It’s exactly like the SE: off-season intro, $399 pricing, re-using older design, latest processor, smallest available display, etc.
The only difference is it’s 4.7” instead of 4.0”.
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iPhone SE 2 Might Actually Be Called the iPhone 9
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The only difference is it’s 4.7” instead of 4.0”.
This makes perfect sense - people saying "WTF, they got the size wrong and now they're changing the name?" have got it all wrong. Apple never called this the SE2 (they haven't mectioned it at all, of course). It was dubbed the "SE2" by some analyst, or (more likely) random website. This phone is a natural successor to the 8 and never had anything to do with the SE, except in hopeful minds of the SE faithful. The only name more appropriate than "9" would be "8S".
I expect that Apple feels there's no worry about the two naming schemes (6/7/8/[9] and 10/11/12) overlapping , because this (the old) line won't go past a "9S" - they'll have fully moved into the 11/12/13/… lineup by that point.
I expect that Apple feels there's no worry about the two naming schemes (6/7/8/[9] and 10/11/12) overlapping , because this (the old) line won't go past a "9S" - they'll have fully moved into the 11/12/13/… lineup by that point.
Why is this phone even referred to as "the new SE"? Why not "the new 8"?
Given that the original SE wasn't called the iPhone 6.8, I believe SE2 is very logical. People judge an iPhones worth at resale based on the sequential #. Everyone knows that the SE came out as a pause/interruption of that system about the time of the iPhone 6/6S. iPhone 9 disrupts both of those concepts. The average user is intelligent enough to know it premiered about the time of the iPhone 11, SE2 is completely appropriate...whereas iPhone 9 only serves to confuse.
An A13 in a new iPhone is absolutely necessary, even in the budget phone! Of course no one buying this needs that power today, but it future-proofs their purchase, increasing its value to a price conscious buyer
Great news as I understand that there would still be hope for a true iPhone SE replacement, i.e. with the same smaller form factor.
Awesome. Can we stop calling it the “iPhone SE 2” and showing a picture of the SE?
Stop this nonsense. Apple should name iPhones in the same way they name Macs and iPads - by size and meaningless word like "air," "mini," and "pro," and we can refer to generations by the year they launched.
4.0" iPhone Mini
4.7" iPhone Air
5.5" iPhone Air
5.8" iPhone Pro
6.1" iPhone
6.5" iPhone Pro
So one would say: "Check out my new iPhone Pro, yea it's the 5.8" model. I decided my older late-2016 iPhone Air was due for an upgrade. I considered buying the late-2018 6.5" Pro on the refurb store, but decided against it."
4.0" iPhone Mini
4.7" iPhone Air
5.5" iPhone Air
5.8" iPhone Pro
6.1" iPhone
6.5" iPhone Pro
So one would say: "Check out my new iPhone Pro, yea it's the 5.8" model. I decided my older late-2016 iPhone Air was due for an upgrade. I considered buying the late-2018 6.5" Pro on the refurb store, but decided against it."
Seeing that 9 is my lucky number and that I need to upgrade my 6 this really is shaping up like the best iPhone to get.
11 is too bulky, too big, FaceID, notch and expensive for me. This on the otherhand looks like the perfect phone. Lighter, smaller, one hand usage fine, TouchID and bonus - cheap. Win win win win
11 is too bulky, too big, FaceID, notch and expensive for me. This on the otherhand looks like the perfect phone. Lighter, smaller, one hand usage fine, TouchID and bonus - cheap. Win win win win
lately? they screwed their naming convention when they put the number 3 into the name of their second device.
