iPhone 16e Are you buying the iPhone 16E instead of an iPhone 16?

[Astuces iOS]

For an extra 200$ you will get :

- More colours options

- An extra GPU core (5 against 4)

- The camera button which can open the camera very fast and control things like the zoom of the camera !

- Advanced camera system which allows zoom 0.5

- New photographic styles

- Macro photos

- Spacial photos and videos.

- Dynamic Island

- (4 less hours of battery)

- (No C1 chip)

- New Ceramic Shield

- New MAGSAFE which allows a fast charge and more

- More nits !! (iPhone 16e has the 14 screen)

- Less nits (can be down to 1 nit)

- Action mode for videos which allows a better stabilisation

- Cinematic video mode

- iPhone 16 has a better feel in hands like the iPhone 15... the iPhone 16e has a feel like iPhone 14.

And now imagine if you pick the pro model... you smash the iPhone 16e !

 

[zipazane]

Yes. Trading in my iphone SE 3 to Tmobile for $250 so basically the 16e will be $350.

I mostly just want a bigger screen and longer battery life which the 16e has.

 

[ThatsMeRight]

The 16e is honestly pretty good. Your list can be narrowed down quite a bit. You mention the camera system 7 (!) times. While for 8/10 of people, they just want to be able to take a quick picture with good photo quality - which the 16e does perfectly fine.

'Better feel' is also very subjective. 'More colour options'. That's nice, but it's not a functionality or feature and 9/10 put the phone in a case.

C1 modem? Cool... but most people just want good 5G reception and don't care, let alone know, about the existence of different modems like Qualcomm, Apple C1, Intel, etc.

One more GPU core? Nice, but the average person won't notice. The 16 is 'very, very, very fast', while the 16e is only 'very, very fast'.

Spatial video? Barely anyone's got an Apple Vision Pro... and those who do, and thus care about this functionality, surely are wealthy enough to get the 16 or 16 Pro.

When purely looking at functionality, it honestly comes down to this:

+ Better camera system (button + additional ultrawide camera)
+ Dynamic Island
+ Wireless charging with magnets (MagSafe)
- Worse battery life

That's it. You can name every other small detail, but for 99% of people it's irrelevant.

For example, it also doesn't have a Threads radiotransmitter inside. I bet 99% of 16 owners, who do have a Threads radio, don't even know they have it and don't even know how to utilise it. But sure, it's nice in the comparison lists. Just like the spatial video. Nice to have, but no sane person will be recording in that mode, because it's lower quality and uses more storage, unless they own an Apple Vision Pro... And if you own an Apple Vision Pro, than you're not the target audience of the iPhone 16e.

The SE-series (now 16e) has always been just that: it gets rid of all the stuff that for most people is irrelevant anyway and they upgrade certain elements (like the chip, camera, etc.), so that what's left over is of really good quality. Sure, it doesn't have 2 or 3 cameras... but it does have 1 very good camera. Sure, it doesn't have the fastest mmWave 5G, but cellular speeds are still crazy nonetheless. Sure, it's got a little older design... but you do get one of Apple's newest chips (A18) and this phone will still get software updates 5 years from now.

It goes on and on. It doesn't have everything, but what it does have is good. It's a combination of older hardware (like the design) and newer hardware (like the chip and the 48 MP camera), resulting in a product that for most people is very good. Those who are buying an iPhone 16E will likely still own it 3 or 4 years from now. And then they'll probably still say: "the pictures I take look fantastic, the battery life I experience is still very good and I still get software updates with the newest features!"

 

[eyoungren]

When Apple announced the 16e, my first search was for screen size. According to what I found, the 16e has a 6.1" screen. My current 11 Pro Max has a 6.5" screen.

So, no. I will not be buying the 16e. It's a smaller phone. I buy the Plus/Max Pro phones in large part (ha!) because they are the biggest phones Apple sells. So, the 16e isn't going to fit in to that.

You can throw specs at me all day and that's fine, but my main buying points are…

• iOS

• Which model has the largest screen

• Which model has the largest storage (capacity) Apple offers

Everything else (camera, features, etc) are already more than enough to suit any needs I may have.