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Other What camera do you think the SE2 will have?
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If they’ve truly learned how to achieve thinness and popularity in recent years, perhaps a state-of-the-art butterfly camera.
^^^ This. They’ll reuse or scavenge anything they can from the 8 series. This is going to be a budget phone so I wouldn’t expect too many differences except an updated processor and a few other minor improvements
I’m betting it’ll have one of the same cameras from the 11, if not at least the one from the XR.
There’s no way in hell Apples going to use the same iPhone 8 camera for the “SE2.”
There’s no way in hell Apples going to use the same iPhone 8 camera for the “SE2.”
I'm betting on the XR camera (which is excellent)
That’s the same as the XS standard lens camera, isn’t it?
Earpods? You mean airpods? Those work on literally every iphone from 6s and up. I dont see why an SE2 would remove that feature
It is! Cameras have taken a massive leap in 2019 but for a $400 device it would be mroe than adequate.
I think it’ll likely have the same camera as the original iPhone 8 or a slightly upgraded one but it needs to be something to fit the casing of the iPhone 8. I can’t imagine Apple want to do much new engineering work for a phone that isn’t ‘flagship’.
It will be iPhone 11’s main wide camera with the same capabilities. The SE had the current flagship camera so I don’t see why not.
I’m sure they will market the hell out of the deep fusion and night mode on an 400$ iPhone, even more than Google did with the Pixel 3a. It will be one of the biggest selling points of this product.
11 and Pro will be differentiated by their extra 1 or 2 cameras and most importantly by face id and their bezelless notch design which is generally viewed as more modern and superior.
I’m sure they will market the hell out of the deep fusion and night mode on an 400$ iPhone, even more than Google did with the Pixel 3a. It will be one of the biggest selling points of this product.
11 and Pro will be differentiated by their extra 1 or 2 cameras and most importantly by face id and their bezelless notch design which is generally viewed as more modern and superior.
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The idea of putting a camera from 2017 (which even back then didn’t get much praise) in an iPhone they will most likely going to sell through 2022 sounds nuts to me. I will most certainly not be interested in such a phone.
But I don’t think Apple will voluntarily shoot themselves in the leg by releasing a much worse product than they could, and for no apparent reason depriving themselves of a powerful competitive advantage over midrange Android phones this product will be in competition with.
The $180 Xiaomi A3 has 6.1" OLED, in-display fingerprint reader, and triple-rear camera.
It doesn't matter what single-lens camera Apple puts in, the SE2 won't be competitive with Android phones in emerging markets. The people buying the SE2 accept there's a feature gap and are buying for the Apple experience.
It’ll certainly be an improved one, maybe something comparable to the regular lense on the XS
That makes no sense whatsoever.
It’s essentially replacing the 8, why would they remove wireless charging whilst using the same exact design? It’s supposed to be an upgrade on the 8.
That makes no sense whatsoever.
It’s essentially replacing the 8, why would they remove wireless charging whilst using the same exact design? It’s supposed to be an upgrade on the 8.
Because it's $399 and called SE2, not iPhone 9. Recycling the design is a cost issue.
This phone doesn’t have to present itself as a ‘flagship’ model in order for it to sell. That’s why Apple is going to have a separate launch away from their flag lship models that launch originally in September. This will probably follow suit just like the original iPhone SE did in 2016, launching between March and April. But it will gain enough notoriety for the demographic that wants a smaller iPhone, and of course for other third-party countries.
Considering that what analyst are calling the SE 2 is actually an updated iPhone 8, it will probably have the iPhone 8 camera.
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An analyst (Kuo) has been calling it the SE 2 and nobody knows for sure what Apple will call it when it is released.
It won’t be called SE 2. Also, part of the problem is Some of these articles are calling it the SE 2, because they’re trying to inform the reader what the next version of the SE will be, hence SE 2.
Not when your single camera takes much higher quality pictures than Xiaomi’s triple one, your LCD looks better than their OLED, your phone feels more comfortable in the hand than the 6” one and your chipset wipes the floor with anything they could muster. I can see this phone being very popular with the OS-agnostic demographic shopping in the 300-500$ range in Europe at least in addition to the target audience of older iPhone upgraders in the US.
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Agreed. “SE 2” is just a placeholder moniker to describe the product in the rumor cycle, no way Apple is actually calling it that. Could be called just SE, makes sense cause special edition is what it is, but more likely iPhone 9 or something else entirely.
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