I don't want to have trouble displaying my screen while doing more uncomfortable tasks (such as paying a credit card bill). Big phones can do that for me.
But my perception of what is big and what is small in terms of phones has evolved over the years. I have not always been a fan of large screens, nor do I subscribe to the axiom "bigger is better". In fact, I loved my 4.7-inch iPhone 8, which I held onto for years. I loved how handbag-friendly and effortless to use with one hand. But when I upgraded to the 5.8-inch iPhone X. In 2018, returning to something smaller was almost a punishment.
Whenever I use mine iPhone 8, I can feel my eyes straining as I try to navigate through the user interface, which I now find annoyingly overloaded. Reading news and watching videos on iPhone 8 had become an uncomfortable experience compared to iPhone X. In both cases, I think there is an upper limit to the growth of these oversized phones.
Telephone manufacturers have operated larger and larger cell phones over the years. You know that screen size is one of the most important features of a phone. But the jumbo phone trend Really started in 2011 with the first Galaxy Note. Samsung took a gamble and launched the 5.3-inch note, which at that time seemed enormous, or as an analyst put it, like a "dork flag"The note ushered in the big phone madness and is one of the reasons why Apple released my beloved 5.8-inch iPhone X in 2017.
Now the phones are bigger. Take a look at some of the previous 2020 phone versions: within the Galaxy S20 phone family, this offers S20 Ultra has a massive 6.9 inch screen. Oppo launched its Super Premium 6.7-inch Find X2 Proand Motorola unveiled the 6.7-inch Edge Plus in April the first real flagship in years. Plus there is Rumors say that Apple will launch an iPhone 12 Pro Max that could go as large as 6.7 inches. I'm sorry, fans of small phones, it's clear that the trend towards big phones will stay here.
